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I'm pretty sure at least the last frame of Han's closeup ("yes, I'll bet you have") is gone. Maybe because it was spliced to the new super-important shot that now comes after.

The 97 does look good there. It's so annoying that that version is just as good to go as any theatrical release from 97, like CON AIR, and yet it's too much work to do it plus 5 minutes worth of original shots.

They got almost everything wrong with Jabba with 2004 version (it's arguable that anything would have been better than the 1997 monstrosity).

The skin tone is almost a universal mustard, the lighting is way too dark, the skin texture (which didn't look too bad in the bright light of TPM scenes) is too hard (not the flabby toad of ROTJ).

His matte jaundiced eyes are just the topping on the cake.

I'm pretty sure they could have worked a better solution to the tail problem too if they tried harder.

I'm still not convinced by the scale either which was pretty good in TPM but somehow still looks a bit too small in the 2004 SE with these eyes.

I think some people wanted it,(just as some people wanted the cocoon sequence in Alien) the main problem with the Jabba scene is it's really pointless with the current subtitles.

A creative writer would have written new lines for Jabba which still matched what Han replied but said something other than what the Greedo scene had already done better (well before cutting that scene's balls off at least).

It does bugger up the Falcon reveal but that's only an issue in a world without OUT being freely available and treated with at least the same respect as the SE.

In the world we live in where that is the only version most people are allowed to have it is a bit of limp introduction to the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.

It also continued the trend started with ROTJ of having the Fetts not bounty hunters but general minders which in my view weakens the mystique of the guy/s.

I don't believe the 2004 Jabba is the TPM Jabba. Thats bullshit. They look nothing alike. The TPM Jabba looked and was coloured like him, the 2004 Jabba is something completely different.

Not trying to derail, but if someone can PM me some links to NTSC DVD's of the SE LD set and it's bonus material, please do so!

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Greedo never shot in the OOT.  That should answer your question.

Yeah, I saw that too.

Sooo, I'm basically calling the website open for business. All of the major pieces are there, and I think the formatting and text has been cleaned up so that it looks basically complete. Tell your friends. :p

Two pages are listed as coming soon: a screen materials page, and a media contact page. The first is being worked on now, plus another editorial on why the GOUT sucks, which will be the last editorial until new news breaks, but the second I am bit stumped on. Any contacts and suggestions here would be appreciated.

The other thing I would like to do is add a newsletter subscription, to just send a text email when there is a major site update or any relevant news. There are tutorials out there, but .CGI-bin stuff is a bit over my head. Does anyone here know how to do this stuff so thats its simple enough for a bonehead like me to use it?

I plan on including it on my page of SE changes. I have links to your page only temporarily, because re-doing everything from scratch is a huge undertaking and this is fine until I get around to that.