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This guy has a more realistic assessment:
"Here's another interpretation: Lucas, afflicted with Sequel Syndrome, decided he'd take the most iconic images and sequences from the first trilogy and retread them. In some cases, as in Queen Amidala's assertion that she will not let her people suffer and die while the Senate discusses the invasion "in a committee", it's quite powerful; in others, such as many of the examples you list here, it just doesn't quite work. As for examples such as Luke kneeling while watching Leia kneel in the recording, that's a complete stretch of the imagination, especially since she never actually kneeled; at most, she leaned forward to shut off the recorder."
Some of the observations the writer makes in that article are likely intentional and work to enhance the dramatic depth of the series; others are hamfisted and pointless harkening back to the originals, retreading the same ground for the sake of fans like any franchise does, or perhaps out of sheer lack of imagination and the desire to give them more of what they want. Other observations are sheer ridiculousness and are really reaching to make his "mirror" observations more far-reaching than it actually is. It's really just a few instances of Lucas retreading his old scenes and trying to make some sort of profound statement about "destiny" and "fate" and other such terms thrown about in the films.
This guy sums it up perfectly:
"I buy that there's mirroring, but Lucas - who was undone long ago by his smug hubris - just wanted to convey some hokey sense of fate or destiny by drawing similarities, like the ones you point out, between the trilogies."
And even in the instances where Lucas might dramatically succeed by drawing trilogy parallels, at the end of the day the argument goes no further than what this guy writes:
"He might have indeed done all you said above, but it was done in a shoddy manner with cringy dialog. No matter how hard you try, you can't theorize yourself out of that."