dark_jedi said:
NOW this is a post, FINALLY LOL, you grew a pair
I've always had a pair. Big and hairy and dusty with Gold Bond. I just don't swing them around in everyone's face like you.
You want to debate the difference between adywan's changes and GL's? Fine. The difference is that adywan's changes were for him. He was making the version that he wanted to make and watch himself and for his kids, and then at some point he decided to share them with everyone else. Lucas decided to make changes and shove them down everyone's collective throat, and the pretend that his original version never existed. That's a big difference. That's what pissed fans like me off, was that Lucas made his half-assed special editions the new standard. That's the reason that this site exists for us to argue about semantics.
The other difference, that matters to me at least, is that adywan's changes bring greater continuity without drawing too much attention to themselves (some less or more than others). My biggest problem with the Special Editions was the computer-generated creatures shoehorned in. They are obvious because they are unnatural-looking. Jabba in ANH, Jedi Rocks in ROTJ. They looked bad when the SEs came out, and they look worse now. The original 1977 optical effects look better in 2011 than the CGI from 1997 and 2004. I don't think any of adywan's changes look as bad as the best CG creature in the Special Editions. And whether you believe it or not, if they did look as bad, I would be the first to say it. I'm a big fan of adywan because he hasn't yet disappointed me. That's just how it is.
So does that establishing shot need a trooper walking by the camera in ESB Revisited? No. Adywan can reason that it gives more "activity" to the scene, but I agree that it's no different in spirit than several of GL's changes. The difference is in execution. And that difference exists, but you can ignore it if it makes it easier for you to feel like you're right.
I'm off to grab some beers. Have a good one.