Watched the despecialized edition (v2.5) it was quite nice. I grew up on the Special Editions from 1997, and I really do prefer it without the edits Lucas imposed on them later. There's a certain charm about the film being the way it was intended to be originally, without the muddled misdirection of 20 years later. Many of those changes were unnecessary. Lucas chose several elements to "fix" that really didn't need fixing. And then denied fans the ability to see the unadulterated film as it was originally seen. Thus I massively appreciate the despecialized edition's efforts to preserve history. One thing I was confused about this time around: Leia knows they're being tracked; it's the only reason they got away. Yet they still go to Yavin on the off chance they can analyze the plans and find an exploitable weakness in the Death Star. So they knew they were being tracked, they knew their data may not be exploitable before the Empire uses their station to destroy them at their next location, so they risk the entire rebel base at Yavin regardless? Perhaps I missed something that made it clearer as to why they did so. I thought they should have landed elsewhere, swapped ships (assuming there was a tracker left upon the Falcon) and then headed to Yavin. I'm just not as aware of what their options were as I could be. Regardless, the world is very rich. Within just a few minutes we're given enough information to know where we are, what the stakes are, who the players are, what they want, etc. It really works. It works without unnecessary edits and to a certain degree, without sequels. Though I'm glad they left enough plot threads open so we could follow the journeys of the characters afterward. I'm glad this film made money, otherwise we may never have gotten what came afterward, good and bad. We deserved to see where the characters went and these films delivered. Not perfect, but pretty stellar.