Comments on: Shooting Greedo First: An Ethical Meditation http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2007/05/25/shooting-greedo-first-an-ethical-meditation/ It's hip to be moribund! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:32:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: bob http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2007/05/25/shooting-greedo-first-an-ethical-meditation/#comment-12062 bob Sat, 26 May 2007 01:23:32 +0000 http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2007/05/25/shooting-greedo-first-an-ethical-meditation/#comment-12062 Actually, your son's impression kind of puts an even more interesting spin on this whole subject... By the way, readers, Burbanked's post is a must-read, so <a href="http://burbanked.com/2007/05/24/my-young-son-has-watched-star-wars-for-the-first-time/#comment-19912">read it</a>! Kids are cool. Actually, your son’s impression kind of puts an even more interesting spin on this whole subject…

By the way, readers, Burbanked’s post is a must-read, so read it! Kids are cool.

]]> By: Burbanked http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2007/05/25/shooting-greedo-first-an-ethical-meditation/#comment-12042 Burbanked Fri, 25 May 2007 16:08:33 +0000 http://forwardtoyesterday.com/2007/05/25/shooting-greedo-first-an-ethical-meditation/#comment-12042 You make some excellent points which cause me to contemplate how Lucas might have better characterized Jabba as a magnificently evil bastard who assuredly would kill Greedo if the be-schnozzled bounty hunter failed to bring Han in. As it is, Han and Greedo have a fairly innocuous - if vaguely threatening - conversation that doesn't so much deepen Han's desperation or sense of panic. But as Obi-Wan will point out to us two films later, "many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." My blog-a-thon entry today involves my young son watching <b>SW</b> for the first time - and his impression of Han Solo's motivation is pretty much spot-on. You make some excellent points which cause me to contemplate how Lucas might have better characterized Jabba as a magnificently evil bastard who assuredly would kill Greedo if the be-schnozzled bounty hunter failed to bring Han in. As it is, Han and Greedo have a fairly innocuous - if vaguely threatening - conversation that doesn’t so much deepen Han’s desperation or sense of panic.

But as Obi-Wan will point out to us two films later, “many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” My blog-a-thon entry today involves my young son watching SW for the first time - and his impression of Han Solo’s motivation is pretty much spot-on.

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