I was looking at my movies last night thinking how Lucas could possibly think that these six movies are one continuous story instead of two separate trilogies, when the main character and the point of the story changes so radically halfway through. And then suddenly something hit me. It wasn't an object. It was an idea. Has anyone read Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale? Probably not. It's one of his later, lesser-known plays, but I was briefly in it a year ago, so it surprises me that I've just now realized this. George's revised "vision" for the I-VI Star Wars story arc is very, very similar to the story of The Winter's Tale. A man (in this case a king) becomes jealous that his wife's expectant baby is actually the result of an affair with a close friend of his. He goes crazy and tries to kill her. The baby is spirited away from the father and adopted by an old shepherd. Sixteen years pass, and the story suddenly shifts to the grown-up child (who is a girl in this case) who, after a series of events, is reunited with her father, who has become repentant.

Obviously, the Star Wars trilogy we know and love is nothing like this, but it seems like he is trying to tweak it into this story.