I actually agree too. But the plot would still probably rehash…oops I mean mirror things from the OT because poetry and craft a plot with interesting ideas that seem good in theory but make no sense in execution. Also there would be boring characters with miscast actors who give their pest performances because George is a shitty actor’s director. The special effects would be on par with TFA but there wouldn’t be as many real sets. Also there would probably be more things that ruin the mystique and continuity of the original trilogy (shit like midichlorian and having Padme die 2 seconds after child birth even though Leia remembers her) and wouldn’t even adhere to them.
I could come up with more but you get the point.
Considering the original trilogy states that Force sensitivity is passed down through bloodlines (“the Force is strong in my family…”), I never understood the problem with midichlorians per se, even if Qui-Gon’s explanation of them is rather boring and mundane.
Honestly, I greatly prefer the idea of Padmé dying in childbirth to the idea of her living on Alderaan with Leia for a few years, which would imply that she purposefully parted with her son Luke.
In the Return of the Jedi special edition DVD, George Lucas should have edited “Do you remember your mother - your real mother?” to “Do you remember your mother?” to allow for the interpretative possibility that Leia was speaking of her adoptive mother.
(And George Lucas should have refrained from inserting Jedi Rocks or inserting Hayden Christensen as the ghost of Anakin Skywalker, but I digress.)
If George Lucas had created very detailed plot outlines but given the actual screenwriting and directing to others to accomplish, the results would have been epic.
The results would have been much more epic than The Force Awakens.
Personally, I was hoping to see new technology and the new Republic in the sequel trilogy. Given that J. J. Abrams left the Resistance with the same technology that the Rebel Alliance had thirty years ago and blew up the new Republic, I doubt that will ever happen.
One thing that was good about The Force Awakens is the reliance upon practical effects over CGI. I was never adverse to CGI for background scenery, clones, or battle droids, but when either Watto or Jar Jar Binks is in every frame of every scene on Tatooine, the result is very cartoonish and distracting.