Wow what a mixed bag of a thread. On one hand I'm incredibly impressed with the length and breadth of the posts in this thread. On the other hand it has become more of an intelligent 'you suck, no YOU suck' back and forth than an actual discussion of the ideas brought up.

Please keep in mind folks that opinions, like they say... well you know- we all have them.

As for the ideas themselves there could be some overthinking going on here. After all SW *is* just fiction, a fiction initially created by one man but fed and grown by hundreds or thousands of others so there are bound to be almost as many interpretaions.

I think the principle of Occam's Razor is applicable here.