Why don't you PROVE you're not a fucking anal-retentive Lucas-apologist asshole first?

P.S. it's already too late.

I don't think that any of us can PROVE anything; all we can do is put forth our best evidence that supports our point and hope that others will condider those facts we present in a reasonable manner.

I was 7 years old when ANH was released and I absorbed anything and everything Star Wars through the summer of 1983. I remember seeing a People magazine (I believe that was it) with Carrie Fisher on the front posed with Jabba. The cover read something to the effect of "Life Without Leia" or "Life After Leia". I was shocked, because this meant that there would be no Episodes 7-9, or if there were then the original cast would not be in them. This thought could have only been in my head if I had read (over the previous six years) in multiple sources many times that there would be nine movies.

For my part, I weigh in on the side that there were (at one point) nine movies planned. Did Lucas lie? Maybe. Did he forget? Maybe. How about Kurtz? Maybe and maybe. We all too often take one piece of contradictory evidence and allow that to outweigh far greater amounts of evidence on the other side. For example, how many credible sightings and physical evidence is there of extraterrestrial beings visiting Earth? Tons. Yet one person claims to have faked a crop circle and suddenly all of that other evidence is thrown out of the window. I'm not trying to make an argument for or against UFO's and such, just to offer that because someone fakes a picture of Nessie, that does not mean that it does not exist. Just because we can't come up with a direct quote from Lucas does not mean that he did not plan on nine movies at one time. If and when we do find the quote, that doesn't necessarily make Lucas or Kurtz liars, either. People forget stuff, they change their minds and get confused. However, I do know that my 13-year-old brain was convinced before 1983 that there would be nine Star Wars movies, and it was only after the release of ROTJ that I heard any mention from Lucas' camp that there may be fewer.

I am currently scouring old Starlogs and other mags to find some quote from Lucas about nine movies, not necessarily to prove anyone wrong, but to put my own mind to rest. Sorry for the ramble, but after reading the debates, I really wanted to throw my hat into the ring...

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for once the whole Palpatine tall tale/ Midichlorian aided Virgin birth makes sense. props to you dude

It just occurred to me why there is so much rage over Lucas "lying" about whether or not he was going to make 9 movies. Why should anyone give a fuck whether he changed his mind or not? To those of us who are the major die hards this is like the ultimate betrayal. He promised that there would be more movies. Now he's going back on it like our love means nothing to him. Excuse me I have to go bury my head in a pillow and cry myself to sleep.