Heh, the last two posts kinda highlight something interesting to me:

How many times have we heard people say things like "Star Wars was great before it started sucking." It would be pretty easy to forgive the SE if Lucas remastered the OOT because there honestly wouldn't be anything left to complain about on that front. We would actually have both versions in the same presentation quality (1080p).

But there's always going to be that dichotomy between the OT and the PT. For one thing, Star Wars '77 was the last film George Lucas directed for two decades and he got different directors for Empire and Jedi. Some have argued that the man who stepped back into the director's chair for Episode I was a much different person from who we knew and loved. Visual Effects in the OT served the story, and even in the SE not every single shot had some sort of visual effect in it - far from it, in fact. The one big thing to take the edge off of "what might've been" for me is remembering that at least the OT was made first. The prequels - to me, anyway - will always be the prequels.