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I know Lucas re released the original trilogy with a bunch of stupid teaks and extras.And that is why the only copies I own or watch are the original theatrical versions released on VHS. My question is do the original theatrical versions (in wide screen) exist on DVD?? (I've got the impression they don't as the star wars trilogy is the top selling vhs tapes in the world I last read because this is the only original versions!?)

 

Do the extra deleted scenes appear in the separate movie Blu-Rays, or the trilogy Blu-Ray collection or just the Complete Saga Blu-Ray?

 

Can someone please tell me which species is that? I always questioned myself and now I have the right place to ask. For those who wonder, it's at Jabba's Palace, ROTJ.

 

Name: Ghoel
Species: Wol Cabas****e
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ghoel

 

The bonus discs with the deleted scenes are unfortunately exclusively available only in the Complete Saga set.

I would have hoped that at least with the latest Fall 2015 re-release the OT Trilogy set would see the addition of the OT Bonus disc, but that didn't happen.

 

Thank you very much!

 

Is it just me who wonders why Luke didn't use the force instead of a rock to push the button which dropped the gate down on the Rancor?

 

This fact comes from one of the numerous "Star Wars Facts" lists:
http://www.knowable.com/a/20-amazin...2&tse_id=INF_b0cd5d5e75e24d95b11906000f476ad6

Well, I can confirm that at least 90% of this is BS. As we all know, 'Sith' was first spoken onscreen in The Phantom Menace in 1999. Ergo, nothing to dub over. Also, Sith was used as early as at least 1975 for the second Star Wars draft (not a creation of 1977). Also, a name as broad as 'The Damned' can't be enough to convince Lucas worried at all. Whether George hates punk rock is yet to be confirmed.

So the question is: were the Sith ever known as The Damned? Little to no evidence backs it up, so I'm thinking no.

 

This question might belong here. Not all DVD's are the same. Can fans recommend a better quality DVD collection of the first three Star Wars films? Some packages do a nice job of including interviews, edited footage and other fun extras for fans. I suppose a recommendation for the second three or all six if it exists.

Cheers

 

do y'all have any thoughts on Tarkin's use of the phrase "data tapes'?

Of course it was 1977 and made as much sense as "USB stick" would now but does anyone have an in-universe explanation? Can anyone cite additional uses of the term in ANY Star Wars material?

 

When in fact George put the number of the episodes of the trilogy? In 1997 or in the original release (I Know that he put ANH in 81, but the film says only Star Wars: A New Hope).

 

Why doesn't Obi-Wan have a ship for space travel in ANH?

 

Sometime between Episodes III where Obi-Wan leaves Luke with Owen & Beru and the beginning of ANH where Owen is dead set against Luke having anything to do with Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan and Owen seem to have had a falling out. Does anyone have thoughts on that?

Also, why was Obi-Wan not immediately concerned with stopping troops from killing Owen & Beru once he realized the droids were part of the Imperial/Rebel conflict? I kinda figure he doesn't realize that Luke and Owen JUST got the droids. Only once Luke is racing towards home does Obi-Wan realize how immediate and urgent everything is. What do you guys think?

 

Tanjint

I'd say Owen doesn't like the two of them interacting with one another and fears, now that Luke is twenty and wants to leave Tatooine desperately, that another encounter with Ben Kenobi will deprive him of his hard working nephew.

I don't think there was anything Kenobi could have done to stop the killing of Beru and Owen. I'd guess that they were killed during the same time that Luke got attacked by the Tusken raider.

 

@Lt.Hija all that makes sense but do you think Owen was grateful to Obi-Wan at the end of Episode III for bringing him his relative or you think he already had the views he has in Episode IV?

In other words, do we think Obi-Wan and them agreed that later on Luke would help him make things right later or it was just a hand off, "Here, take care of the boy!" with no such agreement implicit or otherwise.

Much is made of Yoda and Obi-Wan's collaboration and planning between 3 and 5 but in the OT (because the PT hadn't been written yet) it seems more by chance.

Yoda and Obi-Wan just had to put the pieces in place so that it was possible for Leia/Luke to help save the galaxy, not actually make agreements with their adopted parents about it? A lot of Ifs for the galaxy to be riding on but I guess that's the Force!

 

Tanjint

We are looking at a field full of speculation. The original ANH speculation was obviously that Luke became an orphan (what about his mother?) after his father had been killed by Vader, so it was natural that he'd grew up with his next relatives.

But it gets already obfuscated with Yoda in ESB. Yoda complains that Luke is too old for training, then why didn't Obi-Wan raise Luke as his child? Of course, hiding Luke with a young couple who could credibly pretend he was their child ("Luke Lars") wouldn't arouse curiosity like an old hermit with a child.

Maybe Owen and Beru couldn't have children of their own, thus there was no hesitation to adopt Luke, and I'd like to believe that it wasn't until Luke reached the age of sixteen they told him about his true heritage.

 

@Lt.Hija that makes sense...we don't hear any thing said between Obi-Wan and Lars in EP III do we? I suppose it's whatever it needs to be.

 

I've heard there's an expanded universe book or books that cover Boba Fett repairing his jetpack inside the Sarlac Pit and flying out of it. If this is true what are the names of those book or books?

 

He didn't fly out of it - but crawled out of it after detonating his jetpack and badly wounding the Sarlacc (initially, he'd thought he'd killed it).

The book in question is Tales from Jabba's Palace - with it being a single short story there. In book 1 of the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy (The Mandalorian Armor) Dengar finds Boba's living body close to the Sarlacc's badly injured form.

 

Thanks a lot. I always imagined the Sarlacc Pit being flat on the inside, almost like a floor, not the intestine-esque that it is in in the artwork of that.

 

Yeah, the interior of the Sarlacc is at least a couple hundred feet deep. More than enough room for the Sarlacc to consume multiple humanoid meals simultaneously. It also has several limbs that anchor it into the sand and surrounding bedrock.

 

hi is there a thread discussing/explaining how Palpatine/Sidious became so powerful with the Force ?

thanks

 

i thought that as well. probably knew he could hit the button quicker if he just threw the rock at it.

 

It's not canon anymore (shame, too), but the novel Darth Plagueis tells about some of Palpatine's adolescence and training under Plagueis. It also provides some critical background information about Palpatine's actions and motivations during the prequels.