For me, the PT is not the story that comes before the OOT and that is why it annoys me so much. The characters are different (Obi-Wan, Yoda, Vader, Palpatine), the story doesn't quite mesh with the OOT (Padme dying too soon, backgrounds of the droids) and the PT just doesn't share the look and feel of the OOT. It doesn't convince me as the first three parts of the same story.

This is why Luca$h has felt the need to do more on the SEs than just digital remastering and upgrading a few effects shots.

BTW, Mike O, I believe that Kasdan's Wyatt Earp is more faithful to the facts of Earp's life. It certainly depicts more of Earp's life, both before and after his career as a Marshall, than Cosmatos' Tombstone. I would suppose that, whoever started that joke, feels that Tombstone is the more involving film of the two because it goes for action and high drama rather than slavish depiction of history. I don't agree with that analysis of Wyatt Earp. I think it is as good a western as Tombstone but without that film's more gratuitously violent edge. I also think Kostner and Quaid are a far better Earp and Holliday than Russell and Kilmer. Although I think few measure up to Lancaster and Douglas in that regard.