So… The myth that Lucas conceived the ‘saga’ as one unified whole is one that really boils my blood, because it leads to these very close-minded view. I’ve encountered a certain breed of fan that believes TFA is offensive by its mere existence because it violates the original six-part structure that Lucas intended.
I haven’t heard this but I’ve heard something along the lines of “TFA is offensive because the galaxy didn’t live happily ever after”
I’ve heard that too, this theory that TFA somehow ruined ROTJ by its very existence.
Quite impossible. ROTJ was ruined by its own existence.
ROTJ was ruined by ROTLA 😉
According to Michael Kaminski’s ‘The Secret History of Star Wars’:
Ths smashing success of ‘Raiders’ has been said to have changed much the direction of the future Star Wars films. “This idea that the roller-coaster ride was all the audience was interested in,” said Kurtz, “and the story doesn’t have to be very adult or interesting, seemed to come up because of what happened with ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and the Indiana Jones films - and the fact that that seemed to make a lot of money.”