Bobocop said:
ben_danger said:
ady, i read on another thread that apparantly on the 2004 release, that scenes during battles of people being shot were shortened as not to offend younger viewers. i wasnt aware of this, but have you restored any of these in your IV and V edits?

That's always puzzled me. They shorten a few shots of people getting blasted in ANH in order to 'not offend', but just look at what happened to Mr. Burned and Crispy Anakin in Revenge of the Sith. I realize that Sith is rated PG-13, but still... Lucas wants us to watch them in order from 1-6, right?

I guess the logic was that Anakin getting burned was a key story point, where the blaster burns are just for effect and don't affect the story.

Side note - notice how I used "effect" and "affect" each properly in the same sentence? That's one of my internet pet peeves...people who mix and match words and spelling because they're too lazy to learn the right way. If there was some way I could get paid for it, I could make a million $ a year just running around the internet correcting spelling and grammar mistakes.