Nooooooo!

In three days the complete Star Wars saga will be released on Blu-Ray.  Unfortunately, I will not have the $80 to spend on the complete set so I will not be buying it when it comes out.  (Note: Nick’s birthday is coming up and Christmas is shortly after).  With the release of the Blu-Ray discs there is been news about changes that were made to the movies yet again. 

One of the changes that got a lot of buzz was the addition of Darth Vader yelling “Noooooo” at the end of Return of the Jedi.  When I first heard this I thought it was a joke.  Simply because Darth Vader’s “Noooo” at the end of Revenge of the Sith became as much of a joke to Star Wars fans as Jar Jar Binks.  If you are even in a dire situation nooooooooooooooo.com comes in handy.  Of course I turned to the Internet for the answer.  Was it true?  Did George Lucas yet again ruin another piece of my childhood?  Of course no one can truly rape one’s childhood like Michael Bay and his Transformers movies but that is another issue.  So, I turned to YouTube for the answer. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Other changes I have heard of is that they made the Ewoks blink, replaced the puppet Yoda in Episode I with a CG Yoda, and replaced Obi Wan’s dragon call that scares away the Sand People in Episode IV. 

Now to the main reason for my post.  With all the changes that have been made to the original trilogy Nolan may never see the original trilogy in its original release.  Now I may have the original released versions of Episodes IV – VI on VHS, but who the hell has  VHS player now a days?  Also, I wouldn’t even know if they would still play years from now.  I do have the DVD release of Star Wars but that is the “enhanced version.”  I’m sure and hope that Nolan would still appreciate and love the movies.  The special effects used when they made the movies were ground breaking for the time.  However, now a lot of it was replaced with CG effects.  So now instead of explaining to my son how they did it all with models, I will be explaining how it was with models but George Lucas felt it still wasn’t good enough. 

Wake Up Call

Today I had a wake up call.  It was not a wake up call from Nolan. Though he did wake me up this morning. My wake up call was when I went back to Weight Watchers to see what the damage has been.  I say damage because over the course of the last two weeks I have not tracked or ate the least bit on the healthy side.  This morning at Weight Watchers I found out that I gained nine pounds.  I need to get back into the swing of things if I am to keep this weight off.  Today I went back to tracking every thing I ate.  I got back on the bike and went mountain biking this morning.  I hope to ride more over the next week since I am taking a week off of work. 

To hold myself accountable I will be tweeting my point use for the day (http://twitter.com/nickgailfus). 

Our New Addition

On Sunday January 9, 2011 at 9:55 PM we welcomed to the world Nolan Bart Gailfus.  He was 9 pounds 3 ounces and was 20 1/4 inches long.  He came home from the hospital on Wednesday the 12th and we are loving every minute with him.