Anyone watch "Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed" on the History Channel yesterday on May 28th?
It was entertaining to say the least. They mentioned the archetypes that we have probably all heard before at one time or another. And people shared, including Kevin Smith, their perceptive on it based on what they thought that Lucas was trying to say or show. Even the one female commentator at the end said that someone could do a show like this in the future and they could be talking about totally different influences and situations. Star Wars is truly timeless.
They went into the depth with the mentor angle, the hero's journey, and women's role in the films. They talked about all the major characters and their influence, even what Jar Jar represents. I would have liked if they did an even longer show and went into detail about the other minor characters and what it is that they believed that they represent. They even touched on how the Empire could represent Nazis and the colors of the Nazi flag are red, white and black, and the Empire uses those three colors.
The most interesting thing about the show for me, was now that both trilogies are complete, they can make shows like this and talk about the entire series as a whole and not separate individual movies. That I really enjoyed because it should be viewed as one really, really long movie and that's how Lucas intended it. I hope they do more shows like this in the future.