George Lucas has changed the world.
Personally, I love just about everything Star Wars.
If you have never seen the Star Wars movies with the Audio Commentary turned on, you really should do that. WOW, it will give you a whole new appreciation of the movies and the stories and why things (especially in episodes 1-3) are the way they are. I don't understand why there is so much animosity directed towards those movies... did they not watch the lightsaber fights ? AWESOME. That alone was worth the price of admission.
You won't see that anywhere else.
SWTOR is my first MMORPG, I just couldn't get into WoW, too cartoonish. SWTOR is beautiful.