Improved Second Attempt / Star Wars

While it is popular with a millions of people, Star Wars is a franchise that has made a large amount of mistakes over the years. However, there are works in the franchise that have made corrections via addressing a number of criticisms made by fans.

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Works with their own pages

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Franchise-wide

• A New Hope, The Phantom Menace, and especially Attack of the Clones depicted the Sand People/Tusken Raiders, one of the two native peoples of Tatooine, as essentially The Savage Indian in Tatooine's Space Western theme: in particular, Anakin Skywalker's Roaring Rampage of Revenge for a tribe of Sand People killing his mother becomes his Start of Darkness but is hardly remarked-on In-Universe. This inevitably comes in for a lot of criticism for playing to racist tropes, and many works in both Star Wars Legends and the Disney-era Star Wars Expanded Universe (including but not limited to Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, Star Wars: Kenobi, Knights of the Old Republic, The Mandalorian, and The Book of Boba Fett) consequently took pains to portray them in a more nuanced Noble Savage way and the conflict as Gray-and-Grey Morality. The EU Sand People are still brutal and alien, but they are also portrayed as having a lot of legitimate grievances with offworlder settlers and are usually fairly willing to deal peacefully with offworlders who make an effort to treat them and their rights to their native land with respect.
• When the franchise was bought by Disney, the previously established characters and elements except the ones that George Lucas created were deemed non-canon and placed under the Legends continuity. As a result, the non-canonization of many fan-favorite characters, such as Thrawn and Mara Jade, left quite a few fans dissatisfied. Come 2017 and Thrawn has been adapted to the canonical Art-Shifted Sequel series Rebels, while portions of Han Solo's backstories in The Han Solo Adventures were adapted into Solo. Additionally, it also brought back Boba Fett for The Mandalorian, confirming that, like his Legends counterpart, he did escape the Sarlacc Pit. That was later explicity shown and made completly canon in The Book of Boba Fett.

Attack of the Clones

• Some fans suspect that Yoda training all Jedi as children was thrown in to fix the continuity issue of Qui-Gon being Obi-Wan's master in the last film, when he'd called Yoda "the Jedi Master who instructed me" in The Empire Strikes Back. Although even in The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan had a line that indicated he had been taught by Yoda before being apprenticed to Qui-Gon.
• Jango Fett's prominent role in this film was put in to appease fans who complained about Ensemble Dark Horse Boba Fett being tragically underutilized in the Original Trilogy, and getting almost no action scenes despite being built up as a badass. Note that Boba is established as an exact genetic clone of his "father" Jango, meaning that Jango is Boba Fett, for all intents and purposes. Unlike his "son", he gets an elaborately choreographed showdown with a Jedi Knight, kills another Jedi during the arena battle and receives an appropriately epic death scene.
• Count Dooku surviving the events of the film all the way until the first act of Revenge of the Sith seems to be an attempt at this following Darth Maul's unsavory demise in The Phantom Menace. While most fans consider Maul to be more badass and interesting than Dooku (especially after Star Wars: The Clone Wars revealed that Maul was Not Quite Dead and fleshed him out as a character) having Dooku be the public face of Separatist movement during the Clone Wars, as well as going deeper into his motives, proved that Dooku was a capable character in his own right.
• The exposition of The Phantom Menace involving the trade dispute on Naboo was considered unengaging and boring by many. Attack of the Clones immediately started with a more interesting hook of Padme nearly being assassinated twice which was more intense and attention grabbing.
• George Lucas took note of the fan backlash towards Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace and reduced his screen time in the subsequent prequels. In Attack of the Clones, Jar Jar appears in a handful of scenes and he was the one who voted for the emergency powers needed for Palpatine to eventually turn the Republic into the Empire, thus giving fans one last reason to hate him. Jar Jar's presence was reduced even further in Revenge of the Sith. He only appears in three brief scenes (one of which was a Deleted scene) and has one line that is easy to miss.
• The B1 battle droids were criticized for having goofy personalities and being so comically inept that it was impossible to take them seriously. This film introduces the B2 super battle droids, which while still serving as common Mooks to the protagonists, have a more intimidating appearance and subdued personality.

Revenge of the Sith

• Yoda and Obi-Wan (and, as a result, Luke) being more spiritual in the original trilogy in the manner Qui-Gon was, as opposed to the dogmatic Jedi Order who saw such behavior as blasphemy, is justified by them being taught by the spirit of Qui-Gon himself.
• After complaints about how Obi-Wan and Anakin's relationship was handled in the previous two films (their interaction in TPM is minimal, and AOTC mostly features them being annoyed with one another), the first half of this film has them behave more as the close friends they're supposed to be (from the witty banter they exchange to more heartfelt moments).
• A minor one, but the Neimoidian bridge officer on the Invisible Hand has an American accent rather than the Yellow Peril-esque accent (based on Thai according to Word of God) previous Neimoidian characters were criticized for, showing that it's not the only accent they can have.
• The Trade Federation's battle droids got a lot of criticism in the first two films for being bland and not particularly threatening, with many fans viewing them as a Replacement Scrappy for the original trilogy's Imperial Stormtroopers. In this film, Lucas chose to embrace this, portraying them as pure comic relief characters—complete with cartoonish squeaky voices, and a few genuinely funny slapstick gags.
• Bail Organa ordering Captain Antilles to wipe C-3PO's memory at the end of the film clears up the continuity problem of 3PO not recognizing the planet Tatooine, Obi-Wan, Owen and Beru Lars, Luke, Leia or Darth Vader in the Original Trilogy despite experiencing all this in the prequels. R2 was spared this fate since he's an astromech droid and can't speak, which is why he does vaguely remember Obi-Wan in A New Hope.
• Anakin comes across as less whiny and more likable compared to his portrayal in Attack of the Clones. His complaining is more subdued and more justifiable (he feels alienated because the Council still don't trust him despite years of dedication to the Jedi and even Obi-Wan thinks they're being a bit unfair to him). The opening scene establishes Anakin as genuinely heroic; he wants to help the clone troopers when they're overrun by droids until Obi-Wan tells him to focus on the mission and he saves Obi-Wan multiple times, including disobeying Palpatine's order to leave him when he's knocked out and carrying him on his back. He also expresses remorse over killing the unarmed Dooku, feeding into his overall struggle throughout the film with deciding what's right.

A New Hope

• The infamous "Greedo shoots first" change in the 1997 special edition was slightly mitigated in the 2011 Blu-Ray edition by removing a few frames so that Han and Greedo fire simultaneously.
• The CGI Jabba introduced in 1997 looked absolutely horrible. It was replaced in the 2004 DVD release with an improved version.

The Empire Strikes Back

• Post-2004, Boba Fett's four lines were re-dubbed so that Temuera Morrison provides the voice, meaning that Episode II's revelation that Boba is a direct clone of his "father" Jango is no longer a retcon.
• The post-ROTS edition replaced the Marjorie Eaton/ Clive Revil Emperor with new footage of Ian McDiarmid to better fit with continuity and address a notable bit of Early-Installment Weirdness.
• The 1997 special edition added a scream (the same one the Emperor made while falling down the reactor shaft in Return of the Jedi in fact) while Luke was falling down the chasm to get away from Vader. Not only did the scream sound corny, not the least because it clearly sounded absolutely nothing like Luke’s voice, but many pointed out that it would make no sense for Luke to scream when he chose to jump. The 2004 DVD edition removed the scream.

The Force Awakens

• Having Ewan McGregor's incarnation of Obi-Wan alongside Alec Guinness' seems to address Hayden Christensen's appearance as Anakin in the post-2004 editions of Return of the Jedi.
• The movie dials back on the Plucky Comic Relief character presence of previous movies (particularly the prequels where even enemy troops would engage in silly banter), apart from C-3PO and R2-D2 who are a beloved and integral part of the franchise, along with the very popular BB-8.

The Last Jedi

• Lawrence Kasdan stated that the film would be "weird", which may be an indirect response to people who thought that The Force Awakens was too similar to A New Hope. The "Behind the Scenes" video released at the 2017 Disney D23 Expo also contained several quotes from cast members emphasizing how "fresh" and "unexpected" the story is. Early reviews reinforced this, calling it one of the most surprising and original entries in the saga in years.
• Likewise, many were disappointed with the fact that after being built up so heavily as the Decoy Protagonist, Finn failed in his two major action scenes in the previous movie. Having him fight Phasma and giving him his own subplot seems to be an attempt to rectify this. Although it's somewhat undermined by his character being relegated to the C plot and superfluous to the main story.
• Given she is the daughter of Anakin Skywalker, and is strong in the Force, many had been taken aback that Leia in the new canon did not become a Jedi. While she still is not a Jedi, after almost 40 years since her introduction, in this final performance from her, Carrie Fisher got to use the Force in the film.
• The final scene of The Force Awakens is played again, this time in a far more low-key way that indicates the way it appeared before was just some dramatic license and Rey didn't really just silently hold out the lightsaber for an awkwardly long time.
• Luke's comment about how the Republic and the Jedi were made out to be far better than they actually were by nostalgia explains why the Republic and Jedi were held to such high esteem in the Original Trilogy, despite how the Prequel Trilogy and Star Wars: The Clone Wars made it quite evident they were not entirely worthy of that praise.
• Kylo Ren had his fair share of detractors in the previous film; many criticized his fanboy attitude towards Darth Vader that led to him wearing a similar helmet and altering his voice, as well as his childish, hot-headed personality that ultimately made him come across as an inferior imitator of Vader. One of his very first scenes here has Snoke mocking him for exactly the same reasons, causing Kylo to smash the helmet and go without it for the rest of the film^note However, when the film turned out to be very divisive, Kylo would be shown repairing the helmet early in The Rise of Skywalker, and the rest of the film establishes him as a greater, more complex villain than the loony Darth Vader clone he was in TFA, overthrowing Snoke as Supreme Leader (something Vader never did until his redemption) and revealing that Ren's ultimate plan is to destroy the existing order of light vs. dark, while still keeping his short-sighted impulsiveness and poor, overemotional judgment. His Foe Romance Subtext with Rey also won over a good many of his former detractors. Additionally, while Ren's callous murder of Han Solo was criticized by some fans for turning the Vader-esque character into a Hate Sink, TLJ gives him a moment where he hesitates and decides not to kill Leia Organa, his remaining parent, showing that he is indeed a conflicted character and not just evil for the sake of being evil.
• Seemingly in response to criticisms of The Force Awakens, what is the first thing Leia does when she sees Chewbacca in this film? She gives him a big hug.
• A very minor one, but the First Order Snowtroopers featured rather heavily in merchandise for The Force Awakens, only to appear in the background for a few seconds. Here, they do make a more prominent appearance after the Battle of Crait.
• Pablo Hidalgo confirmed that Rey does use her Force Bond with Kylo to learn knowledge and skills, and that it was forged back in the interrogation scene in The Force Awakens. This assuages complaints about how she could pull off a Jedi Mind Trick on her first try; she simply picked it up from Kylo. (This was, strictly speaking, not actually necessary, because this kind of use of the Force by instinct is Older Than They Think: besides probably being how use of the Force would have been discovered in the first place, Corran Horn succeeded at an untrained Jedi Mind Trick in X-Wing: The Krytos Trap.)
• A common criticism of Rey in The Force Awakens was that she came off as a boring Invincible Hero who didn't face much challenge. This film attempts to fix that by showcasing her personal flaws, inexperience, and lack of knowledge about the Force and the Jedi, and puts her in several situations where she struggles or outright fails, notably being played by Snoke the whole time and failing to turn Kylo Ren back to the light.
• The novelization of the book contains several quick asides that explains away famous gripes with the Force Awakens and the Last Jedi. For example, Snoke's inner monologue contains a moment where he mocks Rey for thinking her pulling the Light Saber from the snow was a big deal, since that is something everyone that is in-tune with the Force does as their very first thing.
• The comic adaptation seems to be going out of it's way to address fan criticism of the film, doing things like attempting to explain Luke's mindset better, having Holdo immediately tell Poe she has a plan and needs his support rather than antagonizing him for no reason, and showing Admiral Ackbar's final moments rather than killing him offscreen.
• A common reaction to the Porgs is that they're essentially "Ewoks done right". Sure, they're Ridiculously Cute Critters explicitly designed to appeal to kids and sell merchandise—but they only appear sparingly with no impact on the plot, their Ugly Cute design prevents them from inducing Sweetness Aversion, they're just animals (not major characters with their own subplot), and the film doesn't try too hard to make them likeable (it acknowledges that some of the characters find them annoying). In fact, the only reason they're in the film to begin with is because the island the scenes where they appear was shot on had protected puffins that kept interfering with filming which couldn't be shooed away or removed, so they just CGI'd alien birds over them and let them do their thing.

The Rise of Skywalker

• Unlike the prior films where Rey, Finn, and Poe were never together as a group and spent most of The Last Jedi in separate plotlines, they're now a Power Trio and spend much of their screen-time together.
• Finn's goofiness has been toned down to oblivion and he instead makes for a rather good Supporting Leader in the climax.
• Lando is finally added to the new trilogy, after many fans wondering where he was and many believing he was to be in The Last Jedi. He's shown playing a rather important part as well, allowing him to shine in his own right.
• C-3PO and R2-D2 get more screen time and importance compared to the previous films, where they were Demoted to Extra.
• Audiences had mixed responses to Luke's cynicism and depression in The Last Jedi. In this film, Luke's Force Ghost appears to say he was wrong to cut himself off from the galaxy while convincing her not to do the same, acts more light-hearted, and has made peace with his past mistakes. While his final moments in The Last Jedi certainly suggests this, The Rise of Skywalker spells it out and has Luke interact with Rey with this mindset.
• The Digital Head Swap of Carrie Fisher's face in the flashback of Luke training Leia is less visibly jarring than the same treatment in Rogue One, helped by the nighttime setting and using lightsabers as light sources rather than Rogue One's direct white lighting. After the film premiered, audiences learned that Leia's body double was Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd.
• The movie reveals that Luke gave Leia basic Jedi training. Expanded universe novels were vague about the extent of her lessons with him, and the prior films didn't explain if she acted on instinct or training when she used the Force to rescue herself from floating in space.
• General Hux's Villain Decay and Butt-Monkey treatment in The Last Jedi leads to him being replaced with General Enric Pryde to take over his role and provide a more credible, non-goofy foe.
• It took 42 out-of-universe years, but Chewbacca finally receives a medal onscreen when Maz gives him Han's as a memento of his deceased friends.
• Turning Rey into Palpatine's granddaughter addresses complaints about why she was so naturally gifted with the Force in The Force Awakens.
• After The Force Awakens, some viewers complained that Rey was an Invincible Hero when she defeated the injured and emotionally unstable Kylo Ren despite his years of training with the Force and experience with lightsaber combat. In this film's final lightsaber duel, a healthy Kylo eventually gains the upper hand and is about to kill Rey when Leia intervenes Just in Time.
• After complaints about Kylo's lightsaber and combat prowess, this film's opening scene shows him as an unstoppable badass tearing through cultists while utilizing the crossguard blades.
• The novelization validates people who believe Rey and Ben's story arc wasn't about romance by describing their kiss in emotionally heightened but non-romantic terms.
• The novelization confirms that Palpatine was resurrected via cloning as in Dark Empire, addressing frustration over the lack of a proper explanation in the movie.
• The novelization confirms that Rey isn't retiring to Tatooine in the final scene; she's just burying the lightsabers and will continue being a hero across the galaxy.
• After the lightspeed ram in the previous movie, many fans wondered why such a destructive tactic wasn't commonly used, especially considering Lightspeed travel has existed for thousands of years in-universe and that there was a conflict in which one side was mostly composed of expendable troops just 50 years prior. In this movie, Poe comments that it is a risky manouver with "one-in-a million" chance, explaining that it is not a reliable tactic, hence it is not used unless as a desperate last resort.

The Mandalorian

• Lucasfilm’s marketing for Star Wars Rebels drew some criticism as trailers and ads would heavily promote a guest character or upcoming event. The marketing for The Mandalorian is decidedly more conservative, heavily employing Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer and no comments on leaked casting news, preserving the surprise for the audience. Favreau even convinced Disney to not produce any merchandise of the Child/Grogu to preserve his reveal for the series premiere, despite Disney losing millions in potential revenue; and Season 2’s guest appearance from Luke Skywalker was a complete surprise that managed to stay secret for an entire year. Season 2’s marketing also did not show any footage from the second half of the season.
• The show does for the Tusken Raiders what Star Wars: The Clone Wars did for the Toydarians. Rather than showing the Tuskens as mindless savages, it shows them as still ruthless, but also capable of being reasoned with, and willing to let people cross their land so long as they ask permission and pay a fair price. The Season 2 premiere goes further, with the Sand People tribe bordering Mos Pelgo agreeing that, in exchange for the offworlders' help slaying a krayt dragon, they will keep the peace with them for as long as the Mos Pelgans do the same.
  • The Book of Boba Fett takes this even further, with Fett spending an extended period of time with a tribe that scooped him up out of the desert and becoming one of them, adopting their culture and beliefs and seriously fleshing them out as culture and as people rather than native savages. This is particularly poignant given Temuera Morrison is of Polynesian descent: a gaffi stick fits him perfectly, and Boba's time with the Tuskens explains why he now uses it as part of his fighting style.
• Chapter 12, "The Siege," seemingly gives more context towards Palpatine's resurrection, as the episode heavily implies that Moff Gideon is working towards creating clone bodies using The Child's DNA. Although the season 3 finale would reveal Gideon was actually working to make Force-sensitive clones of himself to usurp the Imperial Remnant, it still lays the groundwork towards Palpatine's resurrection due to the bodies resembling Snoke and sharing his leitmotif.
• Chapter 13, "The Jedi," revealed that those with force sensitive gifts who aren't trained simply lose the ability over time, explaining why more emotionally unstable force wielders are refused training when giving them said training seems to be the lesser of two evils.
• Chapter 14 does quite a few wonders for Boba Fett:
  • The episode applies a great deal of his personality from Legends by showing he does have a sense of honor, and will always hold up his end of the bargain.
  • Moreover, after Star Wars: The Clone Wars left his (and by extent, his father Jango's) status as true Mandalorians ambiguous, Boba provides proof that Jango was a foundling, much in the same way Din was, proving that Prime Minister Almec was lying and that the Fetts were of Mandalore.
  • Perhaps the biggest contribution was to his reputation, which was largely based on his status as a Memetic Badass outside of the series. He not only effortlessly destroys an army of Imperial Troopers without his armor, him reclaiming his suit shows precisely why he's the most feared of all bounty hunters.
  • On another note, the show got some serious flack for killing off Fennec Shand, who had proved to be very popular with audiences. This episode not only brings her back^note A shot of her being approached by an offscreen Boba in her debut episode ties into this, but in the following weeks, confirmed she would be appearing in not just one, but two major series after: Star Wars: The Bad Batch and The Book of Boba Fett.
• Chapter 16 manages to really up the ante by featuring the appearance of Luke Skywalker himself in his traditional role as the Ideal Hero, after his depiction in The Last Jedi proved to be highly divisive. They even managed to get Mark Hamill to reprise the role, and had him bring R2-D2 along for good measure.

Obi Wan Kenobi

• Pre-release, there was criticism that the Grand Inquisitor lacked his yellow dark side eyes in the previews. Come the release of the show, they were added in digitally.
• The Third Sister slashing off a civilian's hand with her lightsaber in the first episode was a welcome surprise, as Disney has been notorious for its lack of dismemberment with lightsabers in recent properties. Part III even has an unlucky Stormtrooper get bisected by a laser gate on-screen, too.
• Ben Solo's namesake raised some eyebrows back when The Force Awakens came out, since Han barely knew Ben Kenobi while Leia never directly interacted with Kenobi in A New Hope and addressed him as "Obi-Wan" in her message (though she also recognizes the name "Ben Kenobi" when Luke said it, for unknown reasons). Here, Kenobi saves young Leia and introduces himself as "Ben" before the Inquisitors show up calling him "Obi-Wan", giving Leia both a reason to know both names and a more sentimental connection to the man she would someday name her son after.
• Alderaan, despite being around since A New Hope and being Leia's homeworld, has never been explored in-depth in the live-action movies (it only had a short appearance at the end of Revenge of the Sith) or previous TV series, so many people welcomed the chance to see what Alderaan was like in Part I.
• Ever since The Phantom Menace revealed that Anakin Skywalker was also from Tatooine and Attack of the Clones showed that Owen Lars is Anakin's stepbrother, there was a lot of gentle mockery directed towards Obi-Wan and Yoda for hiding Luke on his father's home world, and with his father's stepfamily. This series confirms that Obi-Wan genuinely thought Anakin/Vader had died after their battle on Mustafar, and so he was less concerned that the Empire would think to be interested in Anakin's relatives. It also provides another reason for why Obi-Wan was so reluctant to tell Luke the truth about his father, given he'd only had a few years to come to terms with it himself (or at least with the fact that he condemned Anakin to a Fate Worse than Death) rather than nearly two decades.
• Many people pointed out how Obi-Wan continuing to wear his Jedi robes and carrying a lightsaber while in exile wasn't a wise move. The first episode depicts him wearing regular Tatooine street clothes, and while he dons an outfit similar to his Jedi garb at the end when he goes to rescue Leia, it's still different enough to not immediately give him away as a Jedi, though he didn't discard his robes entirely, and was indeed wearing them even up to the year to 10BBY, a year before the events of this show (as seen in the Star Wars Issue 20 2015 comic). As for his lightsaber, he buried it (along with Anakin's) in the desert at some point after fighting Black Krrsantan the previous year (also seen in the Star Wars Issue 20 2015 comic), only retrieving it for the rescue mission. Even then, he never actually uses the saber while on Daiyu, instead fighting with his bare hands and a blaster.
• This is the third time^note not counting a small cameo in The Rise of Skywalker where Palpatine imitated his voice that James Earl Jones has reprised the voice of Darth Vader in the Disney era, but many have noted that Jones' inflection was "off" in Rebels and that he was clearly sounding his age in Rogue One. Here, Vader sounds just like he did when the original trilogy was being made, due to the crew using Respeecher to replicate Jones' younger Vader voice, like what was done to recreate Mark Hamill's younger voice for Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
• The A.I. voice for Luke in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett was criticized for sounding lifeless at times, while the Vader voice in this show sounds much more natural, probably helped by the fact that Vader’s voice has always had a robotic filter over it.
• Some viewers felt that the relatively measured words between Obi-Wan and Vader throughout their duel in A New Hope didn't make sense in light of what had happened between them at the end of Revenge of the Sith; Vader seems far too calm for someone finally coming face to face with the person who cut off his arm and legs and left him to burn to death and Obi-Wan doesn't react much to Vader now being more machine now than man. Part III has the two meeting long before their final duel on the Death Star — and this time Vader is livid, brutally killing several people to draw Obi-Wan out, Obi-Wan is horrified to see what Vader has become and Vader Force-shoves Obi-Wan face first into a blazing patch of fuel, clearly intending to repay his own agony with interest. By the end of the series, Vader is told by Darth Sidious that his emotions have clouded his judgment and Vader resolves to distance himself from his desire for revenge, explaining his calm demeanor on the Death Star when he and Obi-Wan meet for the final time.
• Part VI helps to retroactively explain why Obi-Wan and Vader's final duel in A New Hope was rather slow and clunky despite other stories set around that time period depicting the two as better fighters than they were in the original film (such as Vader effortlessly slaughtering the Rebels at the end of Rogue One and Obi-Wan killing Maul within seconds during their duel in Star Wars Rebels). In their second rematch, Obi-Wan manages to utterly trounce Vader by throwing dozens of large rocks at him, breaking his life support panel with the pommel of his saber hilt and nearly chopping his head in two. The only reason Vader survived is because Obi-Wan let him live. Vader is likely fighting more cautiously in A New Hope because he knows just how dangerous Obi-Wan is and how losing his temper clouded his judgement, while Obi-Wan is relying purely on defensive combat against Vader because he's simply buying time for Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, and the droids to escape the Death Star.
• Some took issue with the lightsaber duels of the prequel trilogy being extremely fast-paced and acrobatic while the original trilogy's duels were slower and stiff (due to how fragile the prop lightsabers were), and the two styles didn't mesh well. The duels in the show strike a balance between the two, with plenty of fancy swordplay and footwork from the duelists, but with less flash and slower choreography. This makes the fight scenes come across as more grounded and helps bridge the two styles with some Fridge Brilliance — Vader's heavy suit hinders his mobility and Obi-Wan is getting old. They aren't as fast or agile as they were in their prime, but that doesn't mean they're not still formidable combatants.
• In previous live-action productions, all of the clone troopers were computer generated, and there was never a physical clone costume made (the scenes of unmasked clones in Revenge of the Sith were just Temuera Morrison wearing a blue screen jumpsuit, with the clone armor imposed over the suit in post-production), something that many were critical of (especially since prequels were criticized for their supposed overuse of CGI). The 501st clones seen in the Order 66 scenes are portrayed by actual people in costume, as is the homeless clone veteran in Part II, who is played by none other than Temuera Morrison himself, making this the first instance of Morrison actually wearing clone armor.
• Due to The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett featuring many episodes taking place on Tatooine (and in the case of the latter, being almost entirely set on Tatooine), many fans were growing tired of the desert planet. The announcement of this series, while much anticipated, led to some exasperation at yet another Star Wars series taking place on Tatooine. Tatooine is featured prominently in Parts I and VI, but Leia's kidnapping allows for Obi-Wan to travel offworld, and he spends the majority of the show away from Tatooine.
• In Return of the Jedi, when Luke first encounters Vader on Endor, he tries to appeal to his father's inner goodness and turn Vader back to the light. Vader tells Luke, "Obi-Wan once thought as you do". However, there's hardly any indication in Revenge of the Sith that Obi-Wan believes there to be any good left in Anakin during their encounter on Mustafar; he only briefly tries to redeem Anakin before quickly giving up. In Part VI, Obi-Wan defeats Vader and damages his helmet enough to reveal Anakin's face — but refuses to kill him, defeating him with mercy. Obi-Wan apologizes for everything and tries to make amends with his former apprentice, but Vader coldly rebukes him.
• Part VI gives better context to the "Darth Vader killed Anakin Skywalker" bit, which came across as an Ass Pull in Return of the Jedi (given that Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader were originally planned to be two different characters), and has been criticized as Obi-Wan concealing the truth to Luke in a self-serving fashion. In the episode, Darth Vader outright tells Obi-Wan that he killed Anakin Skywalker, giving more weight to Obi-Wan's later choice of words and his decision to tell Luke that version of the story.
• Obi-Wan's use of "Darth" in A New Hope treated it as if it was his first name, not a title, which comes off as strange when it was revealed that Vader is Anakin Skywalker. At the end of Part VI, after being told that "Vader killed Anakin", Obi-Wan departs by calling him Darth, thus establishing it as a way to refer to the Vader side over the Anakin one. What especially helps is the almost condescending tone Obi-Wan uses, as if to say "this creature is what you've chosen for yourself".

Star Wars Comics (2015-Present)

• The comic hews towards the original cut of The Empire Strikes Back by revealing that Vader was fully aware Luke Skywalker was his son.
• Darth Vader was often subject to The Worf Effect in many a Legends story, in spite of his reputation as being a fearsome and powerful force to be reckoned with. Many of his solo series, in addition to Rogue One and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, reestablish him as The Dreaded, being a literal nightmare to anyone unlucky enough to face him in battle, and any defeat he suffers is due to facing off against someone who's more strategically brilliant than he is.
  • Speaking of, while Star Wars: The Clone Wars redeemed Anakin, many comic book series, such as Darth Vader: Dark Lord of the Sith, also fleshed out his motives following his descent to the Dark Side, adding further layers of tragedy to his character. Here, he's shown as a Tragic Villain, feeling that he's done far too much to deserve redemption, and that serving Palpatine is the only way of which he can aptly punish himself for his failures.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

• In general, many people enjoy this adaptation of the prequel trilogy more than the actual films, thanks to the game skipping over maligned scenes like the political drama, while at the same time incorporating hilarious gags and interesting gameplay scenarios.
• One of the most maligned aspects of Revenge of the Sith was Anakin fatally wounding Padmé with a force choke, which has been seen by many as a Kick the Dog moment. This version has him force choke his topper on their wedding cake (an allegory for his inner frustration and self-loathing), which accidentally strikes Padmé when it breaks. It is also implied that instead of dying from a broken heart, she dies of something much simpler like a brain injury.
• Unlike 2011 onwards prints of Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader doesn't scream any Big "NO!"s when Palpatine electrocutes Luke, restoring some gravitas that purists lamented the Blu-ray took away by Filling the Silence.
• After Captain Phasma's disappointing lack of screentime in The Force Awakens, she gets a memorable boss fight in the main storyline of the game. In LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, she also had a role in 2 of the Adventure Levels.
• The Last Jedi's contentious reveal that Luke contemplated killing Ben Solo after finding out that his mind had been taken by the Dark Side was changed to Ben Solo attacking him first after Luke found out that Snoke had already corrupted him.
• Finn and Poe getting more Ho Yay moments in the game has been treated as this by fans of the pairing after The Rise of Skywalker infamously gave them both female Satellite Love Interests seemingly just to discourage the pairing.
• The scenes where Rey strikes Finn with her staff on Jakku and throws him away with the Force in Kef Bir are removed in all games featuring them. Both of those scenes were low points for Rey and their absence made her more heroic.
• Rey kissing Kylo, who was a toxic influence for her in all three movies, caused many complaints. Here it was changed into a hug and Rey completely rejects Kylo as a love interest.
• Admiral Ackbar gets one last Fandom Nod in before his death, often panned for how quickly it happens, by trying to say his memetic "It's a trap!" line again before being sucked out the window.
• Even the final lines of the sequel trilogy end up getting tweaked, removing the common critique of "Rey who?" being unintentionally hilarious.

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