Vaderisnothayden said:
That's the OT. The OT has a right to be revisionist. Other stuff, coming along years later, does not. The OT was made in basically one long creative period from the mid 70s down to 1983. It is also the main Star Wars material. Other stuff that is secondary material and/or comes along much later (years after the original Star Wars creative period was over) does not have the same license to take liberties with the story.

Well, I'm sure someone like Anchorhead would probably disagree and say that only the original Star Wars is the "main Star Wars material" and the sequels took liberties with the story that it shouldn't have. I'm not saying you're wrong, or that the prequels were right. I'm just saying that there are other viewpoints out there. Our generally collective viewpoint about the OT is just a viewpoint, and there's nothing really that makes our point of view more valid than anyone else's. I believe that our viewpoint is better than the viewpoint of the PT gushers, but that doesn't make it so. And I love the OT, but I can see the flaws it has, particularly the ones created through the revisionism that the sequels laid into it. Do I accept them and like them? Yes. And to a much lesser extent I enjoy the prequels, but I acknowledge the flaws and continuity holes in all of them. I can't give the OT a pass just because I prefer it and because its revisionism (mainly) got through much more successfully.