Fascinating little snippet. I wonder if it’s sort of all fun and games until it happens to oneself, as his sentiment about looking forward to seeing how people ostensibly remix existing films using the Internet did not seem to carry over into The Phantom Edit.
I mean, did Lucas ever publicly complain about that? I haven’t seen every one of his interviews, but it seems like he stayed fairly quiet when it came to the prequel editing scene. Plus, he clearly took the main selling point of that edit to heart by drastically reducing Jar-Jar’s presence in AOTC.