The problem with GL is that he is NOT Tolkien, people. Suddenly he had this huge burden of creating a HUGE intergalactical saga, filled with a complex timeline composed of an official film canon and several expanded universe facts, so huge not even the hugest fan knows it entirely. It's like asking Steven Spielberg to write a fantasy saga, he'll come up with crap too, he won't be able to handle all the facts. belivew it or not, people, GL is not a geek who reads and watches sci-fi all the time and knows how to handle an intergalactical saga in the way a fan would really appreciate, he can't do this, he's a 60+ year old director, did the best he can, and he failed. It would be like asking for Hitchcock to write and direct a 6 episode complex fantasy saga, he wouldn't be able to handle it, it is not what he did best. It's like asking your grandmother to write sci-fi, she would try, but it would be a crappy childlike story filled with cliche and plot holes. See what I mean now?