OK that sounds like a pro-prequel argument. Reminds me of the RLM review of Attack of the Clones, where everyone has a health bar next to them on the screen and the story and the fights are all about whose force trick is the coolest.
Well this time we have good plot and characters so why shouldn’t we up the anti while we’re at it? Keeps The Force from becoming stale and after 6 movies of seeing the same shit I want to see something new.
Ain’t nobody going to be as powerful in the force as Yoda and the Emperor and Vader were. Otherwise, that’s just stupid. The fights get their meaning by what else is going on. Remember Obi-Wan wasn’t trying to kill Vader, he was just trying to give the others time to escape. Vader wasn’t trying to kill Luke, he was trying to get Luke to join him. And the Emperor wanted Luke to kill Vader, but neither of them wanted to kill each other. But without saying those things, it still looked like each combatant was trying to win. That’s good filmmaking.
The prequel fights were garbage because it was just good guy vs. bad guy trying to outfight each other. Who cares.