Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Since when is George Lucas a fantastic story teller?

Since he came up with Star Wars. It was great and a lot of fun, a very enjoyable story. That is why I said he is a great story teller, but horrible at writing. The only reason the majority of us are at this site is because we really enjoyed the story Lucas had to tell. But as we have seen proven beyond a shadow of a doubt from the prequel trilogy, the man is a horrible writer. Even the overall stories of the PT were not that bad, the writing and execution of it was the bad part. A good writer could have made something great out of Lucas' prequel trilogy, unfortunately somewhere along the way through years and years of fan worship, dollar signs and having his ass kissed George has come to think of himself as the master storyteller and writer that knows no wrong, and therefore decided that he could write and direct the whole thing by himself and not take a bit of creative criticism from anyone. George is a very creative guy and he came up with a lot of cool concepts and characters and story ideas, he is a good story teller, I don't think we can doubt that. That is what makes the PT (as well as ROTJ) so disappointing, there was so much potential there, but so little came out of it.