Film Notes: Chalk up one dead Gantry Officer

Not very funny is it? I didn't even finish off Solo's arm. Tell you what though; this reminds me of what our Georgie-boy did to this scene in the Special Editions. He removed the blast flare from the officer's chests as they're killed. Yes. That's right: KILLED. Other scenes were sanitised too - the Detention Block scenes for example. Just so you know that my 12-13 year old drawing isn't the only record, here it is below.

Above: The un-edited original version. I'm emotionally scarred for life now
Below: The Forthcoming 2012 Special Edition II Version

I believe the aim was to not upset the kids, and as in the case of Han shooting Greedo in self-defense, to make the characters more morally upright. Maybe in a future version we'll see the stormtroopers, gagged and bound on board the Falcon and life-boats ejecting from the Death Star before it explodes.

It's killing no matter how you clean it up. I used to laugh at the A-Team in the 80s but not because of Murdoch and the Face's antics. No, unusually, there was LOADS of machine-gun fire and explosions (why else would you watch it?) but no one - not anybody ever got so much as a scratch.

Art Notes: Deep, thoughtful

It's very quiet page this isn't it? Apart from the shooting, blood and death - granted. But there's hardly any dialogue and in the bottom panel, it's all sort of calm and pensive. What's Chewie thinking about, do you think?

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