NeverarGreat said:

I agree that inconsistency in color gets in the way of appreciating the film, but if it was originally inconsistent, that should be preserved in some fashion, and the original inconsistency should be available for film historians, something that just doesn't exist at the moment for Star Wars, except in Despecialized. But I also want nice consistent colors across scenes, so if there was a way to have both versions, that would be the ideal situation. But it would require some amount of artistic interpretation, as there are some scenes with just two shots of differing colors for example. Which one is right? Is either one right, or is the actual color somewhere in the middle? These are tough questions that don't have easy answers.

I agree that have having both versions would be the best solution, I would personally watch the colour consistant version and the film historians would have the version that exactly replicates the colour of each reference frame, however inconsistant.

I don't think it would require a great deal of artistic interpretation for the colour consistant version though, using lightsources, fleshtones and if necessary set photos from the shoot as guides, they would greatly help in choosing a reference frame that looks the most correct for that location and then you can go with that same colour grading for the rest of the scene.