Nah Empire is a masterpiece because it's a great movie, in context or out of context. You can show Empire to somebody who's never seen Star Wars before and it still works as its own thing, and you care about the characters because they're given emotion and development and such. Showing somebody who's never watched Star Wars The Mandalorian or like Rise of Skywalker (lol it sucks that I can never get this "movie" out of my brain) and it doesn't work because at their core they rely too much on nostalgia and references rather than standing alone. Mandalorian season 1 works by this standard and mostly stands on its own, but season 2 is weird because so many random characters you're supposed to know already show up.
Nah Empire is a masterpiece because it's a great movie, in context or out of context. You can show Empire to somebody who's never seen Star Wars before and it still works as its own thing, and you care about the characters because they're given emotion and development and such. Showing somebody who's never watched Star Wars The Mandalorian or like Rise of Skywalker (lol it sucks that I can never get this "movie" out of my brain) and it doesn't work because at their core they rely too much on nostalgia and references rather than standing alone. Mandalorian season 1 works by this standard and mostly stands on its own, but season 2 is weird because so many random characters you're supposed to know already show up.