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Penny Arcade - Comic - My Boba Manifesto
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He didn't come back from the dead because he was marketable, he became marketable because he came back from the dead
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Sort of. The original EU had stories where Fett had survived the Sarlaac, because writers wanted to write more Boba Fett stuff. Then The Great Disney Purge happened, and that part became no longer canon. So it's a retcon of a retcon of a retcon.
You might be surprised.
It was interesting there was a storm trooper in there, I imagine there's an entire EU story about that duder.
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If its an EU character than odds are he got three novels, two comic book appearances, a 14,000 word entry on wookiepedia, and an action figure.
Hey, Threepio is just translating.
Uh, the old Expanded Universe rewrote that canon back in the 90's, then The Mandalorian repeated it for the Disney canon. Now there's a new show about old man Boba Fett.
Personally, Boba Fett looked cool but was kind of meh in the original trilogy. However, the old EU had a bunch of fun material which made me like their takes on the character.
The Mandalorian, as can be expected of a very good show, did a good job of reintroducing him IMHO.
And the new show has done a good job so far humanizing him.
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Either way, he manages to blow himself out of there by tricking the voice, and Dengar manages to find him and it ends with Boba Fett promising to be the best man at Dengar's wedding. I'm not making that up.
Then the movie came out and people just focused on the Vader/Luke twist and didn't think much about how the only thing Fett did in the movie was take a couple potshots at Luke and be smart enough to hide in some garbage (admittedly smarter than the Empire). So there had been all this build-up of Boba Fett being a badass, and it kinda just stuck around.
anyway I have no idea if that's true or not. But it amuses me to think that when they were making Jedi the studio was probably like "everyone loved Boba Fett! We have to bring him back!" and Lucas being like "okay, he didn't really do anything, but... I guess we can stick him in an early action scene and then kill him off so he's not mucking up the rest of the plot."
An argument could be made about the troops stationed on the forest moon of Endor getting defeated by a small group of Rebel commandos and a bunch of Ewoks, but to be fair it was a surprise attack by a numerically superior force using guerilla tactics who were well camouflaged and operating on their home turf. I'd rate that more as a tactical error on the Empire's part (lets leave the security of the shield generator protecting out unfinished giant battlestation in the hands of a few dozen guys, what's the worst that could happen?). Not sending reinforcements once the battle started could have also been some 5D chess move by the Emperor since he already knew the Rebels were up to something and had anticipated their assault on the shield generator but didn't react because he was trying to lure Luke into his throne room. Being able to trade up from the half man/half vending machine Darth Vader to a new, young, extremely force sensitive apprentice was worth risking a half built Death Star for.
As for Boba Fett bumbling around like a complete doofus during his last scene? I like to think he was drunk.
Now we're getting to see all those gaps officially filled in. It doesn't matter what someone wrote in a short story 30 years ago about Boba Fett. We now have the official canon playing out.
Disney is the best thing to ever happen to Star Wars.
I did.
I don't recall having any attachment at all to Boba Fett when I was a kid. When he went in that pit I didn't give him a second thought. lol
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Vader looks and points directly at him when he says "no disintegrations", which you think would be obvious for someone who probably wants to have a body, living or dead, as proof of their bounty.
He figured out Solo's trick, and figured out he was going to Bespin, but they both worked for Jabba so that's less good detective work and more knowing your co-worker's habits. And that's assuming that the Empire didn't already know Solo (who was an Imperial Navy washout after all) and his associates and figured he'd go to Bespin anyway.
And then he gets pwned by a blind guy.
As you alluded to, precision = tight grouping, as opposed to accuracy = hitting where you want to
So maybe they were all great marksmen but their rifles had shitty sights
And yeah, Endor is basically Viet Nam
What I'm hearing is that Boba Fett is a Will Ferrell role?
"The sarlacc found me rather indigestible, Solo."
But it wouldn't be Star Wars if either the creative leads or the fandom were content to leave it at that.
It's not described as a quick death. Fett would've had time to regain his senses after being launched into the side of the sail barge, after which he probably just rocketed out.
How would they know it, though? I mean there's very few species who even survive around a thousand years in the Star Wars canon, and Jawas and Tusken Raiders are not among them. Did they chuck another Hutt in there with a wire? More realistically the whole "you will feel pain for a thousand years" bit is just to torment the condemned before you off them, like making someone dig their own grave.
Furthermore, that jetpack is probably not very reliable if a blind guy randomly smacking it by accident can cause it to misfire and go out of control. Hell it might not even be functional when Fett wakes up.
Your second argument feels like a big reach. I'm not even sure why you're trying to argue the plausibility of it, this isn't the Expanse, it's Star Wars. The series about wizards, wild west cowboys, and world war 2 aircrews in space? The idea that it was still functional is more believable than R2 surviving that hit he took during the Death Star run. By the rules of drama, if you're told in one scene that people die very slowly in the giant pit, then you see a character fall in wearing something that would make it easy to get out, and their death isn't shown on-screen, then you shouldn't be surprised if they show up again later.
he gets knocked into the sarlacc pit in RotJ because he's about to take a shot at Luke; shit's always going right for Luke like that because he's the Perfect Starchild of Destiny and dumb luck is his superpower.
also I mean, Fett's wearing what we're meant to understand as the best combat/survival/environment suit available; being dousing in stomach acid is probably no picnic but he's pretty well equipped to survive for at least a while.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
It's from George Lucas: A Life.
Boba doesn't get into a ton of action in the OT but the scenes he's in convey a lot. The first movie did a lot to build up Vader as a bad news space wizard and then non-super human Boba Fett is walking side by side with him in Return after previously having to tell Fett to take it easy on the killing people with excessive force. ROTJ did him dirty but to be fair very little of the non-vehicular action in the OT looks that great and having Fett be more active may not have ended up looking good. Vader and Obi-wan's duel has been compared to two old men tapping at each other with glowy canes and the shootouts are also pretty cheesy.
A lot of the best aspects of the OT were what it made us imagine could happen in that setting and that its characters could do more than what we got shown on camera.
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