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Well at that time it had not been decided that she was a Skywalker...

oh, and someone asked how else GL could have conveyed Anakin's power if he didn't use midichlorians, here's a simplified example (which of course would be touched up by a professional script doctor): Bring Anakin before the council, we all know they can "feel the force" flowing through a...

Chalk me up as another who felt that midichlorians was a pretty bad way to try and give a "measure" of someone's strength in the force. It took away a bit of the spiritual nature of the force by rendering it measurable by scientific instruments. In the OT, we knew that Obi and Vader were...

Kevin, I don't remember the specifics, but I thought Lucas worked out a deal when making the PT w/ Fox to have complete ownership of Star Wars (the first movie). That was part of the deal when Lucas was shopping around the PT. Could you imagine another studio's logo in front of the "A long time...

Hey! I resent that! What to change mine too... How about 0-0-0...yeah no one will figure that one out!

Well, hopefully a lot of the "ambient" things people are noticing for the first time, due to the higher resolution of DVD, will fade from their consciousness in time. When the HD-DVD comes out people will just accept them as part of the transfer. The only errors I don't like are the flipped...

We know the public answer is to "avoid bootlegging", but surely Lucas & Co. knows the encryption system on DVDs has been cracked. The boots that were out before ranged from (and I read this from the Bits, not out of personal experience) piss poor to decent LD rip (which is still nothing compared...

Actually Matt, my entire face went slack and my mouth dropped open. A coworker happened to just be walking by and asked "hey are you okay?"

At work yesterday I was listening to the commentary on The Empire Strikes Back and I heard something that absolutely floored me. On the Luke/Yoda training scene, with Yoda clinging to Luke's back while he ran and jumped, Lucas was explaining that this was what they had to do because Yoda was...

Ditto what Jefferson said. My rankings would be: Star Wars: 9.0 The Empire Strikes Back: 9.5 Return of the Jedi: 7.5 The prequels thus far...very very low, and low

By the way, for BOTH sides of the argument (or all sides, since there are many shades of gray), I thought this was Van's best answer of the chat: And I think fan input and reaction is important because it might, just might be able to generate a reaction (Luke's scream in ESB gives us hope)

Yeah there was a bit o' vitriol in that chat, I did sense that Van Ling took it with a grain of salt though (as we all must with these kinds of things)... One question I did find funny was the Howard the Duck SE question (and answer by Van)

BTW, the Van Ling's (and others earlier in this thread) guesstimate of a 2007 Uber-set release date to coincide with the 30th anniversary sounds about right to me. The question is: will he put it out on DVD or will he pioneer us into HD-DVD? I'm skeptical of the latter because he held out so...

Many thanks Jim. Do you ever get confused for Jim Tressel?

Anyone have a transcript of the ugliness?

By the way, does anyone else miss the old Empire Strikes Back logo? I don't like how everything is now STAR WARS in big letters with the little Episode name in little print. This is the one I'm talking about (sorry I couldn't find a better pic):

Well I was at the crazy midnight sale with me and 500 of my closest nerd friends...er...Star Wars fans. :D Unfortunately I can now confirm many of Neil's errors/bad creative decisions are there. It's just a matter of "if you notice it" or "if it bugs you." If it does NOT, then by all means...

Okay, if he says the last option of you give...hoo boy then I've heard just about everything. Thanks for hanging in there Neil. I tried to get your back, but couldn't be more vehement in your defense since I don't yet own these DVDs. Hopefully if there is a recall they'll accept only a...

Is it smaller than the Indy box in size?

Why Doesn't Lucas Just Reshoot the Original Trilogy? :D :p) Sorry, just had to bring up my VERY old thread on the very subject, since I see a few people have brought up the idea. Here's my take: Lucas said that the OT was "25%" of what he wanted. Now I'm fairly sure he wasn't only...

Joe, I believe you're correct about Burtt's original position when the OT was created. But he's since been promoted and is generally the "head sound guy" at Lucasfilm nowadays, from what I understand. He's certainly the most visible, and in nearly every interview gives the impression...

Me three. That transition from Yub Yub to Williams' familiar theme was the best part of that scene. I guess we're the minority, and although I was never a big fan of it, I think it fit the OT much better than the new celebration. I understand what GL wanted to do, making an "ending" to the...

Well I'm not one who stated the OOT would be preferred by "the masses". But I thought we all agreed "the masses" wouldn't care. They just want SW...any SW. More people would buy this DVD than signed that petition is a given. How well publicized was that anyway, compared with the marketing blitz...

Classic, James!

Very good point, Aaron. Remember though, that they have these previous masters (probably on a master tape) to refer to, and it should be good practice to refer to them. For example, Stephen King finished his 7 volume Dark Tower novel which spanned 30 years of his life. What did he do when he...

PS - just a quick aside. Did anyone else notice in the Charlie Rose interview that Lucas began most of his responses with "well..."? Not assigning any meaning to it, just about 1/2 through I started noticing it and began paying attention to it, and he kept saying "well..." before nearly every...

Me neither. And not that he pays attention to this, or a hundred other similar threads in hundreds of other boards, but he also has some industry people taking semi-lighthearted shots (Kevin Smith, for example, not that they're buds or anything), and it is broached in some interviews I've read...

Re: the soundtrack changes and whether Burtt made the decisions or just “does what Lucas says”... How many of you have ever seen a major motion picture or DVD being made? I have. I am lucky enough to know people in Dreamworks and Universal Studios, who have made motion pictures and DVDs...

Freudian slip? Or are you watching the Leia @ Jabba's Palace scene...

Well I did post it within a few posts of the Lucas article on the previous page of this thread. Unfortunately by the time I typed the post and hit SUBMIT something like 4-5 posts got submitted and the thread flipped to the next page, which may explain the disconnection between the article posted...