Star Wars and Not Enough Conflict

To George Lucas:

Georgie, dear, stop trying to write romance. You don’t get it. True romance means conflict, fun dialogue, and heroes and heroines who are feisty. They don’t go mooning over each other–”You’re so beautiful.”
“Only because I’m in love with you.”
Gag me with a blender.

True romance involves real life. You were dead-on with Han Solo and Leia. “I love you.”
“I know.”
See, now that’s funny and believable. That’s real. Episodes II and III weren’t real. They were forced. I would love to get my hands on your scripts and rewrite them. Anakin Skywalker would NOT be running to embrace his 9-months-pregnant wife when she goes across a galaxy to see him. He’d be demanding, “What the hell are you doing? Are you crazy? What if you’d gone into labor?” Then he’d have hugged her, etc. etc.

And the whole hair-brushing scene where he’s mooning and fawning over her beauty? :blahblah: Come on. Any man with a brain cell would have grinning and telling her to come and see his big light saber.

George, George, George. You just don’t get it, do you?

Aside from the romance, the rest of the movie was great and I enjoyed it. :starwars:

As for me, I hit a screeching halt on my book yesterday. Not enough conflict. Is there a little conflict shop where I could go pick some up? Must work on the synopsis today and figure this out. I only wrote three pages yesterday. :loser: