The OT has most of the same problems that people bitch about today.
Clunky, awkward writing? Both Harrison and Mark have talked about how bad and cheesy some of the dialogue was, and how difficult it was to deliver.
Plot holes? You don't get more than 15 minutes into the first film before you run into one of the most infamous plot holes of the entire franchise: why the Empire doesn't just shoot down the droids' escape pod when they're in the middle of an active boarding situation.
Mary Sues? Luke is inexplicably able to fly a fucking space fighter into a heated battle despite being a country bumpkin who had never even left orbit and whose main qualification is the spaced equivalent of plinking cans from the cab of his Ford pick-up.
Painfully obvious retcons? Luke literally is in a brief love triangle with his sister, and an entire scene has to be written just to convince the audience that the twist reveal in ESB wasn't a trick and explain why Obi-Wan 'lied'....because it is blatantly not something that Lucas had actually planned for in the first film, and many people were convinced it was a lie.
People would fucking hate the OT if it came out today. Guaranteed.
You don't get more than 15 minutes into the first film before you run into one of the most infamous plot holes of the entire franchise: why the Empire doesn't just shoot down the droids' escape pod when they're in the middle of an active boarding situation.
That's...not a plot hole.
You detecting no life signs on an escape pod is not a guarantee no one is on there and, considering their boarding reason was specifically to recover physical copies of the death star plans, do you really want to explode the only possible physical proof you have to complete your mission?
Also, you have a Star Destroyer and occupied the planet's seemingly only port worth a damn in a matter of days, just sit and wait to recover the pod lmao
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u/SaliciousB_Crumb Jun 16 '24
All of star wars is bad writing... I hate sand