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Jeyl
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STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
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21-Aug-2008, 10:58 PM
Ziz said: But she doesn't use the Force anywhere in ROTJ, so what's the point of worrying about changing this? Changing it sounds like more "Lucasizing" of the OT - doing it because it CAN be done, not because it SHOULD be done - whereas Ady's intent has always been technical repairs and improvements first, narrative changes second (if at all).

I think you're taking this a little bit too rashly and not seeing the point I'm trying to make. Both Padme and Leia always get weaker and weaker in character as the movies progress. And even though I did say it was a poor suggestion, think about it for a bit. You use RotJ as a counter argument. I say screw that movie. Even though it's part of the original trilogy, I loath the direction it took. If anywhere in the Star Wars series needed to take the story down a different path, it would be after The Empire Strikes Back. So when I look at the possibilities that could have been done on Empire Strikes Back, I think back to Yoda's line "There is another". That 'another' from my point of view was always Leia. And I figured that after he says that line, and we get a little hint of what she might be capable of, that kind of brings those two moments together but not in a completely 100% way. It just opens the door to the possibility.

And I honestly won't care if the lines don't get deleted. Even though Adywan says this is not a preservation project, he sure as heck is doing a lot of preserving in areas that are aren't related to just visual and sound effects. He preserves the original pacing, character interactions and over all flow that the special edition versions now lack. So who am I to really get upset if he doesn't remove the lines when they were there in the first place? Either way, I'm happy. But if I was in that editing room when this film was getting completed, I would have suggested it.