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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8817848" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>Thanks, and yes, agreed, which leads me to....</p><p></p><p>Thanks. It really sounds like he kind of blew it, and I'm guessing that he regrets his choice, though probably would never admit as much publicly.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This can work both ways. I believe that Jordan, for instance, was pushed by his publisher to extend the series - WoT being a huge cash cow and all. For those not around cognizant at the time, WoT was a massive phenomena - it was the series that "everyone" (meaning all fantasy readers) were reading, and waiting for each new release with anticipation. </p><p></p><p>Meaning, I don't think it was simply a matter of him getting more control and then writing the series he wanted to write. I believe that once he got a few books in, the story naturally became longer than what he originally had in mind, but as far as I can tell, much of the "expanded accordion effect" of the series after the 5th book or so was "inspired" by the publisher nudging him in that direction. I'm guessing that if sales hadn't been so good, he would have wrapped it up in in 8 books or so.</p><p></p><p>As for George Lucas, I see it a bit differently. There are several problems with the prequels, but they all seem to boil down to the difference between who Lucas was in the 70s when he came up with Star Wars, and who was in the 90s when he worked on the prequels. He went from being a relatively unknown 30-something Joseph Campbell reading film director to a 50-something massively wealthy executive producer who had since become enamored with CGI (with the horrible "improvements" to the OT a harbinger of this tendency). Oh, and the prequels were the first films he had actually directed since the original <em>Star Wars. </em></p><p></p><p>I mean, maybe a stronger editorial voice would have reminded Lucas what made the OT so great - the cast chemistry, the organic effects, the Campbellian storyline, etc. But all of those issues seemed to be symptomatic of a man who had lost the magic touch of youth, and one who was very much embedded within the Hollywood machine of merchandising and big budget extravaganzas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 8817848, member: 59082"] Thanks, and yes, agreed, which leads me to.... Thanks. It really sounds like he kind of blew it, and I'm guessing that he regrets his choice, though probably would never admit as much publicly. This can work both ways. I believe that Jordan, for instance, was pushed by his publisher to extend the series - WoT being a huge cash cow and all. For those not around cognizant at the time, WoT was a massive phenomena - it was the series that "everyone" (meaning all fantasy readers) were reading, and waiting for each new release with anticipation. Meaning, I don't think it was simply a matter of him getting more control and then writing the series he wanted to write. I believe that once he got a few books in, the story naturally became longer than what he originally had in mind, but as far as I can tell, much of the "expanded accordion effect" of the series after the 5th book or so was "inspired" by the publisher nudging him in that direction. I'm guessing that if sales hadn't been so good, he would have wrapped it up in in 8 books or so. As for George Lucas, I see it a bit differently. There are several problems with the prequels, but they all seem to boil down to the difference between who Lucas was in the 70s when he came up with Star Wars, and who was in the 90s when he worked on the prequels. He went from being a relatively unknown 30-something Joseph Campbell reading film director to a 50-something massively wealthy executive producer who had since become enamored with CGI (with the horrible "improvements" to the OT a harbinger of this tendency). Oh, and the prequels were the first films he had actually directed since the original [I]Star Wars. [/I] I mean, maybe a stronger editorial voice would have reminded Lucas what made the OT so great - the cast chemistry, the organic effects, the Campbellian storyline, etc. But all of those issues seemed to be symptomatic of a man who had lost the magic touch of youth, and one who was very much embedded within the Hollywood machine of merchandising and big budget extravaganzas. [/QUOTE]
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