You're killing my childhood here man. Is it high quality literary Sci-fi, no, but they did add a lot of details to the Universe that never would have been there otherwise, many of which found their way back into the prequels. That's why Star Wars is such a strong franchise, not the details or depth of the plot.

Star wars is an great setting and the aesthetics are incredible, to me star wars was the incredible art of Ralph McQuarrie, the original trilogy that unfortunatly took a nose dive with return of the jedi was still pretty good, the music alone makes those films great.

Then Lucas proceeds to destroy the universe by

-Destroying the mysticism and mystery of the force by introducing midiclorians

-In your face christian appeals making Anakin have a virgin birth (Don't mind christian elements in stories but when you do it intentionally for market appeal and destroy elements of your story in the process I have a problem)

-Jar-jar and again blatant market driven story telling specifically targeting children, ugh, funny enough the clone wars series is better than the prequels

-Take 2 great acotors who have no chemistry and put them into a really strange romance with horrible dialog

- Love = bad, attachments = bad, what? The light side espouses some pretty bad morality and things like passion and pride are not inherently evil things.

While the Love = bad never made any sense at all other than a story catalyst for a writer who couldn't figure out a better way to make the protagonist create conflict it has always offered space to setup a narrative where the good guys aren't really good and the bad guys really aren't all that bad which can always make for an interesting narrative. I really hope they will explore something interesting for ep 7 and maybe get a real team of writers and finally give the star wars universe some truly interesting stories.

Well, at least the writing can't possibly get any worse.  I think this is going to be one of those giant mistakes - like New Coca Cola - that live on in infamy.  So, Episode VII eh?  If it doesn't keep with the Skywalker story lines, it's a pointless cash in.  If it does, I'll be interested to see where it goes.  Cause, frankly, I see no way that this won't explode into a giant pile of shit.

Sinperium....you're clearly smoking some serious shit....;p

If they make a reality show about a storm troopers life, it will be far better than the three last SW films....

I've never seen Hayden Christensen described as a great actor before.

Snow White and the Seven Droids....

101 Darth Vaders...

Sith Family Robinson...  

gonna be interesting... 

May the merchandise be with you....;p

I quite enjoyed the Thrawn trilogy, even though it has a few flaws. But I could see that adapted into a movie trilogy.

Beyond those I haven't read much EU books, but judging from some wookieepedia articles I haven't missed much. There would seem to be a few interesting developments, but a lot of the books boil down to introducing a new enemy, who is an even bigger threat than the last one, but is ultimately defeated at a huge cost.

Luke is seduced by the dark side - they have cookies.

They lied about the cookies.

Can't wait for the remake of Empire strike's back...

"Luke, I AM YOUR FATHER" --M. Mouse

Disney made Avengers. Written and directed by Joss Wheedon.

Disney owns Star Wars. . .

The creation of a situation where it is possible for: Joss Wheedon + Star Wars movie = win

What would be more awesome than that is Whedon writing and directing and Nathan Fillion as Han Solo.  It isn't like that character is much different from Malcolm Reynolds.

Fortunately Lucas is only on as a "creative consultant" so nobody has to listen to him.  No more Jar-Jar, no more Space Jesus Anakin, and Han always shoots first and last.

FYI the whole mythological virgin birth thing has been around since before Christianity.

I'm not a Christian, but making Darth Vader space Jesus, probably didn't have a lot of Christian appeal.  (it just came across as kind of hacky to me)   But, I can't speak for Christians, I just doubt that they would like their God being compared to an evil space movie villain.

It was my understanding that Christian Star Wars fans were able to place a lot of Christian imagery within the 4-6 series.  As for what it was, it was also my understanding that I should avoid these people when the topic of Christian imagery in Star Wars came up.

Well, the first three movies used pretty basic mythological archetypes.  I loved it.  I really don't mind mythological or religious alegories, but this and so many things in the prequels just seem so hoky.

I'm actually agnostic, but I have heard it described that way online by people not necessarily evangelical Christians, so...

Putting on my science hat, where the hell did Anakin's Y chromosome come from if there's no father?  Females are XX, so any parthenogic children must be female, yet Anakin is clearly an XY male since he fathered a son yet there was no Y chromosome present during the meiosis since Shmi doesn't have one.

The dark side of the force is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.

It doesn't matter anyway...we all know Star Trek is a much more believable, consistent, dramatic and scientifically correct universe anyway.  It rules now--like it always did.

heh...heh...heh

We all better pray that Whiskey no longer reads these forums, or we'll get 10 pages "proving" that proton torpedoes are a lot more realistic and effective than photon torpedoes.

http://collider.com/george-lucas-lucasfilm-sale-charity/207790/

"George Lucas to Donate Most of His $4 Billion from Lucasfilm Sale to Education Charity"

And if it ain't, they'll travel back in time, undo it, and make it again, scientifically correct.

I'm a real Star Trek fan I really am a fanatic even, but God do I hate it when they use Time travel every-damn time...  It should be banned forever in movies at least for Star trek!