{"id":6397,"date":"2004-09-10T10:41:50","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/10\/lord-of-the-tweaks-part-ii.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:52:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:52:18","slug":"lord_of_the_twe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/10\/lord_of_the_twe-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Tweaks, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a more detailed comparison to show what else George Lucas has tweaked, with screen shots comparing the 1997 Special Edition (already an “abomination” in some folks’ eyes) and the new 2004 DVD set<\/a>. Yes, he’s even revising some of the revisions.<\/p>\n

So even though Greedo fires first, Han now fires back faster.<\/p>\n

Jabba (Ep IV), the arrival at Mos Eisley, and the light sabers (again) have been redone (to the better), and Sebastian Shaw has lost his eyebrows.<\/p>\n

Ian McDiarmid gets to play the Emperor in Empire<\/em>, with some mild dialog alteration.<\/p>\n

Naboo is now celebrating in Jedi<\/em>, and various landmarks have been added to Coruscant’s skyline. Control panels are no longe rin English.<\/p>\n

And, of course, there’s Hayden Christiansen in the Final Finale. Eek. <\/p>\n

Some of these changes are trivial (cityscapes, Jabba, language), some are more significant but understandable (the Emperor). One can disagree whether George should be polishing the movies at this late date, but these changes don’t matter all that much, and are even arguably improvements (as much so as adding “Episode IV – A New Hope” was to the original’s text scroll).<\/p>\n

But having Greedo shoot first still rankles. And having HC be the “Ghostly Jedi” is just goofy.<\/p>\n

(via Julia<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a more detailed comparison to show what else George Lucas has tweaked, with screen shots comparing the 1997 Special Edition (already an “abomination” in some folks’ eyes) and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27009,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/its-not-the-fat-thats-offensive.html","url_meta":{"origin":6397,"position":0},"title":"It's not the fat that's offensive","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Mar-12 7:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear folks who really dislike Rush Limbaugh:It's okay. 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