{"id":6403,"date":"2004-09-08T23:34:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T06:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/09\/08\/lord-of-the-tweaks.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:52:20","slug":"lord_of_the_twe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/08\/lord_of_the_twe.html","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Tweaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

More news on the various tweaks, edits, changes, and other “enhancements”<\/a> George Lucas is making in the New, Improved, No, Really, This Time DVD set of the original Star Wars<\/em> trilogy. No big surprises, for anyone following the news along, but confirmation that, yes, the Anakin Skywalker the Friendly Ghost at the end of Jedi is now played by Hayden Christensen<\/a> (though Sebastian Shaw still shows up as the Man Under the Mask, now digitally enhanced, evidently).<\/p>\n

Oh, and Greedo still shoots first.<\/p>\n

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

More news on the various tweaks, edits, changes, and other “enhancements” George Lucas is making in the New, Improved, No, Really, This Time DVD set of the original Star Wars…<\/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":[28,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-moguls","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6229,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/05\/pray_he_doesnt.html","url_meta":{"origin":6403,"position":0},"title":"“Pray he doesn’t alter them any further …”","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Oct-04 7:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"More (and detailed) ragging on George Lucas and his revisionist Star Wars DVDs. 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