TheDoctor1987 said:

I was why Lucas why i much prefer the 1997 remastered ending with Sebastion Shaw that's how Anakin should be after he died the Victory Celebration fits perfectly i always hated the Yub Nub song.

Two things...

(1) sorry I couldn't parse your sentence... "I was why Lucas why i..." ????

(2) can someone go back and fix the title of this thread?  "is" should be "in".

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

(2) can someone go back and fix the title of this thread?  "is" should be "in".

But then it wouldn't be as funny.

Davnes007 said:

TheDoctor1987 should have said:

I was [thinking]: "Why Lucas?...Why!? I much prefer the 1997 remastered ending, with Sebastion Shaw. That's how Anakin should be after he died."

The victory celebration fits perfectly. I always hated the 'Yub Nub' song.

Fixed...I think.

Thanks, that makes more sense.  I honestly couldn't figure that out.  Now Hayden really IS rotj.

^Ditto.

It ruined one of the most powerful lessons of the series.  The ghost of Old Anakin symbolized that while he could not undo the many terrible things he had done, he could still make amends and seek forgiveness.  Old Anakin symbolized a wasted lifetime.  Hayden's ghost basically gives the character a free pass.  Plus, Old Anakin fits with what we had just seen in the movie - a tired old man trapped in an iron lung, desperately wanting to get out.  Now, in death, he has his release.  The notion that his ghost can just "go back" makes no sense, literally or metaphorically.

I was disgusted. Not only does Shaw evoke so much more emotional depth in his "performance" - and all he was told during the filming of that shot was to "smile and look happy" - but he just fits better. Luke wouldn't recognize Hayden, anyways.

Plus, Shaw has a warm, fatherly smile - Hayden's creepy glower makes him look like some kind of child molester!

Let's just hope that Lucas doesn't give us any more unwanted "surprises" - like, heaven forbid, replacing Shaw in the scene with Luke with a CGI-pasted Hayden. That would be the last straw.

And I miss unmasked Shaw's eyebrows!! :(

GL didn't have the technology back then to have a younger actor stand-in for that scene.

Bring_My_Shuttle said:

GL didn't have the technology back then to have a younger actor stand-in for that scene.

Thank goodness!

Hey mathuser.... I respect your opinion on the artistic validity of the change. I'm curious what you think of changes like this to a film in the context of the original not also being made available?

I would say sacrificing himself to save his son and kill the Emperor wasn't exactly a ho-hum act...it certainly seemed to work in the context of the trilogy.  With no dialogue needed.

What good, selfless acts did PT Anakin perform?

MathUser said:

The original was made available for a while

Yeah, but it sure as hell isn't being made available now.

MathUser said:

The original was made available for a while so I'm not worried about that.

I think you must be looking for a different webzone.

MathUser said:

PT Anakin was a bodyguard for a while so he probably did that alot. He also fought in the Clone wars for the side of good.

Being a bodyguard isn't necessarily good - you might be protecting bad people, who knows? As for the Clone Wars, there WAS no "side of good," since the Clone Troopers were developed with the sole intention of providing a dangerous, treasonous army for the Republic, and the opening crawl for Episode III says that "there are heroes on both sides."

Of course lame reasons like that are why I don't bother considering the prequel trilogy canon, but PT Anakin was not a good, selfless person. Now please stop taking this thread off-topic!