Frank your Majesty said:

Now seriously, the Plinkett review is adressing the same thing in the context of the prequels. I agree with that.

I agree with many things that guy said. I think his sense of humor is really lame though, and I tend to like crass humor. My main problem is that, in addition to his solid points, he gets so nitpicky that most films wouldn't hold up to the standard he has. Certainly not the OT in some cases. Seems like he really wanted to buffer the review out to whatever unholy length it ended up being.

Anyway, of course I agree with Dre. I forget where I heard this (maybe Mike V's video?), but apparently the original plan for the SE was just to clean up the first film and fix/redo the vaseline speeder Mos Eisley shot (without dinosaurs). If that had happened, I'd probably watch that version as my go-to. In part because my views on film revising would be much more relaxed, and because that shot does look awful.