Star Wars DVD: What's different?

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

*Sigh* Back to the "Lucas ruined my childhood!" again...that's just annoying to me these days.

 

[Greatwyrm]

*Sigh* Back to the "Lucas ruined my childhood!" again...that's just annoying to me these days.

I'm not going that far. I'm just saying the ghost scene didn't need to be changed.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'm not going that far. I'm just saying the ghost scene didn't need to be changed.

Actually, wasn't commenting on your post. I do understand the whole thing about the ghost scene, though it doesn't really bother me all that much.

 

[Tom Cashel]

I don't mind the change in the ghosts scene all that much...but it doesn't make sense. How come Anakin's ghost is "young Anakin" while the others are old? Why not switch Alec Guinness out for Ewan MacGregor? I'm being sarcastic, but...help me see how it makes sense.

Maybe because Anakin's ghost appears as he did before turning to the Dark Side...?

Even the fact that it has to be rationalized is kinda annoying.

p.s. My copy of the new DVD set is already paid for, and I can't wait to see it. The new jabba scene in ANH looks keen, and Han and Greedo now fire simultaneously (Greedo's a VERY bad shot for a bounty hunter....). Changes are okay with me--I've seen the films so many freaking times that anything surprising is cool with me.

...as long as it makes some kind of sense.

 

[Piratecat]

[Digression]: Anhk-Morpork Guard, will you please shrink your sig pic? It's significantly too large.

Thanks!

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I don't mind the change in the ghosts scene all that much...but it doesn't make sense. How come Anakin's ghost is "young Anakin" while the others are old? Why not switch Alec Guinness out for Ewan MacGregor? I'm being sarcastic, but...help me see how it makes sense.

Maybe because Anakin's ghost appears as he did before turning to the Dark Side...?

I remember Lucas explaining it this way: Anakin died the he became Darth Vader.

...and now that I think about it, that really goes along with Obi-Wan's view of the whole situation. Or at least...from a certain point of view.

 

[Ranger REG]

But when he starts off as not-an-anti-hero, there's no becoming, no journey, no growth.

Unless Georgie-boy decided to show a scene in Episode 3 where a young Imperial Lieutenant Solo helped the Wookiee of Kashykk escaped slavery and gain the companionship of the more honorable Chewbacca. A D&D paradox where a Paladin got hooked up with a Rogue.

 

[Gnarlo]

So you are saying even as a child you HATEd Return of the Jedi, because of the stupid ewoks?

I have to agree with Beeber on this one, I've ALWAYS hated stuff that was obviously put in "for the kids"... I was 18 when Return came out, but even back when I was 11 or 12 in Battlestar Galactica (the Daggit) and Buck Rogers (Tweeki), and then back in the 70's cartoons (the idiot kids and their dog on Superfriends) I always could tell when I was being "talked down to" **blegh**

*Sigh* Back to the "Lucas ruined my childhood!" again...that's just annoying to me these days.

That's just because your childhood isn't that far in your past Wait about 20 years from now when the S.E. Holodeck version of Lord of the Rings comes out, and Jackson's decision to include authentic swamp smells and body odor for the Dead Marshes scenes has you screaming that he's "ruined your childhood!"

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

That's just because your childhood isn't that far in your past Wait about 20 years from now when the S.E. Holodeck version of Lord of the Rings comes out, and Jackson's decision to include authentic swamp smells and body odor for the Dead Marshes scenes has you screaming that he's "ruined your childhood!"

Bah! Just because I was born in '86 doesn't mean I didn't grow up with Star Wars. Now, you want to know what ruined my life? Having to wait until the mid 90s to actually see them in the theater. THAT is life ruining.

 

[Ranger REG]

That's just because your childhood isn't that far in your past Wait about 20 years from now when the S.E. Holodeck version of Lord of the Rings comes out, and Jackson's decision to include authentic swamp smells and body odor for the Dead Marshes scenes has you screaming that he's "ruined your childhood!"

Nah, it wouldn't be Peter Jackson, but some upstart future director who think PJ's adaptation is poor and want to produce an authentic LOTR to appease the Purists, including the swamp smell of the Dead Marshes and the manly cologne scent of Eowyn in disguise.

But you are right. George Lucas want to make it a family-friendly film, also to offset the dark middle act of The Empire Strikes Back.

Too bad he didn't invoke "artists' right" to remove the Ewok and insert the tree-climbing Wookiee of Kashykk, as originally scripted but could not be done in the early 80's.