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Post #449876

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ChainsawAsh
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Info Wanted: ANH.....Revisited or Purist???
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Date created
23-Oct-2010, 9:48 PM

Here's the thing, Crygor:

I don't care if Lucas wants to keep changing his movies.  Some of the changes he makes are good, some are bad, but he can change it as much as he wants.  I don't, as you say, "condemn George for making changes."

The reason I'm here is because he won't allow the original version to be available in decent quality.  That's the point of this site.  You seem to think it's an anti-SE site, but it's not.  It's a pro-preservation site.  That's what I condemn - the suppression of the originals.

Hell, one of the preservation sets I'm most looking forward to is a preservation of the 1997 SE, because I haven't seen it in at least six years.  Yes, I also believe George should make that version available in decent quality.

Now what Adywan is doing is not replacing the originals.  It's making an alternate version that you can choose to watch, or choose not to watch.  Which is exactly what the Special Editions should be, but aren't, because George won't release the originals.

But hey, guess what else Adywan has done?  He's released a high-quality DVD of the theatrical cut of Episode I, which has never been available on DVD.  He's also released a high-quality DVD reconstruction of the theatrical cut of Empire, which looks substantially better than the 2006 GOUT DVD.  He's doing much of what Lucas should be doing - giving us cool, alternate versions with new effects to keep things fresh, while keeping the original versions available in comparable quality so that the alternate versions stay just that - alternates, not replacements.

TL;DR = Pretty much what Bingowings said, but slightly longer