cap said:

xhonzi said:

The PT would not have fared well without the goodwill engendered by the OT.

Without the enormous success of the OT, Lucas might not have had absolute control and too big of a head to accept creative input from others. With a more humble or less powerful Lucas, the PT might have been a lot better. Even without making big changes to the story, just having a decent writer touch up the dialog would have gone a long way.

That's true, but a different argument. I could have been more clear:

xhonzi said:

The existing PT would not have fared well financially without the goodwill engendered by the OT.

You'll get no argument from me that a GL making a PT without the power* of having made one of the most successful franchises of all time would have probably been better.