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Troubling, though, is the statement that the English dub changed the pronunciation of Oeufcoque's name. It's really not that hard to say in it's proper form.

Interesting to hear Zac's view of the DVD for Mardock Scramble: The First Compression. Troubling, though, is the statement that the English dub changed the pronunciation of Oeufcoque's name. It's really not that hard to say in it's proper form, and one wonder's why the dubbing studio would feel a need to alter it.

At the same time that Sentai Filmworks announced the release on DVD, they also announced a planned release in BD for 2012. One assumes the delay is due to the time frame that the Japanese BD version will be released and to help prevent reverse importation. I eagerly await Sentai's BD release next year.

People who complain about the Star Wars changes are in the minority, no matter how many people you may hear complain about them.. Average Joe isn't going to care. For video games, as you said, people cry "FF13 was horrible and terrible and the worst FF ever", yet it sold almost 7 million copies... a lot more than that "best game ever" they like to tote. Anime fandom has it too, sadly.. you see a lot of people saying "No one likes Naruto anymore, it sucks and everyone moved onto better series" yet it's still atop selling manga. Funny that. Bleach too, apparently.

Quantity DOES NOT equal quality. It's well documented that a majority of people in this world are feckless morons. Madden 12 will outsell every other video game this year, but that doesn't mean it's best game released this year. In total record sales, Celine Dion has outsold David Bowie, but that doesn't mean that she is a better musician. (Ziggy Stardust is one of the greatest albums ever made, by the way).

Here's the thing about Star Wars -- it doesn't belong to Lucas anymore. Oh sure, in a legal sense it does, but Lucas abandoned it after Jedi, and the fans took ownership. The fans made their own stories and characters and built their own worlds to play in. And these fans are very critical of Lucas because his prequels are utter crap compared to their imaginations. And this isn't my opinion, the prequels are demonstratively flawed. What it looks like to me is Lucas is acting like a petulant man-child, and purposely and maliciously making these changes to shit all over the old fans and to prove that he owns the story, not them. And that's why I will not buy anything other than the original theatrical release, which we won't see until Lucas kicks the bucket.

Thank god, someone has just stated that Gainax is an overrated studio. The mental gymnastics people go through to justify Gainax's bad writing is simply amazing.

The Prequels was something his been wanting to do since the late 70's.

See, to me, the superficial stuff is no big deal. If George Lucas wants to add a bunch of CGI lizards or whatever then fine. At worst, the odd thing might look out of place but most of em are just unnecessary. It's just cosmetic touches and it does actually detract from the movies. What kills me is the stuff that actually changes the story or characters. That's definitely not something I can stand. (Also the stuff that tries to reference the prequels because it prevents me from pretending the prequels don't exist).

George Lucas created Star Wars he gets to do whatever he wants, all you did was watch the movies.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians, and if the laws of the United States continue to condone this behavior, history will surely classify us as a barbaric society. The preservation of our cultural heritage may not seem to be as politically sensitive an issue as “when life begins” or “when it should be appropriately terminated,” but it is important because it goes to the heart of what sets mankind apart. Creative expression is at the core of our humanness. Art is a distinctly human endeavor. We must have respect for it if we are to have any respect for the human race.

I think what people take issue with is that Lucas is not releasing the unaltered versions alongside his current, whimsical changes. Filmmakers sometimes make changes to their works, but they (mostly) leave the option for fans of the original work to, y'know, view the original work. Coppola with Apocalypse Now would be a popular example of that.

I suppose I'm a terrible person because I really don't care about any changes to Star Wars. Or, gasp, I think they actually improve it (Inserting CGI Jabba into the first movie when he was originally played by a human... I'd say good edit/plothole fix)

I think people are disappointed because they had too high of expectations considering that Trigun hasn't had any new animation in 13 years.

People tried to start a boycott for the third Transformers movie to try to kill Michael Bay's career. The movie made over a billion dollars. Fans on the internet who have similar interest get together, and come to the conclusion since they know a bunch of people than they must be a ton of other people who have a similiar opinion.

It happens with people who hate Final Fantasy, you get a ton of people who claim that the series has sucked since 7, and yet the series is still one of the most popular RPGS worldwide.

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George Lucas created Star Wars he gets to do whatever he wants, all you did was watch the movies.

This I agree with. The stuff like seeing life in Mos-Eisley in Episode IV or the dance number in Episode VI didn't really bother me. Hell, the whole "Greedo Shot First" ordeal doesn't even really bother me.