Oh dear... unless they get Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford back as their respective characters, it just won't work.

Let's hope by that time GL realises that other people can direct better than he can, monkeys should not be used to write the script and that as much excessive CG as possible is NOT a good thing. Bring back the costume aliens instead of CG ones!!

well, Lucas did have the cast digitally scanned years ago. The Harrison Ford one is scan is supposed to be getting used to create a younger Indiana Jones for a few scenes of the new Jone film.

CG isn't a good thing, or a bad thing. It's just a tool, in the wrong hands it can ruin a film, in the right hands it can help create a masterpiece. I have no preference as to whether they have costumed aliens or CG ones, so long as it works and helps the film. I don't recall hering people complain that Gollum ruined LOTR because he was CG - that is because it was done right, that's what makes the difference.

Very true, but a lot of the CG GL uses isn't necessary. It is used gratuitously rather than as a tool.

Take for example the sets. In the likes of LotR, CG sets were used when they had to be, but the rest of the time the sets were actually built. In the two recent star wars films, on quite a lot of occassions the sets were entirely blue screens. Or in ones that were built, they were only built to not that far above head height because the rest above that was done with CG.

I personally think the overuse of CG in the two new trilogy SW films has detracted from the films, whereas the CG use in LotR trilogy greatly added to the films cause it was used wisely, and very well.

the new star wars films suck. They should leave it alone now before they hurt the franchise further. Or they could base 7,8 and 9 on Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command, which was a very good book trilogy!

It's difficult one. On one had I would love to see the sequel trilogy, on the other, as you say, it could damage the franchise further.

However, if George Lucas has got to grips with the enormaty of what he is dealling with, then he could still do something good. He did get carried away in Episode One, however Episode Two was a massive improvement and went someway to bringing it more in line with what people were expecting in look and feel. Can he improve it further with Episode Three? I hope so, but I'll just wait and see, then I will decide whether I want him to do the sequel trilogy.

I loved the Ewoks!!! Thought they were cool!

Episode 2 was really lacking as it didn't really have a big bad villain in it. Part 1 had Darth Maul; 4,5 and 6 had Darth Vader and the Emperor, but part 2 had no one that bad in it. It had Jango Fett and Count Dooku. Jango Fett wasn't that evil as he was just a bounty hunter who even said himself something like he was "just a guy trying to make a living". Not really that evil talk is it! And Dooku didn't come into the film till quite late, so he didn't give an evil feel to the film.

The sequal trilogy will be better if GL gets a screenplay written so that the ideas are there, but then he gets other people in to write the script and someone else to direct it. As he isn't that great with either of those two things.