Originally posted by: CO
Anchorhead and Obi Jeewhyen please keep posting cause as much as I love the OT, I always appreciate fans who just love Star Wars from 1977, and never bought into the larger story from day one. I really think it is the characters of Luke, Leia, and Han that made me an OT fan, not the way Lucas went with the story, cause there is nothing that beats the Original SW.

I'm with Anchorhead in a lot of ways, in that Star Wars is and has always been my favorite film, as well as the one that really matters to me. Had Empire and Jedi never happened, I would still be as big a fan as I am now (perhaps bigger, even?). Though I do really like Empire, and a certain amount of Jedi, nothing stirs my imagination and sense of adventure like the original Star Wars does. All of what makes the story great is encompassed in that one film.

I do make some allowances for the Star Wars Holiday Special, horrifying as it is, since that is in some ways an extension (or perhaps more like a hangnail?) of the original Star Wars film.

--SKot