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I hope everybody enjoyed a happy Thanksgiving.

On the George Lucas thing, one of the best pieces of advice I've gotten from one of my art professors is to not rework something too much, and know when to just stop. You can work a piece of art to death, taking a good idea and mucking it up to the point where it's too busy, too muddied, too refined, too overworked. I thought there were a lot of good things about the Star Wars Special Editions. Then again there was some completely unnecessary stuff.

Was there such a bad problem with people wondering how Vader got from Cloud City to his Star Destroyer, that they had to create the scene of Vader asking to prepare his shuttle for launch and cheaply borrow a scene of the Death Star hangar in Jedi to make us think the shuttle had landed on the destroyer? Were people so confused by the blast doors closing automatically as our heroes were being chased through the Death Star in the first movie, that they had to dub a Stormtrooper saying "Close the blast doors!"? Why on earth would they dub in a cowardly scream as Luke falls inside Cloud City after jumping to escape from Vader? (All of these made worse by the fact that the voices they used didn't sound much like Vader, Luke, or the typical Stormtroopers) And I don't think I even need to mention Greedo & Han...

At least Spielberg is going to release both the original and the new gun-less "we'll threaten them with these walkie-talkies" versions of E.T. on DVD.

Maybe George should just re-do all the movies in ASCII.