10th September 2006, 3:22 PM
He's doing it because of all the people convinced that everything Star Wars put into film since 1983 or so (since the release of RotJ) is awful and terrible and should be ignored finally got to him enough to convince him to sacrifice his artistic vision for more $$$ since people want these versions so badly... it's kind of too bad, because most of the edits really were for the best (not a few of them, but even those got mostly improved in the DVD releases... I still wish that the Ewok song at the end had been left in though. Oh well...), but what can you do...