"Star Wars" As It Should Be...

Now that George Lucas and Company have seen the light and released Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi in their original, unaltered versions, we can all experience the movies as they were meant to be: uneditied, untouched-up pristine beauty.

And for that I, as a Star Wars fan since back in the day, can rejoice.

I never wanted to see cleaner shots of Luke's Landspeeder without the brown blob floating underneath it, no huge lizards obscuring entire scenes in Mos Eisley, no light sabers that glow brillianly no matter how you hold them in front of the camera, no thousands of X-Wings heading for the Death Star when just the handful they had originally did the job well enough for me.

That's the thing: some people just can't leave well-enough alone. And when it's someone like Lucas, it's just unwarranted by anything but bravado. He should have just left the originals be as they were - sure, touching up some of the effects was fine and dandy, but why change the entire meaning of some scenes altogether? That's just WRONG.

But more than anything that got my proverbial goat - GREEDO DID NOT SHOOT FIRST.

You heard me.

THIS is how it should be. Forever, baby.



Long live Han, man. Shoot him first every time - he deserved it.

Dope out.

-TGWD