I actually cannot remember the last time I watched the Special Editions.
I have started to watch Star Wars a few times, but end up turning it off and putting the OOT on instead.
I remember at a convention, Brian Blessed was talking about Sebastian Shaw. Brian asked him at one time what he was doing, and Sebastian said that he was filming something called Star Wars and was playing a charactor called Darth Vader or something ! Brian said to him how fantastic it was to be this cinematic villian, but Sebastian really had not a clue what a great role this was to be. I think it was something that he did in between stage work.