generalfrevious said:

SilverWook said:

If he had, what the heck would would we have done with our free time and disposable income the past 36 years?

A world without Star Wars is not a pleasant concept.

I am of the opinion that Lucas had nothing to do with SW; he might have been nothing more than just a hired hand for the first film and later revised history to make it look like he was the mastermind of the whole franchise. It's like saying Star Trek would not have existed without Rick Berman.

I don't like prying into the personal lives of other people and judging them on that basis, but I believe that there were, at least, two different versions of George Lucas: Pre-Marcia/Married-to-Marcia and Post-Marcia.

It's hard to see how Post-Divorce-George-Lucas could have had anything to do with Star Wars, but what about the Pre-Divorce-George-Lucas?