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Return of the Jedi - Final music. Original or Special Editions

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Over the years and while getting older, I’ve come to prefer the details and style of the original PT releases.

  • Lack of CGI
  • Lightsaber Shading
  • Sebastian Shaw over Hayden Christiansen
    Really just substance over style

Howeve, the one thing I can’t get on board with is the final music before the end credits.

That original music is so strange and out of place to me and feels anti-climactic.
Although, I’ve heard people say the replacement one is too cheesy, I feel it suits the emotion of the scene better.

What is anyone else’s opinions?
Yub Nub or Celebration song?
And why?
Genuinely curious.

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The song is the one and only change in ROTJ that I would be okay with, though Yub Nub doesn’t bother me either. I feel like the somber Force theme when Luke cremates Vader is the “real” ending music, and Yub Nub is a sort of diegetic song that Luke and the others are hearing around them with the ewoks while you’re getting ready for the end credits. The special edition celebration music is more appropriate for what they were trying to do with it summing up six movies on a massive galactic scale instead of Luke’s personal story, but neither approach is inherently better.

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I think we firmly established that Yub Nub was better in the last thread. Trust me.