I all for critising Lucas but sometimes it gets a bit mean. He did give us those 3 original films that we love. That's enough to forgive his litany of crimes in the years since.

I'm just happy he's retired, for whatever reason and we can all go back to admiring all the things he achieved in his career, instead of resenting him. The man has been responsible for more awesome Film, TV, Literature, Videogames, Music and Magical SFX-Wizardry than any other person who every worked in cinema's history.

Sorry, something about the OP just made me want to defend Lucas. Surely something is wrong with an OT.com post when it makes you do that ;-)