you have to hand it to Lucas for trying to significantly expand his space opera by adding in galactical politics No, absolutely zero credit. While "

you have to hand it to Lucas for trying to significantly expand his space opera by adding in galactical politics No, absolutely zero credit. While "evil guy corrupting a democracy" is certainly a noble and relevant thing to explore, the prequels don't explore that in any useful or fun or insightful way. It's literally just an excuse for pew pew pew lasers and spaceships and laser swords. (Remarkably, they also make the democracy, and the Jedi who defend it, seem almost universally super boring and dumb and uncool. Making Jedi uncool is some kind of special achievement...) Even as a real-world allegory, it sucks. The bad guys in real life aren't even remotely like the Sith, who are physically twisted freaks that are explicitly like "yep! we're evil!" Real-life bad guys are often good looking and most of them think they're actually doing the right thing.