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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9593821" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Those are all accomplishments or positive qualities. By themselves, perhaps not enough to make the character standout cool. The one orc in The Two Towers that survives Legolas's arrows and  gets the bomb in place to break the walls of Helm's Deep gets a badass moment, but isn't treated with fan reverence. I feel like that's where these land Fett. I strongly think it is what people expected to then happen next (that didn't) that was what propelled him to epic status. The rocket pack is a great example. Having a rocket pack? Kinda cool. Using a rocket pack to (say) leap out of his ship and drop mid-dogfight, fly onto Luke's X-wing, pull him out of the canopy, and engage in a lightsaber-vs.-disintegrator duel before just barely losing with just enough time for Luke to crawl back inside and pull the X-wing out of a dive before it crashes? Epic cool beyond anything anyone could imagine. Using a rocket pack to leap from Jabba's sail barge to the executioner's skiff*? Er, well, it happened. *and then be instrumental in his ignominious death-by-Wilhelm-scream.I'm trying to find a way that downplaying Boba Fett is somehow even remotely edgy. One can disagree with it, but not clear how it is edgy. Nor that it somehow doesn't have a point (inasmuch as any of Star Wars over-analysis does). Are you sure you weren't trying to force in that pizza-cutter comparison?[ATTACH=full]397184[/ATTACH] I was talking about the fandom in general -- not either you or me. There are a boatload of things in Star Wars that present as cool (stuff in the movies tend to fall into three categories: cool, hokey/silly, or deliberately shabby/worn out). Only some of them get massive fandom love-fests.  I mean, I feel like others of us have been presenting cases at least worthy-of-debate that it was more than just the coolness of the look that spring boarded Boba to popularity, but more power to you for having a solid position. I'll certainly agree that Gwendoline Christie could have given the character all sorts of personality and it was to the movies' detriment that the writers did not capitalize on the opportunity. Correct. The holiday special advertises the toy with working rocket-launcher action. By the time the toy actually came out, they had changed that.</blockquote>

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