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I'm trying not to watch George Lucas interviews. They make me feel sorry for him.
I agree. He always looks so pathetic trying to defend his crummy views and fend off all the harsh questions by "picky" fans; you do kind of feel sorry for him.
After all, he had poured enormous amounts of money into these films, thinking he was doing the right thing and restoring them and making them better. It's no wonder to me that he doesn't want to release the original versions right away, actually; he's still irritated that we didn't like his improved versions. That we like the "flawed" versions insults him as a filmmaker. Therefore, his reasoning is that he must not have made it perfect enough; he must not have made it tie in well enough with the new movies. "Aha!" Lucas thinks. "They didn't like my Jabba scene because the computer animation wasn't good enough. Wait until they see this!" What he might not realize is that our problems with the scene are not solely with the computer graphics, but with its redundancy.
Wild speculation!