My attitude is quite simple. I don't like the special editions. I think the space scenes are an improvement and that is about all. I just don't like them. Now, GL is attempting to remove all memory of the OT, and claim that the SE IS starwars. But I don't LIKE the SE. Therefore despite a lifetime of fandom I find myself in the logical position of -not likeing starwars-. Now what the hell sense does that make? If the SE is the only starwars then strangely that does make sense. My feeling therefore, and I think it is shared by most people on this board, is that the SE is a NEW EDITION of starwars and not STARWARS in it's entirity. I would like the option of choice. It's a pretty reasonable request I think. I just want to see the films that I grew up with, not some half arsed, poor quality ill considered update.

I might not mind so much if it had been done WELL and sensitively, but it wasn't. In 10 years time the OT will still look like a damn good attempt at realism while the SE will look like what it is, and experimentation in technology that didn't even begin to look realistic till a good 5 years afterwards. That has been my beef with CGI so far, puppets and models actually look better in alot of cases. It is all boys playing with toys.
CGI really does seem to be comeing into it's own now, and I think in a number of years it will be pretty hard to tell the difference. Now if GL wants to mess around with SW at that time then I may even like the results, but I will always want to see MY starwars, the Original starwars that fans have loved and cherished for the last 25 years. What if GL said he hated SW altogether and wanted to burn the originals and recall all the videos and DVD's. Would you be so keen to defend his rights as the artist then?