msycamore said:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/01/whos-replacing-george-lucas-at-lucasfilm

"I also care deeply about our fans and it was important to have someone who would carry on the passion and care that I've given the films over the years."

"Care deeply about his fans", give me a break.

Sure, if he really have given the films this passion and care over the years, why did a film collector need to save his ass back in the '90's when he couldn't find a print of Star Wars in good condition for his so called "restoration". Why is the original negative deteriorated, why are the color separation masters incomplete. Why does he refuse to provide The National Film Registry with prints. Why oh why doesn't he let a true restoration happen?

Lucas: "You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally." "It’s a very, very expensive process to do it."

But the passion and care is there, right?

Oh come on dude----Star wars was incredibly popular----that meant that the original camera negative(OCN) was used extensively to create "new prints" from 1977 to 1981(long before any thoughts were given to preservation)

It is pretty much symptomatic of the era----the OCN of Taxi Driver, The Godfather and Jaws are in woeful condition too------so much so that the OCN of the Godfather cannot even be passed through a pin registered mechanism anymore without falling apart(but Coppola does not get the type of vitriolic hate that is often attribued to Lucas because of it)----whilst Taxi Driver and Jaws exibited severe tears in certain areas ------which have been fixed in their respective digital scans------but the the actual physical negatives are fucked.