ESB (cropped 16:9 2011 version) was on TV last night and I thought, what the hell, I'll gave it watch. I enjoyed it in a way that I haven't since my early teens. I got totally lost in the story, characters and JW's music.

All the Boba redubbing, added nonsense, pink lightsabers and miscolouring (I adjusted my set a bit to compensate) would normally have just depressed me, made me grind my teeth in anger and brought me right out of enjoying the story. Somehow this time I was able to largely ignore them.

On reflection I decided it must be because of the work of people like Harmy and Adywan who are hard at work restoring and recreating ESB. So the version I just watched felt like just that, a "Version" like when we watched the original 97SE. The fact that at anytime I could stick on a copy of the Despecialzed Edition and soon a copy of ESB:R, made it much easy to watch (Also the prospect of a new OT-centric ST, made the prequels much easier to forget).

So thanks Adywan (and Harmy) for making Star Wars watchable again!