CatBus said:

And that's really what's wrong with much of the changes--even when they do manage to improve the look of a particular part of the shot, they often screw up other aspects of the shot, or mess with the pacing so badly that the whole thing falls apart. Unfortunately, aside from the credit for JEJ, I truly believe the best case scenario for SE changes is when they failed to make the film worse. Making it better isn't really in the cards. It's the editing that made the originals great, and it's the editing in particular where the SE's always fall apart.

SO much this. The Jedi Rocks segment is the worst. Even if it didn't have horrible throwup CGI, is comes out of nowhere and completely screws up any sense of pacing the scene had before. SE either screws up the editing and look of a scene or the change is unnecessary and pointless. (Like the corridor extension, the recomposites or the new matte paintings. These changes are interesting, but they don't change the artistic impact of the scene.)

CatBus said:

The clunk sound added when the Stormtrooper hits his head was just great. I never noticed that a trooper hit his head before (with or without the sound). My old piano teacher pointed it out to me.

There was always a noise when the stormtrooper hit his head, more of a crack than a clunk. Maybe they made it louder.

Ben Burt added a noise in the '93 laserdisc mix. All the SE mixes also have an added noise. As far as I know there was no sound before that, as most scenes with stormtrooper armor had all their sound done in post because the armor made too much noise.