Anchorhead said:

TheBoost said:

This is fine. Given that Boba Fett as a character DOES NOTHING OF NOTE, and apparently isn't as bad ass as everyone thinks since after a big payoff he's happier to chill in Jabba's party palace than do anything else.

Put a suit like that on anyone, and they're equally cool looking... which is all Boba ever had going for him.

All kidding aside (and you may not have been), but for the life of me I cannot, nor have I ever been able to, figure out the attraction to this character. Cool looking when he isn't speaking, mysterious, and plays a somewhat minor role in the second film.

Yet people by the millions lose their mind over the character. Not sure what I've been missing for thirty years, but I don't get the worship, even remotely.

Some unlikely convergence of his debut in the Holiday Special, the insatiable desire for new SW material leading up to ESB, the sheer joy of getting that Boba figure in the mail, (followed by crushing disappointment that the rocket launcher had been neutered) and the fact he's a blank slate kids could project whatever identity they wanted to upon?

Even Lucas has admitted he doesn't get it. (Because Boba's the wind, baby!) But he's happy the merchandising moolah keeps rolling in. ;)