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Well, nobody forced you to watch it and taint your memories... if they completely disintegrated, all the children (like we had been earlier) wouldn't be able to see the last 50% of the Star Wars Saga, and that's in my opinion all the worse than your tainted memories. You know how the old one's looked like and you are still able to watch 'em right now. So why don't u just try to do so and update your memories with the originals instead of the special edition? Make a cool "Retro" Star Wars Night (IV to VI) at home with some friends, popcorn and beer :-)

As I said before, I think the restored film is much more cleaned up than soiled further.

The SEs are IMHO quite good. If anyone of you would have seen the Making-Of, nobody would say that it's an amateur job! Well, yes, there are some scenes that could have been done better, but if you compare the almost destroyed old version with the recolored new special edition, you would notice that they really did a good job.
For example, Tatooine at the beginning of episode 4 is MUCH better than in the original version. Now what I am really missing is a better fight Obi Wan vs. Darth Vader or Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker, but it's impossible to replace those scenes with scenes like that.

Leaving the OTs untouched would have destroyed them completely, so restauration was required. New added scenes or not: As a whole I think the additions are good.

Talking about the prequels... huh, now that's another story and doesn't belong to the topic ^^

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"We should have been introduced to Bail Organa and Mon Mothma right off the bat, IMHO, since they will become fierce opponents of Palpitine later."

Oh com'on. If you want to have Bail Organa and Mon Mothma more introduced, check the deleted scenes. There you can find some scenes with them talking about Palpatine, right before they are going to take Palpatine to task. I really dunno why Lucas deleted these scenes... they probably fitted very well.