RoccondilRinon said:Couple of points Arkanian.
First, welcome to the boards.
Second, I can understand you didn't like some of the things Ady did, but saying he's acting like Lucas is a little uncalled-for. I don't think there are many here besides the man himself who agree with every single change he made, but we don't have to; while he posts here for feedback and incorporates some of our suggestions, it's his personal project. Furthermore, this is a fan-edit, and one of the things fan-edits often do is change the story. If in the story he doesn't get a medal, but Adywan thinks the story/film would be better if he did, then he gets a medal. Ady will be making considerable story changes when he gets around to Return of the Jedi and especially the prequels. I don't think Ady's versions will replace the originals for any of us; they might replace the SE as alternative versions.
As for asking that these things be addressed, I'm afraid Adywan does not intend to make another release of ANH:R, and no release could ever satisfy everyone. What you can do, however, is take his edit and make your own little changes (just be sure to give him the credit if you release it). The two examples you mentioned should be relatively trivial to change back.
Apologies if I came off as a bit negatively, I have great admiration for what Adywan accomplished here. I don't think it was his aim to change story elements, because nowhere else is this done, rather I think he wanted to improve the things that assist the existing story elements, which hes done more or less quite well. The things I pointed out lastly were likely unintentional on his part in what effects they make in terms of the plot elements, however small. Therefore the change can be compared to what Lucas did with the Greedo and Han scene, but I'm sure Lucas did it with a more sinister intention.
Yes, I was expecting to be told to go away and do my own edit using Adawan's :b, but unfortunatly I do not know how :(, it would help if I could get some pointers on how it's done or influence someone knows how to do it. Nevertheless, I would like to mention I am an avid and quite conservative SW fan, and now I am a fan of Adywan :D, and would be very greatful if I would be one of those with the suggestians he would consider for his future projects namely ROTJ for which I have very much to delve into eagerly. So far ESB looks like its being handled quite nicely, all fixes listed are those I happily can agree with, it looks nice and clean and its looking like it could be his best edit so far :).