Steven Spielberg once said that "George's biggest thing with movies is logic." There's no doubt that George Lucas is a visionary filmmaker, having created one of the most popular franchises of all time, and some of the most important movies in cinema history. His Star Wars Universe has delighted generations for decades, and there are many fans who still believe The Maker when he says he had an epic space opus outlined for nine episodes. Did he really have a grand plan for his Skywalker Saga, given the way its narrative eventually continued, especially with the Prequel Trilogy?
It's been indicated that Lucas may have just made everything up as he went along, but that truth alone wouldn't have been so reprehensible to fans if the ramifications of Lucas's choices didn't so greatly impact the Skywalker Saga as a whole. These glaring points of contention that appear in the Original Trilogy make it clear as Tatooine's binary suns that one of the greatest filmmakers of all time was flying by the seat of his blood striped pants.
10 Darth Vader And Anakin Skywalker Being The Same Person
According to transcript notes from the storyboard meeting in "The Making Of The Empire Strikes Back," where George Lucas and his production team discussed the plot of Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi, there was a consensus among the group that Obi-Wan Kenobi would need to return to the story and explain the plot hole his character inadvertently introduced in A New Hope.
Obi-Wan told Luke that Darth Vader betrayed and murdered his father Anakin Skywalker, but that couldn't be true since Darth Vader was revealed to be Luke's father in The Empire Strikes Back. In order for that to be true, Obi-Wan would need to be given a reason for not telling Luke his rightful heritage in the first place. Thus the "from a certain point of view" scene was created about Darth Vader's origins.
9 Another Hope For The Alliance That Wasn't Luke
Towards the end of The Empire Strikes Back, Obi-Wan remarked that Luke was their "last hope", prompting Yoda to respond, "No, there is another." Fans knew then that another Force-sensitive person might be able to succeed in toppling the Empire where the errant Skywalker boy failed.
According to the 2004 DVD commentary for the classic film, Lucas explained that the line was meant to add tension to the trilogy and make Luke - the hero - appear expendable. He referred to it as a "cheap" but effective trick, leaving it up to fans to decide for themselves whether or not they felt it had a meaningful payoff.
8 Luke And Leia Being Siblings
In the original script for The Empire Strikes Back by Leigh Brackett, Luke and Leia weren't siblings. Luke did have a sister, but it wasn't Leia, which made it permissible for him to share an intimate moment with her that even convinced composer John Williams they'd become lovers. In an article for Film Threat, producer Gary Kurtz explained that Luke's sister was going to be a major character in what has now become Disney's Sequel Trilogy.
Luke would have begun Episode 7 searching for her, and she would have been "someone else way over on the other side of the galaxy," Kurtz stated, who wasn't " going to show up until the next episode [Episode 8]." But as a Sequel Trilogy wasn't guaranteed, and Return of the Jedi could have been Lucas's last chance with the same actors to finish his story, he conveniently made Leia his sister.
7 Vader Being Oblivious To His Children
One of the problems facing Lucas making Luke and Leia siblings was how it affected their father, who had been revealed to be Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back. Vader spent time with Leia in captivity in A New Hope before he ever encountered Luke, and yet didn't sense that she was his daughter.
He spent a great deal around Luke Skywalker without ever knowing the truth about his legacy, until suddenly dropping the paternal bombshell on Luke. While supplemental material from Star Wars Legends tried to explain how Vader discovered the identity of his children, it was clear as far as the movies were concerned, Lucas hadn't put thought into the repercussions of making principle characters related.
6 Jabba Being A Slug
Jabba the Hutt was never clearly identified in George Lucas's first three drafts for A New Hope, except as a bi-pedal cutthroat crimelord with a facial scar. Jabba was not the Hutt that fans see in Return of the Jedi, a creative conclusion arrived much later in Lucas's writing process.
As explained in the DVD commentary for the Special Edition of A New Hope, a human actor played Jabba during the principle shooting of A New Hope named Declan Mulholland. Lucas wanted to use a stop-motion animated creature but had to resign himself to a human until he could change it with CGI decades later.
5 Obi-Wan's Death
Prior to giving Leigh Brackett the reins to A New Hope, Lucas penned a hand treatment. Brackett changed a number of things about Lucas's story, especially regarding the characters of Obi-Wan Kenobi murdering Luke's father (later something Vader would do "from a certain point of view".
Eventually, Obi-Wan himself would be the one to die, after surviving Brackett's draft and nearly every other draft. Lucas decided to kill him off, despite being one of the characters to anchor the whimsicality of the film. This decision would later be somewhat reneged on when Lucas had Old Ben show up in spectral form in both sequel films.
4 Darth Being A Sith Title And Not A Name
When Lucas first conceived of Vader, he was a mercenary figure, not unlike bounty hunter Boba Fett. There was a character very much like the Vader fans came to know in A New Hope. According to Lucas's biographer Dale Pollock, his name was Prince Valarium, leader of the Black Knights of the Sith, and he wore black armor.
Eventually, Vader and Valarium became one person, with a name loosely translated from Dutch words meaning "Dark Father". Obi-Wan even referred to Vader by an assumed first name - "Darth." It was clear Lucas never intended for "Darth" to be a "title" bestowed on newly minted Sith lords.
3 Leia Becoming A Sex Symbol
According to "Skywalking: The Life And Films Of George Lucas," when actress Carrie Fisher arrived in Tunisia to begin filming A New Hope, she was fitted for her white robes, a costume which would become iconic for her character and the franchise. Her breasts were bound with gaffers tape because according to Fisher, Lucas thought, "breasts don't bounce in space."
His decision to de-sexualize Princess Leia at all costs included not only her white robes, which stretched from neck to ankle but her outfits on the frozen planet Hoth and even in Cloud City. By Return of the Jedi Lucas didn't seem to care about how she was perceived, because Leia was put into a golden bikini and chained at Jabba the Hutt's feet, instantly becoming an '80s sex symbol.
2 The Ewoks
An original draft of Return of the Jedi involved the Rebel Alliance seeking the assistance of the Wookiees on Kashyyyk to defeat the Empire, but because of budget constraints, the Wookiees were turned into Ewoks, a species which hardly seemed capable of taking on an Imperial landing party.
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The Imperial infantry, which consisted of AT-STs, scout troopers, stormtroopers, ended up being bested by the diminutive warriors, who bested their special armor and artillery with rocks, spears, and logs.
1 The Force
Described by Obi-Wan Kenobi as the energy that bound the universe together, The Force was an abstract concept that Lucas never examined critically in the Original Trilogy. Equally as abstract was how it could be wielded, especially given that Vader once intoned ominously that the "ability to destroy a planet [was] insignificant next to the power of the Force."
Yet the most epic displays of Force use throughout the trilogy were the levitation of objects and telepathic games of telephone. Luke could call his lightsaber to his hand in The Empire Strikes Back, yet couldn't use the Force in his engagement with the Rancor in Return of the Jedi when he was arguably better trained. This has led fans to having to justify for themselves how the Force worked in the movies.
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