Lucas would be happy if everyone believed there never was a version where Han just blasted Greedo.

I guess it’s the perfectionist in him. I just don’t see him ever acknowledging multiple versions the way Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner and Terry Gilliam with Brazil. I actually wish he would be sort of a Star Wars ambassador, kind of like Stan Lee was with Marvel. I think some of the fan backlash from the prequels and special editions really got to him. Imagine if he got the level of social media blitz that Rian Johnson received.

I have the Harmy discs, and I’m very happy with them, so my need to see the unaltered Original Trilogy is satisfied. But I am somewhat of an idealist myself, and I would like the original versions preserved for posterity. I don’t want someone in the future to look up Star Wars and view the special editions any more than I would want to see a special edition of Citizen Kane. I want to see what they saw back then, and I want people years from now to be able to see what all the hype was about in 1977.

I suppose all this is extremely redundant on a site like this, but somehow I never get tired of talking about it.