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Gaffer Tape
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The Official Lucasfilm Response
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Date created
9-Jun-2006, 3:39 PM
That card is retarded and just reeks of revisionist history. 1977-1997, Han shot first. 1997-2004, Greedo shot first. 2004-2006, Greedo still shot first, but Han was a little bit faster on the draw. 2006, hell, we're not quite sure anymore, it all depends on your point of view and how intoxicated we were when we filmed this.

So instead of it being a revision, it's now an "artistic decision." I can just hear George saying in a few months, "What I was really trying to do was to show this scene through the point of view of the eyewitnesses and make a statement about how truth is relative. But I couldn't really show that in one movie, so I made several different versions, each one corresponding to how a certain wacky alien creature saw it." Just like the ducks, it's just an attempt to canonize everything under a safe blanket, no matter if they conflict. I wonder if it's been changed on Greedo's bio at the official site yet?