10 More Star Wars Changes George Lucas Made That Were Completely Justified

Actually before revenge of the sith was done filming, George Lucas told Hayden to just stand there and smile, and that's what Hayden did. He didn't know what it was for. He said if he knew he was filming that scene he would have acted differently. That’s what Hayden said in an interview

Yes the stormtrooper head bump is funny and a satisfying noise, that's why I decided to show it 4 times in this video and talk over it every time.

I don't know why anyone would be annoyed at Ewoks blinking. Without it they just look like teddy bears and more obvious suits, plus there is something disturbing about them having their eyes open constantly.

The fact that he didn’t play the bump sound effect will forever haunt me

I remembered as a kid finding it weird that the actor that played the ghost looked exactly like Anakin in the prequel even if the movie came out like 20 years before

Replacing puppet Yoda was justified. They lost the original (ESB one) and the puppet used in TPM was just a proof of concept using "modern" materials. George said "that'll do" much to the creators surprise. The CGI replacement showing Yoda 30 years younger than ESB and living in far better conditions than the swamp he eventually lived in, was a great choice.

The Yoda puppet didn't stand out because of the digital environment. It stood out because the sculpt of the puppet was horribly inconsistent from the original. Frank Oz did a fine job puppeteering Yoda in the prequels, it just never looked like the same character.

I never had a problem with Hayden Christensen replacing Shaw as Anakin's force ghost. I'm especially in favor of it now after seeing how well Hayden has aged over the last 18 years. He still looks very similar, and (unlike Shaw) is still alive for future projects. Also, younger fans would probably see Shaw's force ghost at the end of the original version of RotJ and think "Who the hell is this guy? Where's Anakin?"

The problem with Shaw’s Force ghost is that it looks like a 70 something year old. This is not as obvious when he is dying as he is supposed to look scarred and broken. Lucas probably hadn’t decided om Anakin’s age when writing the original trilogy, so it’s understandable that he looked this way originally, but still, the change is definitely for the better. Ideally they should edit the scene now as Christensen has the perfect age for a 40 something Anakin.

Anakin redeemed himself in the end so his force ghost should represent how he looks then.

Its just weird that we never saw Anakin wearing those classic Jedi Robes

Out of morbid curiosity, I would like to see Mr. Christensen do the whole back to Light/death scene. I wouldn't want it actually replaced in the movie, but I would like to see it. Of course, I'm still a little salty over my favorite cut scene being in A New Hope. I love the scene with the big furry human Jaba in the hanger, I still don't think that ILM can or will be able to make the slug look good.

Your argument for adding blinking to the Dianoga works equally well for the adding of blinking to the Ewoks.

What annoys me more than all those unnecessary tweaks is that the original versions are no longer available. I would like to watch the film as I remembered it as a kid in '77, not as an adult in '97.

The tractor beam thing in English (I mean it's labelled "Tractor beam" pretty, obvious exposition, is akin to the original Batman, which had signs everywhere telling everyone the obvious: "bat computer", bat-microwave oven" etc. What would have been funnier is if Obiwan had to type in on a key pad, the Admin password "admin" and the password, "password".

Controversial opinion: Since Lucas already updated the movies once, Disney should update them again to make the more consistent with the prequels and other canon shows. I'm not talking changing stories here, I mean just updating some of the really aged late-90s CGI, or tweaking small things to make them internally self-consistent like what Lucas did with Vader/Anakin's eyebrows. Then they should add all the original and modified cuts in bonus features to acknowledge how the movie effects changed over time (perhaps with commentary as to why it changed too).

I believe the change to hayden christiansen is smart, because if you think of it, Anakin, before he turned to the dark side, was Hayden, and when he was turned back he was still burned and gross, so in his force ghost he chose to look like the original Anakin. Idk, those are just my thoughts.

The real sacrilege would have been replacing Sir Alec with Ewan in that final ROTJ scene.

The Ewoks blinking is fine. After all, they living in a forest and can get things in their eyes like we do.

I got the original trilogy on VHS tapes and I'm wondering if it's Shaw or Hayden as Anakin... Also, in Ahsoka Hayden is perfect as the Force Ghost of Annie, cause he knew what he was doing...