Star Wars conversation with a friend a few months ago…
Me: “If you want to watch the original trilogy the way we saw it as kids I have the “Despecialized” versions without the cgi in HD…”
Friend: “Naw, man. When I want to watch the originals I’ve got my old VHS tapes, and they still work fine.”
(He points over at a shelf, I notice they’re the fullscreen Special Edition tapes, I scream internally.)
This right here begins and ends the argument for why all versions should be officially preserved in a future release.
For some people, the “original version” still ain’t the original.