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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
When was that? I mean, just throwing that out there once - such that I missed it totally - and never explaining further seems like a flaw... But actually, they just didn't have time to do anything with it either.
Seriously, this could have been prequels 1-2.
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One of the things that Lucas was praised for with the OT, and especially the first film, was that it dropped us into the middle of the story into a "used universe" and didn't waste its time explaining every little thing.
One of the things that Lucas was criticized for with the prequels is that he spent too much time explaining all the minutiae of the universe and taking away the mystery that he established in the OT.
Remember that we knew that Darth Vader was a "Dark Lord of the Sith" for 20 years before anyone in any movie ever said the word "Sith". The Emperor doesn't appear on camera in ANH; only has one scene as a hologram in ESB; and finally actually appears in person in RotJ.
Also, if you look at JJ Abrams' history, especially with the tv shows he's been involved with, none of them really benefitted from trying to answer their questions. They were better when the mysteries were kept mysterious.