just ebcause they made a lot of money and people liked them has nothing to do with looking it at from a buisness point of view. It is a guarnteed 700 million to a billion dollar profit for him. Someone walks in and says I will gaurntee you will make close to a billion dollars to do this with little to no risk then it make perfect sense to do it. no one walks away from that kind of money. He will never do it but from a buisness perspective it makes perfect sense to do it. As far as the OT not being his original vision...that is more BS spewed from Lucas mouth. Just like he always intended on greedo shooting first. ANother flat out lie on his part.
MOST all the changes made were BS changes that had no purpose at all. Luke screaming as he fell. I guess that was an original vision? Vader changing his line in episode 5 walking down the hall where he sayd "bing my shuttle" changing it to some bullshit that makes no sense and pasting in a scene from episode 6. Guess that was an original vision? Boba fett flirting with dancers at jabbas palace..i guess technology in 83 couldnt allow him to do that back then lol. ANyone who believes a thing out of that worthless pos is as big of a moron as lucas is.