MJPollard said:

I don't believe this. You're equating removing visible wires (which doesn't alter anything one little bit) to what Lucas did to create the SEs? That fixing mistakes that don't make one single bit of difference to the film is some sort of "blasphemy"? Please tell me I'm wrong before I start accusing you of being out of your goddamn minds.

I'm afraid I'm with Warbler on this one. There's original - and there's not original. There aren't varying degrees. I always go out of my way to get original. The ONLY time I've ever made an exception is American Graffiti. I hate the title card change, but it's a top ten film for me so I took what I could get. Had there been digitally altered scenes, I would have passed.