georgec said:

Harmy said:

Nope. 1995 was probably the last time he gave a rats ass about his fans.

I think he stopped caring about fans in 1981/'82 when according to Gary Kurtz he began to favor merchandising and toy sales instead of storytelling.

1995 was simply the last time the fans got what they wanted or expected, in my opinion.

Curiously enough, 1981/82 was also the date when he got lazy, and decided to wrap the story with one movie (Return of the Jedi) instead of doing the whole second trilogy with Luke searching for his sister etc, and fighting the Empire for 3 more movies. You can also see how lazy Return of the Jedi is when you see how he overuses matte paintings instead of sets and he filmed at close by locations for Tatooine and Endor.