Star Wars - does it have a future?

[Yonadav]

I think the Star Wars stories suffer from not really being able to escalate in any meaningful way. It's an evil empire that is willing to use weapons of mass destruction verses the Rebels who won't use weapons of mass destruction. So it's always a defensive battle against the impending use of mass destruction. That makes it one David and Goliath story after another.

And the evil empire isn't really an evil empire. It's just a couple of evil dudes who lust for power. The imperial soldiers are just conditioned mindless men. The writers aren't imaginative enough to come up with reasons that thinking soldiers would be willing to serve the evil dudes. That makes the enemy really two dimensional. It totally worked with the first Star Wars movie in the 70s. But by the time they got to Return of the Jedi it was becoming pretty stale. They didn't do anything to take the stale out of it. They made it even more stale in Phantom Menace by having the enemy soldiers be droids.

And maybe I'm just getting too old to enjoy the elitism of so much science fiction. You know. Everyone is basically a bunch of losers, and there is this special few who have that special something that makes them better than everyone else, and everyone everywhere would be totally fucked without them. In the last movie, Luke had totally gone John Galt.