Lucas a racist!

They weren't very well acted alltogether though. And I still wonder how they would have fitted in. I'm sure they'd have had a negative impact on the flow of the film. It works like a charm now. And based on the acting it's better they left it out.

Same goes for the meeting with Biggs in the hangar before the DS Battle. They put it back in for the SE, but the acting and even the framing of the shots wasn't very good. Should have left that one out as well and put it in the DVD.

Yeah, it would have been nice if they had left that out and had cleaned up the Rancor pit scene.

Amen to that.

But the time they invested in the dancing sequence was SO worthwhile...

In the original version, can you see a wire attaching Sy Snootles' mouth to the microphone, or is it meant to be spit (lovely!!)? Looks like a wire either way. I can't even remember what the tune went like in that scene, I never watch the original versions of the old trilogy.

I think the new Jabba Palace dance sequence is a vast improvement on the original version. Why they couldn't have redone the Rancor as an overlayed CGI of the puppet version, I do not know.

You can't remember Lapti Nek? It was a disco tune...

Anyway, it was better but it didn't really add anything to the movie. The money and efforts were better spent on the Rancor scene.

Yeah, I thought that the only really improved scene was at the end of ROTJ SE, with those great shots of Bespin and Coruscant. Better music too, even though the Ewoks playing stormtrooper helmets were out of sync.

I kinda liked the Ewok Feats music. The new music seemed a little different from the other SW music. But the shots were nice, the thing I liked about it, is that the fall of tyranny liberated the entire universe and not just a bunch of rebels and teddy bears on a forest planet.

I think that was more done to give us a first look at Coruscant than anythng else, sort of a prequel preview if you will.

Yes, I guess so. But the pulling down of the Palpy statue was cool though. I wonder if we will see it get erected.

I was thinking of that as I posted that last one actually. I hope so.

Yes, it would be both awesome and distressing. Obviously, everyone would know he was a Sith Lord by that stage. That baffled me, the high ranking imperials treated Vader like he was alone in his belief in the power of the Force, surely the Emperor would have enforced these beliefs.

In Return of the Jedi, when the staff at the incomplete Death Star find out that the Emperor is coming to oversee it's completion, they seem shocked. Maybe he was more of a shadowy in-the-background type of character, never really letting on the true extent of his powers. Then again, they feared him, so they must have had some knowledge of what he was capable of. I don't know, I'm contradicting myself.

Kinda, but I think they more believe he wouldn't leave Coruscant.

There is reference in the original novel to the Emperor locking himself away on Coruscant. We'll see I guess.

We may get a bit apprehensive if the prime minister came to see our workplace, not because they are Sith, they're just in a position of power.

Yeah, but it was more than that. It was like total disbelief that he would even step foot on the deathstar, even though it was his pet project.

And Palpy is not as forgiving as Vader...

Talk about a rough work situation...It almost makes me feel sorry for the Imp officers.

For me they've always been the true heroes of the saga. 😄