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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 6:35:27 PM UTC-6, Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>> George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was
>> awful
>> https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/06/george-lucas-reveals-his-plan-for-star-wars-7-through-9-and-it-was-awful/
> 
> While I agree that the idea of going down to microscopic size to meet the Whills 
> inside the midichlorians... _could_ have been awful, it isn't necessarily that 
> way. It could have been an E. E. "Doc" Smith-like change of scale, as in his 
> _Lensman_ series.
> 
>> When I first moved to San Jose, co-worker talked about being in the San
>> Jose Astronomy club and Lucas brought drafts/outlines for eight Star
>> Wars movies for the club to read. Later accounts were the first movie
>> made was the one that appealed most to investors.

Aha! I wondered why he started with episode IV.

> 
> They were fortunate.
> 
> Certainly what is now "Episode IV: A New Hope" was the right movie to start out 
> with, a basic mythic good-against-evil action story.
> 
> Lucas' mistake was not going back and building the other movies *around* that 
> one. Instead of surprising people in the next movie with Darth Vader being 
> Luke's father, adding a little punch to that movie, while spoiling the prequels, 
> he should have made the movies we were led to *expect*.
> 
> So Vader's previous encounter with a slightly younger Leia.
> 
> So Luke Skywalker's father as a hot-shot pilot fighting the forces of evil.
> 
> John Savard
> 



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Pete