Not neccesarily. They could be a family like this!
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Because it’s literally a franchise about war. It’s even in the title. How many kids in Syria don’t have moms?
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Um…yeah. Beat me to it.
Somebody wants to start a new film series called “Star Nurturings”, by all means, have a go.
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Nah; space fantasy.
Star Wars is basically a Tolkien knockoff in techno drag. Wizards, ancestral swords, dragons, emperors…
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Lucas preferred https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera
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It explains, however, his attitudes toward fathers, I think.
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Wrong cultural reference there, sorry. Original inspiration clearly points to “feudal Japan in space with extra nazi”, which then turned into “US democracy collapsing into nazism in space” in prequels. The new films are mostly self-cannibalizing their own mythology from the original trilogy, so they are back to “WWII meets feudalism in space”. The Force is just sprinkle on top.
Tolkien requires a degree of racism (evil hordes are clearly not human, they cannot be redeemed, their culture is totally alien) that is just not in SW (the Evil Empire is “us gone wrong”, alliances keep shifting, other races are helpers and partners in a human conflict).
I’d say original inspiration points to “one part Dambusters, one part Squadron 679, heavily spice with Kurosawa”.
I see it more “Hidden Fortress meets Eagle’s Nest”, but it’s that sort of thing. Certainly not Tolkien.
MacBeth kinda goes against the only good woman being the one who helps you raze. As does King Lear. The bad woman in the former helps the man raze and they are both punished, while the good woman in the latter refuses to participate and is the only one who isn’t destroyed.
Yeah, I know, just Shakespeare, but I’ve been reading it with my daughter so it is top of mind. 
I guess those are tragedies, though, so maybe the rules are different there. This is a much bigger topic than can be handled in comments!
I always thought it was a sober reboot of Spaceballs. 
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