My opinion of the Plinkett videos is that they’ve been very harmful in the long run. Obviously done as comedy sketches with the intent of tongue-in-cheek criticism on top, they were mostly taken at face value as de facto deconstructions of the PT movies and essential viewings to understanding “why they suck”, plaguing the internet’s idea of criticism and of the Prequels in the process. There was a spike in aggressivenes overall at the time those were coming out and discussing the PT and/or the videos was very unpleasant in general. The live-action bits with Plinkett are also of extremely poor taste, way worse than anything Lucas has ever dreamed of doing.
But I’m not really a fan of RLM at all. Stoklasa has been on record saying George is the luckiest person in show-biz, second only to Ringo Starr, and that’s easily among the dumbest things I’ve ever heard, so I usually just ignore those kinds of guys. But it is a fact that his Plinkett reviews helped keep the fire of the original Fandom Menace burning, you know, the one that made both Ahmed Best and Jake Lloyd depressed.
But characters like this Rick Worley, defenders of sexual abusers and the likes, are somehow even worse. Harassing actresses like Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran off of social media and engaging in extremely toxic behavior towards anyone who disagrees with them… perhaps getting back at the toxic and hateful fans à la Plinkett, but in the end just employing the same disgusting tactics.
Two sides of the same, very ugly coin, that is the Star Wars fan base.
Back to the topic at hand, I think Lucas didn’t forget this at all. This was just of way too small importance when it came to the PT. He probably didn’t want to sacrifice whatever story he was telling just to fit in slightly better with a line from a character from a previous movie. This happens all the time whenever talking about unplanned non-linear storytelling, it’s nothing new and it’s no big deal. Always baffles me how everyone gets upset at small stuff like this.
Also, you know, he was in the military, serving the Senate, so technically he did serve Senator Organa 😄