Now compare that to the Prequels. For all the crap—warranted or not—the Prequels get, not “feeling” like Star Wars is seldom one of them. George Lucas didn’t make The Phantom Menace to please fans. He made it to please himself. As a result, the film might be messy, but it’s unmistakably Star Wars.
And yet, while making the prequels, the fan pressure did get to Lucas. How else do you explain why Jar Jar Binks goes from third lead in Episode I to a glorified cameo in Episodes II and III? George is full of unbridled enthusiasm for Jar Jar Binks in all of the Phantom Menace’s behind-the-scenes stuff.
At one point, he even calls the annoying Gungan “the key to all of this,” referring to the movie as a whole. Are you telling me if fans didn’t hate Jar Jar like they did, Lucas would still have given him like five minutes of screen time in the second movie? I don’t think so.
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