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Letting go of Star Wars
Futurama executive producer (and formerOnion writer) Dan Vebber writes about watching a bootleg DVD of the old cut and offered another take on why the tinkering made so many angry:
IMHO, all this fan frustration comes from people who recognize that they will never in their lives produce anything as perfect as the original cut of Star Wars. So we’re pissed at Lucas because he was lucky enough to have produced One Perfect Thing, and now he just keeps fucking with it and ruining it. It hurts us as artists to see this happening. The good news is, those of us who are nerdy enough to be pissed off by Lucas’s tinkering are also nerdy enough to have a good copy of the original film before he started ruining it. So really, what are we bitching about, exactly? Let him release his piece-of-shit Blu-Rays. I know what Obi Wan’s Krayt dragon call is supposed to sound like. My kids will grow up knowing what Obi Wan’s Krayt dragon call is supposed to sound like.
