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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eldritch_Lord" data-source="post: 4859654" data-attributes="member: 52073"><p>Star Wars isn't "gritty" by any means--it's a heroic space opera, after all--but I do agree the original trilogy has a bit less Plot Armor than the prequels.  This kind of makes sense, though, in that the prequels show a galaxy that is just starting to crumble but still has the glamor of a few-thousand-year-old union of worlds protected by the famous and heroic Jedi while the original trilogy shows a galaxy in the first few decades of a tyrannical Empire that has intentionally crippled tech, inspired widespread fear, and wiped out the old heroes in order to keep planets in line.</p></blockquote><p></p>