EDIT: @Sexy Celebrity Changing the scene to making Greedo shoot first changes the character of Han Solo. That's not a temporary angry, that's a fundamental change to the character and that is a forever angry in my book. Plus, the added scene between Jaba and Han in Episode 4 looks like crap. I can't see those as being a temporary thing.
Also, I still disagree that the youth are going to love the edited versions. Besides, I'm going to live forever, so I'll still be praising the original cuts long into the future.
Not every child will love the edited versions, particularly those who see both cuts. Although, I do wonder where the opinions will really originate from -- their own minds or the minds of their parents, friends, etc. that show it to them and say, "This is better." But a lot of people will see the edited versions and love them right from the start. Sometimes -
shock - people don't get heavily invested in movie criticism and just love things without being too critical about them. The types that jump up and go, "I liked it!" automatically.
Now, as for your beef with the scenes you mentioned -- talk about it! Get it all out. Everybody is. What I mean by the "temporary angry" is that I strongly suspect that this will all cool down, particularly by 100 years from now, definitely. Lucas will be dead, we will be dead -- I think -- the original fans will be dead. Yeah, history of our anger will exist, but that's a book -- or an internet page. There will be a fresh start. There will be new blood. And these revisions that Lucas is making to the movies --
they aren't going away. They're here. They're queer. Get used to it!
There will be new theses written up in regards to how great the changes are in the
Star Wars movies. There will be pro and anti-
Star Wars revision parties. I don't know exactly how long for, but I feel it's temporary in the grand scheme of things. Maybe not -- if I'm wrong, though,
Star Wars is bigger than we even think. And that, I think, should grant George Lucas to do whatever he wants. He has this marvelous power thanks to
Star Wars -- power not many people ever receive. Let the man throw the balls down into the air -- let us beneath him scramble to pick them up.