might want to add the facebook page to the first post. More reports:
Cue the commenters! From the Badass Digest post:
"If this is real, it offends me more than any of the other changes [Lucas] made to the OT [original trilogy] up until this point."
"Good God. What is wrong with that man?"
"I don't have a Blu-ray, so I was never going to buy this, but now I wonder if there is a way to ANTI-buy something." [That one is my favorite.]
"That smarmy bastard will get no more of my money."
And so it goes, over and over, year upon year, as George Lucas makes everyone really mad, and then the new editions of the movies are purchased anyway, and the love-hate, push-pull, will-they-or-won't-they (oh, they will) relationship that he has with his fans continues to be one of our weirdest cultural phenomena.
This person doesn't understand the difference between 'Original Trilogy' and...
And those aren’t the only alleged changes. (Using the word alleged here because I don’t have my copy of “Star Wars: The Original Trilogy” yet and cannot independently verify what the Digest blogger says he has confirmed.)
Of course, all of this fury overshadows the pre-existing fury about the fact that Lucas still refuses to issue the non-special-edition versions of the film on Blu-ray. But maybe Skywalker loyalists are so accustomed to their anger over that abomination that they’ve reached the acceptance stage and moved on.
(Just kidding. They totally haven’t.)