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There's a PREGNANT WARFRAME?!

I know some people are never going to be okay with it, but Lucas simply liked this scene (sans the performance of the original Jabba actor), and he wanted to establish Han and Jabba's relationship as part of a subplot that would develop across the next two films (sorry, he didn't care about a Big Jabba Reveal). These are his openly stated reasons for restoring the scene. In order for the scene to be restored, Han simply *has* to step on Jabba's tail (all proposed alternatives are either even sillier or unworkable editorially). The question is: can you sell it? Because it is a little outrageous. I think the animators do a good job in the final version, because they actually integrate it into the core dynamic of the scene. Han (obviously) pisses off Jabba by stepping on his tail; if you notice, Han has, in fact, been deliberately provoking Jabba this entire time, because he's actually calling his bluff and daring Jabba to kill him right then and there, gambling that he won't actually do it, which will then force Jabba to negotiate. Jabba, as you would expect, gets very mad, clenches his fist, and looks like he probably *is* about to kill Han. But then Han immediately starts sweet-talking him and even offers to pay Jabba back, "plus a little extra." Jabba then relaxes with an "Oh Han, you impudent scamp" look on his face and decides to play ball, because Han is "[his] boy" and "[he's] the best." If Jabba can't bring himself to kill Han now, Jabba has to acknowledge to himself that he doesn't actually want to kill him, and so he'll stop waffling on the issue by sending bounty hunters with deliberately ambiguous instructions, and he'll negotiate. So Han's ploy worked. Of course, in order to accept all this, you have to grant that it's a good character scene (despite its partial redundancy) that's worth restoring in the first place. For various reasons, that is something that many people are radically against accepting. But if you start with the premise that it's a good scene, Han stepping on Jabba's tail is not that hard to justify. It is, in fact, part of establishing what Han and Jabba's relationship actually is at this point in time. It is not necessarily the same as it is in Return of the Jedi. Actually, it is obviously quite different. I don't think that is obviously a bad thing. I'm not sure what the point of including the scene would be if their relationship were portrayed as exactly the same.

Xbox has delayed the release of Fable until February 2027.