Here's another urban legend: I could swear on one of the old 'making ofs' (From Star Wars to Jedi?) George Lucas actually said something to the effect that he wanted his movies to be about people, and that the effects should not be the stars of the film. So what, George, did the Special Editions versions 1.0-3.0 add to the story of these all-important people? What new have we learned, other than that Greedo is a bad shot, and that Solo was in debt to Jabba? (Uhm...wait, we already knew that...)

Seems that you added nothing BUT effects, and you cut the ORIGINAL NEGS to do it! Baaaad move, because someday you are going to need HD bonus material for your HD ultradeluxe box set Mk. MCMLXII, and you are going to have a hard time piecing it all back together. Unless you really do have a laser-scanned 2K version of the '94 THX theatrical rereleases that you're sitting on, which you would have been stupid not to keep, no matter how many 5GB hard drives it would have required back then.

But then again, maybe that part of the interview was only in the novel...