timdiggerm said:
That's a tricky issue. If not for technical difficulties and/or lack of time/money, wouldn't a character called Jabba have been in "Star Wars"?
Sure, but if Jabba had been in Star Wars, there would have been no need to come up with the "Plan B" Greedo scene to communicate the same information. It's a cascading effect of would-have could-haves. And it's part of why the SE's are so bad, because they do not stem from a consistent editing perspective, and you end up with both Jabba and Greedo, when that result certainly would never have happened in 1977. If Jabba had happened in '77, Greedo quite simply would not have.
The fact is, at some point, George Lucas signed off on the 1977 version. If he didn't think the Greedo scene was an adequate replacement for the Jabba scene he originally envisioned, he could have decided not to sign off on it. Obviously he did sign off on it, so it wasn't a "rough cut" to him either.