Karen and I finished our own Star Wars trilogy marathon, starting from Thursday until today, one episode a day. It wasn’t until today that I noticed something disturbing in the Return of the Jedi DVD. This is the original scene I remember:
This is what I saw instead:
What the heck? Since when did Hayden Christensen get in there, and with the evil eyes too! Come on! Stop trying to tweak things. What’s with Anakin staying forever young next to the Old-Bi Wan? And to top it off, the original ending music was replaced by another weak ending music.
In watching this marathon, I noticed there are more holes between the prequels and sequels than my stinking socks! For one, in the sequels, Yoda seemed to have trained Obi-Wan. In the prequel, it was Qui-Gon. In the sequels, it appears that Obi-Wan was also pretty old when trained, but in the prequel, even the baby Anakin was too old. In the sequels, the emperor refers to the light saber as a Jedi weapon, but he himself used it as a Sith. Also, in the scene when Luke asked Leia about her mother, they were both there and were both infants! How could she have remembered anything? Baby Force?
After watching everything, I must decidedly say that sequels kick the prequels’ butts. I missed the great acting of Harrison Ford as the smarty pants with witty remarks. By contrast, Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman are as stiff as the bolts on the tires of my CR-V! C-3PO beats Jar Jar the clown any day. Oh, and there’s something about CGI that just subconsciously doesn’t seem as realistic as muppets. The old Yoda, for example, just seemed more real even if it’s some little dude holding a Yoda head.
Still, Episode III does tie the prequels with the sequels nicely.
its bad directing. thats a shame that they tweaked return of the jeddi… that’s just wrong.
Sad is the day.