TheBoost said:

FanFiltration said:

I'm saying that Lucas told the story following the DS plans, he could have told the same story and had the same end result had he followed the origins and history of the Millennium Falcon as the focus.

How would that have gone, and how would that have been the same story?

The Movie could have started with Han dumping the cargo of Jabba the Hutt, and his arriving at the spaceport. Next scenes could be his trying to avoid Jabba and his men, and then Luke shows up with Obi-Wan, and the rest of the story plays out.. That's how. Han needed to make money to pay Jabba back.

I should have said, the end results of the protagonists would have been the same. The only thing the DS plans do, is get characters involved with each other. It's a device to move the story along. And that is what a "MacGuffin" is. The story is not about the plans anymore then it is about the Millennium Falcons, or even the Death Star itself. Can't we say the story is truly about the Death Star, and how it is a failed and flawed device of war?