I've been working on the new Star Wars video a lot, it's going to be finished very soon, and I think it's going to be really good. But I'd just like to remind people that I talk about more than one thing and I think my X-Files video and my Stranger Gays video are easily the best videos I've ever made. In the Stranger video, I talk about literally hundreds of movies and books that I think are all really interesting and that aren't SW. Like I always say, of course I like SW, but there's nothing more boring in the world than those accounts that talk about nothing but SW. Because they only fixate on one thing, they don't even have the broader context of art history that they need to understand that one thing fully, so they're completely devoted to talking about movies for 12 year olds, but they aren't even able to understand that kind of thing well. Even George Lucas didn't want or expect SW to be his whole life, it just grew and took over, but he's said many times that there are other types of movies that he's more interested in. That's why one of the biggest points I try to make in my videos is that a lot of SW fans don't get what he's doing because they don't understand what he's influenced by and where he's coming from. You can't try to understand any art in a vacuum, because that's not how art works. Art is about communication and expression, so it always exists in dialogue with everything around it. All of which is just to say, if you like my SW videos, I think they'd be more interesting and you'd also understand where I'm coming from better if you also watched my other videos. Or if you don't want to watch them, you could just click on them and let the ads play, I think I get paid either way

Kennedy claiming that Lucas just told her the secrets of SW were all in his head as though he was hiding them from her is a way of saying that it's not her fault that things went so off track, and it's as close as I've heard her to openly expressing the hostility toward him which kind of seemed to be the subtext of their relationship since his "white slavers" interview and some of those other comments he made. But if you look at interviews with her back in 2012, she openly said that only Lucas really knew SW and she was lucky because he was going to be acting as a mentor to the franchise and he'd always be around to call if they had a question about something. The problem was that they stopped calling because they weren't interested in what he thought, and that obviously wasn't his choice. Now she's acting like, "How could I possibly understand without him writing me a guidebook?" Well, he probably didn't think he had to spell it out for you that much since they're movies designed to be understood by 12-year-olds, but plainly he was wrong. The other interesting thing here is her claiming he gave her "a couple of paragraphs". She likes to phrase lies in ways that aren't technically untrue but which she knows will be understood to mean something untrue. Notice that what's in quotes here is "a couple of paragraphs", but not the part where it says that there were no story treatments. I doubt she said specifically said there were no treatments, because that would be categorically untrue. But she also didn't stop them from printing it. Around 2015, she was saying that Lucas did give them a story and claiming that they hadn't thrown it out but rather it had just gone through a natural development process like any other movie. Then Lucas did his "white slavers" interview and made a few other comments saying very specifically that they threw his stories out. After that she shifted from saying they had just developed his stories to saying around 2019 that he never wrote any scripts. Notice that it's technically true, he didn't approve a finished script, although he did hire Michael Arndt to write one from his story. Technically though she's not lying, because he didn't write a "script", he only wrote a story treatment. But she said this in response to a question about why they didn't use Lucas' stories, and she knew full well that people would take her comment to mean he never wrote any stories, which we know isn't true. When she says "a couple of paragraphs", nobody knows exactly how many paragraphs were in his story treatments, but the expression "a couple of" leaves her some wiggle room because it's not taken to mean a specific number, just that there weren't a lot. And yeah that's probably true, what he wrote wasn't very long. That's what story treatments are, an outline, they aren't as long as a script. But she's again trying to make it sound like he didn't give her anything to go off of and wasn't offering her any more help, which is bullshit

I've wondered what exactly is mentally wrong with these people that have this fixation on the SW EU being canon. Lucas said many times that it was a separate entity, he said repeatedly that he didn't even read the EU books, so the topic is tedious because it's been answered since sometime in the mid-90s for anybody who cares to find out. But there are many people like this guy who somehow find it important to spend their time online all day fighting about it. This guy's schtick it that, "George's actions speak louder than his words". Since anybody can find out what Lucas said on the topic, but what he said doesn't align with the alternate reality Brandon the Awesome wants to live in, Brandon spends time compiling evidence that he thinks shows that what Lucas meant is actually the opposite of what he said. He whips up infographics of quotes and reposts them incessantly. The thing is that, if you aren't a moron, you can see that none of the quotes he uses show what he's claiming that they show. Lucas needed some more designs for background Jedi in AotC, so he looked around at some of the comics and things since those were designs he could use and had already paid for, and decided that he'd throw in a couple of them as extras. When he talks about this, he even refers to SW comics as "the comic book world" since he always considered those stories to be a separate world from his movies. But somehow throwing in an old design as a Easter egg means that he thought everything in the comics was canon? He obviously hadn't even read most of them. Lucas did the same thing with Darth Talon- he wanted a female Sith for his ST story, he looked around at the work that had been done and liked some of the drawings of Talon, so he decided that maybe they could develop her. He wasn't interested at all with the story about her that was written in the EU, he either didn't know or didn't care that in the EU she exists a century after the time when he was going to put her in the story. He saw an image he liked and thought maybe he could use it for something else. This is how he always worked with concept artists for the movies, he would give them free reign to try a bunch of things, he'd look at it, some of it would spark ideas, some of it wouldn't. But just because he used a design, that doesn't mean that everything the concept artists designed was canon. It's extremely dumb to act like it does. And even if recycling a design and putting it in the movie meant that he intended the EU version of that character to be canon- which it obviously doesn't because the movie versions aren't like the EU versions- but even if it did, Lucas did this all of three or four times in the history of SW, out of the thousands of characters the EU generated. The only two characters he really used at all were Aayla Secura and Darth Talon, which tells you that he's a big, big fan of Twi'lek chicks with bare midriffs, not of the EU. Did Lucas sometimes offer an opinion on an EU story? Well yeah, if he even bothered to know about it. Did he sometimes nix an idea that he thought would be bad? Sure. That doesn't mean that everything he didn't nix, he personally approved of. There were several levels of management working at these companies, and sometimes if they weren't sure about something they'd run it up the ladder and get approval from Lucas. That's how these big companies work. It doesn't mean he was personally checking every single thing. That's impossible and ridiculous. He was paying hundreds of people to work on this stuff so that he wouldn't have to do it all himself. I said at the beginning that this was tedious to talk about because it's not an issue with enough ambiguity that there's anything left to be debated. It's a question that's been answered. Now I'm kind of embarrassed I typed this much about it, but I've already typed it. The bigger question is why this matters at all to the Brandons out there. Who cares if it's canon or not? What does trying to argue about this prove for them? They're trying to validate their inner 12 year old who originally read the books and thought they were an official part of the story that they saw in the movies. If they hadn't been a fairly dim kid, they would have figured out the answer to that 30 years ago, but they didn't, so rather than admit that they haven't been able to figure out simple, observable things for 30 years, they try to prove that up is down and black is white. Posts like this actually aren't about SW at all, they're about Brandon's emotional problems. I hope you get the help you need, buddy