A butchered masterpiece.

Rating: 7/10 (24 February 2008)

So far I have not been upset with any of the alterations, nor was I bothered by the so called "plot hole" concerning Leia and her mother. The full quote went:
Luke:Do you remember your mother? Your real mother?
Leia:Just images really, *feelings*.
With respect to Hothfreeze from the chat forums you yourself said that realizing that most of the Star Wars plot twists (Vader being Luke's father for example.) were not planned from the start was an important way of understanding how the franchise worked. Since it is safe to assume that Leia's Jedi intuition -where strong emphasis is put on what they sense- that these feelings could be an explanation for the images even if that's not how it was originally intended... remember at one point "Darth" was actually Vader's first name.
Anyway that's not what I have a problem with. Nor am I still hung over so much from the sloppiness in the surrounding details of Anakins transformation. My concern is that damn alternate ending with Hayden Christiansen! By the way don't be mad at Hayden it turns out that he didn't even know about it! This was purely a George Lucas goof he made in an attempt to "connect the prequels to the original trilogy". I use to think that George Lucas was not a dumb man but here he exercised such poor judgment that I am in awe. The ending was great up until that point... at least he got rid of the Ewok singing! (hallelaluke's a riiight) I'm starting a collection of all Star Wars movies but I wouldn't feel right with this one so if anyone knows of a way that I can get the special special edition with all the extra scene alterations except the Hayden/Shaw change please... pleeeease tell me how to get it. It would mean the world to me. Then *only then* complete will the series be. If not I'll have to settle the unaltered version and that lacks the scenes of celebration at the end with I thought were uplifting, and instead just shows the bond fire, but I'll go for that any day. Just as Jango Fett asked for a unaltered clone so must I ask for a unaltered DVD and I'm a younger fan so what does tell you about how the older fans felt? As for the Ewoks "defeating the empire"... argh! don't get me started.
Star Wars forever!!! May the force be with you.