I think I would be fine with the TFA scenario: let George write whatever he wants, ditch it and write something completely different. Is there a petition for that?
Well it might just be better than what it would be ditched for. I can’t help myself but to think that at least Lucas’ outline for TFA was light-years more original than what we got.
Since when do we like our Star Wars original? Star Wars has always been pretty derivative. When it didn’t have the previous instalments to rip off, it ripped off Kurosawa and Flash Gordon. It was always the execution that was important. I agree that TFA may be borrowing a little too much from the previous films, but I appreciate that it does so really well. I read one review complimenting the cast and crew on taking a shitty premise and turning it into a pretty fun movie. And I kind of see that point. With GL you could at best have an alright premise turned into an utter embarasement.