[Puke]

i did some thinking about what was really different from 4-5-6 to 1-2. there are lots of minor things that can be nit-picked, but what gets me is the scope of the films.

in 4-5-6 the characters are part of a larger rebellion, or part of a larger empire. you know that there are imperial govenors about, and that there are politics elsewhere that are important. each of the characters are playing a role in a bigger picture. the rebellion has lots of things going on that the main characters depend on.

in 1 and 2, the main characters have done everything. there is a larger government, but it is appearant that the government would not function without the handfull of characters in the foreground. its like we are watching a bunch of christ figures on whom the fate of the galaxy depends, and without whom the average people would just stumble arround and bump into walls.

if the main chrarcters did not exist in jedi, there would have been another rebel commando team and another xwing squadron to do the job. it just happens that the characters we were following became the heros of the day. in 1 and 2, it seems like there would be no plot, that the world its self would crumble into an unrecognizeable heap of ineptitude without the main characters. just look at how the senate reacts to the speach just before the endgame action starts.