Ah, yes. . . the pre-ESB universe that has been systematically scattered and buried over these long years. If I excavate and uncover these things, the subsequent storm of nostalgia might wipe the speck that is me off the map.

But it'd be worth the risk. I hear from reliable sources that version of Star Wars is far more beautiful than the one we have now.

All right, I'll stop waxing poetic. I'm playing naive here.

By the way: kudos to the radio drama. ANH was at least good, the other two I don't know.

The actress for Leia had the most ALLURING female voice ever in existence. Vader and Han's took getting used to. Their voices are so radically different from their film counterparts that they feel like reinterpretations of the characters themselves. Obi-Wan sounded precisely the way a Merlin-type needs to sound, incidentally.

We could then go on in great detail about how the drama expanded on everything in the film, sometimes to great effect, with a sprinkling of the arbitrary in places. Overall superb. 10/10.