
Out of nowhere, the film surprised everyone - even George Lucas - as it set countless genre standards and developed into one of the best movies of the century.

You sensed heavy rewriting in the jampacked story-by credits, and director Deborah Chow had to fit everyone onto Disney's damned digital backlots, every magnificent wall fuzzy with CGI.When Star Wars: A New Hope came out in 1977, no one expected it to be a franchise-creating success, but it was. Meanwhile, a fake Jedi is a swell idea for a character, but Nanjiani's poser spent more time talking about being a swindler than actually doing any faking. Obi-Wan tells all his Rebel colleagues they are the future - and then they disappear so he can battle Darth Vader (again) before flying off to watch over Luke Skywalker (again). The same old characters got promoted to new positions of prominence. A lot to grapple with there, and I worry that all the corporate oversight guided Obi-Wan to a rigid focus on icon worship. Alec Guinness' Obi-Wan spends his life and death teaching Anakin's son the ways of the Force - and never seems to notice if women exist. " She's as important as he is." True! But from our perch in the future, the interesting thing about the original trilogy is how Leia isn't treated with Luke's importance. In the finale, she attacks Aunt Beru (Bonnie Piesse), Uncle Owen ( Joel Edgerton), and young Luke Skywalker (Grant Feely), three characters who were never going to die. You kept waiting for her to do something truly shocking. Ingram was the breakout presence, but Reva's lack of an actual plan reduced the character. She incinerated her conscience, working towards dish-served-cold Vader vengeance. The show opened on the night her entire Jedi generation got brutally murdered. Third Sister, born Reva, exuded deeper disillusionment. Tala was a complicated nobody, an Imperial officer who grew a conscience post-massacre. Leia started out as a bold freethinker with ultra-supportive parents, and ended the same with a cool holster. Obi-Wan re-became the pleasant hero he ever has been, while McGregor moped towards a smile in his sexy-professor hair. And the show's big notion was less logical than canonical: Meet Leia ( Vivien Lyra Blair) as a 10-year-old! Obi-Wan Logan-ing with the Princess is half an idea, but the busy plot left them no room to affect each other. I know these are Comic Book Guy complaints about a universe where vibe-telepaths battle laser moons. She sneaks up behind him and turns on her lightsaber - a famously loud weapon - and takes a swing. After all that time and so many sins, she picks an absurd moment to strike: When Vader is alone, in a huge echoing cavern, doing nothing. This subterfuge required a murderous commitment to her vengeance she kind of just became a ferocious Jedi hunter.


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In their first big duel, Darth Vader takes full control of Obi-Wan's body, Force-lifting his his old teacher into a wall of fire.
