Scruffy said:
The common denominator here is that these series crashed after the original creative talent left, or was dismissed. Not so with Star Wars: George Lucas was always there. It is with some perverse delight that I imagine the series might have been better had Lucas relinquished more control in the 1990s. Or maybe it would've been much worse. There's really no way to know.

i think there is a way to know..... we know what happened with 'empire strikes back',

and with 'return of the jedi'.... even though Lucas was still intrinsically involved, neither

matched up with original greatness of 'Star Wars'.... both were a decline in quality, and

care in making them.. they never reached the greatness that the first had..(to me of course)..

no one ever says 'empire' or 'return of the jedi' are groundbreaking, because they arent'..

the precedent was already set..

so regardless of who did what, we can think it would have gotten worse, because we

have examples that show it......

to me the SE, and the Prequels are in a completely different league than the originals,

and while still enjoyable to me, the only movie that i really enjoyed was the third (ROTS)..

however, i'm not going to constantly try to compare them, or wish they had turned

out differently, because i like to live in the present, and not constantly try to

retroactively change the past..

later

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