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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RainOfSteel" data-source="post: 5826525" data-attributes="member: 24460">I don't care whether any release bombs or not.  When I heard it was coming out in 3D, I shrugged and went on with what I was doing at the time, not even remotely interested in seeing it again.George Lucas has utterly destroyed the Star Wars franchise from my point of view.Letting Greedo shoot at point blank range, with the gun pointed straight at Han, and miss, was ridiculously stupid.  As in brainless.  The laser shot goes off at a wildly impossible angle from the angle of the gun barrel.Han shooting first doesn't make him seem like a cold blooded killer.  When someone has a gun to you at point blank range, is a known killer, and is mouthing words to the effect that he is going to kill you in the following seconds, and you shoot first, it's self defense, pure and simple.  Now, Han almost certainly was not sorry he'd killed Greedo.  That made him seem hard-bitten and callous.  That was, in my opinion, the way it was supposed to be.Never once from the age of eight when I first saw Star Wars did I ever think of Han as a cold blooded killer because he shot first.  On the other hand, I did think the writers were unmitigated noobs for having Han say, "It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs."  Uh, hello?  That's like saying, "It's the car that ran the Indy 500 in 400 miles!"  Utterly nonsensical.  I spent years wondering how the "race officials" had allowed Han to cheat or why the other contestants hadn't objected, but of course, the whole "Kessel Run" may have not have been a legally conducted event to begin with.  The writers obviously didn't understand something that even an eight year-old knew, that a parsec was a measure of distance, not of time.  If George Lucas was going to fix anything at all in the first movie, it should have been this gaffe.In the second trilogy, major contributors to retroactively killing the first trilogy were:Medichlorians.  This pretty much shot down what was magical about the Star Wars universe.  Star Wars was Science Fantasy from the beginning.  This was nothing less than an attempt to convert it to be more like actual Science Fiction.  Forget it.  That isn't what Star Wars was about.Annakin as whiz-kid and then whiny and horny older teenager.  Whatever.</blockquote>

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