Something is afoot on Endor.

Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White
\ And Monty Python and the Holy Grail's black knight
\ And Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie
\ And Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie
\ Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader
\ Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger
\ Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan
\ Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan

Holy memory unlocking batman! That song is something I haven't thought about in a long time!
- Fun fact: The band that made it, Lemon Demon, is just Neil Ciciriega. He's still doing wonderfully goofy musical shit, and weird ass funny videos.
  Another great one (already 10 years old): https://youtu.be/0tdyU_gW6WE
I just realized James Hong is still around. He's pushing 100.

Never really seen my wife angrier than when we watched the special edition for the first time and Hayden popped up at the end.

I think her exact words were "what the fuck is he doing there?"

We only watch the 4K83 version now.

I'ma Be honest, when I was a Kid this scene really confused me, Who is the old Guy? Why is he here? What did I miss? It wasn't until I was older I realized JarJar was a Sith.
- Imagine how David Prowse feels. First the voice, then the face.
  His kids must have thought he was full of shit when he told them he played Darth Vader.
It's 4K83 different than the despecialized? I have the 720p versions but if they've gone beyond that then I need to reeducate myself.
- The 4K trilogy (4K77, 4K80 and 4K83) are original theatrical film scans by enthusiasts. Where Despecialized manually recreated the originals by using multiple sources to restore changed scenes, the scans are just that. The results are ultimately very similar.
  The main advantage to Despecialized is that it uses the official 4K Blu-Rays as its source for anything that doesn't need restoring, so it's mostly a professional quality transfer, while the 4K trilogy were scanned and cleaned up by fans. The main disadvantage is obviously that Despecialized is not a "real" theatrical cut while 4K is.
  Either will probably satisfy somebody who wants to watch the unmodified orig trig.
- Mostly colour grading, I think.
  Only downside to 4K77 is the grain in the desert scenes, where they clearly used dogshit stock.

If I got this right from l to r:

•The Groundhog (from either Groundhog’s Day or Caddyshack)
\ •Ted & Bill
\ •RoboCop
\ •The Indian Chief from Ernest Goes to Camp

I think what you're identifying as the groundhog is Gimli from Lord of the Rings.
Ted & Bill
You’re a menace to society
- Thanks.
captain kirk Darth Vader lo pan superman every single power ranger
- Bill S Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Oc, and Hulk Hogan!

Far out

Wait, is that what the controversy is all about? They just updated the character with the new actor?

I thought it was more about them putting Vader as redeemable.

Vader was always there, it was just a matter of him being changed from the original actor to Hayden Christensen because he was more recognizable.
But in context, it doesn't seem to make much sense. Why does Darth Vader age down, while Obi Wan is still Alec Guinness instead of Ewan McGregor? If it's supposed to be reflective of the last time he was "good", why isn't it him at the moment he decided to save his son and kill the Emperor?
- Because when Darth Vader died, his soul got midichlorinated
There's a couple of things people who don't like it criticize. For one, the Christensen footage is from an early test for Revenge of the Sith, so he's just weirdly glowering at the camera because he wasn't thinking about this moment when it was filmed. That's also why it's just Hayden's head comped onto Sebastian Shaw's body.
Then there's obviously the question of ... why Hayden Christensen at all? The implication is that the "real" Anakin Skywalker died decades ago and was replaced by Darth Vader, which kind of runs counter to the idea that he was ultimately redeemed by his love for his son as presented in the original cut.
Then you've got the fact that it kind of makes the original trilogy nonsensical in standalone. If you come to Star Wars and watch 4-5-6 first, there's some random guy you don't know at the end. It forces you to watch at least 1-2 and probably 3 first, or do something wacky like the Machete order (4-5-2-3-6), just so that the ending makes sense.
If you haven't figured it out yet, I don't like it myself. But I don't care because I've got the Despecialized editions, so Maclunkey it up.
- But Vader is a random guy you don't know in the original too
- What's the point of the machete order? Is 2-3 interspersed before 6 like a flashback or something?
Wait, is that what the controversy is all about?
The internet. Star Wars fans. Millennials.
Pick one.
- I honestly have never met a millennial who cares about star wars, this is our parents drama.
I thought it was more about each iteration having less color?