thechosenjuan:

Someone in the YouTube comments for the “controversial” addition of a “NOOOOOOOO!” to Return of the Jedi said that George Lucas was just doing it for himself and that it’s a smart decision and that he’s an artist and he’s just fixing his work and making it better, and that’s what artists do.

And however much I agree that he can do whatever he wants - that is not what an artist does. An artist accepts their original creation for what it’s worth. If they don’t, they remake it. An artist does not grab their original piece of art - however flawed it may be - and say, “Well, I think I’m going to retweak a certain little bit every few years until I like it just enough. But I’m also going to rerelease it in a different format every single time I decide to tweak it.” That’s like having a painter walk into a museum that holds his art with a palette and paintbrush and editing his artwork however and whenever he pleases. 

In summary: George Lucas is a giant dick.

Walt Whitman re-wrote and re-published his poem/book Leaves of Grass every few years until the day he died. 

Paintings have been painted on top of and edited, sometimes if you see a really awkward cloth draped over someones body it’s because it’s a censor that was added some time after the original painting was done.

Man of Rembrandt’s paintings that we know of have been cut down from larger works because people of his time didn’t like them so he cut them in the hopes that he could sell it for a bit cheaper.

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These are just a few, well, one specific example, of what Lucas is doing that people hate that has been done before.