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star wars, as a coherent sci-fi universe, doesn't exist in the original trilogy
it's high fantasy: there's a bad guy, there's the good guys, that's it
there's no discussion of where the rebels get their supplies or how the empire functions or how the force works or anything like that
part of the reason the expanded universe and the prequels suck so bad is because they get wrapped up in all of that
It's kind of like The Matrix. The first film was great, largely because it didn't look too deeply into how stuff worked. They just tossed out some deep sounding but ultimately rather trite phrases and threw in lots of kickass action and cool special effects and it was great. But then in the sequels they had to actually start explaining shit. And that's where it all goes to hell.
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It's kind of like The Matrix. The first film was great, largely because it didn't look too deeply into how stuff worked. They just tossed out some deep sounding but ultimately rather trite phrases and threw in lots of kickass action and cool special effects and it was great. But then in the sequels they had to actually start explaining shit. And that's where it all goes to hell.
the Wachowskis were like "Shut up, Neo is jesus, story over"