“Scholarly” discussion of Star Wars is rife. But I particularly liked The Case for the Empire, in which the author argues that the Empire are the real good guys in the story. Some nice short phrases: the Jedi are an ‘arrogant royalist Swiss guard’, and ‘The Empire doesn’t want slaves or destruction or “evil.” It wants order. ‘

And, of course that, ‘[The rebel's] victory over the Empire doesn’t liberate the galaxy- -it turns the galaxy into Somalia writ large.’

Set-destruction is always good.