skyjedi2005 said:

The Lucash Apologists just get more and more creative all the time.

They are finding all sorts of good things about the prequels that are not there. Ironically they are being far more creative and imaginative in their defense of these crap movies. Then Lucas responsible for their creation.

To me, that's the funniest\saddest part of all of their constant exposition. Lucas isn't even close to being as deep as they want to think he is. If they weren't so closed-off to the actual history of the first trilogy and the truth behind making them, they would see that he just doesn't get it. Had Marcia and Kurtz not stepped in, Star Wars would have been a mess. Same with American Graffiti.

He isn't a good story teller at all. He has some great ideas, but he constantly struggles to flesh them out.

Hiring two people to write two different sequels to Star Wars because he didn't have one himself.
His wanting to cut emotional moments from the original Star Wars because he didn't understand why they worked. (thank you Marcia for stepping in).
His attempt to add depth with the Vader\father change.
His going ahead with the "no, there is another" scene - before he even thought of who it would end up being.

His ham-fisted fix for the "no, there is another" scene, which shrunk the universe & weakened the story even more.

His pathological lying about his "Original Vision".

Those are not the practices of a savant story teller. They are the practices of a hack who got lucky in 1973, 1977, & 1980 - thanks in large part to his wife\editor, his producer, and a director.