Star Wars watching

[Alpo]

You have purchased the entire Star Wars collection - the Skywalker saga. Episodes 1 through 9. You're sitting down for an evening full of droids and lightsabers.

 

Do you plug in episode 1 or do you plug in episode 4?

 

I'm starting with four because, first, that's the way it was done in the theaters. And second, it seems that if you watch 1-3, there's no reveals in 4-6. Even though I know what's going to be revealed in 4-6, I want to watch it in the order it was produced.

 

Just sort of curious if that's a "me weirdness" or if that's pretty normal for the rest of the world.

 

 

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

4.  That is the original that captivated me when I was a kid and still does. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

4, 5, 6, 1.  Then stop. 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Do you watch the original 4 or the edited 4?

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

If I had never seen them? I would start with 1 and watch them in sequence. I might do the same if I were having a binge watch. The biggest letdown watching them in the order that they were shown is that you already know what the results of the individual fights are going to be. How could I get excited about Obi Wan and Anakin's Lightsaber battle when I KNEW how it was going to end?  It was a very dramatic battle, but we KNEW how it had to end. Same with the Yoda/ Palpatine fight.

And I would NOT bother with 7,8,and 9. 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

3 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Do you watch the original 4 or the edited 4?

I saw it in the theater in '77. Han shot first. But I do like the added scenes and backgrounds.

[Alpo]

4 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Do you watch the original 4 or the edited 4?

Unless you have number four on video tape, you don't have the original number for. By the time laser disc came out Lucas had bought it back and edited. I would love to receive the original number four. Not going to happen.

 

1 minute ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

Han shot first.

That's not correct. "Han shot first" implies that somebody else shot second. No one returned fire, so Han did not shoot first. He just shot.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

55 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Unless you have number four on video tape, you don't have the original number for. By the time laser disc came out Lucas had bought it back and edited. I would love to receive the original number four. Not going to happen.

 

That's not correct. "Han shot first" implies that somebody else shot second. No one returned fire, so Han did not shoot first. He just shot.

I don't have the tape, but since I did see it as a first run movie, I know what was on it. And while Greedo didn't get off a shot, he would have shot Han where he sat, so Han was justified in shooting when he did.

[Alpo]

That's very puzzling.

 

When the Stormtroopers were at the lifeboat in the desert, there were Stormtroopers riding on top of these things that weren't in the first movie.

 

When Luke and Ben drove into town there was all kinds of large dray beasts that weren't in the first movie.

 

Just before they all jumped on the Falcon and scrammed out of there Jabba was at the site and he and Solo were having a conversation.

 

All that nonsense was added after CGI come along.

 

But in the bar the little green guy did not shoot. He said he was going to, but he didn't. Solo blowed him away.

 

I have seen the edited version before, and the green guy shot first, so Solo had to shoot back to defend himself.

 

He didn't do it in this one. Never gave the little green guy a chance.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

38 minutes ago, Alpo said:

But in the bar the little green guy did not shoot. He said he was going to, but he didn't. Solo blowed him away.

 

I have seen the edited version before, and the green guy shot first, so Solo had to shoot back to defend himself.

 

He didn't do it in this one. Never gave the little green guy a chance.

In the original release, if my rememberer is right, Han said, "Over my dead body." Greedo answered "That's the idea." clearly indicating that he was going to shoot Han. Han, expecting that, shot before Greedo could. 

When he did, I thought, "I'd have done the same thing."

Here, found it on youtube:

 

[Pat Riot]

Star Trek 

[Alpo]

21 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

In the original release, if my rememberer is right, Han said, "Over my dead body." Greedo answered "That's the idea." clearly indicating that he was going to shoot Han. Han, expecting that, shot before Greedo could. 

When he did, I thought, "I'd have done the same thing."

Here, found it on youtube:

 

That's the scene they had in the disc I just got through watching.

[Dr. Zook]

Throw Rogue One in there between 3 and 4 and season 2 of Andor ties right into Rogue One.

But I started with 4 in 1977 - supposed to be re releasing 4 in theaters for 2027 [50 yrs since original release date] - have to see if the grandkids will take Grandpa to the movies....

[Texas Joker]

Hans story arc doesn't make sense if he shot in self defense.

 

He went from a conceited selfish braggart to a person who cared about others and risked everything for them redeeming himself. Had to set up the kind of person he was in 1 scene 

 

The star port scene with jaba was filmed using a person before they made the decision that Hutt wasn't just a rank in a criminal organization but a species. They cut the scene once jaba was made into a big slug alien. Then the CGIed in the jaba we know for the re-release.

[Sedalia Dave]

7 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

In the original release, if my rememberer is right, Han said, "Over my dead body." Greedo answered "That's the idea." clearly indicating that he was going to shoot Han. Han, expecting that, shot before Greedo could. 

When he did, I thought, "I'd have done the same thing."

Here, found it on youtube:

 

 

 

If you find yourself in a fair fight; your tactics suck

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Sgt Sabre, thank you!

It wasn't until I re-watched it just now, that I realized ...

... the smoke drifting out the hole in Greedo's back ...

... nice touch ...

[Subdeacon Joe]

One think I'm still kicking myself about is not buying some posters when there was a small SiFi convention in Santa Rosa back in the 1980s. Lucasfilm had a stand and was selling Revenge of the Jedi posters and such.  I was short on money, so didn't buy any, figuring I'd get some in two weeks on payday.  By which time they had changed the name to RETURN of the Jedi because, obviously, such superiore beings would never stoop to revenge.

I was doing door duty for the pre-convention "Authors Reception" and tried to keep George Lucas out because he didn't have the proper ID...he didn't get upset, didn't name drop, just argued pleasantly...I finally decided based on the very expensive looking leather jacket with "Lucasfilms" embossed on the left breast that he must be a Somebody and let him in.  Hell, I had never seen him before. Poul Anderson ? Fine, I recognized him. Harlan Ellison?  No problem, I'd seen him before.  Diana Paxton?  Marion Zimmer Bradly?  Hi, how you doing? Will you be at October Crown?  

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

2 hours ago, Texas Joker said:

Hans story arc doesn't make sense if he shot in self defense.

 

He went from a conceited selfish braggart to a person who cared about others and risked everything for them redeeming himself. Had to set up the kind of person he was in 1 scene 

It makes perfect sense. He shot Greedo out of pure self preservation. Then he met a girl. Just like with the rest of us, that changes everything.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

And Disney bought the story rights, it only goes downhill from now on.

[Stump Water]

14 hours ago, Alpo said:

You have purchased the entire Star Wars collection - the Skywalker saga. Episodes 1 through 9. You're sitting down for an evening full of droids and lightsabers.

 

Yes we did.  Decided to watch them in chronological order, so 4, 5, 6 first. 

 

After all the CGI, special effects, whatever in 4, 5, 6, when we started watching 1 it was like the original Star Trek series in the 60's.  Comical almost.  That was the end of that.