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Apr 26, 2014 - 5:00 PM
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Joe E.
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Re Boba Fett:
I always have the suspicion that because 'Empire' was Lucas's least favourite of the Star Wars movies (by his own admission, I believe), he felt sufficiently pissed off with the fan admiration for the Boba Fett character that he decided to give Fett the most pointless and weak death in Jedi as his own 'revenge'. The same might be possible to say of Jango Fett, in that Lucas kept the weakness of the death as part of the mirroring he was doing between the original and prequel trilogies.
With all due respect, I think that's one of the more ridiculous Star Wars conspiracy theories I've ever encountered, and I've encountered quite a few.
Yeah, right.
From George Lucas, the man who made Jar Jar the reason the Empire got a foothold in the senate after people said how much they hated him. The man that put kid Anakin on the cover of the Blu-Ray sets instead of Luke after people said how much they hate him. The man that made even more changes to the original trilogy long after the fans said how much they hated the changes. The man that added "NOOOOOOO!!!" to the end of Return Of The Jedi after people said how much they hated it in Revenge Of The Sith...
Oh no, he has never shown a vindictive streak. That's just crazy talk there.
Even if you take all that as vindictiveness and not just creative missteps (and the BD set *does* feature Luke as well as Anakin, BTW), it just doesn't make sense. The death clearly wasn't meant to be "weak," even if you find it to be - he was given the most memorable death in the whole scene, with the arguable exception of Jabba's. Should he have just been shot and allowed to fall out of frame like any of the garden-variety henchmen schmucks? I'm actually not sure how his (apparent) death could be made any better, actually, at least without dramatically changing the whole story (like keeping him alive until the end, and having him at Endor or something). His "death" was given multiple shots and everything - a big deal was made of his going out. And then he was even brought back!
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Boba Fett was a bit of a dunce in the movies, but in the books, he had his moments. A meeting with Han Solo that ended in a stalemate on a desolate planet where they reflect on life over the barrels of their guns, and a few other times where he did the right thing...for the money. 
I hated hearing Disney call it a "family friendly property" in one of their press releases...there was room for everything, including stories that might not be as kid friendly or accessible, but now all that will be screened out. And yes, George said that too, but it grew beyond him and I enjoyed as the stories changed as I grew up.
Alas, at 4 billion, I'm sure they'd love to have as many kids in seats as possible, and that means as much child and youth friendly fare as possible.
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Apr 27, 2014 - 1:10 AM
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Ian J.
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More subjective opinion from me
Lucas wasn't writing a story about bounty hunters, but about Jedi. If the Fetts had been given the screen time to properly include their stories, the films would have lost their primary focus. The extended screen time for Jango in 'Clones' was more about him having been the original for the clones than anything else.
To me, an effective bounty hunter is one that realizes they're in it for the money and their life, and nothing more. They know not to get involved in any politics of any kind, including keeping out of other peoples' battles and wars, as that brings them too close to risking their life. There wasn't time to feature much of that in the Star Wars movies, and consequently both characters (Jango and Boba) had to be despatched fairly quickly. Unfortunately for Boba in Jedi, his death comes across to me as slapstick and cheap*. I suppose it could be argued that there is a clumsy streak within the Fett genes that could have led to that turn of events, but I don't think he'd have lasted very long as a bounty hunter if that were genuinely the case.
So, again IMHO, I would like to see a Boba Fett movie that allows Fett to be the bounty hunter properly, including the 'not getting involved' until he has no way not to, and also being ambiguous about where he comes on the scale of good to bad, and consequently allowing the character to be as 'bad' as he needs to be.
*I actually think that the amount of time Fett's death takes up on screen in 'Jedi' strengthens my case for it being Lucas's revenge on the character, as it reflects the sense that the Star Wars films are his subjective and personal storytelling, coming from his heart and feelings for the most part. Almost all the SW films are Lucas's babies, with only 'Empire' having been moved away to something more mature (by Kershner, Kasdan and co.) from his original idea, which was for a series of stories to be somewhat like the Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers serials of the 1930s, and specifically for young boys of about 7 to 12 years of age who weren't concerned with girls and sex and stuff.
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