Star Wars: The Vintage Editions

When I heard that the "pre-Special" versions of the three old Star Wars movies would indeed be released on DVD, my mood was almost amused, in a "how about that!" sort of way. As frustrated as I've become with the unceasing efforts of some to make a scandal of the movies' history over the past decade (extended into efforts to make the release itself a scandal), I was still interested in seeing this official release of what I was starting to call the "Vintage Edition"... if, in part, to test a theory or two that I've formed. With the thought that at least one person buying them ought to have motives other than the desperate desire to "downgrade" (among many other excuses), I went out and bought the release.
( Of matte lines and Darth Vader )