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Post #177799

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Scruffy
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I actually prefer the DVDs and can't wait for more edits, seriously.
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Date created
5-Feb-2006, 9:08 PM
The main version I will always watch will be the official DVDs, until Lucas updates them even further.
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I really don't need any of the fan edits, they are perfect the way they are now, the newest versions.


Does ... not ... compute.

If they are perfect now, why would you watch any further updates, which are necessarily worse than what you've got now? From a philosophical standpoint, you've identified the platonic ideal of Star Wars. Anything else falls onto a continuum between that, and not-Star-Wars. Since you've got the platonic ideal now, the next version of the trilogy will be somewhere else on that continuum, it won't be the endpoint. It won't be the perfection you've got now. Willfully going from perfection to imperfection is, in Christianity, the Original Sin. It's also damned irrational. From an economics standpoint, you're saying that you've got zero demand for something, but you're going to buy it anyway. And once you've got it, it'll actually have a negative utility value, so it'll make you feel bad when you watch it. And you'll have less wealth. It's like you're some kind of Lucasian ascetic, giving your money to the rich and flogging yourself in the middle of an otherwise pleasant day.