Comments on: When Han Shot First

by: Eve

Sat, 20 May 2006 16:45:44 +0000

Dave2: It is super cool that you were able to watch SW on a Mac back then — and NOW as well!

Meet me and all the other commenters on this post The Day After the nuclear holocaust, so we can keep the SW oral tradition alive.

by: Eve

Sat, 20 May 2006 16:28:45 +0000

Golfy, my girl, I would never disown you!!!

Though, I must disagree. That punk Greedo never even got a shot off before Han blasted him into a cloud of smoke. And even if he had a chance, Han was wanted ALIVE (not Dead or Alive, spinning right round baby, right round). Therefore, Greedo would not have shot at all; he wanted to bring Han alive to Jabba so he could collect the extremely large bounty.

Remember in Empire when Vadar was having Han put in the carbonite, there was a question of whether Han would survive the process, and Boba Fett says to Vader “What if he doesn’t survive? He’s worth a lot to me.”? Vadar replied that the Empire will compensate the bounty hunter if Han dies.

See? Han had to be alive — and not shot!

by: golfwidow

Sat, 20 May 2006 14:13:48 +0000

How you haven’t disowned me I don’t know, because ever since Star Wars was still “Star Wars” and not “A New Hope”, I’ve been maintaining that Greebo shot first, but Han shot better.

by: Dave2

Sat, 20 May 2006 01:10:39 +0000

I’ve had my laserdisc converted to digital video for ages… “The Empire Strikes Back” was the first thing I ever loaded onto a computer. Of course, the size and quality of that early effort was crap, but how cool was it that I could watch Star Wars on my Mac?!?

I’ll be buying them also, even though I too have a current rip of the LD on DVD.

by: kapgar

Fri, 05 May 2006 14:42:00 +0000

I’ll be there waiting for you with the uncut Star Wars movies complete with telltale cel squares around each TIE Fighter as it flies through space. God I love those cel squares. I miss them. And Luke’s girly scream. And Han shooting first (and only). And the now-you-see-him-now-you-don’t Wampa. Those versions of the film rock.

by: Christine

Fri, 05 May 2006 14:22:00 +0000

Oh my lord. I want those. I want those! I wore out my VHS copies a LONG time ago and have been dying to see Jedi minus the freaking dopey “all the worlds celebrating the end of the Empire scene” for some time now. Very good news Eve, very good indeed.

by: Masked Mofo

Fri, 05 May 2006 01:53:00 +0000

The summer after ROTJ came out, they ran a triple feature at that 18th Ave. movie theater that eventually became a Mandee’s or something. All three flicks on the same screen, in the same day.. for months!!!

Needless to say, I spent most of July and August there watching my three favorite movies over and over again. After the third week, the ushers knew me by name and some of them let me in for free.

I couldn’t possible explain to you how blessed I felt.

When the ’special edition’ DVDs came out, I made several copies of my LD originals onto DVD and gave them out to friends for christmas with explicit instructions that they in no way purchase or support the special edition discs.

by: Eve

Thu, 04 May 2006 19:55:00 +0000

K, when the world comes to an end, I hope that I’m there with you.

by: kapgar

Thu, 04 May 2006 19:37:00 +0000

I, too, own several copies of SW on VHS and staunchly refused to buy the DVDs when they came out. In fact, a friend ripped his Faces Edition LDs to DVD for me to help me out. And I ripped several copies of those for people to keep them from buying the “official” DVD set. I, personally, do not know a soul who owns those DVDs.

My proudest piece is the Faces Edition VHS set in letterbox. Very rare collector’s flat box instead of the virtual cube. I like it so much more. Great set. A VCR tried to eat it one time… I tore the VCR apart and trashed it rather than have my tape get ruined.