adywan said:

The one thing that really pisses me off though is how the SE's and the PT have split the star wars fandom so much, thanks to Lucas' burial of the OUT. There was never this kind of hatred present within the fan base before all this happened, starting in 1997. You have the PT/ SE gushers on one side and the hard line OUT fans on the other, with the rest of us somewhere in the middle core, but still managing to battle between each other. It use to be fun being a Star Wars fan but now it's just so damn hard work.

What's sad is I'm sure Lucas had no idea that would happen and probably even regrets it. (And could make it go away with a simple catalog blu-ray at the same effort level as SUDDEN IMPACT). But he's so dug in and entrenched now. Reminds me of The Departed: " I'm fuckin' Irish, I'll deal with something being wrong for the rest of my life."