A Thinking Reed

O happy day!

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Lee M.

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Lucasfilms is releasing the original unaltered Star Wars trilogy on DVD this fall. Yes, I am a sucker and will buy them.

I actually don’t mind most of the changes that were made for the special edition versions that came out in the late 90s. Though, I could do without the CGI musical number in Return of the Jedi.

For the original DVD release Lucas made further changes, such as inserting Hayden Christiansen at the end of Jedi where Anakin, Yoda, and Obi-Wan appear as happy ghosts together. But there’s something about having the trilogy in its original pristine form that you remember from your childhood. (I do actually have the original version on VHS, but how will I be able to share them with my future children??)

Hopefully this will be the last fanboy/geek post of the day.

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4 responses to “O happy day!”

  1. Maurice Frontz

    Make sure you chug down some Coke Classic while you’re watching them, sucker. 😉

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  2. Eric Lee

    Lee,

    Remember, HAN SOLO SHOT FIRST!!!!!!11^^ WHAT THEY DIDS BY MAKING GREED0 SHOOTS FIRST IS AN OUTRAGE IT TAEKS AWAY FROM THE CHARACTAR DEVEL0PMENT OF HAN S0L0 OMG LOL!!11

    </geek>

    Yeah, I guess I couldn’t resist 😉 I’m actually not that peeved about that, but if you watch that scene carefully, the way they coaxed Han to ‘dodge’ looks pretty bad, plot developments aside.

    p.s. I too am looking forward to these. It’ll also be good to not see the weird-looking CG Jabba the Hut that they put in episode 4.

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  3. Eric Lee

    If you’re interested, back in 2004, I linked to 3 really extensive pages that compared all three versions that were put out of Episodes 4, 5, & 6:

    http://ericisrad.livejournal.com/232019.html

    A lot of cool and also odd revisions that I probably would have never noticed.

    Peace,

    Eric

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  4. Lee

    Wow, those pages are pretty intense. And I thought I was a geek.

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