I was so disappointed by The Phantom Menace that I didn’t bother seeing Attack of the Clones in a movie theater. Too bad-- I just saw the DVD and thought it was pretty good.
I’ve seen all the other movies more than once (even Menace-- the men in my house loooove Star Wars) and I’ve read a few of the books. In the books I coulda sworn Boba had parents that were killed. In the movie, poor lil Boba is last seen holding his decapitated clonedad’s helmet while all the other bad guys are making their getaway.
So-- how does Boba go from an abandoned 11 year old to being eaten by a sarlacc?
WAG – he was remitted to some sort of Child Services/Foster Home program run by the amoral Kaminoans.
No wonder he grew up to be such a badass! 
So, according to ATTACK OF THE CLONES, would every stormtrooper look exactly like BobaFett if unmasked? And how do you decide in an army of clones who gets a promotion? I suppose the officers roaming around the Death Star and Imperial cruisers were never stormtroopers.
So do you think there has ever been a worse actor starring in a $100 million movie than Hayden Christensen?
From the looks of Episode II, certain soldiers are trained to be officers. No promotions or anything like that. You don’t have to worry about rewarding good behavior, because they’re modified to be obedient.
Not all stormtroopers are clones, some are recruits. At least in the books. Boba probably knows how to fly Slave I so he could get off the planet and back to wherever Jango’s hideout is. From there Jango probably has some holographic training programs and an armory of all sorts of dangerous stuff for him to train with. So he’ll be all alone for a while, becomes bitter and driven to be as good as Jango. By the time he thinks he’s ready to avenge Jango’s death he discovers that the Jedi’s are all gone. So he uses what he has learned to take over as a bounty hunter. At least thats how it should go down. From where George is taking the movies he’ll probably end up forgiving Mace and taking him on a cruise so they can have a heart to heart…
Hmmm, do you think Jango had some plan in mind for Boba, besides just following in his footsteps?
No, never not in a million years. Thats crazy.
Well actually I just never thought about it…
In the theater, I was really hoping that the head would fall out of the helmet and go thumping across the ground. That Lucas has no idea of what makes for good cinema.
You’ve mentioned you’ve read some of the books, and it is indeed true that details about Boba Fett’s past are dropped here and there in some of the novels and comic books. The one that comes to mind immediately is that his original name was Jaster Mereel (sp?) and that Boba Fett is a name he took later on. Obviously, this does not mesh with the information Lucas has provided in AOTC. The Bounty Hunter Wars (a trilogy) is not one of the better offerings, and keep in mind that it slashes through SW canon willy-nilly. Even when compared to other SW novels, it is chock full of contridictions and strange information that doesn’t jive with the rest of the books, much less the films.
This is debatable (although I cannot imagine the smackdown we would get if we brought it up in GD), but it is MY OPINION that the folks in the Lucas empire were not as particular about the content of the novels in the beginning of their publishing run, but then realized they were (A) a much hotter commodity than expected, and (B) getting closer and closer to Ep 1, and so made a more deliberate effort to make sure that the books didn’t muck up things with the back story.
At the next NY Dopefest, bring this up again and Gorgon Heap and I will talk your ear off about the merits of the various information provided in the novels until you are begging for mercy.
I think since the progenitor was killed the Kaminoans would need to find a new original to make xeroxs of. Unless they took a heck of alot of samples from him before el decapitato.
The problem most people seem to have with Christensens’ acting in EPI. 2 was that he seemed awkward and kind of creepy… They seem to forget that Anakin is SUPPOSED to be awkward and creepy. He slaughters a village. He hunts down and destroys the Jedi. He’s not supposed to be lovable and charming.
Christiansen was OK. I think he was picked because he would bring the teenage girls in. I don’t know any really young guy actors, but imagine how a younger Toby McGuire would have milked that part for all of its potential.
What do you think lil Boba did with his gruesome keepsake?
If I ask nice Delphica, will you tell me in an upstate accent?
Oh, I have a topic!
Women simply should never try to write Star Wars novels. The Crystal Star?? GAG
It did. Look at the shadows after ole’ Jango got himself an extreme Haircut.
Whats really feraky is that Boba doesn’t go over to his father’s body, or even his head, but the helmet!
Its not what I expected about Boba, but I like the movie version of his backstory best.
Anyone taking bets on Boba killing Mace in the next movie?
Hi, Joe!
You’re correct of course about The Crystal Star being a real dog, but the flaw in your logic is that by extension, MEN should never try to write Star Wars novels, either. The Courtship of Princess Leia? Slave Ship? GAG
On the other hand, Ann Crispin’s Han Solo Trilogy is darn good, and Kathy Tyers is doing ok.
Well, if you trust books, here’s your answer:
http://www.starwars.com/eu/news/2002/11/news20021115.html
(scroll down)
For the definitive answer on Jango’s head, look here:
http://www.starwars.com/community/askjc/jocasta/askjc20020820.html
As a SW Completist, I don’t see even how Tales of the Bounty Hunters necessarily contradicts Fett’s past. It could be that he ends up hiding out and changing his name for a time.
Clearly. The way I see it going down is:
Amidala gives birth
Boba Fett kills Mace
Dooku kills Amidala
Anakin kills Dooku, but gets down with his bad self in the process.
Anakin fights Obi-Wan, gets seriously injured/ mutilated/ whatever
Anakin comes back from the injured reserve list as Darth Vader, kills all the Jedi except Obi-Wan and Yoda (I’m thinking that somehow he blows them all up or something, because it seems like even Darth Vader would have trouble taking on more than one fully-trained Jedi.)
Obi-Wan and Yoda set it up to look like Luke & Leia are killed, then spirit them away to Tatooine.
Fast forward 20+ years, and we’re back in the real movies.
As to whether Hayden Christensen is the worst actor to be in a $100 M movie, I have two words: Jake Lloyd. Granted, he’s only 8, but it was Lucas’ decision to cast him. Hayden was not great (James Franco might have been a better choice, actually), but I don’t think even a great actor could have salvaged the romantic subplot of AOTC.
You’re forgetting something here:
"
LUKE: Leia… do you remember your mother? Your
real mother?
LEIA: Just a little bit. She died when I was very
young.
LUKE: What do you remember?
LEIA: Just…images, really. Feelings.
LUKE: Tell me.
LEIA:She was very beautiful. Kind, but…sad.
"
Unless Leia’s been duped into thinking her foster mother was her real mother, she remembers Padme. So either Padme survives Ep III, or the story jumps ahead in time (which has never really been done in the previous films, only between films) to when Leia’s old enough to remember, and Padme dies. (but in such a way that Vader still doesn’t know about Leia.)
Also, either Anakin has to become Vader before the birth, or else has to be somehow kept apart from Padme by the story from the birth to his tranformation. Otherwise, there would be no reason to keep Leia’s existence from him.
Also possible that Leia remembers Yoda as her mother for the couple of years before she’s adopted by the royal family of Alderaan.
What?
I personally do not know why they need to show Luke and Leia’s birth, or Amidala’s death, or Obi-Wan and Yoda’s exile. I mean, we know those things are going to happen, and if they happen between Episodes III and IV, we the audience can figure it all out. I would prefer they show us the stuff that we don’t know is going to happen.