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Sat May-08-10 06:31 PM
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Anything else is just plain WRONG!
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Sat May-08-10 06:45 PM
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| 1. and the agents chasing ET are carrying guns, not walkie-talkies! |
| JTG of the PRB
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Sat May-08-10 10:04 PM
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It's perfectly within his character to be a sleazebag! He joined the good guys, but he was still a sleazebag at heart!
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Sat May-08-10 10:08 PM
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| 3. What made him a sleazebag? |
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He was smuggling under laws of a crooked corrupt empire, that makes him one of the good guys.
Or is every law, even under an unjust system still just?
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| JTG of the PRB
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Sat May-08-10 10:09 PM
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| 4. Because he shot first. |
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Sleazebags shoot first because they're cool like that.
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| RandomThoughts
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Sat May-08-10 10:38 PM
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| 5. That is a missperception of what conflict is. |
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Sat May-08-10 11:04 PM
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| 7. It's not that he was a sleezebag (which IMO he wasn't) |
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It's that he thought first and foremost of himself. By the end of the film (and, in the larger sense, by the end of the original trilogy), Han has grown to become part of a larger whole, rather than being a self-serving loner. This evolution is part of what makes his character so interesting.
However, with Lucas' post hoc revision, he short-circuited that evolution and turned Han into a nice guy who stays a nice guy and winds up being a nice guy. An utterly flat and boring character arc.
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Sat May-08-10 11:01 PM
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As it was explained to me, right here in this very Lounge, Han Solo did not shoot first.
Han shot. There was no second shot.
You could say that he shot first, but only in a "shoot first, ask questions later" sort of way, which is contrary to how the scene was meant to play out in the first place.
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Sun May-09-10 09:46 AM
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| 8. That's right. Han shot ONLY. |
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It bugs me that the "shot first" meme is so popular.
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Sun May-09-10 03:13 PM
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| 11. Greedo never even pulled the trigger |
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I never understood why Lucas felt the need to change it. Some green dude pulls a gun on you (even telling you he's going to kill you) and self defense isn't called for?
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Sun May-09-10 10:07 AM
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| 9. Yeah - and just what was in that cargo? |
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What were Han and Chewie smuggling? Ewok porn?
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Sun May-09-10 02:57 PM
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| 10. So you believe in the magic light saber theory, do you? |
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Edited on Sun May-09-10 02:57 PM by KamaAina
You probably think every word of the Chewbacca Report is the gospel truth. :eyes:
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Sun May-09-10 03:17 PM
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| 12. R2D2 is the secret leader of the Rebellion. |
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Sun May-09-10 03:52 PM
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| 13. No, he didn't shoot first. |
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He was the only one who shot. Period.
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