Sluggo said:
I say stick with the Bothans and the plans. The audience knows Boba Fett is a bad guy. Surely, the rebels would know this also.
I think Fett's character is best suited by dying. It just needs to be from a deliberate swipe by Han, not an Anakin-style "Oops!".
At the risk of needlessly arguing the toss so this will be my last word on the subject in this thread, the audience has already played that game in ESB.
We are already queued to distrust Lando from the moment we meet him.
He confirms those doubts when he hands our heroes to the big baddie.
They are tortured and Han's life hangs in the balance during the carbon freeze.
He has very good reasons for doing what he does but that doesn't stop Leia from letting Chewie almost choke him death after risking everything to set them free.
It's the prospect of rescuing Han that snaps her out of the Skywalker family ritual of choking people they don't like.
A couple of minutes later in screen time he is flying the Falcon away with the same Wookiee that was Leia's proxy Force choke.
Tonnes of grey there in the episode many fans if not most claim to be the best one but the audience can deal with.
For Jedi to feel less of a contractual obligation film it needs some of that missing nuance added in.
It might shrink the universe a bit more but I as an audience member have no emotional investment in these Bothan guys and it's doubtful that adding a little scene in there isn't really going to provide it for me.
Fett is a known quantity.
He is ANH's Han through a glass darkly.
He is mercenary, he has the cool look, the cool ship but unlike Han he is truly Solo.
If the Rebels were willing to pay Han for his services I have no problem with them paying for Fett's.
The on screen disclosure that he is also working for Vader puts the bomb under the chair and builds tension for how the Endor thing is going to play out later.