R2-D2

George Lucas has plans to create two new additions to his Star Wars empire. The first is a possible animated film. As much as I love Star Wars I really can't see how an animated film is supposed to add to the Star Wars franchise. The origional films were great because they pushed the barriers of the imagination and special effects. With animated films, such as Shrek and Beowolf, I am having difficulty seeing how George Lucas can push the animated envelope. Perhaps I am not giving George Lucas enough credit and am not being creative enough in my ponderings, but I do not see an animated film adding anything to what already is Star WArs.

The second addition is a TV series based off of the films. I do not know if the series will continue the story after the Fall of the Empire or be a side story, ment to add to the events that we already know. Lucas has stated that the series will not involve the Skywalker family. It would be interesting to see the events from another perspective, but It just feels wrong to have a Star Wars media production, I'm not including the various books on the subject here, with out Darth Vadar. Lucas has hinted that the show may follow the story line of the androids. As much as I would love to see a show centered on R2-D2 and C-3PO I hope that they would be able to keep the story lines interesting enough to compansated for the fact that one droid doesn't speak (although it has a wonderful variety of beeps) and the other lacks emotion (except for fear).

I hope that Geogre Lucas is going to make these two additions better then the last 3 movies. I feel that he may just be making these things because their almost garunteed to bring in money. While that's great for him, it stinks for all those Star Wars fans who have grown loving the origional films only to find them being darkend by new, comercial, additions.