The whole storyline was pretty much trash with nothing making sense even in the originals.
Don't get me started on the Empire blowing up an Empire planet (one of the richest core worlds) as a demonstration of their power of a station that cost the economic output of hundreds of worlds.
Too late...
It achieved nothing but to antagonise and galvanise a minor resistance group.
For the same price and way less risk (I mean a second deathstar... really?), they could have just positioned star destroyers over every world which could have killed everyone on the planets just as easily (while keeping the resources intact).
Not to mention Palpatine secured the senate through political manoeuvrings (he'd know better than to act like that).
I liked telekenetic space samurais as much as the next guy but that's pretty much all the franchise has ever had going for it. I wore out my vhs of episode 6 when I was younger (so I did like it), but the world doesn't hold up to any scrutiny at all, and that shows in the prequels, sequels, and spin-offs (although I do hear good things about the clone wars and the new Manadalorian one).
Edit: I will give Lucas and Co credit for the first film though, that had an excellent story arc and they knew how to put it together well.
