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Omni
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Things you DISLIKE about the Original Trilogy ( but not the Ewoks, Leia and Luke being siblings, Death Star 2 etc.)
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29-Mar-2022, 11:17 PM

I love everything in the original Star Wars.

The one thing I probably dislike about Empire is how it makes the dark side and the good side more binary than it had to be. Makes sense in the end but Vader himself calling his side the “dark” one is so taken for granted nowadays but it didn’t have to be that way. He could still think he was in the right. In fact, stuff like ROTS would be far more believable. “I do not fear the dark side as you do.” My guy it’s called the dark side, you should be skeptical of it to a degree, no? Though it also makes sense in that one as Anakin arguably sees it being called the “dark” side as part of the Jedi’s brainwashing and it’s not that different from their light. But anyway, this all traces back to Empire. “How do I know the good side from the bad?” That actually implies there’s a lot more nuance to it, which we don’t really see all that often. Again, thematically it all still works wonders but could be made more interesting if not for this.

There’s all the things to dislike about Jedi so I’ll save it. They’d mostly be down to stuff like “another Death Star?!” which the title asks not to put here, so whatever hahah.