Yeah it is really depressing equally what has happened to star wars and to George Lucas.
I am reading the making of star wars book again and George was such a genious when he made those student films, then thx 1138, American Graffiti and Star Wars. If you read the book it was the making of the first star wars film that really burned him out. Its no wonder he never wanted to direct another film again at the time. It is also ironic that the compromises he had to make in making that film utimetely made it a better movie. As some of the more far out and rediculous ideas that were scrapped made it into the prequels.
The Special edition in 1997 essential proves my point that when George finally had the budget to finish the films to his liking the movie was worse not better. Cosmetic changes are one thing, like wanting the spaceship to move as he had always wanted them to do. Adding comical and cartoon like characters who did not belong in the film is another. The Jabba scene was redundant and not needed when the greedo dialogue was changed because Jabba would no longer be in the film. If they Went back to the old greedo dialogue from the rough cut it still is not a necessary scene in fact it weakens the strength of the Jabba character who is too big of a crime lord to deal with solo personally and would send one of his henchmen like greedo.
It is even funnier when modern day Lucas is contradicted by His own words in the seventies in the same book about Lukes Father. It is clear Vader and him were seperate characters and Lucas never started out with Vader as the father.
Leia split off from the Luke character and so did Han Solo according to the book.
So Did later on Lucas combine father skywalker with Vader because it was more dramatic?
Because when that scene in Ben's hutt was shot in 1977 he was not lying to Luke when He said "Vader betrayed and murdered" his father.
In the very small lucas talks about verbally Luke's father is the pure White Knight, and Vader is the Black Evil character. They fight on a over a molten pit and vader falls into a volcano or something like that.
At what point did the Kenobi character replace Skywalker vs Vader in that fight or did all three Jedi fight on whatever the prototype of Mustafar was.
I know in the Return of the Jedi script it was known as Had Abbadon until it was jettisoned and the duel ended up on the death star between Luke and Vader.
The Lava planet and the imperial homeworld where one and the same. Very different than coruscant. Can you imagine the Jedi temple being on a world that is basically the embodyment of hell.
But the concept of a jedi temple, padawan's and midiclorians was created during episode 1.
For years the EU idea was like a mobile Jedi Fleet or something where is was all distance learning and that non Canon holocrons thing. The first time there ever was a jedi temple was during the Kevin Anderson jedi academy trilogy when the old rebel base on yavin was converted to the skywalker academy for jedi.
George even borrowed the double bladed Lightsaber concept kevin created for exar kun on the sith war comics. Except because Kun was not a sith at the time his saber was not red, that was george's idea to make maul's red.
Coruscant was created by Timothy Zahn as the name for the imperial homeworld.
A lot of things from the Eu became canon when Lucas borrowed them for his prequel films.
Like Jedi characters created for comics like Aayla Secura and Quinlon Vos.
Fans wanted him to add Mara Jade into Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi to Canonize the character. I am glad he did'nt because he would have ruined the character, the same for not digitally Inserting Grand Admiral Thrawn like fans wanted so Lucas could base episodes 7-9 on Zahn's books.