1. yub yub is good. It feels triumphant to me. The new one feels more like "hey, we did it. Let's go chill." And the old one worked because it was in the microcosm. The whole movie was this microcosm of a few people's lives travelling through this huge event, but you were always there in the microcosm. Likewise, yub yub fits the ewoks well, and stays in the microcosm. The galactic celebrations, the professional music and all; it's at odds with the microcosm mentality. Which, I think, is where the new movies might suffer. George is a microcosm kind of guy, and the two new movies try to capture the movement of the entire galaxy.

2. Even if Lucas meant to put scenes like Jabba in originally, maybe it turned out better. All of us here agree that maybe giving George the free reins doesn't give the best results

I prefer it out, and whether it was on purpose or due to limitations, we won back in '77 (or y'all did; I was still living as an egg back then).

3. Even the original trilogy isn't infallible. Like so many others, I have a love-hate relationship with the Ewoks. JUST IMAGINE that last scene taking place on Kashyyyk.

are you imagining it?

Yeah. Originally they were supposed to be wookies. Georgie decided that he liked wookies too much to have them solely in the last film (good call) so he made Han's copilot a wookie (another good call)(based on his pet Malamute) but then decided that two sets of wookies wouldn't work (augh! bad call! bad call!) and so cut the wookies in half and voila! Ewoks! Short cute wookies! I wouldn't have minded having another set of wookies, myself. But, at the same time, Ewoks now have a special place in my heart.

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In general, I don't like the SE's. George has developed this knack for making a really small change that has a huge effect on the film. And even though most of the changes are small, they completely change certain themes or atmospheres. And sure, I'm coming from the perspective of being raised on the old versions, but what's wrong with that? They were around for a long time, we all loved them, it made Georgie. Kinda thankless to turn his back on us now that he doesn't need us anymore.