TheBoost said:

skyjedi2005 said:

I still wonder though even if Lucas relented and had someone like Robert Harris restore the oot, would all the hatred leveled at Lucas continue.

I don't think you can blame an artist for, 30 years after making a masterpiece, making more work that doesn't necessarily measure up to that masterpeice. If I'm dissapointed in the PT and Indy 4, that's not a personal flaw with Lucas, they're just not as good films.

The only thing I have issue with the man about is his desire to rewrite/erase/destroy film history, as well as the movies that I love and that made him rich and famouse. If tommorrow he said "Restored OUT comes out in November! Sorry about that!" I'd have no beef with him at all.

Anyone who is personally angry at Lucas just because his later film output was dissapointing is a bit odd in my opinion.

Except the prequels weren't simply disappointing and didn't simply not measure up to his previous work. Rather, they go out of their way to crap all over Star Wars. In the prequels, Star Wars is rubbed in the shit. If they were merely disappointing they wouldn't make people angry, but they went way farther than that. Look at the utter destruction of the character of Anakin/Vader for an example of how the prequels work to destroy Star Wars. People have every reason to be angry when that's done to a classic. The prequels are like an act of aggression against Star Wars and an act of aggression against Star wars is an act of aggression against those who love Star Wars. As such, people have every reason to be angry with Lucas over the prequels.