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Post #217382

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Darth-Adroit
Parent topic
The Official Lucasfilm Response
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Date created
9-Jun-2006, 1:23 AM
Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Just thought I'd point out this little discrepenecy:

Threat: Greedo said he'd take Han's ship

Now I KNOW whoever made this card didn't watch the movie. WTF? Greedo was going to KILL HIM !!! in order to take the Falcon.


I concur wholeheartedly. It is preposterous that George ever tried to say that what Han did was killing “in cold blood.” I’m a veteran I’ve seen killing in cold blood and I can tell you that what Han did was not cold blooded. It is not cold blooded to fire upon someone when they point a gun in your face and threaten to kill you, it’s just prudent. There may be some civil courts that would view Han’s preemptive strike as excessive, but I can assure you most courts here in Texas would declare him innocent on the grounds of self defense.

I think George has been too heavily influenced by the pacifist, revisionist nature of his pal Steven Spielberg. Look at what Steve did to E.T. Most of the Federal Agent’s firearms were removed and replaced with walkie-talkies. Does that sound like Mulder and Scully to you? No. All it really does is butcher a classic film by inserting something that detracts from the believability of the story. All because the creator had a shift in values and wanted their most notable story to reflect their new mores. It’s bull shit. I wonder how people would feel if da Vinci came back from the dead and repainted the Mona Lisa to look like Pamela Anderson because his tastes changed?


EDIT: Grammar