Boba Fett was a mysterious badass in Empire. A guy who was wise to Han's land-on-the-hull-and-float-away-with-the-(rest of the)-garbage-maneuver. A guy who Darth Vader felt he had to remind, "no disintegrations." A guy with the balls to challenge Vader when he says he's gonna freeze Han. Vader doesn't even choke him to death, just promises to make up for it with money!! I always figured, as soon as he drops Han off with Jabba and gets PAID, he'll be off on some other mission. Sadly, as of ROTJ, Fett had been reduced from a mysterious bounty hunter to a guy with nothing better to do than stand around Jabba's "palace" all day, watching slave girls get fed to the rancor, and rocking out to Sy Snoodles. Then Han gets to kill him--by mistake? Fett goes toe to toe with Luke, only to die because he evidentally doesn't know how to work his own jet pack. To top it off, the sarlaac belches afterward, reducing Fett's death to comic-relief status. The Jabba scene in ANH only further ruins Fett's credibility. He's no bounty hunter, just one of Jabba's henchmen. Boba Fett should never have been in ROTJ to begin with, much less become a key player in the prequels. It shows a certain amount of desperation on Lucas' part, to go out of his way to write Fett into the PT because he knew Fett was popular with the counter-culture/cult SW fans. If GL wanted to preserve Fett's cool, cult-y status, he should have just left it alone. But I guess that just ain't his strong suit, is it?