Gogogadget said:
...but an error that seems so easy to fix and still existing to this day, i'm not too hot on.
It's not lazy of them not to fix it, it was lazy of them to have broken it. My completely unsubstantiated opinion is that redoing the crawl for the '81 release was a quick job and Marcia wasn't involved. Anyone with a head for good film editing would have caught and fixed it before it saw the light of day. One of the reasons I so strongly prefer the '77 crawl is that good editing is one of the things that distinguishes the originals from the SE's, and having a big editing botch-up right at the start kinda ruins that part of things.
When the stormtrooper bonks his head, it seems OK to laugh. When Tatooine comes into view, it somehow seems wrong to laugh even though the '81 crawl begs you to do it.