I've got a bad feeling about this.

Lucas has finaly decided to release the Star Wars trilogy on DVD. The press release on their site says they'll be in our hands on September 21st. There's a little bit of howling among Star Wars faithful (also called geeks - I'm one too) since they'll be releasing the special edition version of the movies. These are the ones Lucas re-released in 1997 with updates effects and some extra scenes. For the most part I don't mind the new additions, with one glaring exception.

Like just about everyone else I continue to be dissapointed that they made Gredo shoot first in the cantina scene in the first movie. This significantly changes the dynamic of that scene and changes the Han Solo character. Dissapointment in this change even made it into a movie, Kevin Smith slipped a line about it into Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

But in the end I'll buy it anyway, as the Star Wars trilogy is one of the few remaining reasons I have any movies on tape.

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