On the word, "original." Towards the end of this youtube video I state that Star Wars is a mixture of things like Wizard of Oz, Kurisawa's Hidden Fortress, Flash Gordon serials, and westerns. That being said, Lucas took these influences and molded them into a science fiction epic. A space opera. When viewed in a gestaltist context, the whole is other(original) than the sum of its parts.

Respect is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as: "a feeling of deep admiration for someone elicited by their qualities or achievements."
Did Disney have "respect" for Fairy Tales? Well perhaps it's subjective, but in my opinion the answer is yes. They didn't have to copy Grimm verbatim. That's not a requirement for respect. Did they have "respect" for Star Wars? No, they did not, and do you know why? Well that's what my video explains.

It becomes a bit of a semantic dispute when the words, "science" and "fiction" are put together to form a category. The same arguments I find people make against Star Wars being Science Fiction are the same ones some could make against a great Science Fiction writer like Heinlein. I use the term in my video to describe exactly where one would find any Star Wars film in a video library, the Science Fiction section.

At the end of ROTJ, in the Ewok village Luke takes Darth Vader's body and life support apparatus and burns it in what appears to be some symbolic ritual. In all likelihood, Han and Leia would have asked Luke what he was doing. Why would Han and Leia keep it secret that grandpa Vader repented from the dark side from little Ben? And besides this, it has been said numerous times by Lucas that the redemption of Vader was one of the main motifs of the Original Trilogy. TFA just spits in the face of Lucas.
Wouldn't you be proud if your father had changed his evil past? Would you keep his repentance secret? No, I don't think the Luke we have been presented in the OT would have been secretive about his father's redemption. The people who comment, "Kylo didn't know about Vader" or "Only Luke knew" want to like TFA so much, they have to perform mental gymnastics to make that happen.
Anyway, read this article. Abrams says that Kylo knew about Vader's redemption. Read this before posting a comment stating, "...but Kylo never knew about Vader's repentance. Only Luke knew!"
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Why The Force Awakens Sucks by Jar Jar Abrams or How I learned to stop worrying and love Star Wars the Phantom Menace.

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