Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140221183807/@comment-1915529-20140514213339

Luke had fallen to the Dark Side during that final fight with the 'moaning goats' as you put it. I think it fits quite well.

I'm glad I found out about it before I watched the Blu-Ray. Changing Obi-Wan's dragon call and making the Ewoks blink would have made be think twice about it but getting to that climatic battle in the Throne Room and having it ruined by the edits would have been one hell of a 'fuck you'. I'd probably never be able to watch the Original Trilogy again. Last time I watched it was my mum's original version on VHS.

As a kid I always saw Jedi as the best of a good trilogy. But I do see its bad points as I grow up. Taking the two major battles, Hoth and Endor. In Hoth you see the panic in the Rebels. You know they are outclassed by the fact that as soon as they realise the Empire is on its way, their first thought is not mount the defences and ready the troops, it is prepare for evacuation. They are stragglers hopping from hideout to hideout trying to keep one step ahead of the Empire. The battle is intense as you see troops with rifles and the hardly combat worthy Airspeeders going up against the behemoth AT-AT Walkers. In the end their victory is that they escaped with most of the Rebels alive, they didn’t win a battle (which of course is the whole story of the film). The heroes don’t win. Instead they end the film in a worse position than when they started although they continue to hope.

Compare this to the Endor battle. Palpatine’s plan is superb. Trick the Rebels into attacking the Death Star thinking it is not operational and then trap them between the very operational Death Star with energy shielding and the entire Imperial armada of Star Destroyers and the flag ship Super Star Destroyer. The Rebel ships should have been destroyed left right and centre. The Death Star fires its laser twice (two Rebel cruisers are blown up to correct you). Let’s say that that was the Death Star’s firing rate and that it took that long charge up the super laser, the Star Destroyers surely could have done something in that time. It’s hard to imagine that the Emperor’s plan was to pick off every Rebel cruiser over the course of 2 hours with the Death Star.

I’d imagine smart elevators never caught on because people spend roughly 1 minute in elevators depending on how high/low they’re going. ‘I will just read this article on SARS and oh wait, I’m at my floor’.