Why does Han shoot my Greedo first?

"SifuSteve;620028" wrote:
Lol! Wow. No one is ever going to read that. Ever.

I read it, you took the time to write it and it's a rainy day with not much else to do. While you are correct that he took on an almost impossible task what he did wasn't even playing it safe it was playing it easy. I'm old guard and saw the Ep IV in the theater when it came out. It could have been a great film had he not completely copied EP IV. It was the same movie in the same sequence with the characters slightly shifted in time. There is so much of the EU that has been built up over the years, some of it good and some of it terrible but mostly accepted, that he could have drawn upon much much more than he did. We didn't get a continuation, we got EP IV in JJ's image. The movie by itself is not bad and if you had never seen EP IV would probably have been phenomenal. In the end he didn't drop the ball buy he just didn't carry it forward either.