AWESOME! That is my birthday.

I feel like they used some cold digital program to turn down the brightness/contrast in those scenes in effort to hide the matte boxes around the spaceships. But then the stars and the visual elements like lasers and engine glows got screwed.

Star Wars: Original Trilogy and Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy will consist of four discs each – one for each movie and one bonus disc. Star Wars: The Complete Saga will have an additional special features disc, for a total of nine.

The remastering of the movies has been performed by Lucasfilm and will offer "the most recently updated versions of the movies," with "even more enhancements to the picture quality." When asked about Fox's answer to the fans that want to see the three original versions released, Marcais replied: "The versions that are being released are closest to George Lucas' vision. Other than that, no comment."

There is currently no date for a Blu-ray release of the six Star Wars movies separately.

Sales expectations are very high. For reference, the Avatar Blu-ray sold 5 million copies in the US and 4 million in the rest of the world. That's the "ceiling" on what sales to expect from a major Blu-ray release, and Star Wars is expected to raise that ceiling.

The remastering of the movies being performed by Lucasfilm and the promise of "even more enhancements to the picture quality" sounds good.

AWESOME! That is my birthday.

AWESOME! That is my birthday.

Release date moved from 09/27/11 to 09/16/11.

Now it's being released on my birthday. Weird.

I think the concept of having younger Anakin there is good - after all, if you watch the movies 1-6 the series is his story.

And the reason why the old Anakin being there is wrong, is? Anyway, that won't be changed.

it's inappropriate for the story to show Anakin in a form the audience has not connected to.

It isn't "when was Anakin redeemed" it's "who is the character, for the audience, that redemption matters most." If I cared enough to walk you through why your interpretation is wrong, I'd explain this another 20 ways but I guess you'll just have to live with the fact that your opinion is shortsighted.

Here's my first priority - I don't think there needs to be any sort of aggressive dialogue here. We all enjoy Star Wars, opinions will differ in a convoluted canon, Kumbaya, and all that.

The point is that I see this old man - who is also Anakin - and I see his plight. I accept that it's necessary that Anakin (as a whole character, both Hayden and Shaw) is shown as redeemed, but by now, as a viewer, I've sublimated Hayden-Anakin into Shaw-Anakin. I don't think that it's wrong, per se, to have Hayden-Anakin as the ghost, but I think it is unfortunate that it removes the plight of the embittered old man. Basically, it acknowledges the tragedy of the young Anakin, but doesn't acknowledge the tragedy of the old Anakin.

I can see how Anakin as portrayed by Hayden makes sense for a lot of people - which is why I'm not dismissive of your point. I think it is a valid one. Many people best know him as Hayden-Anakin. I - and I'm sure there are others - best know his whole character as Shaw-Anakin. Using Shaw doesn't overwrite or ignore Hayden.

That all said, I think using Hayden probably is the best choice for the most amount of people - I'm not here to say that you're wrong. What I am here to say is that there is an equally valid reason - one that isn't dismissive of the whole of canon - for identifying with Shaw-Anakin as the character.