Even before TESB came out!
They killed any interest I had in Boba Fett after the Book of Boba Fett which was IMO terrible, except for the episodes that have the Mandalorian and Grogu in them.
And it's no reflection on the actor who played Boba Fett, he was just given a horrible script to work with IMO.
This says it all.
Holiday Special for the win!
We will never know. I just think more casual fans would go to a Boba Fett movie than Mando and Grogu.
The level of animosity and contempt and derision many of you feel about Boba Fett is about how I feel about Maul. I never understood the love and hype for a character that only had 6 lines (or was it 6 words). But here we are with Maul back from the dead (somehow) and him showing up in everything animated.
Different strokes.
The level of animosity and contempt and derision many of you feel about Boba Fett is about how I feel about Maul. I never understood the love and hype for a character that only had 6 lines (or was it 6 words). But here we are with Maul back from the dead (somehow) and him showing up in everything animated.
Different strokes.
?? I'm not seeing any "animosity", "contempt" or "derision" being directed towards Boba Fett. The worst I'm seeing is indifference.
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It wasn't the character, it was the actor. Sam Witwer played Maul so superbly that fans wanted to see (or hear) more and more of him.
"KKKKKKEEEENNNNNOOOOOBBBBIIIIII!!!"
I more feel confusion over Fett. His appearance are limited, and his lines view. I'm indifferent at best to him, confused at worst by the seemingly random popularity, with sometimes Chuck Norris level feats to make up for limited screen time.
Maul at least had a fight scene as the ultimate act within the film, and was resurrected by Dark Side magicks.
We saw Cobb Vanth do more badass stuff with Boba Fett's armor than we ever saw Boba himself do until after Boba got the armor back. That's not a knock against Boba, that's just how the narrative unfolded.
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I liked Maul in The Phantom Menace for his physical appearance and because of the Duel of the Fates fight, but I didn't love of him as a character until Clones Wars. In fact, years before I watched the show*, I scoffed at the idea of resurrecting Maul and I thought the idea was trite. My mind was completely changed by Clone Wars.
*I was very late to the scene and I was only drawn in by Ahsoka's appearance on The Mandalorian.
*I was very late to the scene and I was only drawn in by Ahsoka's appearance on The Mandalorian.
I think these days critics and regular audiences are going into movies looking for very different things.
I wonder if maybe there are audio issues with whatever version you've seen, because it's always been very clear to me he was saying Boba Fett.
Did no one refer to him by name in Empire Strikes Back? I could have sworn Vader or one of the other Imperials referred to him by name at some point.
He was just called a bounty hunter.
As was mine when I watched The Return of Darth Maul. But initially I was against the idea. In fact, when his image appeared in a crystal ball at the end of the Season 3 Nightsisters arc, I proclaimed that it was merely Talzin tricking Savage into doing her bidding.
He had cool armor and benefited from prerelease hype. You can get a version of his armor sans helmet in the KOTOR video game and it gives you immunity to critical hits.
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Yes, the ambiguity made it easier for imaginations to fire up. Now, such imagination seems wanting and preference is given to canon material.
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I think that's always been the case. As I recall, critics savaged the original Star Wars movies as mindless drivel, but audiences ate them up. As Lucas and Spielberg built the modern era of big-budget, VFX-heavy blockbuster cinema, critics lamented the dumbing down of theatrical entertainment and the triumph of spectacle over substance.
And most of these critics ended up writing their own career obituaries by not being able to change with the times.
It shouldn’t matter if one has an affinity for something or not.
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