someone else’s thoughts on “Revenge of the Sith”

At first, it seemed like he did. Lucas started the story with A New Hope in the middle of things -- in medias res, a time-honored literary device that served Homer and Vergil (among others) well. It just drops you into the action and expects you to keep up, a little exposition from Menelaus here, a little flashback action to the fall of Troy there, and everything eventually comes into focus. Lucas didn’t give us a whole lot of background on Vader, because he didn’t need to; Vader is the enemy, he’s all in black, and once we find out that he turned evil (versus being born that way), and that he’s Luke and Leia’s father, voila, depth. It could have stopped there, and probably should have.