Originally posted by: vote_for_palpatine

Lucas misunderstood the fans - big surprise. We didn't want the gaps filled in to the OT after ROTJ - we just wanted more Star Wars. At that time, we assumed he could still knock out a good Star Wars movie. The PT may have been better if it had nothing to do with the OT.

Very interesting point, but I don't think Lucas had the creativity to craft a whole new trilogy from top to bottom with all new characters, story arcs, etc. The PT is so easy to fall back on when it doubt, cause Lucas used the 'mirror the trilogies' rule, which to many of the PT gushers was great to see how Anakin & Luke react to the same thing, but to many of us it seemed redundant. I didn't like the contant mirroring of each trilogy, cause if you look at ESB & SW, the two movies have ZERO of anything that is similar, and that why everyone loves them!

It would be cool to craft a prequel trilogy set hundreds of years before ANH, and essentially not having any OT characters in it, but still show the beginning of the republic in that sense. There would still have to be some underlying reason to tell the new story, and I really can't think of one, and leads me to believe that this whole disaster should have ended in 1983, and leave it be as the greatest trilogy ever.