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Post #1293674

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UncutIsSuperior
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Star Wars OT & 1997 Special Edition - Various Projects Info (Released)
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Date created
22-Aug-2019, 5:23 PM

That’s disappointing. The altered ending is one of the few changes in the entire trilogy that’s actually not bad, and of course it hasn’t been seen in its original form since the DVDs came out in 2004. The extra scenes they’ve added to it since then completely wreck the pacing.

Yeah, I kinda like the 1997 ending to Return of the Jedi. You get this nice music in combination with different planets celebrating the end of the Galactic Empire. That ending is the perfect connection to the then-upcoming Prequel Trilogy. This ending will be the basis for the ending sequence of my animated Ultimate Edition of Return of the Jedi, meaning it will follow the 1997 Special Edition (Sebastian Shaw as Anakin’s ghost, how it’s supposed to go!!!). In my mind, the Special Editions of the Original Trilogy should have been left alone as they were back in 1997 and I am wanting to have those Special Editions in Blu-Ray quality. I guess I’ll just have to wait until Harmy does a Respecialized Edition '97 of both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.