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Who else feels like episode IV was supposed to be a one off?

If you look at this movie and the story points revealed in it it makes sense that Lucas had no intention of making any more movies.

Remember that this movie was a huge risk at the time, not many people wanted to touch it

I dont buy this "I had to write a whole story to figure out the characters" bit for a second.

He simply hit on a huge sucess and like every other hollywood movie said 'Hey lets milk it for a sequel"

If you think of the plot etc in ep 4 it makes a nice compact story arc

1. Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Lukes father.
Yep i can buy that, why even have darth vader as lukes father? by doing this obi wan is now forced into the horseshit " oh you cant take what i say litterally" crapola.

2. Luke and leia are not related
again invented by Lucas because it would be cool

3. anakin did not build 3po
Obvious

4. darth vader was never taught by anyone other than obi wan
Qui Gon? Please its obvious that obi wan spotted a YOUNG MAN, Anakin, thought he should be a jedi, did a half assed job of it and somehow the emperor got his hands on him. Does it really need 3 prequel movies to explain how?
It was much better when left up to the imagination

there are probably more reasons but thats all I can think of for the moment.