Points well taken for the most part. My point is this, some people think Lucas should have done test screening and polling and caved to whatever the audiences/fans wanted and change the story around what the fans wanted. I am glad we got pure George Lucas and not something he caved in to people for. Because not matter who directed or wrote Star Wars we'd still have people on internet forums and other places saying how it should have been done this or that other better way. I can only imagine what it would have been like if there had been an active internet when the original trilogy was first released.

You say the prequels will never have the lasting appeal that the OT but, I think that would be true no matter who wrote or directed the prequels, they came out in a different era than the originals, the originals were the first of their kind, and they had little competition when they first came out. Of course the prequels would not have the sense of "awe" the originals had. Partly because people never saw anything like that at the time of the OT, nowadays in this era they see stuff like it all the time. Honestly, if the OT were to come out for the first time evere in today's era would it have ever become the phenom it did?