A lot of people say GL ruined the movies by making the prequels and SEs (raped their childhoods), but I just consider them EU material. I don't know why people say they can't look at SW the same way again after the PT and SE. GL was a smarter filmaker when he did the OT but lost touch and gained more control over the years showing his truer colors. When I watch the OT I can't imagine Hayden as Darth Vader or any of the events shown in the PT as canon. If GL did get away with taking the OOT out of the general public then I weould feel that way if I had to live with te '04 DVDs. But as far as the creator... or one of the creators, as I like to call him, becoming a madman destroying his creation, I've had years of fun reading anti-Lucas stuff and being a Lucas basher on the internet so I don't really mind him becoming a senile, apathetic man. Although I do not wish he had that attitude with us and the OOT. But yeah, outside of TFN users, I don't anybody really takes the PT seriously. They're different kinds of films. It was an odd direction for GL to take. They don't work together, they're too different.