For me, its not the changes so much as the LACK of changes to the rest of it. Han may shoot Greedo faster, but the dummy Greedo remains. The colors are still terrible, the lightsabers are muddy, the new sounds are bad.SpenceEdit said:
I'm already pre-emptively hiding from this, but are any of these changes really THAT bad? As far as the Nooo! goes, it kind of ties the prequels in nicely to the OT, the Krayt dragon call is incredibly minor, and Adywan made the cantina aliens blink, so why can't the Ewoks? Is any of this as awful as Greedo shooting first? Jabba's Palace dance number? For the first time, I feel like I actually get why he is making these changes. And the CGI TPM Yoda is a huge improvement. That puppet looked like Kermit and Miss Piggy's ugly middle child.
Don't get me wrong, I would generally rather watch the Original Versions. but I find the special editions sort of cool in that Lucas is changing all six movies to gradually make them work together as a cohesive whole. If you look at them that way, they've almost become an interesting fanedit of themselves.
I'm going to go hide behind my ray shield now...
If they had done the visual changes and actually bothered to put half the work into it that Adywan has, I would have bought this without a doubt. As it stands, its another half-assed SE that introduces more errors than it fixes.