G E Predator said:Honestly, I don't think it's anyone's fault. Before Episode 1, we all had different perspectives about Anakin Skywalker, the Clone Wars and everything else that occurred before Episode 4. Even Lucas had his own idea about it. What we see in the official DVD's is what GL envisioned. What we see in the fan-edits is what another person or group of people sees. So naturally compared our ages to GL's, we may have different opinions about what is and what isn't.
And please don't tell me that GL has "crapped this idea in my head." This is my own saying from my own mind. GL does inspire me, but he does not mesmerize me in anyway.
What we see in the official DVD's is what GL envisioned.
No. It's what he envisioned in the 90s onwards. Which is very different from what he had envisioned in the earlier times. Even if a lot of the basic details of his Star Wars backstory in the prequels were true to a lot of his old backstory, I'm sure that the spirit of it changed and the nature of the characters (Anakin/Vader at least). As for the characters, for example, it would be pretty weird to portray Vader as he was portrayed in the OT if he was then envisioned as originally being like the Hayden version of Anakin/Vader. Similarly, I don't think when Anakin was portrayed in ROTJ Lucas could have had the ROTS/AOTC interpretation in mind as Anakin's younger self. It doesn't add up. Clearly Lucas changed the nature of the character at the center of the prequels. And like I said, the spirit of the prequels is very unlikely to be what Lucas had envisioned back in the old days, seeing as it's totally at odds with everything that was Star Wars. The emotional meaning was changed. So no, this stuff was not what GL envisioned, not back in the days he was making the OT, which is what counts.
Nor is the SE 97/2004 version what Lucas envisioned back then. If Lucas envisioned Han shooting second back in 77 why didn't he make him shoot second back then? And no he didn't originally envision a ridiculous cartoon Jabba talking to Han in ANH. We were told it was supposed to be a stop-motion creature, which would have been very different. (Michael Kaminski has an article theorizing that at one point it was supposed to be a human in the final film.) I doubt he envisioned Jedi Rocks back in the early 80s either (it was very 90s and had cartoon characters who weren't the style of what he was doing back then and depend on cgi). Or sticking in stupid celebration scenes on other planets into the ROTJ ending. The ROTJ ending was carefuly designed so that the funeral pyre mood flows into the celebration mood. The interruption jars. Which implies to me it was something alien to the film put in, not something that was missing since the early 80s when Lucas wanted to put it in. My guess is it was put in to counter the 90s expanded universe version of the story that had the empire continuing after death star 2 was destroyed. Experimenting with Coruscant with TPM in mind was also likely to be a motivation. Not "I envisioned it all along". And if Luke was originally envisioned as screaming when he fell in Bespin, why didn't Lucas put it it in then? Also I doubt footage from ROTJ (complete with Jerjerrod) was originally envisioned in ESB to get Vader from Bespin back to his Star Destroyer. It's well-documented that Lucas always wanted a bigger Mos Eisley in ANH, but the one we got in the SE looked kinda 90s to me and I bet Lucas's original envisioning of a bigger Mos Eisley was pretty different. I also doubt he originally envisioned Hayden's ghost at the end of ROTJ or Temuera Morrison doing the Boba Fett lines. So no, I don't think the SE represents what Lucas envisioned way back.