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If Xenogears is a scifi story that tries to be deep, Star Wars is a scifi story that goes very far out of it's way to be shallow.
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The Oddysey... lmao. That's... almost too sad to be funny. But not quite.
Have you actually ever read The Odyssey before? I made that comparison because The Odyssey is an adventure story that at its core is pretty simple, but the book still possesses depth from the growth and voyages of the characters. Being difficult to understand has nothing to do with depth. There's a big difference between depth and complexity.
BTW Star Wars is not science fiction.
Also, it's really amazing what kinds of double-standards there are out there. For instance, The Lord of the Rings has a ridiculously simple story with extremely simple and predictable character development, yet everyone claims it to be a deep character study. Now naturally it deserves credit for creating that sort of fantasy genre and for basically laying the groundwork for just about every fantasy story that came after it, but it (the movies at least) possesses both a story and character depth far simpler than even Star Wars. Not that simple is bad or anything, but it's still simple.
But just to make myself clear, I am definitely not saying that Star Wars is as great of a story as The Odyssey or even The Lord of the Rings (the books), but as a movie series it possesses many elements from different myths and stories that makes for an excellent set of movies, one that works particular well in this medium.