bkev said:

After giving it a little more thought, I think that he only had a general idea and not the whole saga; because remember, there were some drafts of ROTJ where Coruscant is where the final battle took place. And then the whole Wookiee vs. Ewok thing.

I guess this leads to something more... do you hate Lucas for what he's "done" to the series?

What ended up as the ewok battle in ROTJ came from an idea about a Wookie battle,
right? And he made Chewie Han's co-pilot because he didn't know if he was ever
going to make another film to show the Wookie planet, so he put Chewie in there just
in case.

As far as hating Lucas for what he's done to the series, I don't "hate" him, but I am
royally pissed at him. The Prequels sort of sully the whole franchise- to the extent
that they are able to. They're not taken as seriously and they're not as loved as
the OT, so I guess they can only damage the legacy of the OT so much.

I'm far more upset about the Special Edition vs OOT situation, because I can
ignore the prequels, but it's hard to ignore the SEs since the OOT hasn't been
given a proper release.