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But why bother? Why even use him in the first place? If you have actual Boba Fett on the show, why also bring on knock-off Dash Rendar Fett too?
I guess they could have in on long enough for Fett to murder him to death and take the armour back, but that seems even more pointless. It's a step that'll only matter to about 0.005% of the audience that 1) read Aftermath 2) remembers reading Aftermath and 3) gives a crap.
I guess they could have in on long enough for Fett to murder him to death and take the armour back, but that seems even more pointless. It's a step that'll only matter to about 0.005% of the audience that 1) read Aftermath 2) remembers reading Aftermath and 3) gives a crap.
Since Boba Fett is a nothing character from an unpopular TV special that even George Lucas hated, I highly doubt that he will be in The Empire Strikes Back.
It would take just as long to explain how Boba Fett survived the Sarlacc Pit as it would to explain how someone else got his armor.
Less, since for Fett you also have to mention him being IN the Sarlacc Pic in the first place. Can't assume everybody has seen Empire and Jedi.
Cobb: I'm the sheriff.
Mando cocks his head, nods towards the man's armor: You're not Mandalorian.
Cobb: Bought it from some scavengers. Comes in handy 'round these parts.
And BOOM, done. Provided we're on Tatooine already, Star Wars nerds connect the dots between the armor and Fett, and new fans have exactly as much information as they need to move forward.
Too simple. Besides, people want Fett. Personally, I think Fett sucks and his coming back is exactly what I feared with this series.
C'mon - it was inevitable.
And? I figured as much when they announced the show. Doesn't change how I feel about it.
There is absolutely no reason you couldn't have both. They could be in different episodes, for one thing. And I suspect there is some quality character building you could do with Fett meeting the man who is now wearing armor he nearly died in.
I agree with you on Fett, mind you. He's dull and overblown, and I've been resigning myself to his inevitable appearance since this show was announced. But in Favreau and Filoni I will trust. Filoni couldn't make the child Boba interesting on The Clone Wars, it's his one real failure. But maybe the third time is the charm, as it were. (Also, I had almost the exact same mindset about Bullseye on the the Netflix Daredevil series, as he is another character I just don't get the love for. And he actually turned out to be an amazing addition that made me look at the character in a new and more appreciative way. So I've been wrong about this kind of thing before.)
Exactly, Pedro Pascale still voiced the character every time he was onscreen. They're not going to make a big announcement about someone like Olyphant if he's not going to be seen or heard in some way.
If he was just in the suit, they'd probably wait and announce it after the fact, as a way to give people a big surprise, kind of like they did with all of the Stormtrooper and alien cameos in the movies.
That's not really the same since I believe Fett was created for Empire, and was included in the Holiday Special as a promotion for it.
I wouldn't say "he sucks," he's just not very interesting. The most interesting about him is his look. (Which is why he became so popular off of an action figure.) But that's moot here.
I was really into him when I was a kid - even long before I started watching Star Wars - because I thought he looked cool. But once I did get heavily in Star Wars and the EU, I really dove into Mando lore and Fett became way less interesting.
Yeah. I mean if he has the skill to somehow survive a Sarlacc, how the heck did he let Han Laurel and Hardy him in the first place?
That could work.
No one is immune to accidents, even Fetts.
Oh, you're right. Completely forgot about that.
He is dull and overblown. There is precisely one story from the Legends EU of his that I liked.
See above. I still think he sucks because he is dull, overblown, and more popular because...he looks cool.
Which annoys me because the Mandalorian already has the look cool thing. So, we're going to have two t-shaped visor cool guys squaring off? Or something like that. Look, my bias is completely showing up and I'll own it but even though Filoni and Favreau are the fandom darlings right now this is just fan service on top of fan service.
It is even worse.
Fett was intriguing because, at the time he was introduced, he was the only one of his kind that we knew about, aside from his brief and non-canonical appearance in the much-maligned "Holiday Special". In fact, I remember reading something back during the time of ESB, saying he was the "Last of the Mandalorians". Now that we know that he's really neither (apparently) a true Mandalorian, nor the last of anything (except maybe the Old Republic Clone Army), and since we've seen others who are far more capable (and true Mando), he's actually become somewhat pedestrian.
I am highly interested in seeing how they plan to reconcile the relatively laid-back Clone-War era Mandos (like Bo Katan) with the highly regimented and almost zealot-like attitude of the "This Is The WAY!" Mandos that Din Djarin has been running with.
I am highly interested in seeing how they plan to reconcile the relatively laid-back Clone-War era Mandos (like Bo Katan) with the highly regimented and almost zealot-like attitude of the "This Is The WAY!" Mandos that Din Djarin has been running with.
Likely by showing a culture that isn't stuck to one belief or attitude like so many sci-fi/fantasy alien races are.
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