TV's Frink said:

I remember the 97 SE fondly, but it had more to do with the experience of seeing it in the theater after all those years.

I agree with ^. It was a great experience at the time, but really the SEs suck.

For me the 1999-2002 time frame killed Star Wars - terrible films and terrible EU at the same time. A partial resurrection followed with the two KOTOR games, but ROTS came along and essentially nuked the franchise from orbit.

These blu-rays are essentially Lucas desecrating Star War's corpse.