Originally posted by: Scruffy
But OUT and OOT are not synonymous. OOT is the Original Original Trilogy, the sort of platonic ideal of the Star Wars Trilogy. It's been used for a long time to describe the original Star Wars Trilogy. OUT is Original Unaltered Trilogy, a new marketing term used to describe the 2006 DVD release of the Star Wars Trilogy. Since it's not the original unaltered trilogy, using that acronym represents a sort of intellectual buy-in to a lie. Prefixing it with the G acknowledges this and places the blame for the dissonance where it rightly lies.
But OUT and OOT are not synonymous. OOT is the Original Original Trilogy, the sort of platonic ideal of the Star Wars Trilogy. It's been used for a long time to describe the original Star Wars Trilogy. OUT is Original Unaltered Trilogy, a new marketing term used to describe the 2006 DVD release of the Star Wars Trilogy. Since it's not the original unaltered trilogy, using that acronym represents a sort of intellectual buy-in to a lie. Prefixing it with the G acknowledges this and places the blame for the dissonance where it rightly lies.
You can carve that in stone!