I Wanted More Star Wars, But Not Like This

So we€™ve got Disney confirming that the sequels are going to be released, starting in 2015 with Episode 7, and they€™ve confirmed that they will feature characters from the Original Trilogy, amid rumors that this will include Darth Vader. Recent announcements indicate that Mark Hammil, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford are all confirmed, and Billy Dee Williams is in negotiations. From a purely circumstantial point of view, things are looking up for SuperShadow.com, which wasted no time in gloating the announcement of the merger and sequels. So where does this website get its information, and how has it gotten away with posting plot treatments allegedly belonging to one of the most notoriously fascist and security-driven production companies in the history of the business? Well, I have a theory. One of SuperShadow€™s most outspoken critics revealed that the website is registered to attorney Mickey Suttle of North Carolina. Perhaps through some miracle of legal wrangling, this attorney was able to back the mighty Lucasfilm into a corner, where they would have had to acknowledge this content as their intellectual property in order to have it taken down. While SuperShadow.com was required to post a disclaimer denying any official connection to Lucasfilm, for some reason they did not have to remove the alleged Plot Treatments. The site has remained under the guise of fan fiction. One thing that the Wikipedia page for the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy is very clear about: George Lucas has steadily backpedaled on the topic of the Sequel Trilogy for many years. When George was riding high on the success of A New Hope he apparently boasted of making a series of 10-11 more movies (SuperShadow.com also alleges to have minimal information for Episodes 10-12). Lucas has frequently reported in interviews that he was burned out after finishing the Original Trilogy. By the early nineties he had grown reticent on the topic of the sequels, and by the end of the decade had switched his position to denying them altogether. Lucas was probably getting hounded by various interests, including Disney, to make more Star Wars movies, and became visibly irritated when asked about it in interviews. The fact is that Lucas stated early on that he had written treatments for three trilogies, a total of nine movies. With the recent Disney acquisition, that much is no longer in doubt. So where does that leave us, the hapless Star Wars fans? Well, read the treatments and then tell me they would suck more than Jar-Jar Binks. The way they are presented at SuperShadow.com, however, the plot Jumps the Shark about midway through Episode 8. Why would the New Republic be researching Superweapons? Doesn€™t that kinda go against their whole policy against Weapons of Mass Destruction? The plot treatment for Episode 8 is way too flippant on this point. It would make more sense for them to use some prototype weapon from Admiral Daala€™s secret Imperial research lab described in the Jedi Academy book trilogy, but that would require content from the Extended Universe being acknowledged in a film, which the Episode 7 production team has repeatedly said will not happen! The famed Kessel Run is supposedly featured in the Sequel Trilogy as well, and is the location of the research lab in the aforementioned book series. As the supposed treatment is currently written, Episode 9 kinda loses me with the whole €œcomplete destruction of the dark side€ thing. My Inner Buddhist just doesn€™t believe it€™s possible, but it sounds like it would make for some good movie. I€™m personally trying to suspend my disbelief and prepare for the inevitable. I€™m also intensely curious to find out whether or not SuperShadow.com is completely full of crap, which most people believe.