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Sorry if this request has been posted already. As much as I'd love the original trilogy on Blu-Ray, I would MORE than "settle" for the trilogy in full hi def for now! 

I've been living under a rock for 4 years, and recently purchased an HDTV and now have Dish satellite. I just saw and recorded two History Channel (HD version) documentaries called Star Wars Legacy and Star Wars Tech. Aside from the cool documentaries, graphics, and interviews, what got me truly salivating was seeing clips from the saga in FULL HI-DEF!!!! I did not know this EXISTED!!!

I immediately googled to see if the whole movies were airing in HD and was frustrated to discover that they had in fact aired a couple of years ago on Cinemax! I MUST have these!!!

Can someone puh-leeeeez post ANY information about future airings of the movies in HD. I would more than appreciate it!!! I can no longer view my non-anamorphic crappy DVDs!!! If you have NOT seen Star Wars in HD, you're not going to believe your eyes!

Vaderisnothayden said:

Hold on, Luke becoming a Jedi meant he couldn't "get the girl"? So Lucas had the celibacy thing as a definite back then?

 No. That's why caligulathegod correctly said "eventual storyline". There were plot elements that we find in the prequels that were there from the beginning.

Also, can anybody tell me the gist of what the book reveals about the contents of the Journal of the Whills? Basically how do Lucas's claims of having the prequels story in the journal hold up against what the book says?

Lucas's claim holds up fairly well. You can see how in flux the story was, right up to the premier of the movie. Story lines were changed for both literary and budgetary reasons. It's really neat to see the development and how so many things could have gone a different way. As for telling you the gist of the Journal of the Whills, it was a living document! "Always on the move"!

(Just to make sure I'm getting things right here, the journal Lucas was suposed to have had the story of everything including the prequels in since way back, written during the writing of the first film = The Journal of the Whills?)

 No, he did not have the story of everything. He had elements of the story that came in and out during the development of those stories. But yes, some things did exist in his mind that didn't come out until the prequels. Midichlorians, Coruscant, a bunch of names used in the prequels... don't want to give too much away. Buy the book. It's great for someone who has questions like yours. :-)

MTFBWY

As usual I probably stand alone in my opinion but I don't care. I'm sorry, but this was freaking BRILLIANT. The opening Jabba scene he did was freaking hilarious. Obnoxious as hell, no question. But that's what got him alot of the interviews. LOVED the way Carrie opened up to him, and the candor with which we heard about the affairs, fights, and resentments FIRSTHAND, from the stars themselves.

Is it just me? These were the best darned interviews I've seen with the cast members to date. I can't believe this guy got all of these guys (and gal) to talk to him, and so openly!

I LOVED IT.

my 2 cents.

I'm surprised nobody has actually read it by now and posted their review. My jaw hit the ground when I saw the hardcover version of this beauty sitting there on the bookstore shelf. Choirs of galactic angels were singing as a bright Yavin IV moonbeam hit the book's cover and I heard Ben's voice over my shoulder "I wanted you to have this when you were 13 years old, but your Uncle George wouldn't allow it."

I am an old and rare lonely "Star Wars" only fanatic, by which I mean my fanaticism extends only into the very first movie that came out. I love the whole saga, don't get me wrong. But my obsession belongs only to Star Wars before "Episode IV" was forced into the opening crawl, making the beautiful Star Wars logo jump away into the screen faster than the Millenium Falcon jumping into hyperspace.

With that background, this book hit my Star Wars only spot so hard I still can't believe it exists. I freaking love it. This is my Star Wars Bible. That being said, it is not the most readable book unless you are REALLY into that first movie. The rare photos (I love the way new photos keep popping up every few years as soon as I think I've seen them all), the interviews, the rough drafts before the final screenplay, all of it is Star Wars heaven to me.

But even I in my nostalgic stupor had to admit the writing is not the smoothest, particularly the first third of the book. I LOVE that there is SO much background before they even get to the making of the movie, don't get me wrong. But after so many pages you start to wonder "When is it getting to the actual movie?"

Still, it does make you feel like you got the most thorough background published EVER. And as the book progresses, the tidbits of information are absolutely wonderful (like R2 walking onto the set of another movie that was being filmed for television - don't want to give away which one, but Jesus it's funny!) But if you're not committed to reading the whole book you may not make it. I do NOT want to slight Rinzler in the least. I would pay him 10 times what he asked for this book because it's that valuable to me. I thank him for doing this. But he's a better researcher than a writer, and it's the STYLE of writing that can be difficult to get through. By the time you get to grand opening of the movie, and the stories around the sneak previews and the immediate hoopla following the film's release (again, with more very cool tidbits of information I had never read before), the book ends quite anticlimactically. Again, this is not because of the content but because of the style. It just reads more like a news article than a good story.

Okay, don't want to end on a negative note. Mr. Rinzler, thank you, thank you, thank you! I don't know or care how you got your hands on so many lost interviews and photos, but this has toppled "Star Wars Chronicles" as the singular item that sits on my coffee table at home to make a statement to the world (okay, to anyone visiting my townhouse) that this is the greatest film in all of history. Even if the writing is just too prosaic for the non-fan, the sheer magnitude of information, photographs, and effort it must have taken to compile the book does show your passion for the film, and I thank you again for doing this. (Yes, I know Rinzler's not a member of originaltrilogy.com but whatever). Thank you, thank you, thank you!

To everyone else, don't think twice. Get this book yesterday.

MTFBWY.