Despite all the new junk coming out, I've found that it's delightfully easy to "go home." I pulled out my old P&S vhs copy of Star Wars a few days ago (pre-THX) and watched it all the way through. All the print imperfections, grain and bad colors didn't seem to distract me at all; in fact I think it helped me to go back in time for a couple hours. As far as I was concerned, it was a generation closer to the original. Surprisingly at no point did I really think about overall video quality, the prequels, or the special edition. It was just Star Wars. I'm starting to think that the older the transfer, your brain is quicker to accept the 70's/early 80's "look" after the first few minutes and just get into the story again.

Despite how much Lucas wants to shove his new vision of the Star Wars universe down our throats, we can always go back!