It is, in the end, a story about a garbage planet (literally, the Death Star’s detention block is a trash compactor) producing a princess. The franchise has grown darker, denser, and more complicated. But the first film remains perfect because it is simple: a ring of fire, a scoundrel’s smile, and a wizard who was really just a crazy old man who turned out to be right.
As the Falcon arrives at Alderaan’s coordinates, they find only an asteroid field; the planet is gone. They are caught in the tractor beam of the approaching Death Star. Star Wars- A New Hope
: Farm boy Luke Skywalker discovers the message and meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, a reclusive Jedi. It is, in the end, a story about