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Post #1261205

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ziggyonice
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STAR WARS: EP VI -RETURN OF THE JEDI "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - ** PRODUCTION HAS NOW RESTARTED **
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24-Dec-2018, 3:00 AM

Sooooo.

Awhile back I created my own fanedit of ROTJ (it’s called “The Ziggy Edit,” if you can find it out there).

One of my changes included the removal of Obi-Wan’s awful line: “What I told you was true, from a certain point of view.”

Instead, I inserted a clip from some of the original deleted scenes / lines from a laserdisc. It’s the scene on Yoda’s deathbed, and when Luke asks Yoda about his father, Yoda responds as he does in the final film, but also says, “Obi-Wan would have told you had I let him, but not ready for the burden were you.”

Such a better explanation than Lucas’s desire to make Obi-Wan into a saint.

EDIT: found an article about the scene here: https://www.tor.com/2013/11/07/absolving-obi-wan-deleted-scene-from-return-of-the-jedi-makes-yoda-into-the-jerk/

EDIT 2: found the footage (30 mins!): https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kz56q4t6fek