Do you plan on reinstating Sebastian Shaw in ROTJ?
Nope, and I explain why on the changes document, but I’ll post my reasons here too.
- Anakin/Vader was only 46 when he died in-universe. Hayden Christensen is currently 39 and still looks a lot like he did in Revenge of the Sith (honestly they could reshoot scenes with him now and it wouldn’t even look like he aged a day). I’m pretty sure he’s not going to suddenly look like Sebastian Shaw in another 7 years. The only reason he looks old when unmasked is because of the physical toll the dark side has on one’s appearance. If he had never been disfigured or turned to the dark side, which I’m assuming is the image shown of him when he’s a force ghost, he would still look relatively young, and a lot like he did in Revenge of the Sith. He never looked like Sebastian Shaw in canon, and the only reason that was probably done in the original film is because I assume Vader was originally going to be older then he is in the now established canon.
- People point out that Obi-Wan and Yoda are old and Anakin is young as a supposed reason as to why having Hayden Christensen as the force ghost is dumb, but that’s because, again, Anakin died relatively young. It’s as simple as that. In fact if anything it’s a luxury as Obi-Wan and Yoda got to live longer lives (though the quality of their longer lives is kinda debatable).
- Seeing Anakin as we saw him from Revenge of the Sith has much more of an emotional impact on the viewer then seeing a random old man never seen before (I know it did on me). Not saying the audience would be too stupid to connect the dots that it’s Anakin, but I know from personal experience that seeing Anakin as his Revenge of the Sith self really has much more of an emotional resonance with audiences.
Him looking like Sebastian Shaw makes absolutely no logical sense. It’s literally only done in other edits because of purist personal bias.