TheBoost said:
xhonzi said:
I wouldn't mind an enture SE book when they're done with the Trilogy, but you're right... keep the SE's out of it.

Id think that would be best, and really appropriate. If the SEs are viewed as a seperate work from a serperate era, I think they have their own unique values and even a little charm.

I'm with you on separate work from a separate era, with different values, but charm? Two horrible cartoon Jabbas, painful Jedi Rocks with annoying-to-the-limit cartoon creatures, Han Solo castrated (well, shooting second), Hayden ghost leering at the ewoks, Temuera-does-bland-Boba, overdone Mos Eisley spectacle (with TPM-style "humor"), Bash Fender's Shadows of the Empire ship stuffed in where it doesn't belong, other-planet celebration scenes stuffed into the end of ROTJ where they break up the emotional flow of the film at a crucial point (with added Gungan in the second version), eyebrows cut off Sebastian Shaw to fit a stupid movie made two decades after the original... no, I don't see the charm. Fucking mutilation and bad taste, plus a lack of understanding of how the films work. Not that they shouldn't be studied. They're part of Star Wars history and a crucial step in Star Wars's development into shallow crap. It's important to study them if you want to understand how Lucas went wrong on Star Wars.

skyjedi2005 said:

I wish Marquand put his own stamp so to speak on Return of Jedi. What we ended up with was very much a remake of star wars 77 but not as good or original, as much as i love rotj i have to admit this is true.

ROTJ is as good as ANH. It just has different strengths and weaknesses.