Star Wars reflects this and embraces it in a somewhat sideways, wonky fashion. The blatant hybristophilia is literalized in the Prequels when Padme sees the little boy Ani she remembers from way back when with new eyes after his merciless slaughter of an entire village of Sandpeople, including women and children. His genocidal rage against the people who killed his mother fuels her interest in him, enables her to re-contextualize him as a potent adult, and leads directly to their romance. 

Star Wars is not the franchise to turn to for moral guidance.

Getting back on track with the Elsewhen concept, I look forward to a potentially more unforgiving approach to be taken with Magneto, as we saw hinted at in The Hidden Years. While Marvel was originally as much for 12-year-olds as anyone else, it did not confine its moral explorations and arguments to small, basic terms. It would be nice to see someone directly take on the issue of how correct it was to grant Magneto the level of forgiveness Claremont was willing to impart.

I disagree. The prequels certainly were, because Lucasfilms was focused on merchandise sales by that point and pre-teens were the best demographic. However, the original trilogy was clearly aimed at teenagers, just as American Graffiti had been.

Or, Brian, we could just take what Lucas told us was true in the very first film and not feel the need to overexplain and justify a bunch of nonsense that guts and tears it apart.