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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.

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