Comments on: Star Wars, Home Video, and Me

By: Earl Green

Earl Green — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:02:47 +0000

The thing about the SE version of Jedi dropping the original music is that, if that music that was dropped in at the end had turned out to be Anakin’s theme (which we wouldn’t realize until the prequels came out), then I would’ve been much more okay with that. But it wasn’t, so it just becomes a pointless change because the original music that was there wouldn’t have covered all of those extra CGI scenes of the galaxy celebrating. I would much rather have just had the Ewok music re-recorded with an extra verse of “yub nub!” or two.

Eh, don’t get me started.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:11:23 +0000

I’m sure Mason will grow up preferring the Special Editions over the originals, but to me, Jedi ain’t Jedi without Sy Snoodle’s original song and the Ewok celebration. Yub yub!

By: Earl Green

Earl Green — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:14:35 +0000

I’ve been a little more conservative in my trilogy-buying over the years. Well, slightly. I have the VHS box set of the special editions in widescreen, a UK VHS box set of the pre-SE THX editions (again in widescreen), which I used to burn DVDs from for myself, and at that point I held off until this most recent DVD release. I don’t treat the special edition debate as a holy crusade like some folks do – in fact, sometimes I’m in a mood for the SEs rather than the originals. But I wasn’t going to buy them on DVD until the original versions were at least an option. I’ll worry about them not being anamorphic one of these days when I actually have a widescreen TV.