I'm no Lucas apologist but i think you guys may be taking Star Wars a little too seriously. It is a movie serial, despite how good the original trilogy was.

It is not supposed to be representing reality. You can argue Lucas went against canon in terms of story or changed the rules his fictional universe operates out of, but making claims to great drama out of the original trilogy is a bit of a stretch.

I mean you have a super weapon that destroys planets. That in itself is straight out of science fiction Pulp like smith's Skylark 3. Examined in reality it is laughable. You also have sound in space laughable. The physics are all laughable.

That is why is is a piece of daydream fantasy than real science Fiction. That is why Lucas calls it Space Fantasy and why the films open " A Long Time Ago. In a Galaxy, Far, Far way." Its the same as once upon a time.

Star Wars was a boys adventure wish fulfillment piece Lucas crafted out of his own childhood reading comic books and watching serials like Flash Gordon.

The robot Chicken Piece while funny is wrong. Wrong because he calls himself anakin. At that point he was darth vader.

My favorite is this g4 parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjy4pv_BHMU