Posted by Derek Janssen on 05/04/06 19:40

Sean O'Hara wrote:
> In the Year of the Dog, the Great and Powerful Derek Janssen declared:
>>
>> Well, on the *first* one, anyway--
>>
>> Please pass off the "For those who want to hear the ORIGINAL Ewok
>> song!" as a gratuitous bit of marketing copy...
>
> How about those who don't want to see Hayden Christiansen standing with
> Yoda and Obi Wan?

Well, that's about it.
That, and NOT seeing the Jabba-in-name-only scene restored to the first
film, to duplicate the same dialogue we'd already heard five minutes
earlier.

> Empire is the only one where you could reasonably argue the current DVD
> is complete butchery. And as someone who doesn't own the current DVD
> set, I'll gladly pick up the new versions.

Er...huh?
ESB was the only '97 Special Edition where I couldn't notice any changes
at first, until I'd looked back at the technically underwhelming original...
(Leaving aside Emperor changes for the DVD, which never quite jibed in
the originals, either.)

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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