Gimme Star wars 1313 Lucas
Please

I wonder if Disney wanted to expand the story to make new characters the center stage while Lucas wanted a more tight-knit story.

I have kept myself at minimum info on the new characters background stories so I am still on speculation-mode on everything, but it seems to me the new characters have no connection with the characters we've known from the previous films. I could be wrong though.

As usual....im on board with the Prof. This guy knows what he's talking about. Fuck it all and let Disney expand upon it.

Aka Starcharted 1313. I'll admit that would be pretty fun.

"People don’t actually realize it’s actually a soap opera and it’s all about family problems."

That explains the paper-thin character depth, the corny and at times cringe-worthy dialogue, and the simplistic shot / reverse shot blocking during dialogue scenes of the Prequels.  Redlettermedia took Lucas to task for this pretty well in their Episode III review...

https://youtu.be/ABcXyZn9xjg?t=1h20m

Now just imagine how awful the original trilogy would've been if Lucas had total autonomy of the production and direction of the films.  *cringes*

It was an unhealthy relationship anyway.

Naaaaaaaailed it. 

It used to be a personal space/soap opera with just the right mix of adventurous fun and forbrooding darkness that did center strongly around family and dramatic plot twists. 

Unfortunately that requires some skill as a storyteller, and George got sofffffft on those finer details in the years between the early 1980s and the late 1990s. 

Instead Star Wars became all about shoving as much CGI crap into a single frame, having character go for laughs by stepping in poop, the most unconvincing, robotic laughably silly "romance", characters who sit around and simply speak about their feelings rather than showing it through DRAMA. 

Anakin has to make a whiny face and express his love for Padme every 20 seconds, we as an audience apparently need to be beaten over the head with this. You what this is? SLOPPY STORYTELLING. It doesn't connect with the audience, we don't buy it. 

Han Solo never says he likes Princess Leia until the final 10 minutes of Empire, in fact he says he dislikes her over and over again, but we KNOW from about 5 minutes from meeting the character that there's romantic attraction between the two of them. It plays. It sizzles. It's REAL. 

If all you need for to make a good movie is two people with glow sticks swinging at each other every 20 minutes ... OK, but that's never what Star Wars was about in the first place, never what made it great. That's just generic popcorn movie nonsense, which quite frankly was done much, much better by many other types of movies. 

Good. George Lucas is a terrible writer. I won't miss him.

That bastard... Never liked him!

Eh, fuck it. Perma'd this bitch -StarOcean