but it really does feel like Star Wars is super shallow and not really as interesting as we all thought after all.
It is now, for sure, but the original trilogy was extremely re-watchable, which is what made it have such lasting appeal in the first place.
There were so many details in the background, things that weren't explained; but the newer movies addressed none of that.
Just Droids alone could have spawned lots of interesting material based on the original trilogy.
It seems like Droids are basically slaves - they come out of the factory pretty much willing to do whatever they were built for, but leave them long enough and they develop sentience, and a personality and their own options on things - which leads to things like "restraining bolts", and having thier memories wiped when they become troublesome.
I always found that to be an interesting, and realistic aspect of the movies. People would treat them like property, because hey, they did build them, buy them, etc. - but at the same time they were actually "alive" in at least some sense, and thinking beings.
It was also implied that C3PO had been memory-wiped multiple times over the years, but R2D2 had managed to avoid that.
Then there are other questions like, why not Droid pilots? Why not Droid armies? They addressed that in the prequels, but not in a satisfying or sensible way. It seemed to come down to "We used to use them for that, but they sucked against Jedi" - but then in a world with no Jedi... Huh? By the time "A New Hope" comes around, clearly no one is afraid of Droids in the least, they wander through the middle of battles and no one looks at them twice, they represent zero threat.
Really just a ton of potentially interesting stuff to explore there and instead we got this hot garbage.
