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Info Wanted: Death of Antilles - activity through portholes in Despecialized?

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Hi everyone. I’m new to the forum, so I apologise if this has already been covered.

I notice on my copy of the despecialised edition that through the portholes in back of Darth Vader when he strangles Antilles, you can see newly added activity - just some stormtroopers milling around. I haven’t seen the old copy, where the portholes are just closed doors, in a long time. However, on a Cathay Pacific flight I just took, they were playing a specialised edition of Star Wars, but there was no additional activity — just closed doors like in the original.

Will future versions of the despecialised edition get rid of the additional activity through the portholes?

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Sorry to disappoint you, this shot has not been changed from the theatrical edition.

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Hi - thanks for this - appreciate it! I admit before last week I was going from memory. That said I DEFINITELY saw a version last week with closed portholes. Maybe that was something they did along the way? It was in a “post-specialised” version of the film. Strange.

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That definitely could have been the case. Thanks, everyone!