Well, at least they’re celebrating something star wars related.
For a lot of people, the special edition is what brought Star Wars back,
before then, it had pretty much disappeared, and was nowhere near the
popularity it had.
Despite the after effects of what it did, it brought the franchise back,
and allowed for a lot more to be done to the series, all at the expense
of the originals.
Whether that was intended or not, has only now become the implication.