I have a question that has more to do with Star Wars fandom than anything else.
I’ve gotten the impression that there’s a huge fan base for Boba Fett. After re-watching the original trilogy not that long ago, I’m wondering why. He doesn’t really do all that much. Sure, he figures out what’s up with Han and Co. and manages to follow them to the Cloud City. Very clever. But that’s if for cool stuff. He calls Vader, hangs around for non-action figure Han and gets himself killed in “Return”. So why all the love? Does he do something really cool in one of the books that I don’t know about? Is it some kind of “he’s so mysterious in that mask” thing. Or what?
OK, here’s one I have. Correct me if I’ve got these facts wrong:
[list][li]Queen Amidala in Ep.1 becomes Senator Padme in Ep.2.[/li][li]The Queen employs doubles and sometimes pretends to be one of her own handmaidens.[/li][li]The Queen of Naboo is a term position, meaning at some point, she was a “civilian” before becoming a member of royalty/government.[/li][li]Thus, it’s logical to conclude that there would have been a certain amount of publicity and attention focused on whomever is (s)elected as the new Queen for the new term.[/li][li]Hence, it’s reasonable to assume that people were familiar with Padme and her identity before she became Queen.[/li]
So my question is: Why would the Queen, posing incognito as her handmaiden, use her own frickin’ name as she does in Ep.1? Who does she think she’s fooling? “Hey, she looks just like the queen and has the exact same name as the queen. Think maybe she’s the queen?”
And while we’re at it…
“Listen, I know you’ve lost your wife, your legs, and the support of some of your now-dead fellow homesteaders, but I, a complete stranger to you, am now going to take your fully functioning, and no doubt quite helpful, droid away forever”…uh, Why?
[qupte] So my question is: Why would the Queen, posing incognito as her handmaiden, use her own frickin’ name as she does in Ep.1? Who does she think she’s fooling? “Hey, she looks just like the queen and has the exact same name as the queen. Think maybe she’s the queen?”
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Naboo is a pretty minor planet in the scheme of things at the time of TPM, despite being the homeworld of a rising-star Senator. It’s reasonable to assume that most people on Naboo won’t be talking to the queen’s handmaidens (or that she would use a different name if they did), while the Jedi and Anakin won’t know her first name, as they had no reason to know anything about Naboo prior to arriving there.
Two possibilites: Anakin paid for him offscreen. Or, he was only kept around by Shmi as a sentimental connection to Anakin…once Shmi died, Cliegg, who has “no use for a protocol droid” on a moisture farm, had no problem giving him to someone who might get some value out of him.
jayjay: That’d be in the Tales From Jabba’s Palace short story collection. It’s also mentioned briefly in the Tales of the Bounty Hunters collection, but no detail is given there.
Regarding the specifics:
He ends up, somehow or other, getting a hand free (he’s stuck to the wall by sticky tendrils, or somesuch) and lays hands on a grenade launcher (which is never seen or mentioned in any of the movies, or other stories, for that matter) and blows a hole to the surface with it. He drags himself out, and so on and so on.
Tired out. You try fighting in a battle to the death with Darth Maul while making death-defying leaps and then see how fast you run and think, after falling about 50 feet down.
I think there is a difference in the word’s meaning there: The first case was telling Anakin to trust his instincts. The second was telling Anakin to calm down and not let his anger rule him.
Cause the Jedi can’t, period. They just don’t have the fire anymore. Palpatine is where its at, baby!
I like it. Since when does every villian need be named “Tyrrador M’Shan’Dar”? People have silly names sometimes. Dooku isn’t even particularly abnormal from a lingual pint of view.
Cuz Darth Maul is pretty good, but overconfident. Same thig that did in Palpatine, you know. Besides, he may be good, but he isn’t a God. He mad a very stupid mistake. Which is, in fact, pretty realistic. Pretty much everyone in Star Wars has screwed up royally at least once.
It was pretty bad in the first series, too. You’re just used to it. Seriously, Harrison Ford was the best new actor there. Alec Guinness was great. Mark Hamill wasn’t exactly lauded for his exquisite portrayal, however, and Princess Leia was less than exemplary. C’est la Vie.
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“Listen, I know you’ve lost your wife, your legs, and the support of some of your now-dead fellow homesteaders, but I, a complete stranger to you, am now going to take your fully functioning, and no doubt quite helpful, droid away forever”…uh, Why?
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Tatooine inheritance laws state that Anakin owns the droid.
Clieg Larrs wanted Anakin to have something to remind him.
He’d got enough labor without the whiny bucket of bolts anywhoo.
Apparently, high-quality precision hyperdrives are hard to come by on a dirty spaceport on the fringes of civilization. Funny that. I mean, when was the last time you had trouble getting good repairs on your Lamborguini in Djibouti?
Because he’s an honest man and wasn’t trying to cheat Watto. Republic money just wasn’t worth anything there, eve asssuming he could find someone to change that much money.
