davros72

It is unfortunate that the Lucasfilm team hasn't show the love and care for their films that the Doctor Who Restoration Team shows for their program.

That having been said... the DWRT does sometimes go a little too far in terms of "cleaning" and "restoration". I'll concede that cleaning dirt and scratches up, and locking and steadying some shaky matte shots is all well and good, but they got into a bit of a controversy when they adjusted the lighting (well, the sky, if memory serves) in a scene from a 1960s story, changing it from basically daytime (as shot and transmitted) to nighttime (as intended in terms of the story timeline). IMHO that's going a bit too far, especially when that's not presented as an "alternate angle" like they do for a lot of their stuff, like new CGI laser beams and so forth.

But despite all that, those Doctor Who DVDs are fantastic. My wife and I watched a bit of the Day of the Daleks SE, and we both marvelled at the fact that the quality on this 39 year old TV show was just incredible.

adywan said:

Listening to the archival interviews commentary track for ROTJ it is pretty funny what George Lucas says about the scene where Vader pick up the Emperor now that he has added Vader's Nooooooo's:

Acting with masks is a very ancient tradition. It's the emotion of the story that can carry you through and the nature of cinema that you can switch shots you put on either side of the mask that tell you what the mask is thinking.

So younger George knew that the audience didn't need to hear what he was thinking to understand the scene. I'm really surprised that this comment made it onto the Blu-Ray, unless adding the No's was a last minute decision when everything else was finished.

Sounds like Lucas completely misunderstood Japanese Noh Theatre. That's just what it's called, George, they don't actually have to *say* it.