Originally posted by: Mike O
Wait a minute. I'm confused. If that is what Lucas originally wanted, then why didn't he write it that way to begin with? Is he saying that he originally wanted Greedo to shoot first and did not have the technology? It seems from the editing in the original version that Han was planning to shoot Greedo from the get go. Which is how things should have stayed.

I've wondered that myself -but, apparently, GL changed his mind.

That's also why so much of the editing in the SE was changed as well. There was a site that I found once that compared some of the shots in the OOT with the SE, and you wouldn't notice if they weren't shown side-by-side, but the editing in some shots was subtly changed so that you can't see the actual laser from the blaster guns make impact with their targets. For example- in the Death Star control room, when Han and Luke are blasting their way in while in their stormtrooper disguises, you actually see the blasters make contact with one of the stormtrooper's armor in the OOT, but in the SE, you only see him falling- the actual blaster impact is cut out. Again, you probably wouldn't notice this (I didn't ) unless you see the 2 scenes running side-by-side, but I think the changes are unnecessary at best, insidious at worst.