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Post #387704

Author
ChainsawAsh
Parent topic
Jabba scene
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Date created
5-Dec-2009, 9:53 AM

The problem with the scene is that, when it was cut, the important dialogue was moved.  So the Greedo scene, originally simply meant to be a "Holy-shit-Han's-a-badass" scene now became an important exposition scene as well.

But when they added the Jabba scene back in, they didn't revert the Greedo scene back to its original dialogue.  "Even I get boarded sometimes.  Do you think I had a choice?" is in both scenes ... because the line in the Greedo scene is lifted directly from the Jabba scene.

So any fan edit that includes the Jabba scene really needs to "fix" the Greedo scene, which would just involve cutting the "Even I get boarded sometimes" line and re-doing the subtitles.

But then you run into the problem of, as "Something, something, something" said, Jabba not looking like Jabba.  He looks like a shitty CG Hutt that may be a distant cousin of Jabba's, at best.  The 1997 version didn't even look that good, and the 2004 version is still unacceptably shitty.

So, it's my personal opinion, based on those two facts and the fact that audiences for 20 years got along just fine with the Greedo scene and not the Jabba one, that the Jabba scene should stay out of Star Wars entirely.