Should I watch the original or newer Star Wars first?

Indeed. Since Galactic Basic as a language is presented as English in the films, one assumes that 'human' is the equivalent translation of whatever the term for the species is.

Although I'm a bit befuddled by the assertion from the poster that "human" mean it comes from Earth - the etymological route of the word is only suggested to refer to 'of the earth' in reference to 'the ground', not the planet. Bear in mind the planet 'Earth' is named after the word for 'the ground', not the other way around. In this case it just refers to the homo sapien species which is pretty common throughout the GFFA.
 
Most of the original drafts that Lucas claimed were a 3 part film turned out to be little more or less than what the original film was.

Production notes from "ANH" don't really say much beyond the original from what I recall, other than changes from the original drafts (name changes in characters etc). Never any mention of the whole parentage issue of Luke.

Journal of the Whills was a rough outline of what he wanted to make and it transformed (jettisoning most of the content because it was frankly crap) into Star Wars. What remained in terms of character names that weren't used was reused for Episodes I, II & III as was a couple of scenes including the ending (which was popularly distributed in a fan derived version around fans during the 80s and 90s). None of it really indicates this was the whole saga plan at all, and it's full of more contradictions.

It has been used however as evidence of a planned history, but it's more really of just first ideas that were rejected and then reused later. Certainly nothing in there about the sequels to Star Wars.

Producer Gary Kurtz is also on record many times having said that there was never any intention to make any more than the one film.
http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/376/376873p4.html

Reality is I think that Lucas had scribbled down a lot of ideas which were rehashed over and over to make the final draft for Star Wars. Nothing that he'd come up with was part of some grand plan, but in the process of deciding whether to do a sequel Lucas and co raided some of these ideas and then came up with something else. Most of what's in Empire was never planned by Lucas at all before Start Wars, and episodes I, II & III are hinged on the events in Empire.


Besides, the real plan originally was to make Flash Gordon ;). Lucas couldn't get the rights to it though, so he tried to make up some other story along similar lines.
 
The *role playing* idea behind it is everybody is really speaking another language (Galactic Basic), and the movies are dubbing their talk into English for us. WorRAB like "human" and "Hell" are parts of mis-translation, where it's easier to use an English word instead of a translation.
 
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