yoda-sama said:
It is kind of a shame, if you really think about it, that people around Star Wars fans only tend to hear the negative things we rant about the films, rarely getting insight as to what we love about the originals...
Yeah, that's exactly it. I've really never, to my knowledge, complained about the Special Editions in front of my kid, but kids are pretty astute about picking up things like that--and apparently mine did, from me or someone else. Certainly from his initial reaction he expected Star Wars to be a sucky movie with dumb dinosaurs in it. And that's exactly the opposite of what he saw!
Anyway, thanks Harmy. I know it must be kinda weird hearing about people's only experience with Star Wars being your reconstructions (never seen in the theatre, never seen VHS, never seen GOUT, just the DeEd's), but be very proud that they are good enough to serve such a valuable purpose for future generations!