I was thinking this morning that maybe I have been too hard on Lucas. The more I analyze his personality traits, the more I think that perhaps he was simply in over his head in making the special editions and the prequel trilogy and still doesn’t realize it nor ever want to realize it. Maybe he truly just can’t see what he’s doing to the entertainment franchise he helped create. Maybe he actually doesn’t know better.

It seems like, in everything that Lucas has done with Star Wars, he has had a million different logical approaches that all seem to contradict each other. He wants it be a great dramatic epic and a corny adventure film at the same time. He wants it to be a comedic tale told from a droid duo’s point of view and a serious mythological tale touching upon ethics and spirituality at the same time. He can’t even keep his sensibilities straight when it comes to a given character’s motivations or history. This speaks to a mind that is very messy and unorganized.

It’s like, at every turn, he comes up with a new idea or a new approach and adds it into the mix because that appeals to his fancy at that given moment. He expresses no problems with the contradicting concepts and feelings or any of the hanging threads he creates. It’s as if he just doesn’t care about that sort of thing. Perhaps George just has personality traits that aren’t suited to creating an intricately massive piece of art, and if that’s the case, then who am I to level personal criticisms at a man for his honest mistakes? We all have deficiencies after all.

Now, I still believe that George Lucas is greedy, and values his money over his art, which is wrong, and I also believe he is callously self-centered and stubborn. But, beyond these traits, from now on I believe I’ll go easier on George as a person.

George Lucas definitely has artistic skills, but his open-ended mind is too chaotic and I suppose he just doesn’t know when to quit.