I have never understood the Lucas-bashing. Don't get me wrong, the SE and PT suck. But I've always thought that Lucas was doing what he felt was best for his films, even if he was horribly wrong. All the great film-makers of his generation (Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg, DePalma) have turned out progressively worse films in their later years, but I don't hate any of them either. Suppressing the OUT was his worst crime: and that was bad, but not badly intentioned I think.