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parallel universe OK, this was not "The Empire Strikes Back" or "Return of the Jedi". The reason people had so much trouble with this movie was they were looking for Luke and Lea, Han Solo, and the characters they were familiar with. What George Lucas is doing is practicing a brand new concept in the movies known as "art imitates life". Star Wars is a generational film in a sense that it is giving us an image of the same family in different times in history. No, you will not the swaggering Han Solo making his wonderful one liners, or Luke saving the day with his light saber. The characters weren't born yet. Darth Vader was only a child at this time. A wonderful analogy is a family tree. Let's say you can travel back in time to the 1940s. You will not find yourself there or the people you know. You will find your grandparents or parents as teenagers or as young children along with a population that would be totally unrecognizable. The political situations would be totally different, the villains would be different, and even the general way of thinking among the people would be different. It is your world, but it would not be your world. This situation, when viewed on the movie screen, would bother many, many people which would make the movie hard to adjust to. OK! Some things on the movie could have been better. Jar Jar Binks could have been a LOT less aggravating than he was. Yes, there could have been just a bit LESS talk at the political conferences and more action. Still, there were wonderful highlights. It was very refreshing to see Jabba the Hutt again along with the great race. The creatures who were to be the competitors were hilarious. Ian McDiarmid was back, playing a dual role as both Darth Sidius and Palpatine, the human would LATER become the evil emporer. Although McDiarmid looked too human this time he still had the wonderful wit of the emperor and was enjoyable to see. All in all, it is a wonderful movie to see to look for memorable characters and to view the Star Wars' parallel universe that we wanted to know about in the original trilogy.