In every other interview I read in magazines or saw on TV. Each and every time he said he had the whole thing planned out. Everytime he said "I had this huge story and decided to take the middle portion and make it into the first trilogy and I put the first part on the shelf and figured I'd go back to that later". Sometimes he calls the middle story the second half and the prequels are the first half. That's usually what leads people to believe that there's a third trilogy sitting on a shelf in his office. I personally took it to mean he wrote the whole thing down and that as one story, it was just to big. If that's not what he meant, he shouldn't say that. Something great speakers will tell you is that if your audience misunderstands you, the problem isn't with the audience, the problem is with you as the speaker. Either you didn't say what you meant, or you said it in such a way that they thought you meant something else. It is up to you as the speaker to clearly convey your meaning to the audience. It is not up to the audience to "figure out" what you meant.

That is something you have no shortage of Go-Mer. You're constantly telling us "I don't think he meant it that way". If that's the case, he needs to tell us what he meant and not keep telling us something else.

I think a lot of this comes from the old video "From Star Wars to Jedi", but I'm not entirely sure about that. Some others around here with better memories than mine could probably tell you exactly what places he said it. I don't have the time or inclination to search the web or look through my old videos to find the exact quote, but I know I've heard it.

He also completely contradicts one of his own story elements in the prequel commentaries. In the commentary of AOTC, he clearly says "the dark side is stronger...at least in the short term". Yes, I could hear it coming as I watched the movies. Yes, it disturbs me that he said it. It almost invalidates what Yoda tells Luke in ESB "Is the dark side stronger?" "No, quicker, easier, more seductive". Thanks George. The lively debates I had with friends about which side was stronger came to an end at that point. There's no point trying to have a debate like that based on what Yoda says when you have the creator telling you otherwise. Again I say thanks George. This is minor, but it really pissed me off when I heard it. But this is way OT.