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Well, I have a number of co-workers, but that's about it.
I haven't seen more than a handful of people I knew from high school in the 6 years since graduation, and I haven't seen anyone from college.

Those people I could consider friends are those people I know online, and it would be kind of hard to borrow anything from one of them.
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" I really wanted to punch every reviewer in the jaw for glossing over the technical problems."

Deliberate creative decisions.

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>

<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>

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Hey, that's my line!!

And giving credit where it's due, Alexandra DuPont mentioned the errors in her review after my friend John e-mailed her. You can read it here.

Neil

Well at least the reversed surround channels have been addressed.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
That wasn't me Sessler.


Oops.


Dammit, he had the same avatar and everything.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Yeah, but I doubt he had a sig as brilliant as "My density has popped me to you!"

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Oh yes, no one could match that one.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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Nice sig btw, too bad it doesn't link to that cover.
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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I'm at number 1 myself. If number 3 were to occur, they'd be sitting on a Suncoast counter while I pick out an exchange. I rented the extra disc. I'm on a rental pass, so it's not like I actually paid anything for it in particular. Barely watched anything anyway. I've seen the DVDs playing in video stores. The more I see them, the less I'd want them. Even if I loved the SE, I wouldn't get them thanks to the fanfare before Yavin. It ruined the whole setting.

I haven't bought them

I'll most likely never buy them. If they were five bucks, I still probably wouldn't buy them to use as frisbees.

Nor will I accept them as gifts.

Because there's nothing about the SE that I like.


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I'm 1/2way between #2 & 3. I got a gift card, which meant I would wind up spending ~$25Cdn on the set ($6.25 per disc) with the sale that was happening @ Indigo. Since that's even cheaper than the $6.88 bin @ Wal*Mart, I decided 'What the hey; I've had worse transfers out of that bin.'

Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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Option number 1. I will never buy these DVDs. I have also told my friends and family not to get them for me as a gift.
I did however to my shame rent them, once.
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Get thee behind me satan. I do not want these DVDs
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I hope you change you mind.

Hey, wait a minute. You adressed me as satan? NOBODY DOES THAT!

*shoots warbler in the kneecaps*

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Should we call the priests from The Exorcist to perform an exorcism so we can take the devil out of Chaltab?
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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That's the movie where the little girl cusses and spins her head around, right?

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the release date was approaching and I was on the fence about buying it, then one of my friends who purchased the set invited me over so we can watch them. After watching them, I was like, I think I am going to buy the set. And I am happy about it. So I am at number 2. And I don't regret but it sucks that Lucas did not put the original films on that set, Steven Spielberg put both original and special edition of E.T. on the dvd set, and why not George Lucas? I guess he wants to forget about it. But I manage to get the original version trough the help of the internet. I am glad to have any versions possible.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Not even the fixed Kenobi Lightsaber?


You're joking right? What fixed Kenobi lightsaber?

I've seen the pics, do you honestly believe one photoshopped lightsaber would make up for all the garbage that fills these DVDs? SE aside, the sound screw-ups like the loss of the rebel fanfare alone far out weigh a slightly fixed lightsaber. It would take far more than that to let Hayden's head, the Sarlaac's beak, the travesty of a Yavin battle, those ridiculous explosion rings, and those stupid ASP droids into my canon. The SE is something that you take or leave. One can't just pick and pull, you have the take the bad with the good. The trilogy SE is the single worse directors cut ever done to a film that I've seen. The bad far and away outweighs the good. Keep your soiled discs, I'm happy with my tapes and DVDRs.You should already know this. The special edition was the single worst thing to happen to the Star Wars universe. It devided fandom, messed with canon, and torments us to this day. It paved the way for so-so sequels valueing SFX over character and story. Those were what Star Wars was about. Now, all I hear are SE fans weining about how bad the fx are and how the film is supposedly improved by cloned X-wings zigzaging all over the place, and a chessy slug spouting Greedo's lines pretending to be Jabba.


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Originally posted by: Klingon_Jedi
The special edition was the single worst thing to happen to the Star Wars universe.

Worse than the Holiday Special?

Neil

Well at least the reversed surround channels have been addressed.

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Yes, worse. Especially if you're talking about the '04 version.

Moll.

"Right now the coffees are doing their final work." (Airi, Masked Rider Den-o episode 1)

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I will grant you that both are unwatchable.

Neil

Well at least the reversed surround channels have been addressed.

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Somehow, I doubt that.

The DVDs I've seen work fine, if they'd just fix the stupid lightsabe core mistakes

But nothing StarWars related could be as bad as Wookies in dresses? right...

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It is worse. The Holiday Special didn't divide fandom into countless "true fan" arguments. The Holiday Special didn't supplant an entire vision of the films. One can forget the Special ever existed. Lucas and numerous fans never let one forget about the OT. The Holiday Special may have been bad, but at least it didn't mess with the films themselves. Even the PT has a more general opinion of them. I'm just sick of "OT vs SE Wars".


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