You can change things about something but as long as the underlying tone is still the same, you'll react in the same way regardless of how it looks. It's the same for Star Wars. He's changed it visually (like painting the bike) and in some ways, not for the better (gratuitous CG work, Greedo shooting first) but under it all, the original trilogy (to me) is still the same. I still enjoy watching it now as I did then, even more so with the Adywan revision.

Where I'd consider the 'raping of my childhood' to be anything as true, it would have to do with showing the secrets before you were old enough to understand it. Magic, for instance, is an area where I have a wish to know how they did it, but lose interest as soon as I knew how. As a kid, revealing the magic as being nothing more than plastic and sticky tape is tantamount to 'raping the childhood', but making changes (yourself) isn't.

We're at the point where Lucas has decided to change his own story to suit his needs. I don't agree with it and I think the backstory for the prequel trilogy was extremely misconceived and poorly executed. If anything, it's raping his own childhood as he's the one making the changes and denying the past. We still have our own memories of the original version whereas he is the one denying it ever existed.

You can change as much as you like, but it'll be the same underneath and as long as you remember that, it will never change. Enough of us have the original version in some form, so it's not like it's a lost-forever piece of movie making - it's only lost to Lucas (if, indeed, he's actually lost the original...)

I'm not sure if I make sense or whatever...it is my opinion.