The original '70s and '80s releases.
55%
The 1997 "special editions."
13%
The 2004 DVD versions.
17%
Star Wars? Give me Trek.
15%
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You know I actually have a theory that old man Lucas purposefully fucked these films up so badly because he felt responsible for the impact that the saga had on us children of the seventies.
Stay with me now. My theory is that he got scared when "Jedi" and "the Force" started showing up in Census form reports and he saw the damage that obsessive Star Wars love was having on the lives, behaviour and relationships of the series most fervent fanatics and decided to do something to rectify the situation.
Tough love.
So he oversaw the woeful 'Special (as in special school) Editions' with so many horrible changes in order to break the trance.
But that tactic did not work, so he started work on his most ambitious project yet, a trilogy of terror. Three films so calculatedly bad that they were destined to wreak havoc on the fanbase. Surely after such films we would all see that Star Wars is justy badly written fluff to sell toys and videogames.
However even this tactic did not work as fan-love for the OT only increased with each new excreble prequel so he launched his final attack on his followers. The 2004 New Original Trilogy.
Surely this gambit would work, surely now Star Wars could indeed be pronounced dead.
So that is my theory. It's either that, or Lucas is an actual deity.
This second theory arises out of the crazy defenses that the beaten-wife-syndromesque Lucas Apologists come up with.
"Who are you to question His will?"
"He is the Creator and He can do whatever He wants to His galaxy."
"Everything He does He does for a reason."
"All of His decisons are divine and unquestionable."
"Every one of His creations is perfect and full of unknowable majesty and wonderment."
"This was all part of His plan from the beginning."
"He is just testing our loyalty and devotion to Him."
"When bad things happen to good Star Wars fans it's just because they didn't really believe in Him strongly enough."
Pfeh...
The good thing about this Earthly deity is that you can track Him down and punch Him in the gut when He pisses you off.