2. The Galactic Senate Scenes Aren't As Bad As You Remember
It inspired one of the Simpsons' greatest gags - in which the Galactic Senate sequence is mocked up as one never-ending roll-call - and it isn't really what you want from the first Star Wars film in nearly two decades, but the scenes of trade-talk and legislation which angered so many really aren't as bad - or even as prominent - as you might remember. Yes they're pretty tedious, and it's true that kids especially are likely to lose interest within seconds, let alone know what's going on, but if we take the the scenes on a purely aesthetic basis, they look particularly impressive, especially when a near overhead shot of the arena shows just how vast and populated the meetings are. That's likely not enough to save the scenes from most peoples' derision, but nor is this segment necessarily trying to do so. What it is trying to do, however, is suggest that these are minor parts of a major film, easily ignored if that's what you want to do, but also interesting and striking in their own kind of way - and nowhere near as annoying as something like the Three Stooges-esque pit droids or the shoehorning of C-3PO into the story for the sake of nostalgia.