Han shoots first

I had received some gift certificates for the Fnac for christmas, and also some plain money. So today I went there, and spent it on a few DVDs containing the Star Wars original trilogy.

Since this is the 2006 DVD release, it contains two versions of every movie: the original theatrical version, as it appeared in cinema at the time of their release, and the more "modern" version, which had some computer alterations to make the special effects be more stunning. And which led to the now infamous "Han shot first T-shirts.

The DVD also contains a commentary audio track for the modern version of the movie, as can be expected from most modern DVD sets these days. Intrigued about the fact that they actually went ahead and did another alteration on the movie just because fans were not happy with the new version, I switched on the commentary track and went ahead to the problematic scene 22. The commentary starts off with "There was a bit of controversy when I told everyone I was going to...", so one would think he's going to mention the whole 'Han Shot First' controversy. But he's not; he goes on with "... shoot this scene with subtitles"; the commentary during that scene simply explains how huttese (the language spoken by poor Greedo) came to be.

Why they had to do that there (instead of waiting until Jabba actually joins in), I don't know. They probably wanted to talk about something else there...