I saw all the SEs in the theaters when they came out, and I was excited about seeing each and everyone of them. I really liked them alot. Having been a fan of the old ones for so long, new extended footage and minor changes was a fun new way to experience the trilogy. As soon as they came on VHS I bought them. I had my faces set box set, and I have my SE set. They sat quite nicely together in the entertainment center. Now I generally hate the SE, and I cringe at the thought of it. Why? Because back then my faces box set and my SE set sat together quite nicely in the entertainment center. Now I have been told that I can only have the SEs take them or leave them. My VCR eventually died, and my old box sets were boxed away and placed in the basement, but there were no official DVDs anywhere to be seen, when there finally were they were exclusively the SE, eeerr, I mean, no they wern't, they were whole new versions all together, none of which I had ever seen before or had any fondness for. So why would I buy them?

I liked the SE. I really enjoyed them. It wasn't until I was told that the old films I grew up with "didn't exist anymore" that I started holding a grudge against them.