He said it once regarding the astrodroid in the Jedi starfighter (which should have had its legs sticking out the bottom), though that was later fixed with the rational that the droid components had been directly integrated into the fighter rather than having a separate droid plugged into the fighter.Kazuaki Shimazaki wrote:Personally, I don't think Lucas really checks the details that much. They might check the storyline, but the details... didn't Lucas once say something derogative about people like us, who love his show enough to analyze it in excruciating detail - "Most people won't really notice"?
He's also said something along those lines in one of his interview, regarding the fact that R2 and C3PO didn't remember Tatooine in the OT even though they should be familiar with it from the prequel movies. He said they'd likely have a memory wipe between the trilogies, but added that this was the sort of detail people didn't need to worry about.
I'm not sure it's relevant to this, though. There may be a big difference between how stringently Lucas checks these things (from what I've read, he doesn't even look at most of the EU material) and how strictly Lucasbooks checks the material directly under their aegis.
Anyway, all I'm saying is before we start hanging the writers out to dry, it'd be useful to know how strictly the writers are asked to adhere to the 1.2 million number by their editors. They might have just taken what they were handed without question or they may have asked to change things and been refused.
-- Joe Momma
