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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Lucas got a little weird later in his career. I'm not sure I want this property defiled any further at this point.
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Lucas was always weird, but early on his weird ideas were tempered by others, primarily Gary Kurtz. Later on, when he became obscenely rich and all powerful, well, that's when you started to see things go to hell. Depending on who you believe, Lucas either whacked Kurtz after Empire or Kurtz just threw up his hands and said enough. I assume the former is probably the truth.
The last movie he oversaw that was worth a shit was ROTJ, and even with that you had the stupid teddy bears killing storm troopers, which was a horrible harbinger of things to come. I'll never forget the lost, hopeless look on producer Rick McCallum's face while he was watching outtakes from Phantom Menace, silently and powerlessly listening to Lucas drone on about how cool all his bad decisions were. Poor bastard looked like he wanted to cry.
The massive awfulness of the final trilogy doesn't excuse the somewhat less awfulness of I-III.