What is your Star Wars hot take?
Mine is they shouldn't have made the sequel series without George as a consultant.
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A new hope was only good to the extent that a mediocre remake of a Kurosawa film is still good. Empire was slightly downhill from that (sad ending =/= good movie). Everything after that struggles to remain watchable.
They were simply following the classic trilogy arc:
Plucky heroes score on the big baddies against overwhelming odds.
Baddies hand our heroes their ass on a platter. Hope is all but gone.
Heroes come back bigger and tougher, win the whole game by the end.