John Johnson wrote:AndyDursin wrote:What a surprise!!
George Lucas confirmed a few things at the Indianapolis comic convention he attended over the weekend, namely:
-There's a 6 DVD set of the whole series coming out with a possible bonus DVD showing CUT SCENES from the original Trilogy. No surprise here, as their absence was one of the notable omissions from the box set that came out last fall
-RETURN OF THE JEDI will be screened digitally with deleted footage reinserted
-Lame TV live-action series is confirmed??
Details Here:
http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/stor ... _91615.asp
Andy,
Just a casual thought here, but does anybody think that Lucas will 'add' to the new boxset? Maybe he'll take out the image of Alec Guiness from the end of Jedi and insert new footage of Ewan McGregor as the ghostly Obi-Wan. Hmm, just a thought...
That would most certainly make baby Q cry. And it doesn't make sense if he does.
I figured Lucas was going to pimp his barely mediocre prequels as much as possible, so it irked me a little bit to see young Anakin at the end of Jedi.
Why? Because it doesn't make sense. The only way it would have made sense, if Lucas had bothered to pay attention to his own continuity instead of whoring out his prequels, would be if Luke had killed Vader while he was still fully evil.
Then seeing young Anakin would make sense, because up until the unmasking and the talk between Vader and Luke, the person that was Anakin Skywalker was as good as dead. Those are Obi-Wan's exact words.
Because Luke was finally able to get through to him, before he died, Darth Vader died on the good side of the force as Anakin Skywalker. Therefore, having young Anakin at the end makes ZERO sense whatsoever, my hate for Hayden Christiansen notwithstanding.
By that count, having YOUNG Obi-Wan makes even less sense because he was ALWAYS on the good side of the force and died at a much older age.
The only so-called excuse that works is: "In the afterlife, everyone is young and healthy, not old." Ok. I can live with that, even though it again will completely take a crap on the mythos and continuity.
So they've put themselves in a box: You either have to keep everyone old at the end (the original footage that I would prefer since it makes perfect sense in terms of the continuity and mythos) or you use my lame excuse and you have to make EVERYONE young, including Yoda.
