I know what you're saying, but the first 20 minutes of STAR WARS was nothing but 'small world syndrome', & it was done without trying to establish nostalgia.
I mean you have Vader attacking a ship containing his daughter that he didn't know he had, the droid he built, which is now with the droid his wife gave him, that he fought an entire war with, over the planet he grew up on, where his former best friend & master is in hiding, & it happens directly over the farm of his stepbrother's moisture farm, where his son that he didn't know he had has been placed in hiding.