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What’s bad, however, is George Lucas is actively not allowing us to relive our childhood by watching the original versions of the Original Trilogy.

It’s not so bad as, well, George Lucas didn’t destroy our childhood with these edits. The most jarring for me was when he replaced Sebastian Shaw’s Anakin Skywalker’s Force Ghost with a reshot Hayden Christensen in his place! Why did he appear as his younger version? Obi-Wan is a Force Ghost but he didn’t become Ewan Macgregor in Return of the Jedi! The changes kept on piling on and a lot of the Original Trilogy has been cut away. What’s worst is that George Lucas kept on editing the Original Trilogy to accommodate some of the retcons that happened after he made Episodes I, II and III. There were just a few too many changes and most of them didn’t really add anything

However, some of these changes were rather jarring, especially for fans who loved the original versions of the Original Trilogy. You were still seeing the films and the stories weren’t altered all that much. Granted, some changes did make some sense, like putting in Ian McDiarmid as Emperor Palpatine when talking to Darth Vader in Episode V and getting rid of the weird vision he looked like in the hologram communication.

While his heart may have been in the right place, these new Special Editions changed a little too much here and there. George Lucas wanted to clean up some special effect shots and fully flesh out some scenes with deleted footage. After all, technology had vastly improved in the couple of decades the films were released. The intention was good as he wanted to make some improvements to all three films. When George Lucas re-released the Original Trilogy way back in 1997, he went back and made a few nips and tucks to them. Oh, and to make it free for anyone to see just makes me love Harmy and the De-Specialized Editions even more!įirst, a little background may be in order to fully explain why Harmy’s Star Wars De-Specialized Editions are so important. And I do have to say, bravo! Harmy and his team pulled off a spectacular job of putting together three really good cuts of the Original Trilogy, recreating them almost flawlessly.