Mr Ghostface said:

Oh, I wasn't offering suggestions for ANH:R, I was just pointing out that it's not all that special and some of the praise Adywan gets for it seems to be borne of an ignorance of how much simpler this is to do than a lot of people realise. And didn't he say that the new CG stuff isn't even his, that another guy did it. I'm not saying this to pull him down; it's more that I feel other editors don't get the same praise when their editing skills are just as good, and some of them are definitely more seamless than Adywan's.

My feelings on this is that fanedits pretty much suck. I have yet to really see any that I really liked, or felt actually improved the film in some way. Fan editing is also incredibly easy to do, not sure how much praise it really deserves.

Throughout the whole editing process, I never had much interest in Ady's project, but when I saw the final project, I was quite impressed. It is obvious the man sunk a lot of time into his project, and the result is a really well polished modernization of Star Wars. Personally, I'll take the old 1977 version any day of the week, I still feel about Ady's edit as I feel about other DCs and SEs. But I still cannot deny what impressive work this man has done, and how dedicated he was to it with all the time and effort he spent.

Maybe you are right, maybe he does receive far too much praise and that there are other editors out there who have done equally impressive work and deserve more attention. If this is the case, I have not had the fortune of seeing their fine works. That sucks for me, because I have spend a good deal of time acquiring edits I thought would be cool after hearing others praise them, only to go sit down and watch how awful they are, and what a fine job of butchering the film they do.

All I can say, is out of all the many fan edits I have watched over the years, Ady's is, by a MASSIVE leap, by far the finest craftsmanship I have seen.