I personally loved to SE release in 1997, but it was for the reasons said before, I was just happy to see the Star Wars Trilogy in a theatre. I didn't get to see Star Wars in theatres during the original relase, being a little kid at the time, and was happy to see them. I even didn't mind the stupid Jabba scene in Star Wars put in and Jedi Rocks. It wasn't until I got the SEs on VHS that I really began to notice how bad the new scenes were.