So basically, he needs a babysitter when he writes his drafts and ideas.
Although the idea of Lucas being more "merchandise" centered seems about right.
It's not just the writing. It's the directing, editing, and basically everything that goes into making a movie. One person is not suppose to have that much control, because you lose objectivity. Do you know that post production (editors and such) do not watch the production aspect of the movie while it is being shot? It's because the editors' job is to make sure it flows and progresses into a good, cohesive story.
A good example of this is in the re-done version of the original movie, A New Hope. In the newer versions, Lucas re-adds the scene with Han & Jabba outside the Falcon later after Han kills Greedo. That scene was removed because it serves no purpose in the movie due to the previous Greedo scene. Hell, some of the dialog is literally the same like "Even I get boarded sometimes" and more. Lucas probably put them back in because he liked the original scene and also because he wanted CGI Jabba, which looks [tornado fang]ing terrible I might add.
A lot of the "added in" scenes in the original movies are absolutely not needed and they were removed for a purpose. Lucas doesn't understand this, because he wants total control. You can see this in the prequels, when he did have total control. It absolutely reeks of [acid burst] poor editing, because the movies are not only told badly but they're boring at parts, which is why post production is an entirely different field than production. Their job is to objectively look at what works in the movie and what doesn't. But with Lucas pretty much giving orders, there's nothing they can do, cause he has total control.
Don't get me wrong though. I don't even think the best of editing could have saved those movies, because like I told Gonzie, they are pretty much un-fixable without literally remaking the entire movies. Not only do entire scenes need to be removed, but lots of dialog, plenty of story, and a bunch of characters need to go as well.
YES finally someone on the internet said it , i remember seeing an old making of DVD " Building of an Empire" or something like that ... that talked about the history of the creation of Star Wars and mentioned how he clashed with the people he was working with and the movie companies.
People are always saying Lucas lost it and hes no longer a good storyteller , I think he never was, hes said countless times even back then ... that the original trilogy isnt what he envisioned .. that he always wanted it BIGGER and BETTER and thats what hes doing now in his own eyes.
This was made even more evident in an interview with Harrison Ford a while back, when he discussed the "I love you. I know." scene in Empire. Ford and the director literally had to fight Lucas on this matter because Lucas wanted Han to say "I love you too" back to Leia, clearly showing he not only knows nothing about the character Han Solo, but does not know how to write two people in love, which is made painfully obvious by pretty much all Anakin & Padme romantic dialog in the prequels.
But yes, that is pretty much exactly what he's doing with all his retouching. He is trying to make the films the way he originally wanted them to be, which is a crime.