My dad urged me to come see the 1997 re-release of Star Wars. He liked the original, while having no interest in ESB or ROTJ.

So I figured I’d give this Star Wars thing a go, and went to a used comic, video game, movie, and book store to look for the movies. They had a lot of Star Wars books, which I wasn’t really interested in. The only Star Wars movie they had was the original, on an old VHS. I bought if for $8, took it home, and popped it in. The picture quality was relatively poor, and there were no updated special effects. It was charmingly crappy to me.

I’d watched every movie in my collection dozens and dozens of times to the point of memorizing every line of dialogue. Why should Star Wars be any different? I followed my natural inclination to watch it repeatedly.

Having little money, there was no chance back then to buy any more Star Wars movies, so that was the only one I had.

Needless to say, I fell in love with it. Later when I did buy the VHS pack for the Special Editions, something was missing. It wasn’t quite as magical as the original. Another problem I had with that pack was that ESB and ROTJ felt like unnecessary continuations of the first. They were newer, updated, but were somehow empty when set beside my single, old VHS copy.

That, my friends, is how a certain fan that wasn’t even alive in 1977 arrived at the same mindset most posters on this forum are at.

So what’s your story?