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CatBus
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When/Why did you become an OT purist?
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2-Dec-2012, 1:12 PM

I guess I could add that between my "lite" purist phase (I like the originals better, but no big deal, and I even tolerated the pre-97 crawl/flyover/audio revisions, even though I didn't much like them) and my "hardcore" purist phase (made subtitles in 24 languages and made some of my own audio tracks to make sure the originals lived forever, even made a commentary track over the 77 mix so I could pretend the 93 revisions never happened), I went through a period from say 2001 to 2011 where I was willing to just let Star Wars die.  I didn't watch the trilogy for around a decade, and didn't see much point in disappointing myself by trying (I know several fans still in this phase).

Then my first kid started approaching the age where I'd want to show him Star Wars, and there simply wasn't anything commercially available worth showing him (and still isn't).  So I came here looking for nothing more than a simple cleaned-up anamorphic GOUT transfer, found a hell of a lot more, and the rest is history.  I'm now pretty sure I'll do private theatrical showings for friends on a regular basis to do my part in keeping Star Wars alive.