From a certain point of view
Does anyone remember what ever Happened to Jabba the Hut? Before anyone get's on my case about spelling Hut with one 't'instead of two, let me tell you a story.
It was a long time ago, in a state far, far away. The year was 1983 and I was in grade school giving a Show and Tell presentation of the newest Star Wars film: REVENGE of the Jedi. I had a little poster that I had drawn up of the characters. There was Luke and Leia and Chewie (wasn't sure what was going to happen to Han since we saw him last in The Empire Strikes Back) and some new characters, such as Admiral Ackbar (who was a mail-away figure at the time and not Da Admiral, as we would come to know him). Oh, and there was Jabba the Hut. Or at least what I thought was Jabba the Hut.
A little background: Jabba actually made several appearances in the Classic Marvel Comics Star Wars series. He was a tall, skinny green weasel looking guy in a red jumpsuit, he spoke English (or Basic to you SW fans keeping score at home). When I was drawing his visage onto my hand-crafted display, I used this as a reference, not knowing that 3 years earlier, George Lucas and co. were making the infamous gangster into a giant slug-like behemoth who ruled over a gallery of equally bizarre critters, including a little laughing lizard and a suck-up named Bib Fortuna. Oh, and they added an extra 't' to the end of his name, making him 'the Hutt'.
Imagine my surprise when I finally saw this on the big screen. At first I was somewhat dismayed that this Jabba didn't match the earlier apperance of the same character (mainly because the kids in my class teased me about the mistake). But that feeling quickly passed and now, when someone mentions the Huttese speaking don, I always think of that big Muppet.
So, what is the point of this little tale? I just want to remind my fellow fans that if a grade school kid can be happy with a discrepency of this scale, then it should be very easy for an adult to do the same.
It was a long time ago, in a state far, far away. The year was 1983 and I was in grade school giving a Show and Tell presentation of the newest Star Wars film: REVENGE of the Jedi. I had a little poster that I had drawn up of the characters. There was Luke and Leia and Chewie (wasn't sure what was going to happen to Han since we saw him last in The Empire Strikes Back) and some new characters, such as Admiral Ackbar (who was a mail-away figure at the time and not Da Admiral, as we would come to know him). Oh, and there was Jabba the Hut. Or at least what I thought was Jabba the Hut.
A little background: Jabba actually made several appearances in the Classic Marvel Comics Star Wars series. He was a tall, skinny green weasel looking guy in a red jumpsuit, he spoke English (or Basic to you SW fans keeping score at home). When I was drawing his visage onto my hand-crafted display, I used this as a reference, not knowing that 3 years earlier, George Lucas and co. were making the infamous gangster into a giant slug-like behemoth who ruled over a gallery of equally bizarre critters, including a little laughing lizard and a suck-up named Bib Fortuna. Oh, and they added an extra 't' to the end of his name, making him 'the Hutt'.
Imagine my surprise when I finally saw this on the big screen. At first I was somewhat dismayed that this Jabba didn't match the earlier apperance of the same character (mainly because the kids in my class teased me about the mistake). But that feeling quickly passed and now, when someone mentions the Huttese speaking don, I always think of that big Muppet.
So, what is the point of this little tale? I just want to remind my fellow fans that if a grade school kid can be happy with a discrepency of this scale, then it should be very easy for an adult to do the same.
posted by Coach Carter at 9:47 AM
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