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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tarrasque Wrangler" data-source="post: 2330313" data-attributes="member: 7473">You're absolutely right. There is nothing wrong, either morally, ethically or legally, with presenting your work as you like it. However, in order to show it to the public, you have to be able to endure critical scrutiny, which is what I'm doing here. And if you don't like what the public has to say, tough, don't show it to them. Lucas has never had a problem with this. I'm sure he reads every negative review and messageboard flame and cries all the way to the bank.Now, back to the Hutt.One thing you should remember: Lucas didn't know he was going to get to make a trilogy when he was making ANH. There's probably gobs of things he might have put in there or left out if he'd known then what he knows now. I like to think that once Star Wars's success was clear and a trilogy would be made of it, he decided to make lemonade out of lemons and dust off Jabba. I'll hand it to him, the way they tease about him in the Cantina with Greedo and Han in ANH, the fear that grips Han of capture in ESB, all leading up to the big reveal of Jabba in ROTJ - all masterfully done, even if it was all just a happy accident because Lucas couldn't put him in the original. They set up Jabba really well in those movies as this unseen evil who sent scary triggermen like Boba Fett around the galaxy. Now I'm sorry to harp on it, but the Jabba we see in ANH SE is nothing like this. Huh? Han's supposed to be a hunted man from the minute we first meet him. There's nothing else in ANH or ESB to suggest that Jabba's losing patience - he didn't send Boba Fett after him to deliver a stern lecture.</blockquote>

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