Objection! The Pod Race Was Pretty Cool.

Originally this post was much longer, but Firefox crashed while I was still writing it (but before I had saved a draft version of it), and I'm not in the mood to type the entire thing up again.  Basically, it apologised for being a Star Wars-related post, explained my personal conspiracy theory re: the first film (that it was never supposed to have sequels or prequels, regardless of what was said), added tiny bits of what I considered evidence (such as the lack of an episode number prior to its re-release for The Empire Strikes Back), and then linked to a fan Q&A that Lucas did as promotion for Revenge of the Sith.

The important part of this Q&A is question #6.  Or rather, the answer to question #6:

"Originally, it ("Star Wars") was meant to be one movie. I wanted to start in the middle. It was meant to be a Saturday matinee serial. You never saw the first three episodes and you never saw what happened afterwards…"

He then continues on to mention that the original story got so big that he had to break it up into 3 movies.  Of course, like I'm letting go of my personal pet-theory. ;-)  Still, I think it's interesting in that it shows that the story for the new movies never existed except as a bare-bones backstory as referenced in the other films.

That's it.  I promise never to mention Star Wars again.