I give the side-eye to people who call it “A New Hope” or “Episode IV.”

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

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      This was such a stupid, stupid scene. Like all the other “humor” scenes he started injecting.

      Jabba’s way too small. And there’s no way in hell he’d let him just stomp on his tail like that. And…sigh.

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        The humor basically had to be added to the scene, otherwise Han would have stepped through Jabba’s tail. It’s a shot that is blocked just fine if you shot it with a big Irish guy who didn’t have a tail.

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          My editing actually was pretty successful but I can’t get rid of the dumb animal that walks in front of the camera when they are stopped by storm troopers.