From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Sandman   
    wrote:   
   > In article <181220130855028488%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name   
   >  wrote:   
   > >   
   > > > Han should shoot first. No, scratch that, Han should be the only one who   
   > > > shoots. No "first". They did change it for the DVD release to make it   
   > > > tighter between the shots, but Greedo still comes off as a lousy moron   
   for   
   > > > a bounty hunter.   
   > >   
   > >  Although not in the movie, the backstory is that Greddo *IS* a "lousy   
   > >  moron for a bounty hunter"   
   >   
   > What backstory is that? Is it EU, official or conjured after the special   
   > edition?   
   >   
   > >  because he's not actually a bounty hunter. He's a wannabe bounty hunter   
   > >  - he wants to be a bounty hunter like his father, but Greedo doesn't   
   > >  have the intelligence nor skills to be able to do so.   
   >   
   > When ANH came up on the big screen in 1977, Greedo was no incompetent   
   > wannabe, he was a legitimate threat to Han at that point, and Han took care   
   > of it.   
   >   
   > >  From memory, Han is also his first real attempt to bring a bounty in.   
   >   
   > According to whom? I'm asking because the EU bases characters on their   
   > interpretation of the movies, and official backstory created after the SE   
   > would also incorporate it based on what we see, not what we once saw.   
      
   What we saw and still see on-screen is Greedo holding a gun on Han in   
   an attempt to claim Jabba's bounty ... there was and is absolutely zero   
   evidence on-screen of Greedo's competence, legitimacy, nor   
   qualification as a bounty hunter. Obviously he's not that good at the   
   job since Han gets away and Greedo is dead..   
      
   I'm not sure where or when the backstory about Greedo's father and   
   Greedo wanting to follow him as a bounty hunter comes from, but it's   
   official in the sense that is part of the EU "encycopedia" ... it may   
   have come or be based on George Luces' own backstory for his   
   characters, or it may have been written by another author.   
      
   There is a cut-scene from Episode I where Anakin has a fight with   
   Greedo, and beats him.   
      
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