Not on George Lucas's watch. The idea of the theme of droids being detached from nature completely is too strong a theme of his to see him discard that. They represent the distance between humanity and nature that technology creates, so of course they would be cut off from the living universal force in his world of icons and archetypes.

As if many people actually do that write movies. Unless you're in any way suggesting EU writers have a place at this table.

Some of you guys talk about the strengths of characters in this universe as it you're talking about rock, paper, scissors. As if all blind men automatically randomly defeat Boba Fett

I wouldn't call her a favorite but while I despised her in the Clone Wars movie and loathed her in the first few seasons she got a lot better after she matured a little and made a lot of mistakes.

I'm not so sure the hero will be a Skywalker, and I won't be surprised if it's a female.

Ollivanders was never original in the first place. The old tinker or craftsmen who has to look through his own clutter is a very old concept in stories, the same with the old blacksmith making weapons for generations. Star Wars is a celebration of ancient human storytelling.

The guy can write character development and dialog and he understands pacing, particularly Star Wars pacing. There's no reason to act all fretful and worried at this point as if the guy should have been doing imitation Star Wars movies all this time. The prequels needed better dialog and character interaction, that's what made them bad compared to the OT.

Kathy Kennedy straight up says in the Disney announcement interview that Star Wars is still ultimately Lucas' vision and world, and he will still be creative adviser. Star Wars is still basically being produced in his literal backyard.

No way. Just like Tolkien, the light stuff can be incredibly light, but the dark stuff is incredibly dark. You must not be watching the same movies I am watching.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/08/star-wars-the-clone-wars-dave-filoni-comments-on-disney-deal-and-the-shows-future Filoni just said in an interview this week that Lucas has decided Ahsoka's fate which is going to be revealed in the last episode of the Clone Wars. And LOL to people who don't consider the Clone Wars canon because of your precious EU. George Lucas sits at a table and basically dictates the plot and characters for every single episode of the series. Sometimes Filoni and his crew offer him choices he likes. But this is Lucas's Star Wars. You can keep your glorified officially licensed fan fiction. Personally I hope she is killed when Anakin kills the younglings. We never got to see what happened there. And now we see her assisting with the training of the younglings. I am now finally starting to like her in the series, but I think she needs to die to make Anakin more emotionally unstable. Either that, or we see her go off into hiding after Order 66 to resurface later in the stories somewhere. And not having Anakin mention his padawan in the few weeks or months we see of his life in Episode 3 is a silly thing to throw Lucas's personal Clone Wars stories out over. We know they did many things in between Episode 2 and 3, and we know they did enough things to create an entire series over. You're just being pretentious about it, like I used to be.

To me the most blatant would be atmosphere. Star Wars is atmosphere. The obvious is the visual design, the visual atmosphere, and the audio design and the audio atmosphere. Lucas made a playground for people with imagination, a suggestion of another world that somehow is just solid enough to make you feel like it's really out there somewhere, and that to me is rare in fiction. Star Wars is mysticism and destiny, American Western vibes married with the samurai of Kurosawa,... with vibrant rich archetypal landscapes and settings and color schemes connected to every color in the rainbow. It is the warm glow of those colors bathing the characters in a thick blanket of light you can almost touch. A world where helmets change your voice into cold and alien sounds, a world where engines scream and howl and roar in your ears, where lightsabers hum in your hands and clash like a steel knife shrieking against dry ice.

I actually like a lot about the prequels. I was incredibly disappointed the first time I watched Episode 1 and I'm still in awe at the poor choices that were made, but I still watch them whenever I'm in a Star Wars phase and they still feel like Star Wars to me when all is said and done. I was obsessed with the OT as a kid in the 80s, so the prequels were just hard to believe they were even happening before my eyes when they finally did. I also think a lot of people are extremely HYPERcritical of the prequels in an inconsistent way compared to the original trilogy, but for me there are still some glaring issues with the prequels. Episode 1 is the worst. 1. Jar Jar is an abomination. His problem is in not matching the established tone of the movies. He is way too many octaves off scale. Jar Jar's tone is like screaming in your face compared to the awkward creepy touch on the shoulder you get from Ewoks or Chewie's Tarzan yell. He was a cartoon character in a world that was too realistic. He turned Star Wars into Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I was watching episode 1 last night, and I have a theory that Lucas let his actual children write the dialog for Jar Jar as way to let them feel a part of movie history. It really would not surprise me to find that out. 2. "Annie" Skywalker I don't blame the kid. Jake Llyoyd would have been great in Free Willy or the Mighty Ducks or something like that, but Star Wars needed a kid with some dramatic range, a kid that seemed introspective and emotional. Annie (gods I despise that ridiculous nick name) was basically vacant behind his eyes, there was nothing going on in that kid's head. He seemed like a vapid child model mixed with a kind of "too cool for school" Bart Simpson. I would have expected a committee of Hollywood executives casting for a skate boarding pudding snack commercial to have chosen him as an actor. I also would not be surprised if Lucas let his kid's write some of Annie's dialog. 3. George Lucas cannot direct actors. I think Lucas is a creative genius, but I think he has a tin ear for dialog and I think he has no appreciation for sophisticated emotional range in an actor. This is so apparent in Episode 1. Watching him in behind the scenes footage, it seems like Lucas actually prides himself on 'getting what he wants" in as few takes as humanly possible, often this means his first take. That, coupled with not having anyone around him to give him some harsh constructive criticism, led to the worst parts of all the prequels in my opinion. 4. CGI was not quite ready for the Phantom Menace. A lot about Episode 1 impressed me when it was new, and a lot of it bothered me. Gungan's in the concept art looked kind of neat, but they came out with very generic shapes in 3d. Almost all of the CG aliens looked terrible in Ep1. The Pod Racers make me feel kind of nauseated, they are so out of place for some reason. They look like cartoon characters, no weird aliens. I would not be surprised to learn Lucas let his kids design them and then had them rendered by pros to show their interpretations. Watching the Prequels now, especially on Bluray, Episode 1 seems like it was on a former generation console with it's low resolution renders and very basic forms and physics. Episode 2 seemed to finally deliver a level of quality that was worthy of Star Wars. It's a shame when i watch all three how dated Episode 1 looks compared to Ep2 and Ep3. But it's amazing to see what George Lucas was pushing for and paying out of his pocket for all those years, especially after hearing him in the 80s talk about his next Star Wars trilogy having all CGI actors instead of humans. I remember wondering how that could be pulled off in and what it would look like. Episode 2 When it comes to Episode 2, I really actually liked that movie the first time I saw it. I saw it in the theater 5 times all in all. I thought It was a huge improvement over Ep1, much darker in tone. Also, playing the first video game to ever bring Star Wars to life for me months in advance had me primed and ready for anything with Star Wars in the name and Jerry Goldsmith's music, that game being Jedi Outcast. The first time I watched it, in many ways I liked Hayden Christensen's acting, though sometimes it felt like the creepy date-r-aping football player to me that he was acting like. But while I didn't exactly like the way he was acting at those times, his acting was still good acting. I think a lot of people mix that up and claim he was a terrible actor because they didn't like him or identify with him or respect or fear him. I couldn't stand the terrible dialog between Anakin and Padme, it was painful at times and I still wonder what the hell was going on. I know Lucas loves old 40s and 50s movies and he was trying to capture that "here's lookin' at you kid" kind of vibe. A naive golden era kind of vibe, but it just didn't work with the actors he chose or his direction of those actors. The Jedi battle at Geonosis Arena felt all wrong to me. The Jedi all looked like water fat guys off the street who were chosen to dress like Jedi, not like hardened and disciplined serene warriors and aliens. It took me a long time to get used to them. I think Feloni and the Clone Wars really helped open me up more to them. But so many of those extras in the battle of the arena seem like jokes to me, like I'm looking at a bunch of cosplayers in really high quality costumes. Now I kind of get bored easily of Ep2, I watched it WAY too many times. I've probably seen it 20 times or so. Episode 3 I love Episode 3, I really do. I'd say Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith are the best Star Wars movies out of all of them. There are a few moments in EP3 where the dialog between Amidala and Anakin is bad, but it's an improvement over Ep2's romantic dialog. I have things I wish I could have seen in Ep3, but for the most part, when watching all the movies back to back, EP3 and EP5 are the movies I look forward to the most.

Hopefully they all come back playing roles as mentors and leaders with a brand new cast as the heroes. Kenobi, Yoda, Mon Mothma, those characters didn't need to be young and in shape to be a part of Star Wars.

I hope everything after ROTJ is disregarded. The movies were mythical fantasy and mythology with science fiction veneer. The EU is mostly just science fiction that makes me feel like I'm watching Star Gate with Star Wars characters and outfits. I hope the new movies are mythological sagas, with the focus on destiny and archetypal good vs evil and the exploration of the grey between those two. I hope there are echos of the Ghosts of Mortis Clone Wars story arc as well.

For years before this game was released I feared this would happen. I'm now finally starting to play this game and I'm expecting to hear this a lot. I go out of my way to help other people in MMOs, but I'm not going to skip the stories in this game. It's the reason I'm playing.