SilverWook said:
Palpatine's death was dramatic. Boba's death was played for laughs.
I have never found it funny. I find it rather ironic. I see it more in a way that even the best can go down in a clumsy way. It is like the legendary gunfighter of the "old west" Wild Bill being shot in the back by some nobody.
Still even if at that moment Luke cut him in two with a lightsabre instead, it wouldn't change anything character-wise.