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Although people make fun of maclunkey (rightly so) I think there’s a way it could have been done to make the alterations to the Greedo scene much better. Since George was so intent on making Han appear like ‘less of a killer’ in the 1997 SE this is my idea for how it should have been done.
The scene plays out the same as it does in the theatrical version up until the “I’ll bet you have” shot. Immediately after this shot is the maclunkey shot but with the translated dialogue in subtitles “This will be the end of you” with the gunshot and smoke in the same shot. We then cut back to the theatrical with Greedo slumping to the table.
This way we put more of an emphasis on Greedo about to kill Han and it also doesn’t interrupt the flow of the sequence. I personally think the sequence should have never been altered at all, but if we accept that it had to be changed I think would have been an improvement over the 1997 SE version of the shot which is by far the worse out of the 5 versions we’ve had.
