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Wait, how do we know Boba Fett isn't gay?
The EU version had a wife at one point (so presumably straight or bi), but that was all thrown out. Modern canon Boba could be.
But why make one of the biggest losers in the OT gay?
edit: It is less trashing him because of how he dies and more I think he is trash and am happy his death is also lame.
Having recently watched all of the Clone Wars series for the first time, I can say the younger Boba seems fairly competent, but still is far from the perfect bounty hunter.
I mean, sure, he ends up locked in a giant chest at one point, but I don't expect him to be good enough to best Ventress at that point in his career. lol
-Tycho Brahe
I get not liking him, but it often seems like people go out of their way to talk shit about him as a reaction to how much attention and hype he used to get. Just feels weirdly contrarian to me. Like, people don't really seem to bother to do that with other Star Wars characters. I see more jabs at Fett than I do Jar-Jar and the latter's almost universally reviled.
Sure he had a dumb pointless death in Return of the Jedi, but that film has other problems. Its treatment of Boba Fett is hardly the only one.
Eh, disintegration seems like the chump way of winning a fight. Now if Vader had said, "But I want them alive, not as an unrecognizable bloody pulp this time!" then I would respect Boba more.
-Tycho Brahe
It feels like what you're talking about is simple contrarianism and/or getting old. I associate "hipsterism" more with "I was into that thing before everyone thought it was cool." This is more "I don't like that thing everyone thinks is cool." It seems like people just say something is "hipsterism" because hipsters are silly geese, so therefore transitively you must be too if you're being hipsterish.
Could be off base, though. "Hipster" is a term that has become somewhat nebulous.
No, you have a point. I guess 'indie-kid' would be the appropriate term. I think I tend to conflate the two because in terms of music scenes I feel like there was a lot of overlap.
To be honest, my own personal take on that line was always that George Lucas thought it was time to throw a little of his infamous humor into the scene.
-Tycho Brahe
Sort of? Blasters don't disintegrate people, that's a whole other class of directed energy weapon in Star Wars called disruptors. So while that may have been the intended implication, 'no disintegrations' by itself could just mean that if you do end up killing a target, the client wants to see the body.
In the old EU disruptors were highly illegal under both the Republic and the Empire, not that it stopped outlaws and bounty hunters from using them, and the Empire never met a weapon they weren't prepared to give their own forces an exemption to use.
Standard thing in both fantasy and science fiction (so whichever one you want to argue Star Wars is primarily) is that different races have different levels of magical or psionic or other similar potential. It's a less creative standard thing for that potential to be inverse of physical strength. So Wookies can't be Jedi for the same reason Yoda's race usually is.
And if you're a regular "human" then you are probably just average at most everything.
-Tycho Brahe
Let's just call it what it is: Space Rascism. "Wookies are too savage to be jedi." "Yoda-rians talk funny." "Twi'lek women are always sexy." "Hutts are all criminals."
I believe the term you're looking for is "speciesist."
Renegade Commander Shepard approves.
Thanks to Disney+, I recently watched all of the Clone Wars series and I saw more than one scene that reinforced that Twi'lek stereotype. Now, as I rewatch the Rebels series, I have even greater respect for Hera Syndulla because I assume at some point she made the brave decision to follow her dreams of being a pilot rather than being a pole dancer like 99% of all Twi'lek women.
-Tycho Brahe
No excuse anymore, though.