The Star Wars franchise has inspired six blockbuster movies, an animated TV spin-off, graphic novels, and even a bewildering Thanksgiving holiday special. Now George Lucas is promising a Star Wars comedy series animated by Lucasfilm and produced by Robot Chicken's Seth Green (who's already knocked off parodies of the Star Wars films). Is the Force potentially funny, or does this constitute sacrilege of the original trilogy?
Lucas can't help but ruin Star Wars: He's done it again, says James Lileks at the Star Tribune. The "smothering hand" of George Lucas has descended to make the Star Wars franchise more of a joke than it already is. Being a Star Wars fan at this point is like "belonging to a religion that worships a god who shows up every few years, revises the key holy texts [and] makes them stupider."
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