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Post #773922

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joefavs
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How the Special Edition Should Have Been
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Date created
2-Jun-2015, 2:16 PM

I'm someone who grew up on the 1997 cuts, so while I prefer the OOT on the whole, there are a handful of things from the SE that I'd include if I were making a master cut for myself.

What I like from the SEs:

-The inclusion of the 1981 "A New Hope" crawl

-Fixing Vader's lightsaber after the duel with Obi-Wan

-Replaced shots of the Sandcrawler and Ben's hut

-Cleaned-up landspeeder effects

-Biggs before the Battle of Yavin

-Victory Celebration at the end of Jedi (I know I'm being a bad purist, but I've always hated Yub Nub. And I mean the 1997 version, without Naboo or Hayden)

Things I'm not crazy about but that don't ruin it for me:

-CGI in the Battle of Yavin

-the extended Wampa sequence

-Extended Cloud City approach

-Oolah in the Rancor pit

-Sarlacc beak

Things that aren't the absolute worst, but that I'd leave out without thinking twice if I were making the decisions:

-CGI dewbacks

-Mos Eisley approach

-Windows on Cloud City

-"Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival"/other useless dialogue changes

-Anakin's eyebrows

Things that 200% need to go:

-Greedo shooting

-Jabba in ANH

-Ian McDiarmid in ESB

-Temeura Morrison's voice

-Jabba's ridiculous big door

-The dug in Jabba's palace

-"Jedi Rocks"

-Vader's big "NOOO" in ROTJ

-Gungans in the ROTJ celebration

-Ghost Hayden

As far as fixing compositing problems and bad mattes and the like, I actually prefer the cleaner "fixed" presentation. If the impossible dream of the OOT/SE branched version ever comes to fruition, I'd keep the stuff in my first section and then go OOT otherwise.