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« on: September 26, 2004, 04:55 AM »
I subscribe to the theory that Vader is playing dumb with the Emperor. What makes it confusing is we don't know for sure at this point that Anakin knows he has a son. I'm spoiler free, but I'll bet that he does, and he knows Luke is his son, and he's slow playing the Emperor.
And I love the new Emperor scene, by the way.
As for the overall changes, I don't mind them. He fixed the two most galring mistakes of the SE (already mentioned above) and I wish he would release the originals just for the sake of history, but one thing I think many fans are forgetting is, what is the original?
Is is the the first version of SW, without the Episode 4 - A new Hope tag? Is it the very first early version of ESB, which did not contain a couple shots at the end which made the orientation of the Falcon relative to the fleet confusing?
These have been changing since day one. Star Wars is a work by a living writer - like many writers (most) - the work isn't really 'complete' until (gasp) he's dead. It's like language; it's a living, breathing thing. It doesn't ever stop changing or growing until it dies.
The SW saga will not even be complete until next summer, so really what we're watching is the theatrical demonstration of a writer revising his first draft. Just so long as he makes the varied drafts available for posterity, I'm ok.