# What happened to poor lil Boba Fett?---- Spoilers, you have been warned. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168 "2002-11-17T15:57:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/41 "2002-11-21T14:04:53Z")
Fortunately, (for me) I didn’t bother to read the majority of the earlier novels, because they just looked lame. But as far as novels written by women, _Dark Journey_ may be one of my favorite complete novels in the SW genre. Beyond that is _I, Jedi_ and, well, _all_ of the X-Wing books. They just rock. And another problem with Boba Fett is, as stated earlier, not a lot of attention was kept during the earlier novels, which means they are actually conflicting stories. I know of two different way Boba escaped the Saarlak, but Lucas, in his amazing omnipotent storytelling genius, has said repeatedly that as far as he’s concerned, Boba died in the Pit. However, I do think the Bounty Hunter Wars series was pretty good, so I’ll go with what’s in them. And thanks for the vote of confidence there, **delphica** , I’d nearly forgotten that long conversation we had those many months ago on SW. By the way, have you read the book after _Traitor_ yet? I wanted to get it but it’s only out in bloody hard-back. Costs too damn much. ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/42 "2002-11-21T14:57:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*Jackson doesn’t want to go out like a _punk?_ > > What are the chances Lucas planned for him to snuff it with a safety-pin in his nose and and a spike in his arm, anyway? \*\* You’re dating yourself, old man.😛 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/43 "2002-11-21T16:52:33Z")
You can’t go comparing what happened in the books with the movies and hope to get something that makes sense anymore because Lucas is trying his hardest to fight anyone else having any kind of creative branching out on his baby. I mean, wasn’t the whole extra ending in Jedi put in there as a way of his saying “This is the end, everything people wrote after this never happened”? The Star Wars books are like any other kind of device where multiple writers come in. Like with comic books, writer A has a great story idea involving Character A, but before he can write it, writer B comes along and kills Character A in his book. So, when Writer A gets his chance, he somehow brings Character A back to life, consistancy be damned. So, there are inconsistancies between books, and between movies and books. And, as we’ve all seen with these last two movies, inconsistancies between films as well. With all that said, I believe it could go either way. Lucas will either leave Bobba out of the picture all together, or, with the knowledge that Bobba Fett is one of SW fans’ biggest lures, make up some excuse to have him age enough in years and experience to show up in the film and kill a bunch of Jedi. Shit, with the stupidity Lucas has shown lately, it’s possible that he’ll have Bobba adopted by Dooku or Sidyus and use that as an explaination as to why he’s able to combat Jedi so much. As for Padme…I agree that for consistancy’s sake, she should live through the next film, but for some reason, I see Anakin bumping her off. I’m really dreading how Lucas is going to handle Anakin’s turn/betrayal. I mean, sure, we all know it’s coming, but the way things stand at the end of AOTC, there’s still a lot of character developement that needs to take place before that fully happens, and I don’t think 2 hours is enough to do all that, plus wipe out the Jedi and bring the Republic to it’s knees and whatever else is supposed to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/44 "2002-11-21T17:12:27Z")
This is what I tell my son and my husband when they get into an arguement over what is right: According to Lucas, the movies are canon. You would not believe the dust up that occured in my household over the Death Star plans in AOTC. They shouldn’t have been there. Moff Tarkin thought up the Death Star long after the Clone Wars according to my son. My husband insists that those plans were not for a death star, but for the Eye of Palpatine. I was also under the impression that no one in Episode One really remembers The Clone Wars-- husband says I don’t know what I’m talking about. Which I don’t. I’m only related to the fanatics. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/45 "2002-11-21T17:58:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > I was also under the impression that no one in Episode One really remembers The Clone Wars Well of course not. The Clone War hadn’t happened yet. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/46 "2002-11-21T18:46:58Z")
I mean the first freakin’ movie. Episode Four. I told you I don’t know nothin’. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/47 "2002-11-21T18:54:31Z")
> [@](#): > > So do you think there has ever been a worse actor starring in a $100 million movie than Hayden Christensen? How quickly we forget l’il Jake Lloyd. Wheee! ---
**Author:** ![Mikahw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Mikahw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikahw)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/48 "2002-11-21T19:00:02Z")
Well, Luke and Ben sure seemed to know about the clone wars during their little talk in Ben’s hut (or whatever it was). ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/49 "2002-11-21T19:03:37Z")
Yeah, and didn’t Leia mention that Obi Wan fought in the Clone War? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/50 "2002-11-21T19:08:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gonzoron \* > \*\*I guess, but what a lousy, unheroic way that would be to go. Might as well drop a moon on him. \*\* Unorthodox…Jedi…Revenge… _hiss_ ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/51 "2002-11-21T20:31:43Z")
> [@](#): > > So do you think there has ever been a worse actor starring in a $100 million movie than Hayden Christensen? By the way, the above was C&Ped into a draft letter I composed for the attorney I work for, you bastards!! How fucking embarrassing is that? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/52 "2002-11-21T21:38:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gorgon Heap \* > \*\*Beyond that is _I, Jedi_ and, well, _all_ of the X-Wing books. They just rock. > > By the way, have you read the book after _Traitor_ yet? I wanted to get it but it’s only out in bloody hard-back. Costs too damn much. \*\* _Destiny’s Way_? I got it from the library-it’s pretty good, even if the author didn’t do his research very well. The X-Wing series ROCKS. The Wraiths are my all time favorite characters-especially Face Loran and Ton Phanan. Face is, the sexiest fictional character in existance! But, as I’ve said before, the back stories for Boba, like him being Jaster Mereel, could simply be his way of going incognito-he took a different name for a time. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168/53 "2002-11-21T21:42:30Z")
Oh, and the books ARE canon-the Expanded Universe, (aka the EU), is canon-the movies come first, though. Anything that doesn’t have an Infinities label is considered canon. [boards.theforce.net](http://boards.theforce.net) Check out the EU section. I post there a lot. It will help explain things, **Biggirl**. And if you and your family have any questions about the EU-feel free to e-mail me. I’m a Completist, as opposed to a Purist, so I know a lot about the EU. As for the DS plans, it is feasible that Palpy had an idea for it, but needed a great many to come up with blueprints and ways to build it. It would take more than one person, so there’s plenty of room for Qwi Xux and Bevel Lemelisk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-poor-lil-boba-fett-spoilers-you-have-been-warned/137168.md?page=2)