I saw Star Wars when I was 6 or 7 at the cinema. I never looked forward to a film more than the release of Empire. Because Lucas is an adult and a businessman I don't think he saw how he was meddling with people's nostalgia and very emotional attachment to the OT which had help establish Lucasfilm's own empire in the first place. Plus he probably doesn't care much for Marcia's authorship of the edit. I think the PT is almost a self acknowledgement of his own path, no matter how poorly executed I believe the direction to be. It does make Vader a far more interesting character, but it also introduces co-incidence as a dramatic device ... which sucks. Anyway, if Lucas could bring himself to restore and release the OT in its original form on HD or SD then this sucker would be (re)buying it (my VHS copies are long gone).