A telltale interview contemporary to The Phantom Menace reveals that Star Wars has had the same problem since the beginning.

End the Jedi, and become what your grandfather Vader could not,” the undead Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) tells Supreme Leader Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) — once Ben Solo, grandson of Anakin Skywalker — in the ...

The Imperial Forces under orders from cruel Darth Vader (David Prowse ... Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford), captain of the Millennium Falcon, work together with ...