That's what I've found interesting ever since talk started of a 30th anniversary "saga" boxset. The OT will be shat upon that much more by being lumped into Lucas's chronological place for them after the prequels. Granted, this has already happenned to an extent with the '04 boxse which was designed more or less with the same packaging design as the prequels, but even then there was at least a classic design motif for the actual box, not to mention the docs and commentaries. That's what's so wierd about the '04 set and the SE in general. It's always had this strange feeling of honoring or looking back to the original films without actually presenting them, giving us the latest revision instead. I thought to myself the other day that if we actually do get our wish and the OOT is remastered, film professors and students alike will find the revision and preservation on Lucas and the fans' parts, respectively, to be a worthy and interesting subject to discuss.

In a perfect world, the prequels would still not be included in this '07 boxset and it would include only the remastered OOT in anamorphic video and 5.1 audio. What WB did with the Batman movies in their latest release I find interesting. The '89-'97 movies were given new transfers and made available for sale both individually and in a boxset. Batman Begins was not included and was sold seperately even though it was being released on dvd at about the same time. The Superman Boxsets are a whole nother story. There was the Christopher Reeve collection that had the four movies that were also available individually (ala the Batman boxset), and there was also the "Ultimate" boxset that had all of that plus Superman II: Donner Cut, Superman Returns and more. Even then, the Superman Ultimate set is a different story than what the '07 Star Wars set will probably turn out to be. Batman Begins was omitted from any larger collection because it's intented as a reboot whereas Superman Returns is a sequel and very much meant to be grouped with the other Superman movies and therefore included in the boxset along with the others. But ever since the thought of a "saga" boxset entered my mind I just couldn't see it in an non-wierd way. The "saga order" would be the only way to watch it, and I suppose by the time it's released Lucas won't care at all about the movies' original context and it'll simply be The Star Wars Saga (2007) and not The Phantom Menace ('99/'01), Attack of the Clones ('02), Revenge of the Sith ('05) etc.

An optimistic view is that the 9/12 release really was a "testing the waters" and Lucasfilm will have the remastered OOT all ready to go this year now that they know people want it. Maybe LFL really is that fucking clueless and needed dollar sign proof, but I find it hard to believe. They probably just want us to hate them that badly. What would be the respectable thing to do? Give the OOT Criterion-level treatment with extras related to those films and not the prequels or anything else. Any further speculation from me is pointless until some sort of ot,fficial announcement is made.