And then, the wife having left, he wrote the prequels without her involvement, and the world got its answer.
With the caveat that I haven’t watched the prequels for a good several years, the overarching storyline is actually pretty good, but the special effects were too heavy on CGI so they dated quickly and a lot of the writing of individual lines was too much toned for a younger audience.
George Lucas would be silly to not make the next trilogy that was released 20 years later something fans of the original trilogy could take their kids to, but unfortunately it went a bit too far into trying to be kid friendly. Plus it definitely had sequences designed specifically to be recreated in video games, as any family movie did in the early 2000s (heck one of the 101 Dalmations movies even featured some gameplay of the tie-in game in the film!)
Chewbacca was supposed to be more like Jar Jar Binks but at that point he still had people around him to push back on that.
Look at some of the CG segments injected into the rereleases of the original trilogy, which Lucas used to bring it more in line with his original vision: cheap slapstick and goofy aliens.
With the caveat that I haven’t watched the prequels for a good several years, the overarching storyline is actually pretty good, but the special effects were too heavy on CGI so they dated quickly and a lot of the writing of individual lines was too much toned for a younger audience.
George Lucas would be silly to not make the next trilogy that was released 20 years later something fans of the original trilogy could take their kids to, but unfortunately it went a bit too far into trying to be kid friendly. Plus it definitely had sequences designed specifically to be recreated in video games, as any family movie did in the early 2000s (heck one of the 101 Dalmations movies even featured some gameplay of the tie-in game in the film!)
Chewbacca was supposed to be more like Jar Jar Binks but at that point he still had people around him to push back on that.
Look at some of the CG segments injected into the rereleases of the original trilogy, which Lucas used to bring it more in line with his original vision: cheap slapstick and goofy aliens.