Paul Farquhar
Legend
He’s a space cowboy.
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
He's a space drivers ed instructor.
pukunui
Legend
Cad Bane was the black hat space cowboy, and Cobb Vanth was the white hat space cowboy. Boba Fett was something else.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Maurice.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I found him to have real "Player Character" energy, but not in the usual sense of being energetic and having cunning plans and running the show, but rather being sort of confused and forced into a situation by a combination of his backstory and railroading by the DM, and his heart isn't really in it, so he's just kind of inept. I've seen a fair few PCs like this over the decades - most groups don't have one, but it's still not uncommon.
The trouble is, it gives you the impression that he's like, some sort of 90 IQ and unambitious, unenthusiastic ex-gangster who is back from the Costa Del Sol, and being forced back into the life, even though he doesn't really want it. He clearly isn't even slightly smart. Like not even normally intelligent. And it's hard to figure out, given the cartoonish tone of the show, whether this is the intended understanding, or just that the writers can't write a character who is actually cunning and determined. Particularly because The Mandalorian is also not bright. If we're doing IQs (which I know are nonsense, but let's go with it), he's like 100 IQ to Fett's 90, and it's like watching two ginger cats try and come up with a plan. You need black and white cat or a siamese or at least a tabby in there if anything good is going to happen. Mando's plans are also all completely awful and he doesn't seem very determined except when people steal his space baby - but luckily his opponents are often even dumber than him, a man of definitely not above-average intelligence. Again is this intended or is this just how how Favreau writes?
Y'd think, right?
But they've written a whole bunch of books about the High Republic, so whilst as noted the only modern character around is Yoda, there are an absolute TON of named and known Jedi through this era - albeit most would be kind of old by the time this show seems to be happening - hence why we're getting the awful light-whip and so on.
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Fett wanted to try something different. I haven't read all the comics with him in it, but he never struck me as that much of a leader, much less a compassionate one. After his "rebirth" he experienced things that slowly changed his world view. I think his brief rise to kind of a leadership role with the Tuskens made him think he can do things a different way. In reality though, it wasn't as easy as he thought it would be.
He isn't a saint though, so he will do things in a darker way than most of the good guys. Don't know if disintegration is an option, seems like that weapon is not so common. Don't know if he had it when he first "died" so not sure it is available to him anymore (Mando's seemingly got destroyed).
Ruin Explorer
Legend
He doesn't really seem to do things in a Tusken way though either, just a half-arsed, confused, uncommitted, almost befuddled way. He has to be basically bullied into even acting at all by his right-hand-woman.
So the idea that he's really got a lot of intentionality here rings pretty false to me.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
A better written show would have been about her, as the power behind the throne, and using a dumb-as-rocks-but-infamous Boba Fett as a human shield.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
Yeah and I fully expected them to go that way, because like, that would be a normal, basic, solid, straightforward plot, that you then use good dialogue and nuance to heighten to real quality.
But no.
Boba Fett defiantly went its own way.
Like a really badly DM'd RPG, with a total railroad adventure, and bunch of PCs who didn't really want to be there, weren't really into their own characters (or at least into the adventure), a system that wasn't really suitable for the setpieces the DM had pre-planned out, and a bunch of NPCs who the DM thought were big deal but just y'know, didn't really work out.
