Old School Star Wars!!

Having been raised by my parents, I've grown up with an appreciation for originals and classics, and untainted, unaltered art. That's why I got pretty pissed off when I saw Haden Christensen sitting there in ghost form smiling at Mark Hamill instead of David Prowse at the end of the recent DVD release of Return of the Jedi. It definately wasn't the same Star Wars I first saw when I was a kid, taped off of television and fast-forwarding through commercials. It wasn't the same Star Wars we finally bought on box set one year for Christmas. All the stuff added in made it something different. You don't change a classic just cause you have the technology. You DON'T change a classic. It's just....wrong.

Well, I can be happy now. starwars.com just announced that it plans to make the original, untainted Star Wars Trilogy available on DVD beween September '06 and New Years Eve. You will only be able to get each movie individually, not as a set. And the DVDs will actually also have the 2004 "remastered" version, with "as bonus material, the theatrical edition of the film."

Anyway, good news for me, my family and, according to the report, "a truely countless number of fans."