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(From an interview with George Lucas.)
I REALLY LOVE GEORGE A LOT. It’s interesting that the merchandising =/= the messages of the movie itself, which is something I wondered about when trying to find any references to “the Light Side of the Force” in the actual canon, rather than just in merchandising and couldn’t.
But more importantly was his answer about how he liked the toys sparking kids’ imaginations. One thing that George really does seem okay with, for all that most of us have heard that he freaked out about fanfiction back in the ‘80s or what have you, other people telling stories in his universe, that they’re separate from his story, but that they have their place. And I think a lot of that probably comes down to that he intended these movies for children and I like to think that maybe it took him awhile to come around on adjusting his thinking that a more adult world has its place just as much.