I’d defend Lucas the artist, the brilliant editor, creator and producer who brought us THX 1138, American Graffiti and Star Wars, not a new hope. But those movies he won’t even give us the originals of. Graffiti is the least tampered with of them at least, other than grain removal and a cgi sunset its the same film. THX is ruined, the cgi is horrible. The Star Wars Special Edition is neat as an alternative cut, but not in replacing the original, or rewriting history so Greedo always shot first, Hayden was always in ROTJ etc. He has destroyed his own movies and won’t let fans of Lucas the artist enjoy his films the way they were originally released. As brilliant and unperfect as they were. The one’s that proved he was a great editor and visualist. The prequels took the shine off his reputation so people say he was never a genius to begin with. I resent that honestly, but he had obviously changed and his changes in tastes and opinions was not to the audience liking and out of step with his previous works.