As I said, I did watch a movie in my own personal life, and I think Luke has seen it.

It's called The Empire Strikes Back.

Yeah, a couple times.

Yeah.

So I wanted to bring this up because I had a great time watching it, by the way, and I've

been on the record on this podcast and others as being ambivalent at best about Star Wars as a series of films and as a cultural phenomenon.

And we can get into that later.

But I hadn't seen The Empire Strikes Back in at least 15 years, possibly 20 years.

And for a long time, I have been wanting to watch one of these old Star Wars movies in what I consider to be optimal condition,

which is certainly not George Lucas's

1997 special edition where he added all sorts of gifts and kooky little effects and little

digital touch-ups. No, by optimal condition, you mean the changes that he's done to it subsequently

where there's even more like pyrotechnics and bullshit at it.

Because I didn't want to watch the special edition, obviously. Didn't want to watch any other

various editions. I know that online there have been fans who have done heroic efforts to create

sort of definitive bootleg versions of like what the original trilogy originally looked like.

Yeah, and it's important to, I just want to interject here, the reason why people have had to do that,

and I've seen some of these efforts, you can torrent them, and they are really heroic.

Like, people who've done tons of work to get as close to what the original release of these movies

looked like. The reason is that, like, the Lucas Empire, and I guess by extension, now Disney, has like taken steps to make it so you cannot get the...

I didn't even want to watch one of these versions. I wanted to watch, for years I wanted to watch a shitty-looking, beat-up theatrical print.

Like, I would have loved, I would have loved to have seen a scratchy, well-loved print that used to play at a drive-in,

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