luckydube56 said:

I'm beginning to understand the OT were a happy accident.

Well Lucas had not very much to do with the making of the OT anyways; he shot footage for the first film, and had much more talented people assemble a masterpiece. Plus he did not direct the Empire and Jedi, and the less involved he was, the better the product. When George made the PT, it was more of a spinoff made by one delusional person than the great collaboration SW was.

And BTW, Peter Jackson hasn't shown restraint in his films since the Frighteners.