What would you change about the Original Trilogy?

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Instead of Luke being lightning checked I would have preferred Luke & Sidious to square off in a lightsaber duel, Vader should have captured Leia on Hoth & Luke didn't lose his hand.

 

I was going to give you the "original" vote...but it's gone. What's your resoning behind Luke not losing his hand?

 

I just thought he should have came out of the OT intact & then maybe lost a limb in the new sequel trilogy

 

Another slight modification to the ghost scene from ROTJ

 

Perfect

 

The word you were looking for is "Wizard".

 

I would make the stormtroopers more of a threat as someone else said.

I'd probably change what we see of them in ANH to better reflect the "bad" aspect of the basic trooper. The first instance we see is of soldiers fighting soldiers, essentially. In all fairness, we have sympathy for the Rebel crew of Tantive IV simply because we're told to... but it's obvious that at that point, however the battle started, the crew of Tantive IV had no intention of surrendering peacefully.

Then on Tatooine, I'd place more emphasis on them as mindless occupation forces, with them roughing people up and showing a more brutal aspect to their questioning/search. They actually seem like rather decent peacekeepers if you just go with what we actually see on Tatooine (the unseen slaughter of Jawas notwithstanding). To be honest, Mos Eisley seemed safer with the stormtroopers there than it supposedly is without.

And all around make them more average in combat skills, while retaining the numbers our heroes originally faced (none of that 100+ added to that new hangar in the Death Star stuff).

 

A small change but a big one for me.....people will understand ....

Imperial and Rebel Alliance Rank Insignia and the whole System...That stuff is a mess....Through 4,5 and 6 it changes just too much.....And Rebels have very few and boring ones too....

 

What's funny is if you look through the differences between the originals and the blu-ray, you can actually find some instances where they even had to correct issues with insignia, like Imperial officers wearing them on the wrong side.

On a side note, insignia can be an interesting detail if they get it right and change it according to the situation. If I recall, the 1985 film Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil did remarkably well in paying attention to changes in the SS uniform through the various years of the film.

 

id let kasdan rewrite the 2nd half of Jedi and let him and kurtz do what they intended. give han something to do for christs sake.

 

Ewoks needed to be Wookies for several reasons. In the EU (I know I know, not canon) it is explained that the Empire has enslaved the Wookies for years. This is why Chewie doesn't let Luke apply the binders in ANH. This would create a more emotionally driven battle than the ewoks (who basically showed up to help simply because 3PO was a shiny God) if the Wookies had rallied behind the Rebellion to overthrow their oppressors.

Also, the Emporer needed to be more tempting while trying to get Luke to take Vader's place. He basically says "join me and together we'll do controlling rulery things together." I like what another user said and I recently had a similar thought, the Emperor had Luke's two greatest weaknesses at hand to persuade him with after he had defeated Vader.
Either a) join me and I'll stop killing your friends
Or b) join me and I will let your dying father live.
It sometimes feels like our beloved SW team got a tad lazy towards the end there.

 

I would change nothing. I think they are great even from the original theatrical releases

 

@TheFettMan

Funny that you mention the M1 Abrams MBT.

25 some years ago I enlisted in the Army as a basic armor crewman, and I went on to be a gunner on an M1-A1 Abrams.

 

ROTJ is the only weak link of the OT. I would change the Jabba section to more about our heroes infiltrating his palace instead of just walking in one by one. Have them battle to get by the guards and have it reminiscent to our heroes in the death star in the original.

The Obiwan/Luke speech shouldn't have been about a POV, but should be from the heart that he was embarrassed to tell Luke the story because the downfall of the galaxy somewhat fell on him.

The ewoks should have been wookies as the ewok section makes the movie come to a complete hault.

 

Hah - I've never even considered that.
Personally, I wouldn't change any of it (and I kind of like they did a different take on a rescue scenario)...
BUT
It is the weirdest rescue plan ever: "Right there are four of us, and two droids, and then there is Han, who is imprisoned... I think the best way to get the one person out of there is for three of us, and the two droids, to also get imprisoned, so there are six people who need rescuing... Lando, you can get a job at the palace.."
If they were so confident they could escape (by effectively murdering Jabba and all his cronies) even if they all got captured, then there was really no reason to get captured in the first place. Okay, so they may have been banking on the diplomatic approach first. But it seems to me the bloodbath was fairly inevitable, because that is what they were prepared for.

I mean, I'm sure there was some flexibility in the "plan" but what if Artoo hadn't been given a job serving drinks on the barge, so was not there at the right time with the lightsaber? What if both droids ended up working in the dungeon from the start? What if Jabba had no use for them at all and had them melted down or sold them on for profit? What if Leia and Han got dumped straight in the Rancor pit as soon as they were discovered? What if Jabba chose a different method of execution and the little trip to the Pit of Carkoon didn't happen anyway? If they had done their homework enough to know about the Sarlacc and the Barge as the most likely outcome, why was the Rancor a surprise to them?
It's madness.
(still wouldn't change it though )

 

@Get In Gear

I guess I'm not as bothered as them coming into Jabba's Palace one by one. It's just when Leia (the bounty hunter) saves Han out of the carbonite, and Jabba and his cronies are just waiting behind a curtain? Why would Jabba want Han out of Carbonite when it was his prize possession? Its just shows how far the writing had gotten lazy after ESB, and there had to be a better way to execute that whole scene.