C3PX said:
G E Predator said:
What we see in the official DVD's is what GL envisioned.

Vaderisnothayden already covered this, but yeah, you can't really say that is what Lucas "envisioned". That makes it sound like what we have now was somehow his plan all along, and clearly it wasn't. If he had had the whole thing planned out all along, you can bet things would have been much better thoughtout. Instead we end of with a lot of afterthoughts, convoluted plot points, and massive gaps in the plot. Honestly, I could have forgiven the prequels for a good deal of their awfulness if they actually possessed the ability to go along side the original trilogy to some extent. But it takes an awful lot of over thinking and self delusion to plaster over all the cracks in order to come up with a smooth enough surface to safely walk across without tripping. It is really hard to suspend your disbelief enough to make these fims work, for those that are able to, more power to you, but for some of us it is simply impossible.

To make the six films work as one story you have to convince yourself that Annie in the prequels is the same guy as Vader and Anakin in the OT, and that really takes some doing. I can't stand the six-film-saga myth. One big six part movie, my ass hole. Two different trilogies are that not believably in the same universe. And while Lucas did have prequels of some sort in mind when he made the OT, he most definitely did not design the OT to be seen after prequels -that's evident in their structure.