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Originally posted by: meloveu
I am not sure how many different sets there are but my friend recently ordered this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565111656/qid=1096578728/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/104-1318103-9186351?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
It contained 15 discs from all three radio dramas. Some say that these might have been edited but I am not sure. Will have to check it against my version.
I just started listening to this. A few thoughts.
I always liked learning more about Luke’s frustrations with life on Tatooine. These scenes are good. The voice acting for Deak, Windy, Biggs et al. is quite good.
The early scenes with Leia…are not good. I drifted off a bit while I listened. The whole dinner scene with Lord Tion was weird. The movies already established Leia as tough and capable, not how she is portrayed here. It doesn’t add anything to her character.
I do love Brook Peters as Vader!
“It is only through interaction, through decision and choice, through confrontation, physical or mental, that the Force can grow within you.”
-Kreia, Jedi Master and Sith Lord
I love these. I just discovered them last year, and it’s really cool that these exist, since they’re like “extended editions” of the OT.
I actually really like the added Leia POV scenes, too. Ann Sachs did a great job in the role. I wasn’t a fan of Brock Peters at first, but he really grew on me by the time I got to Empire.
But we can’t turn back. Fear is their greatest defense. I doubt if the actual security there is any greater than it was on Aquilae or Sullust. And what there is is most likely directed towards a large-scale assault.
I like the first two. Mark Hamill is great in both. The third one is a letdown. Though Joshua Fardon did a good job. Doesn’t expand ROTJ much.
The only thing i didn’t like was Jabba becoming Heater in the Star Wars radio play. Should have been Jabba.
By that point they knew what Jabba would become in ROTJ and made a sensible retcon by keeping the scene in ANH but making it an emissary. I dig it, and it’s part of my headcanon over and against the SE.
Don’t forget to listen to “Rebel mission to Ord Mandell” before ESB. Only 30min.
Unfortunately the main voice cast are all different.
Yeah i have that on vinyl. Corey Burton is Luke. He played a different member of the Rogue’s in Empire Strikes Back. Hobbie. He also played Luke in 1979 on a read along record i think for children.
I also have Dark Empire where Luke is voiced by John Cygan who also played Canderous in Kotor. Mandalore in Kotor II.