Easterhay said:

zombie84 said:

Hmm, reusing the same ideas, themes, situations and images from previous movies in later sequels to said movies while also taking them in new and different directions. How novel. Know what they call that in the real world?

A franchise.

Hmmm. I've read your stuff, including the big deal you make of the numerous rewrites Lucas made before settling on a final screenplay (because we all know everyone uses their first drafts all the time. Ho, and indeed, hum.)

Show me where I complained about Lucas writing second and third drafts? I'm not a retard, no one uses their first drafts, I was simply showing the writing process. Maybe you haven't read it after all.

and I see you're still making a meal of Lucas using recurring themes in the films to create a kind of symmetry and to show how two people can go on the same journey and make decisions that take them in opposite directions.

Tell me, how many other franchises have done this? Y'know, telling a story in two halves, thirty years apart, and yet still ensuring mahoosive worldwide success?

Actually, Episode I came out 16 years after ROTJ, not 30. But the temporal gap in which the episodes were released was not in question. What was being discussed was the recurring use of themes, characters, situations and images across sequels. And to call this "symphonic" is not only pretentious, but ignorant. It's simply the way franchises work. Way to overlook the whole point. There's no question that Star Wars is unique for the lengthy and backwards way in which the final storyline was told, but that's not what we are talking about.