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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesL85" data-source="post: 1026044" data-attributes="member: 7949">I've been watching this thread with mixed emotions.I've been a Star Wars fan from day one (a friend and I had collected ALL the action figures from the first three movies) and I've supported Lucas all the way.  The movies just seemed to get cornier the longer they went, though.  I was 11 when Star Wars first came out (am I dating myself???) and I never noticed the pitiful acting done by Mark Hamill (sp?) the first couple of hundred times I saw the first movie.  I was a little older when The Empire Strikes Back came out on HBO (which I also watched a couple of hundred times).  I was even older when Return of the Jedi came out.  Although the action was considerably better during light saber battles (especially the horribly choreographed Obi-Wan/Vader duel of the first movie), I was still left with a bitter taste with the "soap opera" drama.  But I was still sold.I was one of the many that was still hopeful that Star Wars would continue into the originally planned 9 episodes, but I have to admit that I was let down by Episode 1.  Once the Pod Race began, it was 100% thrill ride (although I wished there had been 100 times more Darth Maul!!!!!).  I was more impressed by Episode 2, since the action started from the get-go and only occasionally relented.But again.....Looking back at what the first three episodes had (except that they're episodes 4 through 6), I'm a little disappointed.When did Artoo get the ability to fly????  He wouldn't have needed the big suction cup in "A New Hope" or "The Empire Strikes Back" to be loaded into the X-Wing....He could have just flown in there.  He could have flown out of the swamp in Dagobah.  Do I need to continue this????I'm a little jaded that Lucas requires all of the authors (that write in the Star Wars universe) to follow a certain story line and not contradict what other authors have put forth.  Why can't he follow the same laws????The way I remember, the reason Artoo and Threepio were the only three characters to be in all 9 movies was because their memories were never wiped.  Threepio wouldn't remember that Anakin SKYWALKER created him and that Luke SKYWALKER might happen to be related never came across his electronic mind????Granted....The action of Maul's light saber duel wouldn't have grabbed me if he couldn't stomp the stuffing out of what the original trilogy produced, but that kind of puts a damper on getting episodes 4 through 6 put out on DVD without a COMPLETE reshoot.I'm not trying to put down the original, because we wouldn't have what we have now, but I'm more than a little disappointed.Who here would like to see Episodes 4 through 6 completely redone (with new action and stories) along with the before mentioned Episodes 7 through 9????I realize this goes against canon, and I should probably don a fire proof "asbestos" suit for the flaming I'm about to take, but I'm curious what other Star Wars fans think.Am I alone here????</blockquote>

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