All this and Han still doesn't shoot first!

For those of you who thought that George Lucas would be able to let one Star Wars release pass by without putting his pudgy little hands all over it, think again, young Padawan. One of the greatest series of all time is still not good enough for ol' Georgie. Sure, there will be subtle little foley and SFX changes that will probably go all but unnoticed, but most will be hardpressed not to notice things like:
-A new CGI Yoda, instead of the current puppet in The Phantom Menace for better trilogy continuity. Pretty soon Lucas is just going replace all of the main characters with CGI.
- Obi-Wan apparently stubs his toe or something while trying to scare off the Sandpeople from around Luke's landspeeder. Well, at least that's what it sounds like.
- The entrance to Jabba's palace is now large enough to drive Delaware through it.
- Wicket, and I would supposed the rest of the Ewoks, now have CGI blinking eyes going on, which really just looks more weird than them NOT blinking at all, at least in Wicket's case.
- Oh, and let's not forget the coup de grace which will forever be known as "Vader says, 'NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!'" featuring Vader voicing his disapproval of Emperor Palpatine delivering the fatal blows to poor old Luke in ROTJ. Sure, there's the nausea-inducing one at the end of Episode III, but those movies are so full of suck that it's just another coal on the fire.

I would be willing to give him a pass on most of these changes if he would just be willing to put Sebastian Shaw back where he belongs at the end of Jedi. Seeing the talentless Christensen just destroys the last moments of a beautiful saga. Didn't I put up with him enough in the prequels?!

Here is the aforementioned Vader video for your viewing. I didn't add the other videos because most of them are linked to the main page of this one, but check them out.

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