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Post #1091324

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yotsuya
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If you could only remove one Special Edition change...?
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Date created
19-Jul-2017, 12:07 PM

TV’s Frink said:

You can only make one change to each and those are the ones you pick?

Yes. As much as I hate Greedo shotting and Hayden as Anakin’s ghost, I hate the rock and the door more. So needless… so pointless. But on the BR, the Greedo scene is at least closer to the original and far less offensive than the 97 version. And over time the changes to ROTJ have become less offensive to me. And unlike many, I like the ANH Jabba scene (I’d been waiting for it since I read the comic and the script back in the 70’s). Same with the lone Biggs scene added. And for TESB, I think the changes only made it better, except for that one stupid line. GL likes comic relief so much and yet he pulled a very funny line that had charm. Even the change to Boba Fett’s voice is less annoying now that it was at first. If I can only change one, I’ll make it the one that annoys me the most.

But given the chance to make my own edit… a lot of the SE changes will go away. The extended troopers in the desert, only Han shoots, A lot of the SE shots in the Yavin battle, back to the original Wampa, apply continuity rules to the Bespin windows (some need to go away) and other SE shots, back to Lapti Nek… but maybe keep Oola’s new scene, back to Sebastian (though now that I think about it, maybe a morph so that he looks younger… Shaw was too old for the role - he was supposed to be younger than Kenobi). A lot of the SE changes I haven’t thought much about yet. I need a copy of the Original cut and the SE that match in quality and color.