I am still trying to articulate my thoughts on the whole in light of the new. I highly recommend "Secret History of Star Wars", which is very useful in unlearning a lot of ideals that get lodged in young minds. A lot of this negative energy strikes me as a kind of Miltonian Satan's defiance against a perceived unrighteous God (better to reign in hell than serve in heaven). Some it seems want to get credit from the legions of Star Wars fans for their steadfastness and strength in the face of this late and uncloaked self-serving evil. Over at TFN the photograph of Lucas surrounded by the models of vehicles, space ships, creatures in Star Wars is a lie. Yes, pictures can lie. Lucas did not come up with all that content. He did not personally envision, devise, test, sketch, paint, handcraft, sculpt, sweat, bleed, cut himself over the physical representations of a secondary reality. His starving underpaid minions did. Lucas was just this guy with some ideas. Very good ideas. Good recombination of sources, good speciation of diverse genetic inputs. But by circumstance and happy accident, he inadvertently allowed collaboration and experienced talent to walk all over him so that the final products emerged as an excellent romp and an unwitting masterpiece. It was a tragic, happy accident. When he defends all this late offer as "Tragedy of Darth Vader", he's not really talking about the original trilogy, and he is really just speaking of himself (I became what used to hate). Poor guy. Can I see a raise of hands of those who are so absolutely underwhelmed by all things Lucas since ROTJ that they feel compelled to redeploy their negative reaction constructively into their own fiction? I can't sympathize with those who won't help themselves. Savage recriminations, eviscerating mockery, implied insult, and perhaps some clever name-calling are all welcome.