TV's Frink said:

Bingowings said:

The discussion is pertinent to the topic and there are other threads if you don't have anything to contribute or don't find reading what is being contributed to your interest.

Some of us come into this thread expecting a discussion on Star Wars stereotypes and instead find a discussion about Kahn.

And some of us are actually furthering conversation in general instead of filling the thread with complaints. This is what real conversation does. It weaves in and out of a topic as other similarly relevant topics are brought to mind and subsequently mentioned.

Anyways, I thought Lucas had a pretty tight control over the production of things in the prequels. I mean, I haven't seen behind the scenes stuff for the prequels in ages, but I remember watching Returning to Jedi recently and Lucas telling people exactly how he thought the Sy Snoodles muppet should look and function. My general undertsanding of the prequels is that he had fewer people (perhaps no one) actually willing to criticize his decisions, so I would think that the exaggerated racial stereotyping in the prequels is due in no small directly to the choices George Lucas made.