You might have noticed (from the total marketing onslaught) that there is a new Star Wars movie coming out. As someone who jumped around his living room with an imaginary lightsaber when he was five and inwardly wept at how bad the last trilogy was…I have mixed feelings. But it was great seeing my favorite character in the trailer: Han Solo. In hindsight it’s easy to forget that Han isn’t an inherently good guy. He’s a smuggler, he hung around with mobsters like Jabba the Hutt, and he shot Greedo first. That's right. He did. George Lucas, in one of his many revisionist faux pas, tried to spitshine Han by re-cutting the famous scene in … [Read more...]