Star Wars: Lucas's vision?

Rating: 5/10 (14 March 2009)

I remember when Star Wars 1st came out and everyone kept asking "what about chapters I - III? George Lucas answered back by starting a rumor that he had already written 3 other chapters, but that the move company told him to scrap the rest aside form Chapter IV. Well as it turns out, none of this is true. The original scripts, characters and plot were so different in the original "journal of the whills" story, there is no way they could link up to anything created around the 1977 version of Star Wars.
The thing that made star wars was not only the attention to detail in the scenes, weapons and ships, but as well the characters. Think about it- we had A wizard (ben), a princess (Leia), a cowboy(solo), a brute(Chewie), a underdog hero (Luke), and the evil wizard king (Vader). Sounds a lot like G-force meets Dr. Doom huh? The point is, we had all the characters of our dreams all smashed into one movie with some great realistic special effects. The sad thing is, this makes Lucas out NOT to be the genius everyone thinks he is, because it took a LOT of evolution for these characters to form into the ones we see on the screen and as well a lot of input from people surrounding Lucas. For example, take note that in the original scripts...there is no C-3PO or R2D2... there were added (probably not by Lucas) as a kind of laurel and hardy to lighten the mood of the story and were not found in the original scripts.
Even today, Lucas is asking people ONLINE to come up with new Star Wars adventures for him to put on TV because Star Wars was never really his vision in the first place. The final drafts of the original Star Wars scripts were written pretty much as they were being filmed.(it's no wonder someone else had to write the story for "The Empire Strikes Back".
If you look at Lucas's earlier films, you will see that Star Wars was really just way out of his league. Watch "THX 1138" and you'll see what I mean. The movie was based on a student short he had written and was as boring as the original "Journal of the Whills" story, showing that Lucas has a very limited vision when it comes to actual writing and had not grown since his student days, and still today lacks the vision necessary to complete his "dream" - or should i say, his 1977 inve$tment as "executive producer".
You can read more on Supershadow.com where Lucas is quoted asking for ideas for upcoming Star Wars plots and then telling kids to go spend their money on Star Wars stuff even though the economy is at its worst. And then to top it all off....is telling everyone thank you for making his life so perfect. What a spoiled "gimme gimme" attitude.