I generally agree with a lot of this thread. Burying the OOT is probably the worst thing he’s done.

I think the issue with a Lucas-directed Sequel Trilogy in the 90s-2000s is that there would have been a massive chance to ruin three characters we all love. As it is, he just ruined a bunch of new characters or older characters that change so much by the time of ANH that it doesn’t matter, so all of that can be safely disregarded. With a really bad 90s Sequel Trilogy, we would have just had to deal with the fact that a lot of our favorite characters would have just been trashed.

If Lucasfilm had been more collaborative at the time, I’d have been down with seeing the Big Three back in their primes, but there’s a reason they call those years the Dark Ages.