totally...

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Ghostikin might grant force renewal 1, mettle, and maybe master of the force 2. Also possible that he gives out Master of the Force X and Force Renewal X to those who already have those abilities, with X being one more than their current number.

The Hayden haunting is one of the few special edition changes that actually makes sense, hence I can't hate it. Goofy CGI Han shoots first? Looks dumb, messes up the story by making him less of a rogue at the beginning so it trivializes his character arc and isn't as big a leap for him to come back and help Luke at the end. Having Han's Death Star charge interrupted by 50 instead of 8 stormtroopers? It's more jarring so the scene is funnier. Han stepping on Jabba's tail? Makes one of the antagonists a joke instead of an object of fear.

I also have to butt in on the prequels. They have strong points, mostly visual stuff. Even the goofy CGI in The Phantom Menace was way ahead of other stuff that came out at the time. But boy howdy do the stories have problems. TPM has no protagonist, no central antagonist, and no well-defined, gripping central conflict that the heroes have to solve OR ELSE. AotC is a love story about two flat, annoying people who don't actually seem to like each other that much. RotS dilutes the story by giving Anakin a couple of half-assed reasons to fall to the dark side instead of focusing on one strong flaw. All of them having glaring, unnecessary callbacks to the original trilogy ("Luke, I'm your father...plus I built your effiminate robot pal 30 years ago, what a co-inky-dink!") that take viewers out of the moment and make them think about how much more compelling the old ones were, even with their flaws ("from a certain point of view" my asteroid, George).

Check your figures, you won't find it on any of them. The sculpts are all copyright and trademark LFL because that's who owns the characters the sculpts depict.

It's real. Unless they figured out how to fake the underside of the mini.

Yeah, that's probably my least favorite thing in the whole movie. "I truly, deeply love you...and so I'm telling you in utter monotone, with the facial expression of a dead bulldog."



I kinda want to read the novelizations now. There were supposedly things in the earlier drafts of the prequel screenplays that would have made them better, like a lot of bad history between the Naboo and the Gungans that made their alliance a big deal (they don't want to let Qui-Gon bring Jar Jar on the spaceship) and Anakin finding Sith holocrons he could possibly use to save Padme filed under "masters only" in the Jedi temple archives, which makes his little hissy fit about not being made a master part of the grand plan. Also, supposedly all Jedi could wear whatever they wanted but had to dress in black in one draft of episode I, which sounds cool. I guarantee Mace Windu would've had a Kangol hat.

I don't want anybody who loves the prequels to think I'm saying their tastes are bad, or wrong, or badrong. I just know that these things that I'm pointing out are elements that make stories accessible and engrossing, and the prequels don't have 'em. It just means a smaller audience is going to enjoy them.

I don't know if anyone looked it up but there is a 7 part review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace on YouTube. I would post the link but it really isn't kid-friendly (is much on youtube?). It's funny and painfully true.
Most telling:
The "Without saying their name, describe the character without saying their name:"
1) Han Solo: "Dashing. Rogue with Heart of Gold. Rugged. Crafty."
2) Qui-Gon Jinn: "Um... He has a beard."

Best part was Padme. "Without mentioning her clothes, describe Queen Amidala." "That's going to be really hard if I can't talk about her clothes."