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Ran out to Maijer's last night and picked up the Widescreen version for about $42 at 12:30 AM. And really, not because I wanted to start watching it last night (well, I did want to, but I have this thing called work at 7am) but because running out on my lunch break is a huge pain in the rear end.

I've had 0 no-shows since my return.

crap... I forgot about the length restrictions on PMs. Well, I don't have acopy here at work with me, so I will have to wait until I am home to send it.

Team Face is at about 10,000 words, but with tons to write. Not looking good boys and girls...

Check out The Bits here They have a good review of the discs and screenshots of the changes. Which, IMHO, are nowhere near as bad as everyone was making them out to be.

Updated with the shows through Ashes 2 Ashes.

Ok... frankly I think this thread has gone on just about long enough. Criticism for what frisco did was, in my opinion, deserved. As someone who put some work into those documents, seeing them somewhere was upsetting. However, I think we have moved beyond that. This is dangerously close to trolling and flaming, and, while I rarely use them, I am sorely tempted to use my Mod powers and delete this thread. Let it go people, and that includes you frisco.

Well, let me put it this way. I keep all my Star Wars stuff. Cups, packaging for action figures long out of the plastic... dumb stuff like that. Not only were the Kevin J. Anderson Jedi Academy books so bad I stopped reading any expanded universe stuff, but I happily sold them at a garage sale about a month ago... then felt bad I actually made someone pay money for them.

Yup. One and the same. It hits on Tuesday.

The last few releases of the Trilogy they did on VHS were coded that way, Silver = widescreen, gold=fullscreen. So I guess they are sticking with the theme.

In case anyone is wondering (like it is a big mystery) that is my match. I don't think Johnny showed. But let me serve notice: The jobs end now...

You want to talk about loyalty? Since the mid 70's when I was but a yongster I have been both a Cincinnati Reds fan (relatively easy until the last few years) and a Cincinnati Bengals fan (easy when they were in the SB twice in the 80's, incrediblt painful and depressing since). And let me say that the best feeling in the world is when the team you rooted for, bought caps and jerseys of, even when they were horrid comes through and wins a few or almos makes the playoffs (Reds '99, Bengals '03) and you can look around at all the bandwagon jumpers with brand new caps and t-shirts while you are wearing your beat-up, well-worn cap and shirt and know that you are a true fan because you suffered through the pain to get to the glory.

I could have told you that. There's a reason I linked to thedigitalbits review instead of IGN's.

In both of those cases, I think it had more to do with the arena set-up than with WWE scaling anything back. Smackdown this week was in a much smaller building than they normally use.

Apparently, according to IGNDVD, Lucas explains why he replaced Sebastian Shaw with Hayden in the "Ghost Scene" in the commentary, but they wouldn;t print it because it is "spoilerish".

We can only hope and pray Spiff... hope and pray. On a similar note, have any of you heard Carrie Fisher's voice lately? Good Lord, the woman's voice has just been ruined by her lifestyle. very deep and throaty...

Fine, fine... You get to use the internet in school? Damn, kids today have everything! Inernet wasn't really a going concern when I was in High School or College for that matter.

Ahhh I see where you are coming from BL. Why is he old in the death scene and young as a ghost? I see. Well, I guess my response to that is pretty easy. Sure, physically he aged. But the person that was Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi and Obi-Wan's friend, ceased to exist the moment he became Darth Vader. So, when his mask is taken off, you see the real face of an aged Vader / Anakin. In the ghost scene, we see how Anakin looked when he "died", that is, when he ceased to be. Makes sense, I think, if you look at it that way. As far as the "Why didn;t they do that in the first place" question. I guess the simple answer is they didn't think about it. The logic I presented above certainly wasn't anything Lucas thought about when he was finishing off the original trilogy. Now that there is a concrete image of what Anakin looked like when he "died", he can fill it in. I guess what I'm saying is, I thought it would bother me, but it really doesn't. As far as replacing the Emperor in the scene in Empire, I could care less. This ties things together better. I'm not even going to touch the can-of-worms that is the Han/Greedo scene. The rest of the changes are good. The landspeeder and Jabba stuff always looked really really fake to me, so replacing it with something more realistic is a great idea.

Because if a young actor you'd never seen before suddenly appeared at the end of the movie as a ghost, nobody would have had any idea who he was. Sebastian Shaw was there, they threw him in a robe and there you go.

The best reasoning I have read for Anakin's age at the end of Jedi was pretty simple and pretty convincing. When he became Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker "died". When you see their ghosts, you see them at the time of their death. Therefore... As far as "Lucas has no sense of historical value" I'm not sure I understand what the big deal is. They replaced a ghostly vision in less than thirty seconds of actual film with a more accurate representation of the character when he was a Jedi.

I'd hope so, considering that you are wrestling a legend...

Well, I think two DNS on the next to last show before the biggest PPV of the year is a bit of a concern. But all of that aside... It looks like an interesting show. Without having time to read it in-depth I can safely say that the build for Genesis is building, but there is a lot of work to do on Monday. And, since there was no Storm Comments thread, I'll put this here. Toxxic's match last week was great and he made me look like a million bucks, all things considered. You'd think he'd written a match against Grand Slam before...

No need to PM... here is the scoop. I am writing a match, and I should have it, and the accompanying promo to you by 5:30 PM Eastern at the latest, as I have things to do tonight. One way or the other, you'll know what is going down TNT.

::sniff sniff:: Smell that? That's storyline fertilizer, boys and girls.

I was digging through some old SWF files and I ran across my draft of my second (and last) column for thesmartmarks. It covered Dissention and, i think, has at least one or two (maybe three) of the top 25 stupid things mentioned. Just for kicks, I thought I would see if it was still in the system here, and whaddaya know? From Ringside #2 Just thought it was kind of funny, and maybe a nice bit of nostalgia before G5. Enjoy!