CatBus said:
Better, yes--obviously. But we'd still be here complaining that the 1981 crawl made things worse for no good reason (curse you, Lucas!), that Lowry was still screwing up the transfers to home video, that the mono mix wasn't available (curse you, Lucas!), there'd be a fan restoration attempt to re-create the unavailable 70mm cut of Empire (curse you, Lucas!), and there'd be a healthy argument about whether or not Jedi was actually any good. The internet was made for complaining, we must allow it to fulfill its purpose. In other words, if we lived in such a wonderful world, we wouldn't even realize we had it so good.
I think the SW franchise is a lot worse off than the Superman franchise, and I only really like one Superman movie, and the theatrical cut at that. At least I was able to buy an ultra-deluxe Superman boxed set and throw away all of the discs except one, to get the movie I actually wanted. No such option with Star Wars.
What I meant to say that both franchises only have two good films each, and has sucked ever since. The OT used to be sacred, a trio of masterpieces that were meant to be the high point of cinema. Not the idol is smashed to pieces, and I can't get used to it.
On a side note, I have to hate Jackson's LOTR trilogy now in light of the Hobbitt films. God damn it.