Thursday 26 July 2007
Dave: The universe has imploded!
Marcus:
I nearly ran this myself a couple of days ago. The reason I didn't is that George Lucas wearing a "Han Shot First" T-shirt would be amusing... if it wasn't for the fact that StarWars.com sells this T-shirt. So this photo practically counts as product placement. Ngh.
Marcus:
Just to reinforce the odious "any cash-in is a good cash-in" commercial mentality of Lucas & co, this T-shirt was first sold to punters as a "limited edition" when the original versions of Star Wars were finally released on DVD in glorious crap-o-vision. So basically it's a smart way of exploiting die-hard fans.
Marcus:
Create a controversy by raping your best work, then sell a T-shirt about it. Nice Lucas, very nice.
Marcus:
Han didn't shoot first; that implies Greedo shot second, whereas in fact, Greedo never even fired off a shot. Han shot solo. (Aha. Aha-ha.)
Marcus:
If you wanted to watch this event in glorious upscaled 1080p, you could do a lot worse than download the fan-made Wookie Groomer: Han Shoots First version of A New Hope. No doubt that this would be very illegal of course.
Marcus:
Wow, I haven't been this angry about something George Lucas has done since... well, in fact I've been angry about every single thing he's done to Star Wars in the last ten years, if I'm being honest. Angry fanboy over and out.
