Originally posted by: Tiptup
Seriously? You have no tension when you watch that scene? Han pulling his blaster out of its holster and aiming it at Greedo the under the table? Greedo saying that Han was going to soon be dead and that he was looking forward to "this" for a long time? Then a big white explosion obscurring who was able to fire his blaster first?

Plenty of tension for me.

Though I will admit that the SE kind of removes all of the fun from that scene somehow . . . like an annoying headache.

There's certainly something going on in the scene when we cut to Han, but in terms of Greedo, there's nothing happening. Sure, his dialogue mentions he's about to do something to Han, but not for a moment does it actually look like he's gonna pull the trigger. He's just waving a blaster around like an idiot, talking big, and looking like he's got no intention to use the thing. Then Han kills him.

Personally, I have no problem with the way the scene played out in the original version. According to Lucas though, he only added Greedo shooting because he assessed the scene the same way I did. Greedo had no clue what was going on. The dialogue indicates that he does, but that could've been dubbed in or rewritten later. He's just a sitting duck. If Han shoots him, fine. My point was that if Lucas really did want to show that Greedo knew what was happening, he could've saved the trouble of adding silly laser effects and digitally shifting Harrison Ford by cutting in a quick shot of Greedo about to pull the trigger.