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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 5830606" data-attributes="member: 1231">I think there is something of a tradition in fiction that you do not mess with the first published edition of a work willy nilly. Retconning, while commonplace, is usually employed in order to make subsequent works make sense, rather than because you feel like changing it. In this sense, Greedo shooting first had absolutely nothing to do with the plot of the prequels. Even editing Hayden Christiansen into the celebration scene is far more justifiable (though hardly necessary, and definitely in poor taste), because you could at least say that that is what he looked like before his fall to the Dark Side. I think if we want to really figure this sort of situation out, we should ask ourselves why good ol' J. R. R. Tolkien does not get (much, if any) flak for changing the chapter with Gollum in The Hobbit. As I mentioned above, Tolkien's retcon of this chapter was to set up for The Lord of the Rings. But then, Wikipedia tells me something else I had not known: that Tolkien actually started a rewrite of The Hobbit in order to bring the tone more in line with The Lord of the Rings, but ended up abandoning it because he felt it just was not The Hobbit.( Another question I thought of, though it is probably somewhat less applicable: if Leonardo da Vinci were to be resurrected from the dead, would you let him paint over the Mona Lisa with a new version of the portrait, or would you tell him to take a hike? )</blockquote>

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