Not everything in the past was better. When it comes to science fiction franchises from the 1970s and 1980s, we often have a tendency to romanticize the so-called purity of the way things used to be.
When Luke Skywalker’s parental figures, Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, were slain by Imperial Stormtroopers, it happened offscreen. But in the 1985 Star Wars TV movie Ewoks: Battle for Endor, presumably ...