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daneditor said:
I don't know if you're familiar with ROTJ Fan-o-matic (if not, check it out on youtube) but one of the many excellent ideas was to have Boba Fett given the job of telling the Rebellion about the DS2, including the lie about it not being operational, rather than these Bothans, of whom the audience knows nothing and are never heard about again. Makes sense - aside from giving the Fett something to do, it also means Fett isn't at Jabba's palace and spares us the hideousness of his death scene.
This, to me, is worse than anything in the SE or PT.
Let's take a character who in ESB has two lines of dialogue and no action scenes, and transform them from some third tier baddie into the bad-ass James Bond of the universe.
Why does Fett need 'something to do'? He's a minor antagonist (and unnamed in ESB) who just happens to have a cool costume.
Talk about shrinking the universe.
Using that reasoning, why have Lando in ESB? Couldn't that roll be Uncle Owen, who survived somehow, left Tatooine and bought a city? Why have Wedge at the end of "Star Wars"? Couldn't the other pilot be the "gonk gonk" droid from earlier in the film? The audience already knows him, and he looks cooler than Wedge.