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Originally posted by: jimbo
That scene was always meant to be there. They didn't have the time or money to create the stop motion puppet. Thats how it was orginally filmed and scripted. There are no real story changes. Its the same story I have always loved.
Gah!
Yes Jimbo it's true that originally Han met Jabba in Docking Bay 94 in the draft scripts and in the filming process...
HOWEVER in the editing bay it made more sense to drop the scene than it did to include it because the information had already been delivered by Greedo and it ruined the unveiling of the Millennium Falcon a few scenes later not to mention the fact that it spoiled the mystery behind the gangster Hutt Jabba who'd pout this price on Han's head.
AND SO it was rightly dumped for narrative reasons.
UNTIL the senile old fart decided that telling the audience something twice is SO MUCH better than telling them something once and the plaid hack decided to reinclude the scene in order to make the film 'special'.
Special like a short yellow bus.
(I'm drunk right now so I'm not going to proof read this but I feel that my main points have been made.)