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Originally posted by: Obi-Wan Spicoli
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Originally posted by: MagnoliaFan
Urgh...
Just saw the new version of Jedi...
Well, I sure know one thing I'll be changing back to the original version for my edit...

That's what I figured you'd be doing all along. Righting Lucas' wrongs.

Yessss!!! Righting Lucas' wrongs, so we can all be happy to be Star Wars fans again.

Wow, I was just going to suggest a MagnoliaFan edit of the OT in the edits thread but I was somewhat afraid of being shouted down.

I love the original Original Trilogy, which is why I'll be buying the Anamrophic versions from Rikter.

However there were some, very few, good shots inserted into the 1997SE like the blastwaves from the Deathstar explosions and the 1997 celebration theme with galaxywide celebrations at the end of ROTJ. If you do a new version of these sacred texts then I hope you include these elements. I'd probably keep Biggs darklighter in ANH as it adds to Luke's character arc.

But from the looks of the 2004DVD New Original Trilogy there are a great many horrible new changes which I hope you don't include, like Hayden's head and Temuera Morrison's woeful new Kiwi Boba Fett etc. Actually I'd hate to hear KiwiTrooper dialogue anywhere in the OT so I'd hope that you'd keep the original audio for that.

I think the newly filmed Palpatine scene in TESB could stay but I think you'd have to dirty up the hologram so it was similar to how it used to be and you'd HAVE to restore the dialogue to excise the new exposition as much as possible.

Even though CGI has come along way in the last seven years and the new ANH Jabba is a vast improvement over the old one I'm still up in the air as to whether the scene belongs in there from a narrative standpoint. On the plus side we get slightly more Boba Fett, but do we need it?

I also prefer the simplicity of the old Mos Eisley spaceport, it was more like a frontier town. But I think that the interiors of the Cantina should probably come from the NOT editions as they reportedly have added blinking and whatnot to the creature masks.

In TESB I think that the new Cloud Cityscape really opens it up and looks quite good so I'd keep that.

In ROTJ the Sarlaac was always scarier as just a hole in the ground and the 1997SE looked a little dodgy so if it looks better again in the 2004 NOT versions then I guess I could handle its inclusion.

You'd have to restore the order of Han Shoots First, that is without question.

I think you'd also have to restore TESB's "Bring My Shuttle".

Is there any way of fixing Han's alternating 'vest no vest' situation in TESB? Assuming Lucas has neglected to fix that yet again.

Would you keep the new CGI song and dance number in ROTJ or leave it with the simplicity of the loungemusicesque Max Reebo Band? Flirty Boba Fett or serious Boba Fett?

New Wampa or old Wampa?

Can we get the sandstorm scene inserted into ROTJ if it exists in a workable format?

The overall picture quality of the SE and the NOT films is vastly improved over the OT versions however I think that all new additions to the dialogue in the SE and NOT versions have sucked and should be restored. So wherever possible it would be good to use a cleaned up shot, provided it was not edited laserblast hits or whatever and keep the original dialogue tracks.

I'm definitly going to put in a bid to reserve a copy of these new MagnoliaFan edits as they really do sound like a great idea.

I'm sure you've all seen these but these sites helped to inform my opinions of the SE changes to the OT and the NOT changes to the SE.

SE Changes
NOT Changes