Great thread - thanks! It’s both entertaining and extremely frustrating at the same time. It’s interesting to note (in one of the Kurtz links you provide) that the whole ‘Joseph Campbell’ connection has supposedly been blown out of proportion by GL as well.

It saddens me to say that I work with a few young SW fans that really don’t care that there was ever an ‘unaltered’ version of the films. In this regard Lucas seems to have succeeded with his revisionism. Still, hopefully threads like this will help to keep the flame alive. Thanks again!