The Road to Star Wars, Part 2: A Brotherly Rescue

Working my way through the early drafts of Star Wars available online, I've now reached the "second draft." With some ideas from before packed away for future development and use, the story is now recognisably that of the first movie: General Luke Skywalker and Annikin Starkiller seem to have been merged into the single protagonist "Luke Starkiller;" the Force is taking form as its own entity, making the Jedi and the Sith more themselves as well; and with a good selection of scenes from it recognisable as some of Ralph McQuarrie's earliest production paintings, the story has started to take on visual form as well... and yet for all of that, there's something about this particular version of the story that's long seemed to me an odd step away from Star Wars as we all know it.
( '...there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as: THE SON OF THE SUNS.' )