Easterhay said:
Nothing beats Star Wars fans (well, some of them anyway) for fixating on the age-old tradition of revisionism.
What? He didn't have the whole thing mapped out from the start? Oh, no, my world has ended.
Wake up and smell the proverbial; none of this is new or revolutionary - even Tolkien went back and revised The Hobbit to fit in with The Lord Of The Rings.
Oh, and one more thing. Someone referred to Gary Kurtz as a father. No he's not; he's a mother.
No one is mad because Lucas changed the story as he was going, what people get mad about is that he won't admit he ever did it.
He has been all over the place for the past 40 years on whether there were 12 movies, 9 movies, 6 movies, etc. Its when he says in 2005 to Leslie Stahl, "There was never a Sequel Trilogy, the Saga has always been 6 movies and its about the Tragedy of Darth Vader."
And then he goes on Charlie Rose last week, and talks about the Sequel Trilogy now, and how he always had an outline and notes for it.