Hollywood Historical Revisionism

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

With the advent of high definition TV, computer animation, etc. "classic" movies and tv shows that were made before all this technology existed I think are being ruined by today's taste for realism and detail in film. Blu-ray releases of TV shows and movies such as Star Trek remastered or Star Wars IV, V, and VI that were made from rescanned film negatives and incorporate new CGI scenes I think are a form of historical revisionism. The ingenuity and technical skill of animators, technicians, etc., who worked with real sets, props, and explosions is being forgotten because of new CGI scenes replacing their work (see every episode of Star Trek Remastered). Sure, their work doesn't look realistic but what's amazing is seeing what they did despite all the limitations. That's something worth remembering and admiring. Who cares whether or not they may have preferred CGI if they had it? Fulfilling their "unfulfilled intentions" is not creating product that existed and caused history. It's not the thing that made it great.