George Lucas is trying to take Star Wars down the path of Star Trek. If he succeeds, the primary Star Wars fans won't know or care about the truly fantastic achievements he and others accomplished with the original Star Wars and its two sequels. It will always be about the next lame video game, or the next TV episode written by Whoknows and Whocares. Eventually it will all become so oversaturated and redundant that nobody will care at all about a consistent plot for the series or its most truly meaningful moments. Eventually you'll have the popular culture stop watching altogether, but we'll always have the geeky fans that can't get enough of the mess and will love watch it all again and again. Fans of what the original movie was will be relegated to esoteric obscurity by the more prominent fans. Star War will die.

That is unless someone can manage to change the popular approach to Star Wars that George Lucas is funding . . . but I’m not sure who could do that or if they’d even want to. It was just a movie after all. A great one to be sure, but it’s not life or death.