ImperialFighter said:
After being used to many years of high praise by so many fans around the world thanks to his much-loved trilogy, the negative backlash generated by his eventual prequel and ‘special edition’ efforts must have been uncomfortable for him. Although I owned the theatrical trilogy on laserdisc, I remember looking forward to the announcement of when it would finally hit the successful new dvd format at the time…but while loads of other lesser movies were appearing with reverential quality treatments, the Star Wars trilogy remained stubbornly unavailable on the format for years and years. That was the first of a series of dubious miss-steps, and instead, George eventually came up with his dissapointing prequel trilogy and awkwardly-tinkered-with OT versions.
He is the Maker and a legend.
He gets a pass from me on the prequels.
But - he picked a fight with his own fans on the Special Editions and his obstinate attempts to erase the OOT, so it’s hard to be totally sympathetic.
I’m convinced that people would be more generous to the PT had he not done that.