Well, like I said before, as a kid who didn't see the original Star Wars until 1997 when I was about seven, and was, from then on, raised with the SE and had only just seen the originals again through fan preservations a year or so ago; I can say without a doubt that the originals are far superior.

For a long time I was an SE apologist, because that's really all I'd ever known. I remember hearing the "Yub Nub" song at a friend's house when I was 9 or so and thinking it was weird because I'd never heard it before, the version I owned had all these cool celebrations and better music and stuff! I remember feeling smugly superior to all the people with their outdated and lame original cuts, whereas I had the enhanced and cleaned version with cool new things.

Then I grew up and was introduced to this whole movement, for awhile, I resisted because I didn't fully grasp the whole idea that film history was being destroyed. Thankfully, I am now confident that I am in the right camp. I realized after watching Adywan's ESB preservation that the movie was just... better like that. I dunno what it was. The flow was better? I'm not sure. There's just something about the no-frills presentation of the unaltered cuts that enhances the story being presented.

I think that, left to their own devices to become Star Wars fans on their own, like I was, that kids of all ages will eventually gravitate to the OT, and from there to the OUT. All of my Generation Y friends agree with me, and I have faith that the next generation will also see the light.

It's still jarring for me to watch ESB and see the cave pan over to Luke hanging upside-down instead of the SE wampa, though.