Originally posted by: marioxb
OK, but movies are meant to be FUN! And to a lot of us, the prequels are. My girlfriend only saw them in Lucas' intended order and loved them. Well she's in love with Hayden and calls me Anakin and has me call her Padme sometimes, but that's beside the point. I know he did have some backstory planned, and if wasn't exactly the same as what we saw, so what? He knows this and he enjoys his own movies, so why can't we?
Look, the prequels were already made. We can't change that. Same with the OT. I guess Lucas could have digitally changed Hayden's (and Jake Lloyd's) eye color to be the same as Sebastion Shaw's, but wouldn't that be a lot more work than changing something that's only on screen for two seconds? Now Yoda in TPM NEEDS to be changed. So there's a PT change to accomidate the OT, it does work both ways.
You gotta admit the changes to the OT to fit the PT are all very minor and are only on the screen for no more than 5 minutes tops. (even if you add up all the changes together it won't total more than five minutes (Krayt dragon call, Boba Fett's 3 lines, Emperor scene in ESB/ unmasking/ ghost/ Naboo and Jedi Temple in celebration). Am I missing anything? The other changes had nothing to do with the PT.
What would you have done differently? Obviously since at least 1980 there were plans to someday make 1-3. How would YOUR episodes 1-3 have gone down?
Lucas' intended order? Man, that's twisted. I can shut that notion down in one sentence. If it was Lucas' intended order, he would have made the films in that order. Case closed.
I see what you're saying with regards to the changes working both ways, though, but here's the argument from 'our' side. The PT, having come after the OT, should have been based heavily upon the OT. That means that if Lucas used Shaw to play Anakin in Return of the Jedi, he should have picked actors that looked at least vaguely like him (I though Lake Lloyd, did, but his performance did suck whether it was his fault or not), and if not, used things like contact lenses and hair colouring to get things accurate. Now, I personally (and I'm sure I can speak for a lot of people on this forum) LOVE the OT films just the way they were, so why should I have to sacrifice the integrity of my favourite films because George Lucas can't be bothered to give PT actors contact lenses? Or, moreover, why can't we have the OT films that we loved on an officially released DVD at least alongside the version with the changes, if not on its own? The answer is basically because George Lucas was too careless in his handling of the PT (and I'm talking about more than just eye colour here), is covering his tracks by making changes to these films that we loved as they were, and so now the errors made in creating the PT have compounded to affect the OT films which we loved in their original form. So, above and beyond anything else, it is the frustration that the classic OT films should suffer needlessly because a) Lucas was too careless in his treatment of the prequels, and b) he insists on remedying these mistakes through changing things other than the mistakes themselves, all in the name of 'original vision'. Eye colour was merely an example here, but can you see the argument? I'm not asking you to agree, necessarily, just understand...
P.S. I rewrote (and I mean, pretty much, from scratch) the screenplays to Episodes I and II and put them up here, and I am in the process of rewriting Episode III, which I will finish when I return from the US. So, I am not a 'hater' (hate that term) that just sits there and complains and points fingers, I've actually taken action to demonstrate that things can be different, and, in my opinion, better. 
