Yeah I have a problem with the prequels as well. It's a dark spot on his career for sure. Technically they were amazing for their time, and I give him credit fo

Yeah I have a problem with the prequels as well. It's a dark spot on his career for sure. Technically they were amazing for their time, and I give him credit for that. But the main problem is that that he failed to remember basic filmmaking 101 -- you need to tell a story in way that connects with your audience - and he failed to achieve that. Tech is supposed to service the story, but he got it the other way around, using the story as an excuse to show off tech. Thank god the Clone Wars series helped flesh out the backstory better and rehabilitate the legacy. But as standalone films they're massive disappointments. Would have benefitted from several re-writes and some good outside criticism before shooting began. This, coming from the guy who fought against enormous odds, at great personal cost, and spent every dollar he had to get Star Wars made. That said, after reading Droidmaker I got a renewed appreciation for all of the different things Lucas not only had the vision for, but did, and did well, even though Lucasfilm/Lucasarts was running in several different directions at once. I can't think of any other filmmaker who invested so much of his own $$$ (SW profits) into essentially movie technology R&D. Maybe Kubrick comes close, but Lucas spent enormous amounts of money doing R&D to build the tools/tech/workflow that the movie industry relies upon today. Lucas deserves some sort of "lifetime achievement award" for his contributions to the medium.