Though I really like TESB and consider it the best SW film made to date, I can understand why others – especially those who watched the first film back in '77 – don’t particularly care for it. Not only does the franchise’s long slide into universe-shrinkage and revisionism begin with TESB, but TESB is very different in tone and feel from SW; many fans may have fallen in love with Star Wars for the optimistic, swashbuckling nature of the original film, and may have found the grittier, grimmer nature of TESB a harsh, unwelcome departure from that.