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"Prequel parasites", I love it. (The phrase that is.)

For any John Williams fans out there, some of the scenes where they used alternate musical cues or no music at all work very well with the original music Williams intended. A good example would be in "Empire" when the Hoth rescue team is flying over the landscape trying to reach Luke or Han. In every version of the film released they recycled music from later in the film. Of course it works fine, but I have to wonder why they felt the need to replace the original Williams cue, entitled "Rebels At Bay".

Semi-specialized versions yes, well put. With access to source material of decent quality I could and would do it myself, if only for my own personal viewing.

A good argument for keeping Sebastian Shaw entails the following 2 points.

a) The other ghosts are the characters as they appeared at the end of their life, otherwise why not have them be Ewan McGregor and CGI Yoda?

b) One can view the original trilogy and pretend that the prequels have yet to be made and are always about year away, reliving that pre-1999 anticipation forever and ever.

There are aspects of the 1997 Special Edition (but not subsequent DVD/Blu-Ray alterations) that don't bother me at all, so a definitive Star Wars for me would have some but not all of these. Two exceptions would be Greedo not shooting at Han and keeping Sebastian Shaw as the ghost of Anakin. Does anybody else out there fall into this camp?