Originally posted by: zombie84
Thank you so much for posting that. It is something I came to realise ever since AOTC, explaining the extremely different and entirely dissonant prequel identities. Its ironic that even though the OT is basically a patchwork of improvisations it still feels ten times more consistent and deliberate than the supposedly-planned PT.

I can see this...

It's like in Empire, George was able to "Play" with his new idea of the world of Dagoba and his new guy "Yoda" and how to make him work, or a new Ice Planet with Huge Walker Tanks, or a Cloud City... while Lawrence Kasdan and Ivan Kirshner had the Job of making Luke and friends, as well as all the required "Star Wars" story arc things work together within Georg's new "play" environments... Once Empire was done Lucas never did go back add anything new to the Dagoba world in Jedi, he just moved on to "Play" in Jabba's Court, and also with his new Ewok guys and there planet. He only went back to Dagoba in that film because he HAD TO for the story the fans expected and paid to see.

In Empire this system worked well because Kasdan and Ivan Kirshner made the story SW fans had to follow work in these kewl new "LUCAS MADE" places, and the two of them got what "Star Wars" was all about to us fans of the original movie. It did not work as well in Jedi because Richard Marquand did not understand the pop-cultural impact "Star Wars" was as strongly as Kirshner had. When Lucas does it all himself like in the PT, it just falls apart under it's own weight. There are some great new environments in the PT, it's just too bad Lucas did not have some strong collaborators on those projects like Lawrence Kasdan and Ivan Kirshner, as well as good casting...

FF