gizzy2000 said:
darklordoftech said:
Giving Yoda and Palpatine lightsabers and giving Dooku Force Lightning were major no-nos. Yoda and Palpatine shouldn't need lightsabers and Dooku using Force Lightning makes Palpatine's use of it less impressive.
Yes I agree, especially with the lightsabers. Yoda never should've had a lightsaber at all; he didn't even train Luke with a lightsaber and told him not to take the weapons with him in the cave. Giving them lightsabers just dumbed down the characters and gave Lucas an excuse to do more lightsaber fights. Also, on theforce.net a forum poster said he hoped the OUT was never released, and that Disney would go back and replace yoda with CGI, and add a scene where Yoda trains Luke (played by a stand in) and teaches him how to lightsaber fight, not even joking (there's a reason I never looked at theforce.net again).
Considering Yoda was meant to train Luke how to wield the light sabre better before facing Vader and there is deleted scenes of it and probably more footage than we have been allowed to see. Of all the deleted scenes this is probably the one that should have been included in the special edition. Rather than filming a Wampa and all that.
That is the point of a special edition. Theatrical cut is great but the special edition it never really included much from the time it was made.