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Post #1284629

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DominicCobb
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The ‘Custom Special Edition’ That Almost Wasn’t, But Then Was (Released)
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Date created
9-Jun-2019, 2:26 PM

sade1212 said:

Hal 9000 said:

More as a curiosity than something I’d actually want to see/hear, I wonder what sort of things could be done to the OT’s dialogue to better mesh with the prequels.

Being something of a prequel apologist, I’ve experimented with changing “Only a master of evil, Darth.” to “Only a master of evil, Vader.” (or even “Only a master of evil, Anakin.” - but I decided that didn’t work since it goes against Obi Wan’s certain point of view) and cutting “A young Jedi named…” from “A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights.” in order to remove entirely the implication that Obi Wan trained a man whose literal name was Darth Vader. I haven’t got the clips to hand, however.

At the very least cutting the first one is unnecessary.

I always figured cutting Obi-wan saying “I don’t remember ever owning a droid” would be helpful - even though he’s not contradicting anything it’s weird that that would be his response to Luke saying R2 was his property, whereas him simply saying “very interesting” would be rather fitting. By the same token, you could potentially change him saying “come here my little friend” to “come here my old friend.”