Originally published at: Another Boba Fett trailer has dropped | Boing Boing
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Imagine what it must do to a kid’s psyche to grow up being hunted by millions of his dead dad.
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Eh, he seems pretty well balanced and solid to me. He’s just a guy making his way in the galaxy.
Now, watching a space wizard behead your father in front of you. That’s gonna mess with your head.
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Pretty slapsticky way to lose a fight for a guy with a great sense of balance.
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I’ve always been more than slightly baffled by the attempts to retcon Boba Fett into a cool character. The character built a following, apparently, by appearing in a movie and doing nothing, then didn’t lose that following when it turned out in the next movie that he was nothing more than a slapstick punchline. Now we have all these “cool Boba Fett” narratives because apparently people couldn’t get over it.
Also, I’m confused by what’s going on. Is this a prequel? Did he not actually die in the Sarlacc? (I understand there are stories with that premise, but I have no idea if that’s canon, or if the idea of “Star Wars canon” even makes sense anymore.)
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Nothing in Star Wars makes any sense anymore (that’s if it ever did). I’ve learned to just roll with it.
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Boba Fett’s survival was canon, until Star Wars was sold to Disney and it became non-canon, then the writers went throught the non-canon stories taking the bits they liked and made them canon again.
Scarily, the Holiday Special has always been canon. You can’t tell George Lucas that he was wrong.
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It’s a spinoff from the Mandalorian, seems like he’s been one of your standard wise old men hanging around Tatooine since the Sarlacc. Now he has new blousier pants, Ming-na Wen as a side kick. And they are prepared to do The Crime.
That’s about the breadth of it.
His appearance in Mandalorian was shoot heavy and continuity light. Refreshingly lacking in detailed explanations of why he had new pants.
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“Check it out: I have robot abs now” is still an objectively hilarious explanation for how she survived being gut-shot at point blank range and left for dead in the middle of a desert.
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Then being knocked into a sarlaac pit by a blind guy and digesting for a while.
There has got to be some major embarrassment/PTSD from that.
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Old pants smell of sarlaac digestive juices?
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Apparently you didn’t follow Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Ming-na Wen has seen some shit.
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The character built a following with a 12" figure sold between Star Wars and Empire. They just ran with it from there.
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The horrors she faced in the Joy Luck Club were enough to last lifetimes.
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I believe she’s the first person to do the Disney triple crown: she was a Disney Princess, MCU hero and Star Wars character.
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I mean, healing her with either a bacta tank or cybernetic parts is fine - leaving someone for dead only to have them nursed back to health by a stranger - is a western trope. But the effects shot of what that looks like was laughingly bad.
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Which I understand takes place a few years after ROTJ? So this, then, is post-his apparent death as well?
Given how much of the Star Wars movies were structured around toy sales opportunities, it’s kind of weird that Lucas was so willing to kill him off. But maybe he thought, “Eh, it’s the last movie, fuck it.”
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Wise old men are Tatooine’s primary export. The farmed moisture is really just a side project.
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