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Scotty keeping it real. (lemmy.world)
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I give the side-eye to people who call it "A New Hope" or "Episode IV."

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[–] [S] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As far as I'm concerned, that was a scene with a different Jabba, a big Irish guy in a fur coat. But it wasn't in the movie, so it doesn't matter.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It was better without Jabba, leaves the buildup for later.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Agreed, but then if you watch the movies in chronological order, which I think is what the expectation is at this point, absolutely none of the buildup in any of the original trilogy matters.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Best I’ve heard, if you’re watching the originals, is to watch them as 4,5,1,2,3,6 - the logic being that you don’t spoil the big revel and 1-3 are like a flashback to see how we got to “now”.

    Then skip 7-9.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    7 is fine, it's just a rehashing of 1 for a new generation. It just needs to be followed up with a "and then Poochie died on his way home to his planet" single animation cell that explains what happened to Luke.

    The end.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I choose to believe that Luke was a ghost the whole time. He was killed with the other Jedi when Kylo Ren attacked the Jedi Temple. Rey is just seeing a Force ghost, and ghost Luke and confused and angry which is why he's acting so weird.

    Probably doesn't line up perfectly with what happens in TLJ, but I only saw it once when it was released so I can just remember Rey visiting Luke at a bad time when he was an angry ghost. Nothing really happens in TLJ anyway so there's not much reason to watch it again.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Precisely. If Lucas didn't bother to retain that actor/character for ROTJ, then it never happened.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I agree. That said, this fan did a 'fix' of the version with Jabba in a pretty ingenious way.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKaJ2GC1C04&t=0s

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ok, now that's clever and reasonable. More evidence that Lucas has always needed outside voices and not just "yes men" to reign things in.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 years ago

    I just read this on Wikipedia about CG Jabba (apparently) being upgraded for a 2004 DVD release from the 1997 "special" edition-

    ScreenCrush later reflected that the 2004 version "was an improvement, but only in the way that nausea is an improvement over vomit".

    I love it.

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