This thread has so much irony in it, because in one sense because of ESB's greatness, it has opened the door to most of us being OT fans from 77-83. If ESB were anywhere near the quality of ROTJ, SW would have died off and it would have been the predictable movie series: Classic Original, inferior sequels. But ESB defied the odds, and is one of the greatest sequels of all-time, so it gives the SW series that rare 1-2 punch of greatness.

But the downer to the success of ESB is that it gave Lucas total power of SW for the future, because remember he didn't own the rights to SW'77, only the sequels. So what did we get after the success of ESB? Ewoks and a pretty good ROTJ, that is only watched by most of us cause it caps of the trilogy. We then get the SE with Greedo shooting first, Hayden in ROTJ, and the OOT MIA, relegated to Laserdisk quality. We get TPM with Jar Jar & Jake Lloyd, we get the AOTC romance, and then we get the horrid ROTS with the dumbest reason for Anakin to turn after all the years. Throughout that we get EU crap, Ewoks cartoons, Droids cartoons, and now more TV shows to milk the cow. All because ESB defied the odds and changed a generation of movie fans already changed after 1977 and the first SW movie.

In saying that, if Lucas could remaster the OOT for DVD or HD in the future, all that post1983 crap I could deal with, cause I can totally forget about. But as long as I don't have a decent quality OOT to watch on my HDTV, I don't think it was all worth it.