09-13-2004, 04:07 PM
Oh man.
He actually put Hadyen Christansen in the ending sequence of Return of the Jedi. I can't believe it. That's one of the most ridiculous things I've even seen or heard of... He may as well replace Mark Hamill as Luke, put someone younger in it. Or maybe digitally replace all of the actors, so he can make the time line consistent with episodes 7-9. Geez. Makes me want to puke. "Screw your childhood!" Says Lucas. He slaps us in the face with his unabashed alterations of history!
Fact is, though, he owns them, and he can do whatever he wants with them, no matter how much people despise that. I understand why he does what he does, but I whole-heartedly disagree. History is history, those movies were added to the public consciousness, in a specific state. Han Solo SHOT FIRST! ARGH!!
It's almost as if he was edgy in the 80's (almost), and in the 90's, he became a big wet-bag. Now he's all soft and weak, unable to retain any sense of what is entertaining or pleasing to the masses. He seems to want to target children with his changes -- the only reason why I can see is for the merchandising. I won't get into that, though... Dirty money grubbing...
I can understand him adding Jabba the Hutt in Episode IV, because, well, he was supposed to be there. They shot that scene with the intention of adding a big puppet, but couldn't do it at the time because of technology constraints. But changing actors, 20 years after release!? Lucas has lost it. What's next, change the Yoda puppet with a CGI Yoda?
Lucas just can't admit that he actually DIDN'T have the entire series planned out. He had an idea for a story, but he didn't have all that crap about Dooku and the trade federation written down. He definitely didn't have Jar-Jar Binks written down. Ugh, don't get me started on Jar-Jar...
For me, Star Wars is a trilogy that was concluded in 1983. These new movies (episodes 1-3) are, as far as I'm concerned, not part of the original timeline. Instead, they're part of a different, bastardized history, one that doesn't apply to those of us who were around to watch the original. Oh Lucas and his changes...
If Lucas was a historian, he'd probably say, "oh yeah, Japan was never bombed in World War 2." Sure you can say that, Lucas, you filthy pig, and you can change the pictures of the crater to try and prove it. It still doesn't change that it happened, and we remember.
He actually put Hadyen Christansen in the ending sequence of Return of the Jedi. I can't believe it. That's one of the most ridiculous things I've even seen or heard of... He may as well replace Mark Hamill as Luke, put someone younger in it. Or maybe digitally replace all of the actors, so he can make the time line consistent with episodes 7-9. Geez. Makes me want to puke. "Screw your childhood!" Says Lucas. He slaps us in the face with his unabashed alterations of history!
Fact is, though, he owns them, and he can do whatever he wants with them, no matter how much people despise that. I understand why he does what he does, but I whole-heartedly disagree. History is history, those movies were added to the public consciousness, in a specific state. Han Solo SHOT FIRST! ARGH!!
It's almost as if he was edgy in the 80's (almost), and in the 90's, he became a big wet-bag. Now he's all soft and weak, unable to retain any sense of what is entertaining or pleasing to the masses. He seems to want to target children with his changes -- the only reason why I can see is for the merchandising. I won't get into that, though... Dirty money grubbing...
I can understand him adding Jabba the Hutt in Episode IV, because, well, he was supposed to be there. They shot that scene with the intention of adding a big puppet, but couldn't do it at the time because of technology constraints. But changing actors, 20 years after release!? Lucas has lost it. What's next, change the Yoda puppet with a CGI Yoda?
Lucas just can't admit that he actually DIDN'T have the entire series planned out. He had an idea for a story, but he didn't have all that crap about Dooku and the trade federation written down. He definitely didn't have Jar-Jar Binks written down. Ugh, don't get me started on Jar-Jar...
For me, Star Wars is a trilogy that was concluded in 1983. These new movies (episodes 1-3) are, as far as I'm concerned, not part of the original timeline. Instead, they're part of a different, bastardized history, one that doesn't apply to those of us who were around to watch the original. Oh Lucas and his changes...
If Lucas was a historian, he'd probably say, "oh yeah, Japan was never bombed in World War 2." Sure you can say that, Lucas, you filthy pig, and you can change the pictures of the crater to try and prove it. It still doesn't change that it happened, and we remember.
"Yay! We did it!"
"Who are you?"
"Um, uh... just ... a guy." *flee*
"Who are you?"
"Um, uh... just ... a guy." *flee*