But then the sequels would have been full of the same godawful writing and cgi that was in evidence in Crystal skull, the phantom menace. attack of the clones and revenge of the sith.

What if Episode seven came out ten years after return of the jedi in 1993?

Following on the heels of the 3rd indiana jones film The Last Crusade and the second best in the trilogy imho.

They could have been good providing Lucas come up with the general ideas and outline, have it fleshed out by a good screenwriter like Lawrence Kasden was able to do on the empire strikes back. And bring in Directors other than himself to make them. Bringing in new blood was not the problem with the prequels, the problem was in not getting the right people, less collaboration and an unwillingness to delegate anything and direct every stage of production himself, was lucas chief failing as far as I'm concerned. And he is a terrible writer but has a great visual sense, not so good when it comes to actors or character acting.

For instance they tried unsucessfully for a long time in finding the person to write the fourth indiana jones or a director. Finally Lucas had to sit down and write the blasted thing himself and have Koepp polish it, and Speilberg directed it. Would the film have been better had a different writer and story and director been chosen, hard to say could have been worse than the mediocre stuff we got we could have gotten something like the mummy 3.

I mean i would rather have Crystal Skull as it is then a fourth one written and directed by M. Knight, man the very idea of such crappyness would bring horrors unfathomable upon the masses,lol.