Why is it that if we hate something, no one else can like it? I'm not sure, nor do I want to discuss the psychology behind it, but I am certainly one of those people. I suppose I don't hate Boba Fett, I'm fairly apathetic about the character, but the fact that everyone else seems to love him drives me nuts. Please continue reading, as I persuade you to embrace my opinion, which is the correct one.
*This could be one of the nerdiest articles you've read, be forewarned*
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| We should really be huge fans of a guy who dies like this. |
Now I get some of the appeal: Boba Fett has a cool suit, a jetpack, a grappling-hook-rope-launcher-Now I'm ignoring extended universe, because I only care about canon,
(yes there is an entire wikipedia article devoted to Star Wars canon), but analyzing Boba Fett's role in the films, I can only come to one conclusion: the guy is overrated and totally sucks. Let's review him: he's brought in with a team of (I'm assuming) accomplished bounty hunters by the Empire to track down the Millenium Falcon. He makes a smart move of hanging around after the Empire dumps their waste and jumps to lightspeed, and this is where he sees the Millenium Falcon and is able to stay hidden from them and decipher where they are heading (Cloud City) in time to tell the Empire and make a deal with them for him to get Solo (because he clearly is aware of the hefty bounty that Jabba the Hutt has put out on Han). Okay so far, Boba Fett is doing pretty well - he's craftily tracked Han and his location, and quickly struck a deal with the Empire, and headed over to Cloud City before the Falcon does.
In the rest of The Empire Strikes Back, he's just kind of there. You know, he joins them for a nice dinner, stands around a lot, fires a shot at Luke, and takes Han Solo in carbonite and they fly off. I guess he did some alright stuff, but he's by no means a threatening villain or even a super intriguing third party, when it comes down to it, he's just a guy in a cool suit.
Then let's move onto Return of the Jedi, he's still hanging around Jabba's palace, who knows why, he just got a nice paycheck and maybe hes just taking some time off to relax and chooses dumpy caves where he can leave his cool suit on and flirt with some ugly aliens (this may have been an added scene, but still, I'm going to count it against him). Then we have the Sarlacc scene. Boba Fett's standing around like some kind of guard, so perhaps he's employed by Jabba to help out with the execution. Then when things get out of control, he starts making pretty good use of his cool gadgetry. He shoots the string around Luke's arms, holding him off for a short while, but really most of his fighting is very slow and weak. You kind of see, this guy's really not much of a fighter. Either he's become successful because of luck, or just some crafty tracking moves, but he doesn't hold up well in a pretty standard fight and ends up flying into the sail barge and just rolls right down into the Sarlacc like a fool.
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| I must admit, this is pretty hilarious. |
is cloned millions of times to create what end up being the stormtroopers, and Boba, is his obnoxious, bratty little clone-child.
Of course if we delve into the expanded universe, there are dozens of stories of Boba Fett escaping digestive bowels of the Sarlacc, but I call that wishful thinking for a stupid character that got the death he deserved.
As a child I was always much more enthralled with IG-88. I mean he looks freaking awesome, and he's one of the only rogue droids we've seen in the galaxy that works for himself and isn't enslaved to a control ship or human owners. What is his story, what is his motivation? Anyways, I'm hoping at the very least he'll have a role in the dumb Boba Fett spin-off film.
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| IG-88 looking like a baller |
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