Yeah, * sigh *. I imagine quite a number of people can’t be bothered to download and/or burn a copy themselves, and so are willing to basically pay someone to do it for them.

I feel like I’ve mentioned Star Wars Despecialized a lot, such that anyone who has had any Star Wars-related conversation of any kind with me has heard me mention it at least once.

And at this point I kind of feel like–if someone says the original Original Trilogy is “hard to find and thank God for my copies on VHS”–as a fan, it makes me bummed and slightly irritated that they like it enough to complain about George but still aren’t interested enough to bother downloading PT fan edits and OT restorations.

I mean, sure, it’s all well and good to be annoyed about Star Wars being ruined if there was nothing you could do about it, but there is. And if I mention Star Wars Despecialized in real life, people’s reactions are almost always like “that’s cool. :” and become quickly disinterested in discussing it further. Like, they seem to be a fan, and that makes me excited to talk about it, but they really just wanted to vent a bit and move on. I have yet to have someone say “Hey, where can I find that? Can you burn me a copy?”

So I imagine a large portion of people who are actual fans and would be interested in obtaining a copy, are still altogether disinclined to make it themselves.