there was a reason Fox only wanted the middle part of his saga, even then they realised the rest of it was weak.
Except there was no “middle part” of any saga back then. That’s just Lucasian revisionism.
That’s the most important part of this trolling. It was A film, not some sort of “I had it all planned in the 70s, family saga, 12 films, 9 films, 12 films, 6 films, 9 films, 3 films, father-brother-sister” BS.
If he had it all planned out in the 70s, he wouldn’t have hired Alan Dean Foster to write a second story.
The early drafts of Star Wars films (and the pre-ESB sequel plans) make it unambiguously clear that the idea that he had it all planned as a long saga is false. They made it up as they went, and had a lot of success doing it this way. For a while. It’s silly that some Lucas fans call JJ+Kasden’s work glorified fan fiction. It was always that.