Rogue One Vs The Force Awakens

[Campe]

Boba Fett in A New Hope was worse.

I stand corrected.

 

[Venardhi]

Are we all forgetting baby Greedo?

 

[Campe]

Deleted scene. Doesn't really count.

 

[JD]

I wasn't as bothered by the Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan's cameo as a lot of you, but it did a mental "seriously?" from me.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Am I the only one who enjoyed the Jabba scene and Fett's inclusion?

 

[Ithekro]

Considering Pablo Hidalgo had a similar reaction to the idea until he saw a cut of it, it probably was too much, but works a bit if you think of who of the two was tying starting this fight and who was holding back whom, while next time it was sort of reversed and no one was holding back.

 

[Tosk]

Am I the only one who enjoyed the Jabba scene and Fett's inclusion?

I doubt it.

But I'm in the "hated it" camp. Hated both versions of the the CG, hated the tone of it. Trying to shoehorn the revised idea of Jabba into a space that wasn't built for him, both figuratively and literally, just rubbed me the wrong way. The repeated dialogue was guff, seeing as they had already long ago re-written the Greedo scene to incorporate the needed bits from the missing Jabba scene. Fett being there makes little sense, and then they topped it off with him doing a camera take. Ugh.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I doubt it.

But I'm in the "hated it" camp. Hated both versions of the the CG, hated the tone of it. Trying to shoehorn the revised idea of Jabba into a space that wasn't built for him, both figuratively and literally, just rubbed me the wrong way. The repeated dialogue was guff, seeing as they had already long ago re-written the Greedo scene to incorporate the needed bits from the missing Jabba scene. Fett being there makes little sense, and then they topped it off with him doing a camera take. Ugh.

I suppose that perhaps the difference in our perspectives is that I had wanted to see that scene realized for around 15 years at that point. At that point, I owned four different versions of the story-- the movie itself, the novelization, the comic adaptation and the NPR radio play, and there was a variation of that scene in every version except the movie. Furthermore, I had seen some of the unaltered footage of the Jabba scene with the human actor, so I knew that the scene was out there.

So, to see that scene realized after envisioning it for 15 years was a gratifying experience as a fan. But, in hindsight, I will agree that Fett's appearance wasn't necessary, but at the time I felt that it set up his appearance in TESB rather nicely.

 

[Tosk]

It makes Fett seem less like a bounty hunter and more like Jabba's lackey.

I suppose that perhaps the difference in our perspectives is that I had wanted to see that scene realized for around 15 years at that point. At that point, I owned four different versions of the story-- the movie itself, the novelization, the comic adaptation and the NPR radio play, and there was a variation of that scene in every version except the movie. Furthermore, I had seen some of the unaltered footage of the Jabba scene with the human actor, so I knew that the scene was out there.

Same boat here, I just didn't like the end product. And I don't like it being squeezed into the official narrative of Star Wars, where it arguably no longer belongs. (Maybe if they had altered the Greedo subtitles so that the Jabba scene wasn't so redundant, but who can say? I probably would have cried foul at that too. ) To me, it feels even more out of place than the deleted scene where Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie sneak past some Imperials on the Death Star by just acting casual.