In case you couldn't already tell from...everything, self-awareness is something in which George Lucas is sorely lacking. Along with editing skills and a proper beard trimmer. If you need more convincing then look no further than the time the director was called up to testify in front of Congress, during that tumultuous period of modern history when Ted Turner declared war on the most sacrosanct aspects of American culture: old movies. During the late eighties the media mogul and his Turner Classic Movies Channel took it upon themselves to buy up the old Warner Bros, RKO, and MGM libraries of black and white films, colourise them, and then broadcast them in this new, "better" format. Lucas was just one of many filmmakers who were agitating the government to have properly preserve these classic films, which eventually led to the founding of the National Film Registry. He was one of the few to actually testify in Congress about it, however, making an impassioned speech that people changing these films for their own gain were "barbarians". Not only does that seem like a pretty trivial thing to bother Congress about when there's, like, war and suffering and stuff - sort out your priorities, George, but then you smash cut to a decade later when he does the EXACT SAME THING HE WAS RAILING AGAINST. At the time he was simply a bit hysterical, and in retrospect he's a hypocrite.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
