I believe that the Star Wars fiction is a good mythology since it is so relevant to our values in the now. It speaks to us in much more direct terms than many other mythologies. It taps into the collective ambitions for a future, the collective common sense of spiritual ideas and the collective ontology of a multi-cultural secularised society. Force Realism is a powerful philosophical framework.
Seeing the mythology in a series of 'what ifs' is useful when we consider that the story by design did follow a prophecised destined path which centred on the hopes of free will, with a recognition of human frailty. For me the Star Wars mythology is fascinating because harnesses our society's collective unconscious convinctions by what did happen in the story when it could have been so very different by any number of events.
