[Cronos]

Star Wars takes from the Foundation novels (a galactic empire), from Naziism, from cowboy movies, from Samurai and swash-buckling movies. What raised it was first the music — utterly inspiring and second the backstory when they made up the Jedi v/s Sith storyline

[Nepeta]

What raised it was first the music — utterly inspiring

Or manipulative. Pretty people, great music--My Glitter-Over-Substance meters start going off when a movie is trying to tell me I should like characters without giving me some good reasons.

Asimov did not invent the notion of a galactic empire. The Star Bores universe is a crazy quilt amalgam of all sorts of borrowings, and some of the stitching is sloppy.