Originally posted by: MattMahdi
You've already changed Lucas' intention for the character, and IMHO you've changed it much for the better, but consider the implications if Han fired AGAIN. And AGAIN. And AGAIN. And then stood to fire THREE shots rapidly into the smoking puddle that moments ago was Greedo's corpse.

NOW we have a character who truly gets to transform in the course of the trilogy, and it's also impossible to miss.

I know it's late, Adywan, but surely --- for the sake of character growth --- you can fit this tiny improvement in?

It wasn't Lucas' original intention for the character, he originally had Han shoot first, when he very easily had the technology to have Greedo shoot first at the time, had that really been his original intention. For twenty years Han had been the one to shoot first, Greedo has only shot first for the last ten years.

At anyrate, I certainly don't think Han going trigger happy on Greedo would be an improvement by any stretch of the imagination. I always had in movies when somebody empties a whole clip into someone in order to kill them. Real life is not like a video game, you don't have to wear down their life bar. One well placed bullet is enough to kill someone and blaster bolts seem to work much the same way. A man who is skilled with his gun, like Han is, would know this. His character comes off a lot smoother by simply pulling the trigger once, getting up and walking out. Job done. Problem solved. Sorry about the mess. Cooly walks away. Why would shooting him three times made him any more of a "changed man" as the trilogy progresses? If Greedo is dead he is dead. Han already kills him, he doesn't kill him anymore than he already has by wasting more ammo/energy on his corpse. Han is not an uptight character, he is much more of a calm and cool laid back one hit one kill kind of guy.