What if George Lucas is a bad film maker/writer and THX 1138,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

He's awful, it's just that with a large enough number of mediocre talents trying not to be mediocre, some of them will produce master pieces by luck alone.

>>86909349
I miss Henson so much, he was a gem

He is a bad filmmaker, and those weren't even really flukes. Lucas had a ton of help with those movies, which is what made them good. The best example probably being getting two of his friends to completely re-write all of the dialogue in Star Wars a few weeks before shooting started. A lot of credit also needs to be given to Marcia, who was a good enough editor to make American Graffiti and Star Wars watchable after terrible first cuts.

Lucas has always had good ideas, but has been awful at executing them himself. Mostly because of his autism (probably literally, if yu listen to stories about his directing style and writing) and hatred of writing. If he actually managed to get the kind of art collective that was planned for Skywalker Ranch going, he might have ended up making more good movies.