So, I want to ask what I'm sure many will consider to be a terrible, forbidden question, but I'm curious about what others think of it anyway.

What if Star Wars was started all over again, but not by George Lucas, and/or Star Wars continuity was smoothed and evened out by parties who care about Star Wars, and definitely not George Lucas?

Whew...Sorry, that rather loaded question came out longer than I intended!

Also, I refuse to use the word 'reboot'. I will not do it. It's not a term I will acknowledge, just to get that out of the way. At any rate, what if people who were not George Lucas just started Star Wars all over again, or otherwise took control of it?

The problem is, Lucas clearly does not care about continuity in his own universe, and he is even personally actively destroying it himself. He's like Unicron eating all the planets away, or like the Nothing, just erasing all of Fantasia; sometimes it's like there might as well have never been much of anything even there. And he doesn't care. Sure, he has the right to do what he does, and not care, but that's never been the issue.  His actions leave fans, who he owes everything to, feeling very angry and betrayed. Sometimes it also seems like Lucas is actually remaking his own universe anyway though, with all the contradictions and things that...don't nix continuity, but don't make any sense, either.

So, all right, if Lucas wants to destroy his own universe, and stop giving a shit, well, just imagine if this was possible; what if people who do actively give a shit took over Star Wars either started it all over, or at least, forged a more real continuity somehow, one that makes sense,  ignoring all of Lucas's destruction, and other....bizarre contradictions? Think about, as one example of a possibility, of what Marvel did; they created their, uh, so-called 'Ultimate' Universe (pretty much referred to as that because most of the books in that line started with the word 'Ultimate'. The appropriateness of the term is debatable) as a separate one from the original Marvel universe, and they set that up so they could basically go total ape-shit in it, and do whatever they want, and say 'Well, it's not the original universe.' Well, what if something like that was done for Star Wars?  I know it's not going to happen, at least, certainly not while Lucas is alive. The idea is to use your imagination here, and think about how you feel about the idea. I also realize if Lucas is the one who did such  a thing, I think most of us here would be against that, no doubt, so imagine if someone else did it. Also, I'm not suggesting an 'Ultimate Star Wars' universe or something be made for the same reasons of going total ape-shit in it. No, Lucas is already doing more than enough of that; I mean, if such a thing happened, it would be to right wrongs, for the purposes of this question. But then again, if you would like to see someone create such a new universe to go bonkers in it, well, feel free to share anyway! :P I will add though that I have no doubt if Lucas himself did totally start Star Wars all over again, that would be the complete end of the Original Trilogy, and we would never see it ever again. That would be horrific and devestating.

Consider other properties, like the Transformers. Transformers doesn't have a one, universal continuity that unifies everything. It simply doesn't. It has so many series that tend to have similarities, but are still different, and distinct. Should the same kind of thing happen with Star Wars?

Star Wars continuity is also so huge now, it almost is a universe in a seemingly literal sense. It's winding, confusing, and convoluted. I know this happens when you have so many people working in it, usually through Expanded Universe media, but jeez....Lucas and his company haven't been taking as good care of it as he seems to feel they have, often times. But well, that's what happens when the head of the company doesn't care. Well, what if someone else who cared more decided to forge a more cohesive continuity that made sense? Remember when Boba Fett's real name was supposedly Jaster Mareel, but then that was changed to him being...a clone, and then Jaster Mareel was made into another Mandalorian entirely?? Remember when Lemelisk was the engineer who came up with the Death Star plans, but then that was changed to....the Geonosians created the design? Sigh...

I guess one of the reasons I've brought this up is considering some of the missed opportunities in the New Trilogy. Despite how much money the movies made, a lot of fans were left disappointed. Some of it was due to huge expectations, and Lucas failing to deliver even a fraction of what a lot of fans hoped for. That and, again, destroying continuity. One reason I in turn bring that up is Lucas's interest in The Phantom Menace again recently, and he clearly also sees some of his own missed opportunities, or at least one in particular; Darth Maul. It was revealed recently that Lucas himself gave the order to bring Maul back in The Clone Wars, further destroying continuity, and essentially giving the...confusing and bullshit answer to fans of 'Well, he didn't really die.' When Lucas realizes his own missed opportunities, or otherwise feels regret over something in Star Wars, that spells doom for fans.

Anyway, so thinking about other missed opportunities Lucas had in the New Trilogy is pretty easy. I'll bet there are a lot of creative folks who could come up with a lot of great ideas that should have been seen or done in the NT, and not destroy continuity either. It's kind of sad to think that in 100 years maybe, perhaps there will be tons of creative people doing all kinds of great stuff with Star Wars that they can't do now, things that should have been, and we won't live to see it.  That's neither here nor there, I suppose.

For me personally, well, I'm not openly for a direct do-over of all Star Wars, no, by anyone, really. Mainly, I just wish Lucas would leave it alone, as I'm sure most of us do. I also wish that Lucas's company would stop making everything focus around the handful of planets we see in the movies, although often it seems to mostly come from the OT. Okay, we've seen fucking Hoth already, and wampas; go somewhere else, do something else, and talk about other beasties if need be. I'm also tired of other ridiculous retcons, or even..retcons of...retcons,  and explanations that just don't add up or make much sense, and wish that would stop. I do think it would interesting to see, if this was possible, how other people would have handled the universe, and things like the New Trilogy. Using the OT as the starting point, like I said, I think there are a lot of people out there who could have done great things from there, not destroyed continuity, and given us greater exploratory events, like the NT, if they were in charge.

But what do you think?