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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2372124" data-attributes="member: 2205">Not even just that.  It's the change from a movie that would have a protagonist who would shoot first to one that wouldn't.  The whole nature of the saga, not just Han is impacted.  The level of seriousness with which the movies take themselves borders on pretentious now that we have this heavy-handed little moralistic retconning added in.Of course, I'm not one of those guys who thinks the change is a sign of the coming Apocalypse, like some, but I honestly don't know who it was supposed to appeal to.  It does nothing but make the scene worse, and I can't think of any other way of seeing it.And then, adding in the Jabba scene while still not adding in the Biggs and Luke Tatooine scene was a blow too -- the Jabba scene was clumsily made and seriously detracts from Jabba's character by making him a bit of a chump rather than a truly threatening figure, while the still missing Biggs scene (I've seen screenshots of this scene; I know it exists somewhere!) is pretty important in understanding some of the later added scenes with Biggs on Yavin 4.  Both of those changes are completely baffling to me; they don't improve the movie at all.And the added X-wings in the last action sequence is perhaps evened out by the very hit-or miss added special effects in Mos Eisley.  Most of those look fake, cheesy, childish attempts at gags, and very few of them actually improve the visual look of the movies.<sigh>  I'll probably end up converting my restored tapes that I bought right before they went off the market for good into DVD-Rs and when that happens, that'll be the only Star Wars OT I'll watch.  The newer DVDs are as frustrating as they are improved -- not only from the Special Edition changes, but the further DVD changes as well.</blockquote>

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