pukunui
Legend
Band. Grand. Stand. Hand.
Star Wars: The Acolyte starts June 4
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
runs off to write a Disney+ show all about Anakin studying poetry between scenes during Attack of the Clones
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Rabulias
the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
Chewbacca would be around. Don't diss the Wookiee!
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
You know, I was really upset with the Book of Boba Fett because Fett was a bad ass and Book of Boba Fett made him look like an incompetent clown a lot of the time.
Then I started watching the Star Wars movies with my son earlier this year and when Boba Fett entered the scene, he didn't do much other than stand there or talk to Vader. The one time we get to see him in action is in Return of the Jedi when a blind Han Solo whacks him accidentally and sends him flailing into the Sarlacc Pit. That was when I realized that the Book of Boba Fett may not have been far off the mark with his competence level.
Rabulias
the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
He would be about 90 years old. Admittedly, I don't know when Wookiees are considered to be an adult.
Rabulias
the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
While I thought Book of Boba Fett was a pretty meh show (except for The Mandalorian season 2.5 they threw in there), I think it tried to accentuate Boba Fett as a thinker, not a fighter.
From the line from Vader in The Empire Strikes Back, Boba has a rep for disintegrations, which is bad for a bounty hunter, I would think. How would that go?
Boba: "I am here to collect the bounty on Trimatt the Terrible. I killed him."
Bounty Hunter's Guild: "Great news! Where is his body?"
Boba: "I disintegrated him."
BHG: "Riiiight. No body, no bounty."
The most badass thing Boba did in the original trilogy was anticipating Han's deception with the Imperial trash, and figuring out the Millennium Falcon was headed to Bespin to allow the Empire to get there ahead of time.
Admittedly, even in BoBF, his plans don't always work out well, so he is not a genius. But he was able to track down his armor, and he was able to recruit allies and utilize their strengths.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Well, he'd like to be a thinker.
A dude with a jetpack shouldn't keep getting ambushed on the ground.
And "be a crime boss" doesn't mean "wander around with my helmet off, asking people to put money in it, and if they don't, look vaguely disappointed and wander off."
I think Book of Boba Fett suffered from having an actor and showrunner who thought showing us Boba Fett's face constantly was something the audience was really jonesing for, not realizing that, for 99% of Star Wars fans, Boba Fett is supposed to be a faceless badass who has to be cautioned to not go around disintegrating people all the time.
I mean, he disintegrates ZERO PEOPLE in his show and it's one of the few things we knew about him before the prequels.
Such a completely strange show.
Rabulias
the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
I like to think he has learned that lesson before the show starts. He has new lessons to learn.
Indeed.