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All I can say is that if Lucas hadn't been there and I hadn't got to see him, I would have been extremely pissed!!!
Now....on to the Lucas thing...
I did get in to see one of the presentations. There were 3 of them and I got in the last one. It turned out that Lucas WAS INDEED talking questions from the audience.
There was a line forming up at the front by the stage. Needless to say, I made a friggin' beeline for that line and got into it. I was all set up and ready to lay the question on Lucas himself. Unfortunately, the closed the Q&A session when I was just 2 people away from asking it. To say I am disappointed is beyond description. I WAS SOOOOOO CLOSE I COULD MOTHERFUCKING TASTE IT!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some interesting tidbits though....
1. They appeared to be screening questions. Some girl was at the front of the line (probably a Lucasfilm rep) and she was talking to the person at the front of the line. Methinks they were checking to see what everyone was asking. No one got refused, but all of the questions asked were pretty bland anyway.
2. Lucas revealed that he would be doing a TV series that happens between Eps 3 and 4. It will not focus on main characters. If the show works out, they may consider doing a show on the Knights Of The Old Republic era. They are going to continue the Clone Wars cartoons as a 30 minute program.
3. Some kid who was a total idiot got up there and started asking some question about Episode 3 that contained a spoiler. The kid got booed pretty bad. It was actually funny to me. That twit stormed off though when his question didn't get answered. He's probably traumatized!!!
4. The most interesting news to you guys is that there will be a 6 film box set of the entire saga.....possibly with an extra disk of deleted scenes from the original trilogy. An immediate question is if the bonus material in this set will match what's been released so far with the prequel DVDs and the OT DVD set. I'm starting to hate hearing about anything like this cuz it jsut raises more damn questions than it answers....
5. THE THING THAT WILL COME AS A RELIEF TO MANY OF US. LUCAS SAYS THAT THERE WILL BE NO MORE TINKERING WITH THE OT. HE IS HAPPY WITH IT THE WAY IT IS AS THE SEs. So the madness is somewhat over......I think.
6. Also, there will be NO high definition "archival" edition of the saga in 2007. Don't know what this edition was about, but whatever it is...it is NOT happening.
I'm sorry, guys!!! I was so close it hurt. When I saw that they might be screening questions, I came up with a question asking about an ultimate definitive DVD box set of the whole saga and would have asked about including the original versions. That was where I was gonna launch into my whole rant about it.
On the other hand, I have to say that Lucas is a pretty nice guy. He was pretty cool, but seemed kind of nervous about being in front of a crowd like that. I'm still glad I saw him and it made this somewhat dismal convention a hell of a lot better.
So....I guess we can all continue on our own preservation projects.....cuz I am now absolutely and firmly convinced that we are NEVER going to see those versions as an official release ever again.