Bingowings said:The only reason Fett doesn't work in ROTJ is he isn't doing what he was designed to do. Having Fett just cooling his heels in Jabba's palace, waiting to be killed off a couple of scenes later is a bit like having a man in a space suit walking into a coffee shop. It doesn't make sense. Boba Fett is a bounty hunter, he finds people or information and he sells it to anyone with the cash.
This storyline gives him a legitmate reason for being in this film (beyond just dying and tying up all the loose ends).
I think I saw the man in a spacesuit walk into a coffee shop on Letterman.
I totally agree that Fett doesn't work in ROTJ. He had a large enough role in the previous movie to warrant his hanging out in Jabba's palace.
I don't like the plan of him selling the Death Star Plans to the rebels.
1. I think the information about how the rebels got the plans is irrelevant to the fact that they just have the plans. To me the film reveals just enough about where the plans came from. The bothans (what ever that is) delivered them through their spies. Then Palpatine revealed it was all a ruse to defeat the rebels. And the purpose of that plotline was to justify the extra troops on Endor and to make it tougher for the rebels.
2. I think the idea to have Fett sell the plans to the rebels is looking to solve the problem the wrong way. The problem isn't how the rebels got the plans, but what the heck is Boba doing in this movie? To me, having Fett sell the plans isn't what he was designed to do.
It seems to me that a solution needs to deal with Fett at the Palace. Having Fett at the palace still is useless if his purpose in the rest of the movie is to set up the rebellion. Fett could be chilling on Hoth before he set out to betray the rebellion.
Fett wouldn't be at the palace for the party either. Maybe in someone's imagination, he likes being a ladies man and hanging out with dancing girls, but that's not real purpose either. Fett needs to be on a mission. He has to be after a bounty.
Skywalker.
Collecting Skywalker was his his original mission for going after the Falcon. Being able to bring Solo to Jabba was just a bonus. With Vader stuck on the Death Star, overseeing its construction, it seems logical that he would want to keep the bounty active.
All that would need to be added to the film is a bit of dialogue between Fett and maybe Jabba about knowing Skywalker will come to rescue Solo and Fett will capture him. Sort of an echo of the conversation on Bespin with Fett and Vader. The trap to get Luke almost worked the first time. The way the films play with type-scenes and motifs, this plan would fit the film fine.
Later, when everyone else is out at the pit of carkoon, Fett heads topside to collect his prize. He notices R2 has an escape plan going so he waits for the right moment. When it comes, he swoops in, ties Luke up, stuns Luke with a stun-ray and flies him away. Unless of course some smuggler messes up the last minute.
I think it works.
And really, I don't care at this point if Fett lives or dies. He had a point to be in the movie and however it wraps up, he can fly away to hunt another day or slowly get digested for a thousand years.
Just my 2 cents.