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Originally posted by: greencapt
In fact, in another piece of EU that occurs between ESB and ROTJ, the kid (who turns out was alive after all) tries to edge in on the 'Boba' we all know and love... the now adult kid paints up an old Mandalorian armor to look like 'Boba' and decides to go to Jabba's palace. Jabba, who doesn't understand why 'Boba' is back after getting paid off for bringing Han in, let's him hang out... the adult kid ends up getting into a skirmish that he didn't expect though when Luke arrives and ends up dying comically when he realizes he doesn't even really know how to use his own equipment. Later, the 'Boba' we all know hears about all of this, has a good laugh and continues to do his work with much of the SW gangster world thinking he is dead!



that is now cannon on the history of Boba in my opion
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Yeah, that's a great idea. And it would also explain the original voice. Darnit, George is now trying to convince us now that we've been seeing the real Boba Fett!

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Yeah, that's a great idea. And it would also explain the original voice. Darnit, George is now trying to convince us now that we've been seeing the real Boba Fett!


Yes but WE know the truth...

remember you heard it here first kids!

maybe call it... hmmm.... the GCBFT (the GreenCapt Boba Fett Theory). heh.
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That's amazing GC! Now I can almost accept the changing of his voice in the OT. I like your theory.
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Originally posted by: greencapt
In fact, in another piece of EU that occurs between ESB and ROTJ, the kid (who turns out was alive after all) tries to edge in on the 'Boba' we all know and love... the now adult kid paints up an old Mandalorian armor to look like 'Boba' and decides to go to Jabba's palace. Jabba, who doesn't understand why 'Boba' is back after getting paid off for bringing Han in, let's him hang out... the adult kid ends up getting into a skirmish that he didn't expect though when Luke arrives and ends up dying comically when he realizes he doesn't even really know how to use his own equipment. Later, the 'Boba' we all know hears about all of this, has a good laugh and continues to do his work with much of the SW gangster world thinking he is dead!



The LAST thing the world needs is more more fett-wank. The EU wanks him enough already. They don't need any help there

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

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Originally posted by: skyman8081

The LAST thing the world needs is more more fett-wank. The EU wanks him enough already. They don't need any help there


Luckily I've never read one bit of Fett-wank from the EU so I live in a Fett-wank-Free Zone. Actually I'm 97.5% EU free so I'll have to leave the wank to everyone who participates in it.
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Fett Haters are like Drizzt haters...
Theyre jealous.

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Fine, mister Lucas, while you're at it why dont you replace Lando with will smith?
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seriously fett was cool till george made him a snot nosed little rascal clone
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Originally posted by: Fat Jedi
Boba Fett is just another character ruined by the horrible prequels and I think he would of been better left a mystery character with no known origins.



Oh! Oh! I know another character that was ruined!!! Starts with a D...
"I love you..."

"I know..."
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Originally posted by: jeffreyschmid
Originally posted by: Fat Jedi
Boba Fett is just another character ruined by the horrible prequels and I think he would of been better left a mystery character with no known origins.



Oh! Oh! I know another character that was ruined!!! Starts with a D...


Or not...
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Originally posted by: jeffreyschmid
Oh! Oh! I know another character that was ruined!!! Starts with a D...



And ends with a "arth Vader"?
"I am altering the movies. Pray I don't alter them any further." -Darth Lucas
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i agree with fat jedi, all these mystery characters like vader and fett worked so well because they were mysterious, which probably was the point when lucas originally created them
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Thanks for the support battlewars, the PT didn't ruin Chewbacca but it was damn unnesacary to bring him in. I glad the PT didn't ruin one of my favorite bad guys Grand Moff Tarkin, that would of really pissed me off. In fact that was one of the few scenes I liked in ROTS, was when Moff Tarkin is hangin out with, Vader and the Emperor over looking the Death Star construction.
"All to easy"
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That was a surprisingly great scene. I think that tied the trilogies together more than anything else, because it didn't try to explain anything. It was just there
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I have had a prevailing suspicion since finding out the Holiday Special came out before Empire.

Since he was written for the Holiday Special's animated part, Fett was possibly not originally Lucas' character. Someone likes him enough to use him as a plot device (-Be it Lucas? Kasdan, or Brackett more likely), and Lucas is genuinely surprised at how beloved the character becomes. Maybe he feels like Fett somehow overshadows his own characters-so much so that he feels like he can't NOT put him in Jedi, but resents the character to the point that he chooses to off him as comic relief. (Seriously, even as a child, who wasn't perplexed at how weak he was killed in Jedi?)

Years pass, the prequel ideas are percolating, and he's accepted that people love Fett as a badguy regardless, and he figures "Okay, let me use Fett to make the Stormtroopers cooler!" and poof, all the clones are Boba Fetts of one slice or another. He does the one thing that cuts down the joy of the Mandalorian- He makes him commonplace.
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lucas is a major prig now, the likes we havent seen since george bush jr
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Originally posted by: battlewars
lucas is a major prig now, the likes we havent seen since george bush jr


I only agree on the Bush part.
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I have nothing against the guy. I really have no reason not to like him. And the fact that he changes his films around isn't a legitimate reason to say I hate him personally either.
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I love that some of the American members of this site have adopted the word 'wank'.

For christmas my Brother bought me the Star Wars 'saga edition' chess set. 'Very cool' thought I upon unwrapping it. However, it wasn't until we actually played it that I realised the true extent of Lucas' insanity. Had this chess set been produced a decade ago, Luke and Leia would undoubtedly been King and Queen, With Ben and Yoda as Bishops (advisors, pulling the strings in the background), Han and Chewie as Knights, and possobly artoo and threepio as rooks. The dark side would have consisted of Vader and the Emperor as King and Queen, and an assortment of imperial henchmen such as Tarkin as the other pieces, with Boba Fett making an appearence. Pawns on both sides would have been either Stormtroopers Vs Rebel commandos or X-Wings Vs Tie Fighters. To me, this sums up the true Star Wars.

However, in this 'Saga Edition', the King and Queen are young obi-wan and monkey lightsaber yoda. Luke and Leia have been reduced to bishops, Han and Chewie are still Knights, and padme is a rook, with R2 and Threepio reduced to sharing a piece as the other rook. The dark side consists of Vader and the Emperor as King and Queen, General grievous and one of his night stick droid bodygaurd guys as bishops, Boba and Jango Fett as Knights, and Darth Maul and Count Dooku as Rooks.

This means, in the new and 'official' Star Wars universe, General grievous and his gay robocop bodygaurd are considered equal in importance and, presumably, battle skills, to Luke Skywalker (!!!) and his sister Leia, whom is both a princess and key member of the allinace that eventually topples the empire. Han and Chewie Vs Boba Fett I can accept, but Darth Maul Vs Threepio and Artoo? Pawns on both sides are stormtroopers (old republic clone troopers for the goodies, imperial stormtroopers for the baddies).

I know it's only chess, I know it's only a second rate Star Wars cash cow product. But the fact that Luke is now a second rate supporting charcter really irritated me.

Rant over.

War does not make one great.

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Why, wank is my middle name! I'll prove it to you, see: Adam Wank Enobi

hahahahaha
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Don't feel bad for being angry about that. I would have been angry too. Actually, just reading about it made me angry. But I am curious... was Obi-Wan or Yoda the queen...?

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Don't feel bad for being angry about that. I would have been angry too. Actually, just reading about it made me angry. But I am curious... was Obi-Wan or Yoda the queen...?


Oh c'mon... after the PT either could be the b*tch!