Crygor64 said:
Akwat Kbrana said:
Crygor64 said:
I am a complete purist. I think the very idea of adding new scenes, new effects, etc makes you just as bad as George Lucas. It also undermines the very reason they created this forum.
*George must sit back and laugh when he sees the most popular topic on this forum isn't the petition, but rather a fan edit that is basically "the extra special edition."
*(assuming he's actually seen this forum)
I was going to give you a detailed explanation as to why the two cases aren't even remotely comparable, but I thought better of it. If you're too dense to figure it out on your own, then why bother?
You were going to, but you couldn't. That's the real truth. I'm sure you're smart enough to understand the irony created by the popularity of the Adywan Fan Edits on this forum.
*sigh* Ok, I'll bite.
The flaw in your reasoning stems from this kind of thinking:
The entire point of this web site was to preserve the original trilogy. And that's mainly because most of us were disgusted with the changes made by George Lucas. Some of us feel art should remain consistent to its original vision. Adding your own changes makes you just as bad as George Lucas, if not worse. (At least he can say "they're my films.")
As it happens, most of us were disgusted with the SE changes, but that's not the main reason this web site was created. This website was created because George Lucas actively buried the theatrical versions, and took measures to revise cultural history by replacing them with his new improved versions. Most of us see that move as disgusting, not the concept of a SE in and of itself (as Chewtobacca aptly stated). Now presumably, if George went ahead and released the OOT in acceptable quality, none of us would give a rat's ass whether or not he continued to sell the SE OT as well. Because nobody would then be foisting the revised versions on us. The SE fans would watch their versions, we would watch our versions, and all would be well.
But whereas the SE's have become the means by which George suppresses the OOT, the same cannot be said of Adywan's Revisited edits. They're just another fun (and more impressively executed) alternative to the SE OT, if one is so inclined to watch something like that. You obviously aren't that kind of person. Ok, so don't download them, don't watch them, and quit whining. No one's forcing you to watch Revisited. Adywan isn't replacing the OOT with his versions as George Lucas has, so the two cases aren't parallel in the least.
Furthermore, Adywan's ESB theatrical reconstruction is the closest facsimile we have of the original film in reasonable quality, so you should be grateful for his efforts if you really care about the plight of the OOT. For my part, I wish him luck with both his Revisited edits as well as his planned ANH reconstruction.