doubleKO said:

^ Hoping I'm not included here. I am genuinely curious to know if you knew about the originally intended story before you saw Empire, and if that is part of the reason you don't buy into it.

If you mean the original scripts - no, I did not. That stuff wasn't readily available the way it is now.

I just didn't care for it from a story-shrinking and universe-shrinking point of view. My dislike of it was strictly from a fan of the original film point of view. What spoke to me in 1977 was being done away with.