Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!) — Page 91

Adywan can change his title now

Awesome, welcome back Ken, we missed you :-)

Could you clear something up for me? When you said:

It deepens some like the SE changes...

what is that "it" that gets deeper a little similarly to the SE changes?

Oh, right ;-) What's with the deepening then?

I think the story deepens in the original verson.

I like going both ways, too. It's more fun like that.

EDIT: I like it deep, too.

Ric Olie said:

kenkraly likes both versions.

LOL, Ric, I'm glad you're here to tell us these things ;-)

Bingowings said:

kenkraly2007 said:

 their are fans that like both versions.

We know that the SE is going to be changed again so that makes another version.

Some will prefer it, some will not.

If the previous versions aren't available for people to see anymore that's bad for almost any Star Wars fan.

Either way the original version of the film needs preservation and distribution because it is the point where the cultural artifact exited the author's mind and entered into the minds of the audience.

Exactly. If Lucas wants to add/change content to the OT to make it easier to expand into new and different stories then fine. I wouldn't put it past him to add some little tidbits that work more with the clone wars series or the upcoming series. That's his call.

But don't hide history! I could stomach some of these changes if he just included the original on Bluray as well. There a plenty of movies that have endured changes on some level that still offer the theatrical version when they are released. I think a lot of the GL hate could end overnight if Lucas would just include the OOT. Hell he'd even make that much more money making it available.

I know this has all been said before but I thought I'd take a turn to rant on the subject. :)

I have a suggestion... first, welcome back, Ken.  Your presence here is actually a wonderful opportunity for us.  Let me try to explain...

Many of us are perplexed at how so many people could think that what GL is doing is ok, and why they would think we are so stupid in demanding that the originals be restored.  Ken is one of the people giving the blu-ray a 5* review, waxing on about it without having seen it, parroting the lines we hear over and over, and appears from our vantage point to be one of George's utterly vacuous minion conduits for his revisionism.  HOWEVER, what sets Ken apart is that he is willing to come here and discuss it with us without calling us idiots.  If you think about it, that is rather remarkable. This is an unique opportunity to try - and we all know it won't be easy - to pick his neurons and maybe just maybe learn the source of what to us is an incomprehensible but frighteningly widespread hypnotic trance.

Ken may be the only "regular" on this board who actually seems willing to stick around and try to convey a firsthand view from the "other side", without calling us names.  He may not always be eloquent, but he is often more polite than we are.

I am reminded of those sci-fi movies, where the humans capture a space alien and try to keep it alive so they can communicate with it to learn their motivation.  This is one of those chances!  Let's not squander it... instead of needling Ken into leaving again, instead of laughing at his grammar, and most of all instead of trying to convince him that we're right, let's try and avail ourselves of this chance to do meaningful research into the minds of GL's contemporary fanbase.

Ken, if you're willing (and I hope you are), I'll start...

Ken, would it bother you at all if George Lucas never releases the original versions of the OT again?  Start with a simple Yes or No, then you can add explanation if you want.