"They are having a hard time," Lucas said. "They're saying, 'This doesn't fit into our little square boxes..."

Yet I bet that your little square boxes are anamorphic.

Also, he couldn't be more wrong. These days, networks - broadcast and cable - are taking more chances and writing\shooting\presenting outside the little box more than they ever have before.

I don't really think that this is true at all, given the current state of Hollywood's endlessly recycling idea machine, but even if it is, I still think that there would be no reason for them to purchase 100+ episodes of anything. Maybe he should start thinking outside of HIS little square box.

Lucas was able to make statements like that when it came to the movies, cause the name SW was a sure thing. WHen TPM came out, he threatened to pull his movies from theaters if they didn't respond to certain guidelines, and he had the power to do that. He then started making those demands with digital video with AOTC/ROTS, but nobody was listening by then.

Nobody was listening in what way?

TV is a different entity, as most TV shows fail, and there is no guarantee that this will be a success, and Lucas thinks he can bully the TV industry around the same way he does the movie industry.

The TV industry seems to be finally doing to him what he did for years and telling him that unless they do things his way, he can walk. There are other things that are more sure for cash than 100+ episodes of a series that's a wild card. I think that Lucas just expected to go and go "It's Star Wars!" and have everyone immediately be waving contracts in his face. To be honest, so did I. Evidently, that's not the case.

Lucas has failed to realize the SW series is living off of the success of SW & ESB, and as much as I love ROTJ, it is average, and most people know it is nowhere as great as the previous installments. In all honesty, Lucas has done anything earth shattering since 1981 with Raiders, and I think people are finally catching onto him.

What evidence is there of that?

Now of course Lucas is a salesman, so he is going to ratchet up the quotes for these TV series saying they will be 'groundbreaking' and 'something that has never been seen on TV before' but I won't fall for it again, and I don't think the TV execs will either.

We'll just have to see who will.

Peter Jackson has a chance to make the Hobbit, and I say to him, "Don't do it!!!" Leave LOTR trilogy as is, its a classic, it sits up there with the OOT as a great set of movies, sometimes more is less.

If he doesn't make The Hobbit, someone else will, and I'd rather see him do it for the sake of the material. I think that this is a COMPLETELY different scenario, because the source material for The Hobbit is tied to LOTR by the same author of the novels. It's not like they're making up more LOTR related stuff to cash in on its success. Sorry to jump, I'm just really passionate and keep hoping that the movie gods will simple upon me and let Jackson direct a kick-ass Hobbit movie that I can proudly place on my shelf.

Well said.... I can type about how I don't think they're perceived as badly as they are online... that everyone is a critic online and everything sucks online , etc....

True, and with the online fanbase, the truth, like it almost always does, lies somewhere in the middle.

I do think that the OT is still thought of and loved the same as it was before the PT... it's not going to go away or be diminished. IMO the PT fan reaction is waaaaaaay more valid than the SE reactions.

I think, and surely even you can agree, that the continuing perception of the OT comes from them just being damn good pieces of work. The PT reaction is more valid, I think, because it isn't a patch, but a new thing. I'm not saying that I dislike TPM because of a changed scene. I'm saying that I dislike it because I just don't think that it's very good.