A couple of weeks on, I can now say that I'm astounded at the number of people who have had A New Hope blatantly fed back to them with little in the way of true craft or inspiration (but certainly a little stupider), but are still willing to proclaim this as something amazing. The last half was interminable and the clumsy, lazy way all the plot conveniences have been written off as "we'll learn that in the sequel" is simply asinine.

