Basically there are only two stories. I don't mean in Star Wars; just in general. Let's call them The Iliad and The Odyssey. A New Hope was essentially just Th

Basically there are only two stories. I don't mean in Star Wars; just in general. Let's call them The Iliad and The Odyssey. A New Hope was essentially just The Iliad In Space. So far, so good if you like that kind of thing (I personally never cared for it). The next two were basically The Odyssey. In space. Which was one more movie than was strictly justified. (I agree with the article that The Empire Strikes Back was the one good film in the series.) The three prequels probably cover about the first 10 pages of The Iliad, which was three more movies than was justified.