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Post #688327

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StarThoughts
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Star Wars Radio Drama - *update in 1st post* - completed review
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Date created
6-Feb-2014, 7:11 AM

What happened to the Highbridge Audio site? They've disappeared…?

If there isn't already a compiled list of differences between the broadcast and Highbridge editions, I might make one myself. It would take a bit of time to compile (I'd have to listen to each episode twice), but I'd be game to try if anybody might be interested. If there is such a list already, please direct me to it!

I think that Heater was created because it was clear by 1981 that what Jabba was developing into was not a creature that could reasonably have been in the hangar bay. Lucas is described in The Art of Return of the Jedi as saying that what he wanted was a “Queen Bee” sort of being… helpless on its own, but wielding an enormous amount of power. It's clear that the idea of Jabba had changed so much by that point that it would just be silly to incorporate that character back into Star Wars.*

Daley's solution was to keep the scene, but turn the Jabba character into somebody who could be more believably ambulatory. It's not as redundant as the scene in the movie because Greedo's dialogue in the radio program is in its original Rodese, so this scene works to cover the information that was conveyed by that scene in the film.

* — Ridiculous, even. Thank goodness nobody would actually do such a thing.