xhonzi said:

Judge me how you will:

This whole conversation has made me realize that while I feel and understand the need to preserve these films as they were, I care MORE about my being able to enjoy them.

I think that being too hung up on *exact* replication of the an idealised original condition misses the point a bit of what these films were first and foremost meant for - to entertain. I do find it incredible to consider that some would even go as far to boycott the holy grail of Star Wars fandom because its not 100% identical to an impossible to achieve ideal. Its all about balance. I say, in a restoration, the goal is, improve whatever you can but stay true to the spirit of the piece. Star Wars reduced to a sterile technical excercise - that makes me feel even more ill than Lucas's over the top revisionism.

I would prefer the films to be full of life and entertainment, not become the cinematic equivalent of Lenin's corpse.