I think one of the problems I have with the SE is that they just can't replace the original. Star Wars will always be Star wars to me, and the SE will always be the SE: An altered version where they have added some cool stuff (and some not so cool stuff), but it can't replace the original. CGI may "look better" in some cases (Although I really think much of the CGI in the SE's was pretty apalling) but that isn't the point. If you readthe original novel, there are many things in it that don't concur with the movie. R2D2 has claws; Vader makes some comment about Tarkin being the Emperors lap dog. There were plenty of other differences but I haven't read it for a few years. Now, if Lucas went back and rewrote the novel to tie in with the movie, or to fit in with what he thinks it should be like now, would it replace the old one? Of course not. Would it be "better"? Well, the question is irrelevant, because it would be a completely different animal. What Lucas is proposing to do is the same thing. You can't pretend the original never existed. You can't tell me that the SE is better because it contains new and better effects. You could add a thousand explosions, make a planet filled entirely with dewbacks, make Jabba dance a jig for all I care, but it still wouldn't be "better" than the original, and it wouldn't replace it. It would be a different film, a Special Edition, a Directors cut, call it what you will. I would love to see these Ultimate editions when/if they happen, and the new footage if they have it. I love to see new additions to the Star Wars universe, hell I even got exited when a new cut scene appeared in "TIE Fighter". But I just don't want it to replace what is, and what always will be the original versions. Is that too much to ask? Apparantly so...