Resolved: Disney buying out LucasFilms is more positive than negative

"While Lucas created the much-hated episode 1, let's not forget he created the original trilogy as well. George Lucas's creativity is what made episodes 4, 5, and 6, along with the entire EU, possible and as great as it is. While he made plenty of mistakes like Jar Jar, you'd have to be really thick to not see that fans hated him. It would be incredibly difficult for Lucas to never have seen all the hate inspired by his mistakes, and there's no way he'd try something like that again. Even if he makes a few new ones, that just means less mistakes made next movie." He's not a beginner whose refining his craft. These mistakes aren't there because he's just learning, they are there because he's an elderly man out I touch with what people like. As people age they lose creativity http://creatingminds.org... . That's what Lucas has done. He's also fallen for the expert trap, where he has become an expert and he's leaning on that (same as previous source). The problem is he's an expert in a film market from over 40 years ago. That same stuff just doesn't work now. So to reiterate. Lucas's mistakes aren't from honing his craft. They are from being out of touch due mostly to age but also from prestige and wealth. The mistakes are also from his lack of creativity and leaning on knowledge that is useless and counterproductive in today's film market. "There's already been a show and hundreds of comics and books based on Star Wars, and very few people claimed these "ruined" or "watered down" the Star Wars universe. Even Harry Potter got a theme park, and all it did was get Warner Bros. extra money, it never effected the quality of the books and/or movies like you think the Star Wars one will." The books don't ruin the movies, because Star Wars fans are filtered from the movies first. Imagine a big filter. In Star Wars the biggest and first filter is the movies. You're comparing a fan base that is filtered from movies to ones that aren't. Harry Potter is filtered from the books. Marvel fans are filtered from the comics. If 6 new Harry Potter books come out that are absolutely crap, the fan base will be severely crippled. The importance of the fan base is that they are lifetime customers and provide a margin of safety on high risk projects. Here is on expert on the purchase of Lucas and particularly Star Wars. "Disney should never have been allowed NEAR the Star Wars franchise." BSH1 http://www.debate.org... "Yes, that will earn the CEO money, but you provide no reason for why this harms Star Wars or a fan's view of the series." I did give reasons. Earning them short term money is good if it is an effect of building on the fan base and releasing quality projects. The problem is that when the purpose is short term fast profit with reckless disregard to the future of the franchise. This hurts the fans long term profits and quality of work available to the general public. The distance Disney has from the Lucas label allows them to not tarnish their name with short term cash grabs. Disney is in the habit of creating distance between their silly for profit projects and the heart of their business, which is the Disney label. http://www.mtv.com... If Disney slips up on Star Wars they will cut and burn just like they did with ICP (last citation) and on numerous other occasions. "Yes, the fourth one was a mistake. But, not because it was more Indiana Jones, because it was a bad script. If a new, actually good Indiana Jones fillm came out, I'm sure there would be no reasonable objections." It doesn't matter how good it is if nobody watches it. The franchise was ruined by a crappy movie and the few die hards around to watch a new Indiana Jones flick won't be enough to make the film break even. "Disney spent $4.2 bill. How likely is it they won't earn it back through the theme park, toys, and movies? Even if they only have a net gain of $1 bil per movie, they could still easily earn the rest through toys and the park." Doesn't matter if they gain 2 billion total. If you gain only 2 billion instead of 10 billion then it's actually an 8 billion dollar loss. This is the difference between short term good for Michael Eisner thinking and long term good for Disney, Star Wars and fans thinking. "While Iron Man 3 and the Thors were both not very good, almost no other recent movie of theirs (Spider Man belongs to Sony) has had any serious, justified criticism. As I've said multiple times, Star Wars is constantly getting pumped with EU material, in the forms of comics and books. If fans are disappointed, they can just read those, just like comic fans." No it's way different. Marvel fans are filtered to the movies through the comic books. If the movies suck they'll still read comic books, but if the comic book sucks the fan base erodes and the Marvel name dies. Star Wars book readers are filtered from the movies. If the books suck, no big deal. If the movies suck then no more/new book fans and the Lucas brand dies. It should also be noted that Marvel has fans that only watch the movies, however they are still dependent on the comic fans and Star Wars doesn't have book only fans. "And millions of new fans shall continue to pay for Star Wars, most likely mre than making up for the old fans that leave." The new fans won't happen if the movies suck. The old fans will die and new ones won't be there to replace them.