I Got A Bad Feeling About This

So, word on the street has it that original Star Wars trilogy is going to be released on September 21st. Unfortunately, these DVDs will not be the exact versions originally released in the movie theater; instead they will be 'Special Editions' only, incorporating the many 'improvements' George Lucas made to the originals in later years. This includes the infamous - nay treasonous - Greedo shoots first scene.

(A brief note to my baker's dozen of readers: if you didn't follow my reference to the Greedo shoots first scene, then feel free to skip the rest of this post, as your level of Star Wars geekery is so low that the following will bore you anyway.)

I think Lucas stopped understanding (if he ever did to begin with) that the original Han Solo-blasts-Greedo-out-of-his-chair-without warning version of the scene completely established the character of Han Solo as a shady guy. And he certainly doesn't understand that in 1977 thousands of boys wanted to be Han Solo because he was a dangerous badass with a fast car and a cool dog - I mean a fast ship and a wookie - to boot. Sure he turned out to have a soft spot, but he wasn't a whiny goody-two shoes like Luke. If there's anything a red-blooded boy hates (aside from a snitch), it's a goody two-shoes.

I hate the sanitized Care Bears version of Han Solo.