Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | OUTRO

It took me a long time to realize that the Empire is civilization and people of science, reason, and normalcy. While the rebel alliance is religious fanaticism.

Regarding your comment about hate online from fans - yeah, Star Wars seems to have become the most toxic fandom online. Sure, it may come from a place of "love", but there's a lot of people who not only spew anger and negativity about the parts of this franchise that they don't like but weirdly get mad at you if you don't feel the same way as them. Now that you're sharing these reactions on YouTube, I imagine you're going to get some of that unfortunately, but you've just got to block that out and know that they're the vocal minority.

So, some info videos you should watch are an Empire of Dreams and Light and Magic both on Disney plus. They both are incredibly informative and i think you'd thoroughly enjoy them.