Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
(And yeah, I loved "I am your father." But it all went downhill from there, didn't it?)

This is it, really, for me. Several people on here have complained of the "universe-shrinking" of having all the characters related to each other, etc. I daresay Luca$h took it a little too far, especially with the slight suggestion that Palpatine's Sith Master may have created Anakin, or whatever. But my own theory is that the "universe-shrinking" effect all stems from the narrowed focus on Anakin Skywalker. As you rightly say, CO, Obi Jeewhyen, everything else is becoming background to the life story of Vader/Anakin. The reason SW and ESB are more interesting than any of the other movies is that they don't suffer from that narrow focus.