Some of his sequel ideas have also been repurposed. If Mando and Gorgo holds to be true they will be facing warlords running the remnants of the Empire. And Dave Filoni is using George’s ideas in Darth Maul Shadow lord with Darth Talon.
Wasn’t Luke as a colonel Kurtz like character allegedly in George’s treatment. That sort of ended up in the Last Jedi if not in the way George would have handled it. The astral projection/ Luke is a legend stuff. and not a straightforward redemption arc. That does not sound like George at all. I also don’t picture Lucas making the prequel Jedi failures and Luke’s meta narrative. Chuck the lightsaber it’s time for the Jedi to end. Burn the tree with the Jedi texts, oh that is right Rey stole them.
I do like the idea that the force is bigger than the light side and the dark side and its vanity that the force dies if the jedi religion dies. The balance being bigger than the jedi and Sith conflict is interesting and then its abandoned.
But not in the story context they were pitched, with the characters they were connected to.
I don’t care about Luke being in exile. I care that Luke sucks. Would Luke have been a petty man child, who discards his sister and his friends life and blames the Jedi for all his problems, even though they had nothing to do with him pulling a weapon on his sleeping nephew with intent to murder him? If not, Luke being in exile doesn’t annoy me that much.
I gave the DOTF script another read through last night (I’d forgotten how enjoyable and engaging it was) - and there is certainly that aspect of the Force being addressed throughout the script (especially with Rey; and meshing / riffing with themes on Luke and Vader in ROTJ).
For me, the finale was quite intriguing on the subject _(and also breaking that problematic
Problematic? How? Having self control is problematic? Or is this the whole interpretation that the Jedi aren’t allowed to have feelings, even though all the main Jedi are shown to have feelings and feel emotions?