I don't think I need to go out and buy the Star Wars saga on blu-ray to report the most recent changes. Not only has it all been discussed but we've seen the video clips of the most known changes. Note the word most changes.
Amongst the changes there was less discussed were the presence of Sabulba in Jabbah's palace and Luke Skywalker's light saber turned white again in A New Hope.
When Lucas actually had the chance to make an improvement in this edition, he actually had to make it worse.
Instead of adding deleted scenes in the original movies, he had to try and connect them even more to his beloved prequels and make changes that worsened the original films.
What would I have done in his place for this new release?
Firstly I would have left the puppet Yoda alone in The Phantom Menace. I can understand the need for digital replacements in the next two episodes as he engaged in physical combat but in the first episode he did nothing of that sort.
In A New Hope I would have replaced Obi Wan's scream with a growl like that of Emperor Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith. The latest scream is terrible and unimaginable that a wise old Jedi would use it.
I would have also gone ahead and inserted the deleted with Luke Skywalker and his friends to give audience a better understanding of his desire to leave Tatooine and the background of Biggs Lightyear.
I would have done the same for the Empire Strikes Back. Perhaps not necessarily deleted scenes in this case but added a new scene of an imperial probe droid dispatched to Hoth being attacked by a Wampa creature as mentioned in the novelization, just to make the movie more dramatic.
According to the novel, the probe droid came into a Wampa lair by accident which caused the Wampa creature to attack it, ending in the probe droid shooting the creature to death.
As for Return of the Jedi I would have left everything else alone save for maybe the Ewok's eyes blinking since it did add a little realism and is not much of a change.
Deleted scenes would have been a nice edition assuming there were some good scenes worth adding. Those would have been my corrections.
