Meet the new metaphor for what George Lucas has done to your childhood

[andrewducker]

Personally, I don't get so wound up by George Lucas changing the movies, because he's been doing it since the very beginning:


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I do, of course, enjoy the sight of the fans combusting in rage. But then observing Nerd Rage is a fun way to spend my Saturdays. Particularly the various boycotts I saw of the SW Blu-Rays, which had the stated aim of making him release the originals, because nobody wanted the remastered versions, which ended with Star Wars breaking all records for a Blu-Ray release.

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Oh come on, that timeline is full of absolute trivia that no-one but the most tonto fan could care about ("The Millennium Falcon's radar dish is missing in the shot where...") and then, in 1997, it's changed so Greedo shoots first, twenty years after the original release.

I don't get wound up because I don't care that much about Star Wars, but if I did I would be and with good reason.

[andrewducker]

He's changing dialogue from the first mono cut.

Sure, some changes will bother you more than others, but he's clearly never happy with it.

[skington.livejournal.com]

That list of changes doesn't include the single best change Lucas ever made to the originals, which is to get rid of that goddamm yubyuub song from the original Jedi.