One thing that really frustrates me about Lucasfilm and particularly George Lucas is how they won't admit that they are making things up as they go along. It's obvious Lucas was making the prequels up as he goes along. The way he talks about his writing in his commentary and discussions he has with the film crew about things he will do. Not to mention he was pretty much letting everyone else dictate ideas about the prequels artistically and he just picked the ones he liked. Story wise I think he did think of most of it himself and didn't take any suggestions which was bad on him. To be a good director it should really be the other way around. I think a good film director should stay focused on their own vision but let all the creativity in on the story telling aspects. Like what RedLetterMedia said, other people's input on a movie can really make a big difference in the quality etc. etc. He said that the original versions don't exists to him and just sees them as earlier drafts. He then broke his word on that in May of 2006 with his announcement of the originals being released on DVD in laserdisk quality. Now it sounds like there are rumors of an episode 7 in the works that he has said many times will never happen on national television like "60 Minutes". He probably realized that he is going through his profits faster than expected (with all the food he's been eating) and that he timed at this rate he will have to make another star wars movie to sell enough action figures to keep up his Jabba the Hutt figure.