Originally posted by: Go-Mer-TonicTo me the finished saga is an intricate yin yang of mirror images. To me it's quite an accomplishment that it turned out with as solid a continuity as it does considering the way Lucas fleshed it all out as he went.

I beg to differ. The three parts of the prequels don't even represent what you describe, and thus the PT represents a rather unstable foundation for the OT. But happily for all of us, George is busy working on fixing this by adjusting the artistic level of the OT to that of the PT.