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The Star Wars creator this week landed himself in hot water (again) after fans noticed he'd been ''tweaking'' the originals (again) for the latest Blu-ray DVD release of his films. Mostly they're fairly innocuous things, the kind of stuff only a true fan would notice (like a new painting hanging in the background of Jabba the Hutt's palace). But one has truly set them off.

That would be the moment in Return Of The Jedi where Darth Vader decides he won't stand by and watch his son, Luke Skywalker, be killed. In the original print, it was one of cinema's most poignant moments, Vader wordlessly exchanging his life for Luke's and saving his own soul in the process. But not any more. Now Lucas has decided to add Vader screaming: ''No! Nooo! Noooooooo!'' over the top, turning it into a cringe-worthy farce.

Now cut to a speech Lucas made in 1988 where he pleaded that US Congress to legislate against monsters who dared to change a film once it had been made...

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We've all encountered them. They lurk in Internet message boards, comment threads, and chatrooms. Addressing anyone and everyone, they type up lengthy tirades with Cheeto-stained fingers, extolling the virtues of their product or brand of choice. They angrily accuse even the most impartial reviewers of taking handouts from reviled competitors of a beloved company, and they casually and systematically dismiss any evidence that might conflict with their worldview. Scientific studies have pointed to the existence of a basal process that, when one chooses between two roughly equally desirable items, causes the brain's perception of the two items to change significantly.

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Are you starting to feel compassion for belligerent fanboys yet? Clearly, they can't help refusing to see reason. Their brains have automatically and unconsciously re-wired themselves to view their product of choice as markedly superior. Competition that might have seemed just as good before now appears clearly inferior to them. In their minds, everyone else is irrationally refusing to see the world as it is. Why wouldn't they get mad and write angry rants on message boards? To make matters worse, everyone seems to behave that way—yes, even you—albeit to varying degrees. We all possess a natural propensity to engage in that kind of behavior. Luckily, as humans, we're blessed with the ability to tone down natural behaviors and use higher levels of thought to see and interact with the world more rationally. All it takes is admitting that you have a problem...

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The saddest thing I ever saw in SWG was the night before the NGE on the Euro servers... Creature Handlers taking out their favourite pets one last time, petting and playing with them. Perhaps they thought they'd still be able to pull them out; maybe they knew. I am not joking when I say that the conversations I overheard between them then brought a lump to my throat. And I knew then that what SOE was doing was a breach of faith. I became then as angry as the rest of us. (Terra Nova blog, "Order 66," comment by Chewster , 12/16/2005)

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OMG by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday July 11, @09:54PM (#36729072)

I wish anything to do with star wars would just die. I mean, this is the most overly marketed product in history and it is actually sad and retarded when another star wars "something" comes out. I mean, I was browsing a toy store looking for a gift for my nephew and could not believe that 1/2 of the lego isle was devoted to start wars lego sets, I mean, what 5 year old has even watched star wars? I remember when the special editions re-releases came out hearing 13 years old's say they never saw star wars and whether the movie was good enough to see.

Lucas has raped this concept for all that is worth and it is time that the franchise dies. There is nothing NEW in star wars, no new stories, no new characters, no new concepts. its a tired rehash of a movie that came out in the 70's and we have entered second decade of the 21st century now. The people involved in anything to do with star wars are only interested in money, period. Not artistic integrity, not advancing the franchise, not doing anything relevant or meaningful to encourage a new generation of people to get hooked into the series, only to offer crap for purchase to 40-something year old shut-ins.

I am saddened by anyone that is still enthralled by anything to do with star wars. What a simple mind and life to anticipate a new game release or to crone on reciting movie quotes or buy old memorabilia. When Lucas belched out the prequels, that is when I decided that would be the last time I would waste a dime on the star wars franchise. I can't even capitalize the title of the franchise because it has become so watered down and redundant to not warrant any special distinction, its two words from the dictionary IMHO.

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It has been said that all good things must come to an end and those words throughout the ages have always been proven true. The best one can hope for is when something “good” approaches its end, it gets the chance to go out in a blaze of glory. Sometimes things work out that way. Often something “good” slowly starts to degrade. It leaves the rest of us with no other recourse other than to stand around its proverbial death bed and watch its flame finally extinguish as nothing but a shell of its former self.

As a life long Star Wars fanatic I had to face the facts and finally say the words. STAR WARS IS DEAD, AND MY OBSESSION HAS DIED WITH IT.

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