Fans will be very happy to know how many new scenes wil be released with the digital, blu-ray and DVD packages.
However, some may not be quite as pleased with the content and tone of some of them.
Rian Johnson and his movie suffered a massive and very vocal fan backlash after The Last Jedi was released last December.
One of the major themes of the compaints was the perceived lack of respect for what many fans perceived as the legacy and continuity of their beloved franchise. One of the new deleted scenes can only make the situation worse.
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From the moment Rey handed Luke his lightsaber and then he tossed it over his shoulder off the cliff, Johnson signalled a playful, irreverent determination to remake the tone and direction of the triple trilogy.
This continued in the divisive comedy phone call from Poe to Hux, the notorious alien ‘milking’ scene and many more.
Some fans even felt the new movie was disrectful, that it was mocking their love for the movies and their treasured memories of the classic first trilogy.
The new deleted scene ties in with one of the most iconic moments in Star Wars (and all movie) history and appears, once again, to undermine it.
A clip from the scene is shown in the new trailer for the home entertainment releases. It shows Luke entering the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. He is then shown rewatching the famous hologram message his sister recorded in A New Hope, begging Obi-Wan to save her.
Leia delivers he famous line: “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You are my only hope…”
The new jaded and cynical Luke growls: “That was a cheap move,” while R2-D2 sighs.
This can be seen simply as a playful nod to the past. It also acknowledges that Leia was already a skilled negociator and manipulator.
However, it is unavoidable that it also reduces one of the defining moments and images of the breakthrough 1977 movie to simply “a cheap move.”
Has Rian Johnson (and by default Disney) yet again taken something sacred to fans and disrespected it?