un-frakkin-believable! I'm getting close to canceling my preorder of the boxset! LOL

Sigh. He's such a donkey's c##k.

From amazon...

"This order has been cancelled."

After the greedo shoots first #%&*$# storm, you think he would learn...

Mr Lucas, let me introduce you to a popular saying:

Aaron Williams who does comics including "Nodwick" and "PS-238" had an interesting link related to this on his site where he also pulls out some of the more interesting quotes. Starts in the third block:

http://ps238principal.livejournal.com/176639.html

Here's the link he references:

http://savestarwars.com/lucasspeechagainstspecialedition.html

Elf

Star Wars is huge because it hits home with my (presumably "our") generation. Great flicks from our childhood. It's always made money thanks to my generation, and that's not just due to being fun movies but memories associated with the time. These changes might be small, but they take away from the fun and the memory. I understand wanting to perfect as the technology advances, but offering a polished version of the original should come first, maybe these extras on another edition also on the disc. Plenty of room on blu-ray for both. Same goes for Blade Runner. Just polish the original that I know and love and let me relive that.
I'd imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark will get this treatment one day. I really don't want Indy to face that big swordsman in the marketplace and throw a fish at him instead of shooting him with disinterest.

My fundamental problem with the change to the Vader scene when Luke is being electrocuted by Palpatine is that absolutely NO WORDS are necessary to convey what is going on inside Vader's mind while his son is being tortured. David Prowse's subtle movements was more than plenty to convey the emotion. Adding words to him in that scene is like banging the audience over the head with a huge rolling pin saying "get it? get it? Vader is upset here!!!".

It's like...tossing in a unicorn grenade.
Maybe next he'll remove the intro text, since the audience should be able to get the idea on their own anyway.

No he wouldn't do that considering that he thinks modern audiences are too dumb to figure out what is going on as evidenced by the change to the Vader ROTJ scene.

Indeed. There are some scenes where words are unnecessary and in fact would damage the scene. There are many examples of this in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and this scene in Star Wars is another example. Audiences are not idiots and don't like being treated as such. As my old acting teacher said, God rest him: 'Less is more'.