He's at it again, and I have been one to defend Lucas over and over again, declaring that we would not have Star Wars at all if not for Lucas, they are his vision and he has every right to perfect it in any way he sees fit.

I was wrong.

We need to find this man and immediately throw him into a Sarlacc Pit.

The new Star Wars Saga Blu Ray sets are coming out next week and we are just finding out that George has once again been tweaking the films.

Small, insignificant things like these are fine and no one really cares if Ewoks have blinking eyes and replacing that horrible excuse for a Yoda puppet in Episode I to the CGI Yoda from Episoded II and III is actually a welcome upgrade.

I can even deal with this ridiculous new scream Obi-Wan has to scare away the Sandpeople in Episode IV.



But this . . .

This actually makes me want to go on Amazon and cancel the pre order I've had since February.



And I'm not at all alone. There's actually now an entire thread discussion on Amazon of people logging on and cancelling their pre orders all because of that one scene.

Lucas seems to have lost all concept of what good film making is. The silence in that original scene and the audience wondering what Vader is thinking at that very moment is the culmination of the ENTIRE fucking story surrounding Anakin Skywalker's internal conflict. Think of the first time you watched that scene. You had no idea what Vader was going to do. The Vader mask looking at Luke and then looking at the Emporer back and forth and then finally lunging toward and picking him up is the most important moment of all 6 of these films that have taken up way too much of my life.

And now it's been completely marginalized and deflated with "Nnnnoooooooooooooo!" Ironically that's the sound I made when I first saw this. Actually I was more like, "WWWHHHYYYYYYY?!" Is Lucas that bored? Why does he feel the need to take one of the most powerful scenes in the history of sci-fi and dwarf it down to a 3-year-old level? Is there not one person in his life with any balls in their sack at all to tell him he's gone batshit?

I guess I'll need to learn how to edit blu ray video and reburn it back to the disk so I can remove this abomination myself.