I understand that, and Star Wars certainly has those elements, but Lucas also added the mythological to it thereby taking it beyond his influences such as Flash Gordon. To make it easier to imagine, let’s say Star Wars is a story told around a campfire. The PT and the OT could be told as a story and they would follow the mythological hero’s journey (the pt to a slightly lesser extent as its in reverse in some ways), except one thing that Lucas did better was that the hero didn’t do the Freudian/Oedipal killing of the father, but saved him, making Luke a hero unlike many others. The story as it ends here is a proper myth.
However then you get to the next part of the story and say the mythological hero was now so disturbed by his nephews power (who hadn’t done anything yet) that he considered killing him in his sleep. Does that seem to fit? It’s more of a tv show progression, where a twist has been done to keep the drama going, but it’s not worthy of a legendary story. Not to mention that another hero comes who can do everything the last hero struggled with better than him and in a period of 2 weeks without training. Also the rogue character went back to being a seedy loner after learning his lesson to open his heart in the previous saga. And etc. That’s my problem with the direction the ST has gone in.
In Greek myth for example, eventually the stories changed for example to being about Zeus and his many sexual exploits and became more like a soap opera. All the gods had slept with each other and were double crossing each other. It was always a family drama at heart too, but it became more small. The myths lost what made them so powerful and became like a tv series to the people, just entertainment, with what made it so immortal before lost.
That’s where Star Wars is heading now, and honestly it’s the natural progression of things so it was going to happen at some point (Although maybe not if Lucas hadn’t sold it). The same thing happens to all religions eventually as well as the core is lost and everything added on top takes importance. And there will be devout followers of the new stuff; but it will never contain the impact of the core message/myth. Less in the PT, and almost nonexistent in the ST. And I mean so many people think of Star Wars as religion anyway.
Just my take on that, but I do understand where you’re coming from and value the fact that you really got into what made it work for you in a deeper sense.
