SilverWook

I think most people were expecting Anakin to be put in the Vader suit at the end. Where we got stiffed is we didn’t get to see Vader do much of anything. Vader was so prominent in the advertising and merchandising, that the fact he was barely in the movie was a bit of a letdown.

I sort of regret never trying these as I just didn’t want to think of Anakin burning over breakfast.

Hopefully, they never dare do that to the Indiana Jones films, as the dissolve from the Paramount logo into the prologue is a signature of the series!

SKot said:

SilverWook said:

They kept the 1993 Laserdisc masters around. And Fox may actually own the video master. It’s technically not even a Lucasfilm production.

Lucasfilm does own it outright now, since May 1989 at least. They bought the rights from CBS and transferred the copyright over. But while they probably have at least one master copy, the condition of that copy is unknown - it may not be in great shape after all this time. I’m assuming they took the Boba Fett cartoon that’s on the Blu-rays from a master copy and cleaned it up as best they could.

–SKot

Haven’t watched the Blu-Ray version in a while, but I swear it looked like it was taken from something s few generations down from a broadcast master? (They also windowboxed it into a smaller image?) The vintage documentaries look even worse, and those could have been transferred off the original film elements had they been willing to spend some money.
I still wonder if the film for the Boba Fett cartoon even exists anymore. Nelvana lost a bunch of stuff in a fire that also destroyed the alternate version of Rock and Rule. A surviving video tape copy was used on the DVD and Blu-Ray extras.

It has the 16mm mono and a synched up THX Lasderdisc track.

The Laserdisc audio isn’t good enough?

I totally did not know Adam Nimoy is married to Terry Farrell. That puts Dax swooning over Spock in Trials and Tribbleations in a weird new light. 😉

I agree. I’m simply suggesting it took a certain amount of effort to see or hear criticism good bad or toxic. And once upon a time it took effort just to write and mail a nasty fan letter. Now we have famous people only a few mouse-clicks away from fans good and bad.

Now all we need is the cover art. 😃

How much hate was actually reaching George though? Especially when social media was largely in it’s infancy. I can’t see him having time to be online lurking in forums and websites reading stuff. And there were just as many people making calm pleas for the OOT citing Lucas’ previous defense of preserving film history. If he didn’t see/hear the sane people over the shouts of the crazy, then maybe he was only focusing on the negative.

There’s a good way and a bad way to deal with criticism. Spielberg caught some flack for the Walkie-Talkie version of E.T., but kept the original film available. I’m only aware of one pro-SE blogger who attacked him for a change of heart on digitally altering his own movies.

Tickle Me Spock?

Arguably, reducing Jar Jar to nearly a cameo in Episode III was allowing some angry abusive fans to dictate things?

Lest we forget, he buried the original THX-1138 in 2004 and only a much smaller fanbase noticed or cared.

I think Lucas had his mind made up long before anyone uttered Han shot first. The marketing hook back in 1995 was One last time.
https://youtu.be/V9077YR0t9E

Watchers don’t always translate into bidders and prequels seldom fetch what an OT print does. This has been relisted and reduced in price once already.

Nickyd47, the OP has kindly asked you to knock it off.

Oh no! A fundraiser has broken out! You guys might want to ask Poita about this since he’s already undertaken TPM. 😃

I doubt one’s body being completely ravaged by radiation was a common thing for most people in the 60’s, certainly not from exposure aboard a damaged Class J Starship. It was a Sci-Fi trope usually leading to mutation of one kind or another.
In The Menagerie, it was a plot device to get around the absence of Jeffrey Hunter, and a plausible reason for Pike to willingly re-join the Talosians more than anything else.

Good question! Possibly a little of both? How many amputees did we see on 1960’s tv outside of The Fugitive? (The infamous One Armed Man wasn’t even in every episode.) Even regularly appearing handicapped characters seem to be rare at the time. Raymond Burr’s Ironside was likely the first wheelchair bound character to be a main character on a tv series in 1967.

Silent film star Harold Lloyd lost a thumb and a forefinger in when a prop bomb he was handling for a photo shoot exploded, and wore a flesh colored glove in his films to conceal it.

And yet some of those people think Mark is going to surreptitiously help with that Patreon funded fan edit.

Anyway, I’m sorry you’re getting all this crap, Ady.

I wish I could have seen that. I was at that con, but only for a few hours.

I wonder if it’s going to come down to the man himself, George Lucas, to tell these fans to knock it off or get lost. Gene Roddenberry once had to tell some misguided Trekkers back in the 1970’s to lay off protesting Star Wars or so the story goes.

Tide pods are about the only consumer product without a Star Wars tie-in it seems. 😛

Don’t those idiots know some female pilots were actually filmed for ROTJ?

Talking shit online is one thing, harassing someone for wearing a TLJ shirt in person? These morons don’t even deserve to be called Star Wars fans.

Can’t people who make threatening remarks on facebook be reported?

You’ve been lying a live?

Can’t we just put all the trolls on a rocket and launch it into the sun instead?

I look forward to the day twitter is as passé as myspace and livejournal. It happens to every platform eventually.