adywan said:
The plan to finish ROTJ:R with Luke and the ghosts at the funeral pyre was always there prior to TFA even being announced. It’s just that, after seeing TFA, it does actually foreshadow whats to come. Revisited was always meant to stand on it own in that it wouldn’t follow official canon. Happily for me though, nothing i plan to do to the Revisited saga contradicts anything in the new films, so that’s just a happy accident. The prequels will also be erased from the saga now that i am no longer doing them. I just can’t bring myself to ever watch them again. The prequel references added to ANH:R will be gone for the HD version (The battle droid added into the sandcrawler scene was only added as in in-joke anyway. Left in a junk pile 😉 ). I no longer have to worry about fixing anything in the OT that contradicts those films. And, even if by some miracle i do decide to do them, i’ll fix the problems in those instead. So no biggie. But, for me, I’d like to start my viewing with Rogue One, followed by the OT, then the ST , as those films are far superior to the PT. Those are the only parts i would like to fit together now. Although you’d probably still be able to watch the prequels with Revisited because nothing i’m doing really contradicts those anyway ( plus i may still be adding the “you’re Mother once thought as you do” line instead of the original "Obi-Wan). That’s just my personal opinion of the PT and i appreciate that there are fans out there that like them, so i wouldn’t really want to make Revisited so you couldn’t watch the PT too if you wanted to.
Oh, thanks for the long reply ! Since I don’t hate any SW film (I, II, VII, R1: I don’t hate them, I just find them not very good but quite enjoyable thanks to competent fan-editing, so in my mind all the official Lucasfilm canon exists) I’m glad your Revisited Trilogy can be watched in a full “Saga Cycle” (and I wasn’t convinced by the addition of Battle of the heroes in ANH:R, so good thing you’re removing it from ANH:R-HD… the federation droid was a fun addition though, would have been nice to keep it 😃). Good idea for the “your mother” mention ! (don’t know if it can be done but it would fit better the PT - yeah I know it was the PT that was supposed to fit the OT… - without creating an obvious PT reference since Luke’s mother is mentioned a few minutes prior to this scene).
By the way I think your idea to finish the Trilogy is great; I never was very happy with the “teddy bear dancing” grand finale of all official cuts; a bittersweet feeling would indeed be more aligned with VII as well as ending ROTJ the way it was supposed to end when Kurtz was still around (Luke becoming a Obi-Wan ermit figure, Leia being called to new responsibilities towards her people, and so on) keeping Lucas from taking questionable decisions.