(April 1, 2019 at 6:13 pm)Yonadav Wrote: 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.
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Sure, what made SW popular were special effects, people seeing stuff they haven't seen before on that scale. But today all those spaceships, robots and fights mean nothing to the audience and they rather focus on plot holes, poorly written characters, stupid dialogue...