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So, what is the real reason for Padme's death? Did Anakin force choaking her cause her death, or could it really be as silly as a broken heart?

Not sure if this is posted anywhere, but Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 comes out this week. I played a demo and it had some of John Williams music in it. I wonder if there will be any JW unreleased music spread out through the game?

Steve Sansweet announded today that Lucasfilm will be making another animated series that will take place after ROTJ in the same style as the current Clone Wars cartoon, which is quite good. I'm excited about this mainly: Luke, Han, Chewie, Leia...animated format! It will probably destroy most of the EU, but I don't really care cause the only EU I consider gospel is the Thrawn series. Wouldn't it be cool if Thrawn appeared in the series.

So this makes 5 TV series from Lucasfilm: this, the Clone Wars, the sitcom animated show, the Galactic Adventurers show for pre-schoolers and the live-action show. It would have been nice, though, to do a live-action after ROTJ since they could probably live get Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher to come back, but never in a million years would they get Harrison Ford.

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I think I read this somewhere, but I've noticed that Return of the Jedi is almost a remake of A New Hope with better effects. Now, the way I understand, ROTJ was changed significantly between drafts and final product: orginally, no Death Star, the final battle was fought in the Imperial City, etc.

But think about it, Lucas wanted Jabba in ANH but would have been too expensive and so it was scrapped. Jabba then appears in ROTJ. Needless to say, both movies start out on Tatooine and where the Cantina failed to meet Lucas' expectations with aliens, Jabba's palace is full of new aliens. The Death Star is the ultimate weapon in both movies which leads to a climatic space battle to destroy it. ANH's space battle featured a handful of rebel and Imperial ships and not much in the effects area where ROTJ featured hundreds of ships on both sides and was much more effects driven. Even the Emperor is almost a replacement of Tarkin, they both oversee the completion of the Death Star and the Emperor is almost an improvement of Tarkin, more evil and powerful. Any other similiarities?

Anybody keeping up with it? If so, who do you want to see go all the way? Me personally, I always want to see Ohio State win it all, being an alum and all. Usually it's a pipedream, but this year I think they have a legit chance.

Oops, I guess I posted this in the wrong topic area. I suppose it will be moved.