The topic of this particular thread really fascinated me, as sometimes it appears that Lucas really does live in a fantasy world--making 50-100 episodes of a TV show that he has not sold. That he is not preoccupied with this problem shows two things:
A) he has a lot of money, and can probably take a loss (i.e. direct to video or subscription net ala "hyperspace")
B) he really has lost perception of reality, which would explain that he is not lying but merely forgotten reality when he says he always thought of Star Wars as the "Tragedy of Darth Vader", etc.
It is all very strange, and a regular working guy like me will never understand the dilemmas and psychology of a guy who lives and works on his own compound, finances his own multi-million dollar projects etc. But it is interesting to see how far Lucas has distanced himself from the human reality that most of us live in and some that his early work (American Graffiti and, yes, Star Wars '77) so well portrayed. What I find particularly fascinating is how this lack of understanding of reality has now seeped into the one place where I thought he was still on top of his game--business sense!