I'm an optimist, but I'm still beginning to think along similar lines to Anchorhead. And I think maybe you're putting a bit too much stock in Lucas's bitter words on MTV. After all, it was an interview, not a press conference. He hadn't planned what he was going to say in advance. Someone asked him a question, and he made it his point to bash the OOT. Maybe, "It will all come out in the end," doesn't really mean, "I'll be watching closely to see what the fans want." It might be more, "I'm extremely confident that no one will care about these movies, and I'll get to laugh in the geeks' faces when I'm right."