The Prequels, The Originals, and The Sequels

That's gonna get confusing someday. Some kid in 2045 is gonna look up at their pa and say, "Dad, which Star Wars movies are prequels, which are originals, which are sequels, and which are spin-offs?"
And assuming that pa is me, I'd go, "well, son, it's like this, the prequels are 1-3, the originals are 4-6, the sequels are 7-9, and the spin-offs are Rogue One ad etc." But someday it'll get confusing. A different pa might have a real hard time answering his son's question.
Because apparently some people are sacrilegious freaks who've never seen Star Wars or aren't massive nerds about Star Wars. 

But let's focus on the originals. 
Is there a generation gap in Star Wars? A New Hope, specifically? I don't mean by the people watching it, but in the characters. Er, between them. Amongst them. Whatever. 

Wait. A Star Wars essay? I'm really doing a Star Wars essay?

I think first and foremost we have Han Solo. He'd be one of the "Silent Generation" kids. He's old enough to have experienced the Clone Wars as a child, and judging by this . . . 

He just totally seems like that kinda guy. Cynical, hard to impress.

Obi-Wan, on the other hand, definitely a G.I. kinda guy.

He's even more cynical, has experienced every war since the Clone Wars, very wizened.

Darth Vader falls into about the same category.

He's been apprenticed by a veteran, and he's a veteran, himself. He has been scarred and hurt by the wars he's seen, and it shows, boy does it show.

Leia is more . . . interesting.

A baby boomer, Leia is uptight and commanding, brought up as a princess, never having seen a war, being born after one. Luke is similar.

Obligatory binary sunset gif.

 

They are both very confident, perhaps to a fault, except perhaps for Luke in the first movie. 

But I mean . . . he's still confident.


Just a little whiny, that's all.



 NOTE: I will bulk this up later.