The movie's been locked and bar some typo corrections, I think the movie has been improved no end due to the changes. One little detail and everyone seems to have ignored the fact that bar this 2 second shot, the rest of the movie flows better and is what the special edition should have been back in 1997. I've seen some bits which might need some work to make it more perfect, but when you're looking at the overall picture, it can't get much more perfect than it is now. Any more work and I'd reckon you might as well scrap it and turn it all CGI...then we'd be into GL territory. Is the picture over de-saturated? It could be the XVID that is causing this...I'm willing to wait for the proper DVD before I make any more judgements.
Constructive criticism is one thing but the sort of criticism being dealt out over the flipper/hand debate is getting too much. Ady has worked pretty much non-stop for 18 months to bring his vision of Star Wars to us. That's longer than the original movie had to shoot and release in. Cut the man some slack here...for someone who probably didn't know a great deal about special effects when he started, he sure knows a heck of a lot more than a lot of us do now!
Roll on the DVD...I, for one, am looking forward to the full experience when it arrives. Yeah, this post seems a bit sucky to Ady, but changing the hand to a flipper...it's hardly the same crime as making Greedo shoot first now, is it?