Why Star Wars Episode VII can't be even as good as Episode V

There was some chatter recently at some point about how the next Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens is going to be not just as good as The Empire Strikes Back was.  No, not just as good as - better than.  That's essentially impossible.

Complicating this claim is who it might be it's being made about.     Somebody who saw the original Star Wars in a theater on release year when they were ten?   (Twenty?  Forty?)    The people that made the first movies IV-VI?  (The people that made the last three I-III?  Are making these three VII to IX?)   Perhaps a twelve-year-old who first watched Episodes I-VI  in order, numerical story-chronological order, just last year for the first time.  Maybe an eighty-year-old who first watched IV-VI then I-III in release-chronological order just today for the first time.   Somebody who started in on Episode I as an eighteen-year-old, saw I-III and who has never gone back and watched IV-VI.   Somebody who hasn't ever seen any.  Somebody who watched a random one, hated it, and didn't watch any more.

Instead is the claim not about who will think the newest one is better - but that on some sort of imagined objective basis, VII will just simply be a better movie than V was.  Not how much it makes, as that isn't necessarily (and often isn't) a particularly good gauge of the quality, or what the fans think of it, or anything else.   Such as that out of the existing six movies,  Episode I is  (in an absolute-dollars in-theaters box-office-take sense) the highest-grossing domestically - likely VII will take that over, no matter what, it being the first movie in a number of years.   It's pretty certain this movie will indeed draw huge numbers of people for a while everywhere it's released, and make a lot of money.   So, no, not what it earns.  Better as in on some notional trusted qualified film expert opinion of movie quality, or what officially-sanctioned top-tier fans say about it, or using the sliding scale of motion picture merit system they secretly use at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  Better in an absolute objective measurable sense that doesn't exist.

As far as better in the actual world to somebody or another though, to and for whom would it be better?  That's a question.   To be better, as in be superior in general overall on most any scale, and regardless of how that superiority is measured.  (Say, gets the most votes on a majority of variables  in random phone sampling of some number of questions of this movie compared to the the other one.   However that would be done.)  Let's say then that the claim is VII is better to those who also saw IV when it came out.  Who has watched all six so far as they were released.  Who has been a fan of (or even disliked or hated one or more of) the six movies that currently exist in public.  Regardless if that person today forty-four (6 in 1977) or one-hundred-fifteen (78 in 1977).

A person that's seen all six movies so far in the order in which they were released around release, they will think Episode VII is better than Episode V.  

Not likely.

Sure, always in motion is the future.  How good or bad this new movie is "in everyone's opinion" and what it's better or worse than on some enjoyment meter, not a fact.   If this newest Star Wars movie is better, after some comparative analysis or another of opinions, that's not a done deal yet at all.    Since the movie isn't even out yet, it's not been established that it is fully without doubt impossible that it can or will be better.   Better, to whatever extent something subjective can be superior or inferior to something else subjective, to somebody somewhere be that from one person to everyone currently in existence on this planet of ours in this galaxy so very near.  Even to somebody that doesn't particularly enjoy science fiction or action or anything but nonfiction.

Here though are some of the reasons that at least highly suggest this claimed improvement can't be accomplished.     Reasons to consider in examining the contentions that VII FA will be better or can't even be as good as V ESB was.

Pyramids

There are pyramids of all shapes and sizes all over the world.    We're going to write about some of them here, the most famous of them (we in the West might say).  

In a country currently known as Egypt (Ararb Republic of Egypt, Gomhoreyyet Maṣr el-ʿArabeyya) there are a number of pyramids, depending on how you count them, some hundred and fifty of them.    The oldest (as far as we know) are in Saqqara, with the Pyramid of Djoser estimated as currently being about 4,600 years old.    We'll focus on the pyramids in Giza though.

The three largest pyramids (The Great Pyramids) in the Giza Necropolis are Khufu's (Great Pyramid of Giza) Khafre's (sometimes Sphinx Temple) and Menkaure's (the smallest of the three).   

Why, well "Cheops Pyramid on Egypt's Giza Plateau" is the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World, after all, and the three making up The Great Pyramids rather go together.

Miley Cyrus??

Just recently, well recently enough, Miley Cyrus has been creating quite a stir with her racy and outrageous behavior, some might say.    Really.     Is that right.   Is that so.   Ha!    Maybe.