C-Mag wrote:
The reason the new SW sucks is they put politics as the primary motivation and story telling second.
This is exactly the problem.
The heroism of the Jedi was not, in the original trilogy, that they fought for the right cause. It was that they were virtuous in their use of of the force. The power of the Dark Side was exactly that, the unmitigated use of power. Abandoning the virtuous code in order to achieve their ends is what makes Darth and the Emperor the villains of the piece, not the ends themselves.
The real tragedy of the new films is that they feel they have to really drive home the point that the 'cause' is what is important. It is extremely cynical, and only damages the story.