It's safe to say most of us weren't kids when George Lucas started messing with Star Wars. I didn't really know much about the Special Editions until High School, and I was a Star Wars since I was 7. I kept to my CBS Fox trilogy and any other release was pointless to me until the DVD's came out. It was at that moment I realized, "This doesn't look right."

In the end, I didn't become disappointed with George Lucas until I became a video quality whore as a teenager, and got the 2004 box set.

I partially blame this site for pouring salt into my already gaping wound, but at the same time it made me aware to just how much had been messed with. I knew about the Ewok celebration, Hayden Ghost, and Mos Eisley crap, but it was the little things that made me even madder.

I am usually a fan of enhancements. Count me as one who thought the Blade Runner Director's Cut was amazing. It just felt unnecessary in Star Wars. If they had fixed blatant issues like garbage mattes, missing lasers, poorly rotoscoped sabers, I wouldn't have minded. Instead they opted to change things that were perfectly fine instead of the poorly done things.

Then George messes with the editing of Star Wars, which was what saved it from being just another crappy sci fi film. It's like he forgets that it was the editing that made his shitfest of a film, a contemporary classic. Now we have Jabba plopped in and CGI that distracts from the focus of each scene. The Dewback outside the cantina just roars for attention.