Lucas could be belittling Star Wars on purpose. In interviews over the years when people bring up how great and mythic, and MEMORABLE the story and characters he would always say, "Oh the stories are not what will be remembered, but the TECHNOLOGY" -- something along those lines. It always took me aback when he said things like that. Of course he'd been pushing technology along all this time, but people truly loved the stories themselves...not so much anymore now that they really suck without other writers cleaning up his plots and dialogue. Go ahead Lucas, make your dream of technology being greater than a human story come true. Your stories suck now.