darklordoftech

• For the prequels and the individual OT releases, both widescreen and pan & scan used gold spine text and logos, but widescreen used gold bars on top and bottom of the front covers while pan & scan used blue bars on top and bottom of the front covers

• For trilogy OT box sets, everything is silver for the widescreen versions and everything is gold for the pan & scan packaging. This color scheme is also used for the 1997 trilogy box set VHS packaging.

Any feelings on this?

Isn’t it possible that Lucas forgets and misremembers?

SilverWook said:

It was a confusing time, with no domestic Laserdisc release of TPM either, yet one could buy the Japanese pressing or Video CD online.

That’s interesting.

I wonder what 2001 OT DVD releases would have been like.

LexX said:

darklordoftech said:

Seven years is plenty of time for a first-time viewer to become a devoted fan, so yes. Also interesting that it’s the one version never to be released on DVD.

Were the 2011 DVDs BD editions or were they still 2004? I forgot.

BD editions.

Seven years is plenty of time for a first-time viewer to become a devoted fan, so yes. Also interesting that it’s the one version never to be released on DVD.

I don’t like it because it meant there couldn’t be more than three prequels.

I don’t think Anakin should have become a ghost at the end. Vader was confused when Obi-Wan became a ghost, so how could Vader possibly become a ghost himself?

Sometimes I call him “Sheev” to be funny.

crissrudd4554 said:

As for the OT Lucas wanted to wait til the PT was complete before releasing them on DVD. The only reason he caved in 2004 was studio pressure.

• I wonder when the OT would have been released on DVD without studio pressure.

• I wonder if, before the sale to Disney, Lucas preferred that the Star Wars movies be released to theaters every seven years and never be released on VHS/DVD, but studio pressure got in the way with both formats.

Mocata said:

Was the HD format war still a thing maybe? Just guessing they didn’t to create multiple releases.

No HD formats existed until 2006, and HD TVs were rare in 2000.

There were VHS releases of TPM and the OT in 2000, so why no DVD releases at the time?

Tobar said:

Highly doubtful you’ll ever see lightsiders wielding red sabers in the new canon given the new canon’s explanation for how they’re created.

Just because “bleeding” them turns them red doesn’t mean they can’t also “naturally” be red.

Hadrian sunrider said:

A sith species invasion motivated by the desire to avenge the sith holocaust is perhaps one of the biggest missed opportunities of the post-ROTJ timeline.

Couldn’t agree more. What better way to cap things off than with the original source of the main evil of the franchise?

Most disappointing: The name “New Republic”.

Most satisfying: A female Jedi in action.

StarkillerAG said:

Where did you get this idea from?

Just speculation.

I wonder if Lucas initially meant for there to be more movies in between ANH and the fall of Vader and the Emperor, with Vader serving a different Grand Moff in each movie.

I’m curious as to what fans had in mind for sequel trilogy villains before the Thrawn books or Dark Empire comics existed.

ZkinandBonez said:

darklordoftech said:

In both canons, the absence of the Empire’s civilian government in stories set after ROTJ. Assassinating a head of state doesn’t cause the civilian government to spontaneously be replaced by a military junta.

Well, Palpatine got rid of the imperial senate during the events of ANH and gave power to all of the Moffs (regional governors), who were the ones who started fighting each other after ROTJ.

Thrawn was an Admiral, not a Moff.

In both canons, the absence of the Empire’s civilian government in stories set after ROTJ. Assassinating a head of state doesn’t cause the civilian government to spontaneously be replaced by a military junta.

I wish the “disney canon” resembled the original Marvel series more and the 1991-2014 canon less. For example, I don’t like the name, “New Republic” nor do I like the idea that the Empire’s civilian government ceased to exist as a result of the events of ROTJ while “the Empire” survives as a military junta.

Morgan the Boost said:

darklordoftech said:

The Shadow Guard in The Force Unleashed. I wish Snoke, Palpatine, or both used them in Episodes 7-9.

Weren’t they just grey versions of Palpy’s guards?

The First Order uses color-reversed TIE Fighters, so color-reversed guards would fit. The Shadow Guards also use lightsabers and The Force.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllMythsAreTrue

This led to attempts to justify inconsistencies in cases where unreliable narrators would have been a better explanation.

That Bodo Baas and Vima Da-Boda didn’t show up in anything published after Dark Empire.

The Shadow Guard in The Force Unleashed. I wish Snoke, Palpatine, or both used them in Episodes 7-9.

FreezingTNT2 said:

If Luke could see the good in Darth Vader and redeem him, why didn’t he do the same with more bad guys, like the Emperor, Snoke, Jabba the Hutt, etc.?

Whatever he saw in Vader simply wasn’t present in the others you mentioned.

• That in Tales of the Jedi: Golden Age of the Sith, the Jedi use corded lightsabers and the Sith don’t use lightsabers at all. Before Golden Age, it was implied that lightsabers hadn’t changed since before the formation of the Sith (it was later made clear both sides did in fact already have modern lightsabers at the time).

• That the formation of the Sith was moved from 25,000 years before the movies to 7000 years before the movies. Sith characters in Golden Age of the Sith think that the existence of the Republic is “just a myth”, a bunch of lore had been written and characters created with 25,000 years in mind, and Golden Age refers to the formation of the Sith as the “First Great Schism”.