Author Topic: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
jedimasterbac  6234 posts
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Date Posted: 12/18/08 4:58pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
darth_degnan posted:
Merlin_Ambrosius69 posted:

Allow me to dispel your concerns. In a 1979 issue of Starlog magazine, Lucas gave an interview in which he explained that Boba Fett was the originator of the Stormtrooper DNA, and that the clones of the clone wars had evolved into the Stormtroopers of the Imperial era. [This Starlog interview used to be available on the 'Net, but I can't find a link. Anyone?] Of course, the originator is now Jango and Boba is his "son", but the core idea was there in 1979. Lucas can hardly be accused of "catering to the fans" since he developed the idea before Fett had even been seen in ESB.




Not that I am questioning your integrity, but I find that very, very, hard to believe. I would have to read it to believe it. If Lucas had this grand plan, why wasn't Boba given more exposure in the OT? Why weren't Stormtrooper's referred to as clones?


It's true, though. I remember reading that interview, but I can't seem to find it now either. As for why Boba wasn't given more exposure in the trilogy and why Stormtroopers weren't referred to as clones, that's probably something only Lucas can answer.

 

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DarthBoba  32895 posts
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Date Posted: 12/18/08 8:03pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
It's true, though. I remember reading that interview, but I can't seem to find it now either. As for why Boba wasn't given more exposure in the trilogy and why Stormtroopers weren't referred to as clones, that's probably something only Lucas can answer.


Considering that without Boba, TESB and ROTJ would've been radically different-Han would've never been captured, Luke never would have gone to Cloud City, and therefore, wouldn't have found out until much later on that Vader was his father, and therefore never seriously considered trying to redeem him... yeah, Boba had enough impact on the plot. He's hella important for a guy with all of five lines. Kinda like how Maul offing Qui-Gon pretty much set in stone that Anakin was gonna go bad.


And yeah, I've read that article and another one about stormtroopers being clones from the late 70s.

 

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Merlin_Ambrosius69  1929 posts
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Date Posted: 12/18/08 9:46pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular? - Date Edited: 12/18/08 10:32pm (3 edits total) Edited By: Merlin_Ambrosius69
I cannot find the page that used to exist which had the article and interview scanned in full. Looking at this catalog of SW-related magazines (and assuming it's complete), it appears it was either Starlog 1979-02 #19, or else Starlog #50 from 1981.

#19 covers the Holiday Special, which of course featured the first on-screen appearance of Boba Fett. #50 is listed as having Fett on the cover and a Lucas interview inside.

EDIT: It's not in #50, unless there was a sidebar about Fett's origins, because as it turns out #50 features an interview with Jeremy Bulloch that's pretty darn interesting.

EDIT #2: This page makes reference to Fett's origins as a "Super Stormtrooper", which was also a feature of the Starlog article under discussion. "Far removed from the black-on-black wardrobe of Vader, early concepts for Fett clad the bounty hunter in white, possibly a vestige of his "Super Trooper" origins."

EDIT #3: For some reason, this page about movie mistakes mentions the idea as well. "Originally, Boba Fett was supposed to be sort of an Imperial Super-Stormtrooper (in their trademark white armor). This idea was - in a way - reused in 'Attack of the Clones', with his father Jango Fett being the genetic father of the Stormtrooper clones."

 

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darth_degnan  159 posts
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Date Posted: 12/20/08 9:51pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
Thanks for the links.

 

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ILuvJarJar  1394 posts
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Date Posted: 12/21/08 5:40pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
Boba IS STAR WARS. He is cool and Mysterious (untill episode 2).

 

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_Sublime_Skywalker_  3874 posts
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Date Posted: 12/21/08 5:51pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
It's cool that Jango was introduced in AOTC, but IMO, they should've just left Boba out of the picture. You could've just assumed he was in the same clan, or a descendent from Jango, or his son.

Making him a clone? Epic fail. Not cool.

 

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Arawn_Fenn  10329 posts
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Date Posted: 12/21/08 6:15pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
I don't see what's so bad about it.

 

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_Sublime_Skywalker_  3874 posts
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Date Posted: 12/21/08 6:49pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
I don't know, In my mind it makes him less original. Kinda like naming him Jango Jr or something...

 

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DarthBoba  32895 posts
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Date Posted: 12/22/08 9:16am Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
I really don't care that he's a clone, either. It's not like he just appeared one day. tongue

 

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Merlin_Ambrosius69  1929 posts
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Date Posted: 12/22/08 12:11pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
_Sublime_Skywalker_ posted:
It's cool that Jango was introduced in AOTC, but IMO, they should've just left Boba out of the picture. You could've just assumed he was in the same clan, or a descendent from Jango, or his son.

Making him a clone? Epic fail. Not cool.


I don't understand the objection here. We've known about the clones since the original film. The very idea of clones makes for intriguing sci-fi, poses questions about who we are and what being human means. There's nothing "less original" about a clone than there is about a twin, for example, or one's offspring, or really with any human being, since we're all 99%+ genetically identical to one another.

Making Boba the first, unaltered clone of Jango is not an epic fail, it's an epic win!

 

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eht13  651 posts
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Date Posted: 12/22/08 12:29pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular? - Date Edited: 12/22/08 12:35pm (1 edits total) Edited By: eht13
Yes, the "clone" idea has been there from ANH when we heard Obi-Wan and Luke talking about the Clone Wars. We just spent a lot of time between then and AOTC wondering about the details. It's a little odd to me when people have a problem with the Stormtroopers "evolving" from the clone troopers, or even with Boba being an unaltered clone of Jango. I just think that Fett family history and the tie-in with the clone troopers / Stormtroopers makes it that much more interesting.

 

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_Sublime_Skywalker_  3874 posts
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Date Posted: 12/23/08 11:08pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
Yeah we knew about the Clones since ANH, but it's alot different to think "ok, there were a bunch of BA warriors cloned, or one solid awesome clone" then that there was once hundreds of thousands of Boba Fett's.

I don't know, to think Boba is a clone of Jango makes him a little less cool in my mind. But it's cool, I still adore the Fett man.

 

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Qui-Gon_Reborn  5531 posts
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Date Posted: 12/26/08 4:21pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
ILuvJarJar posted:
Boba IS STAR WARS. He is cool and Mysterious (untill episode 2).


Hahaha. So far from the truth. The Jedi contribute the most profoundly to Star Wars, but I don't think it's fair to say that one entity, and that one entity alone, IS Star Wars.

 

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Kyle Katarn  14524 posts
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Date Posted: 12/26/08 5:44pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
Back in the day (leading up to the SE and casting for TPM had just been announced) my friends and I had a similar discussion. All sorts of theories were bandied about (mysterious, only guy to capture Solo, the Sarlacc, etc) and none of those really flew with us as they just didn't seem to explain the cult that arisen around Fett. Nothing seemed to explain why legions of fans loved this guy who had a total of four lines in the entire trilogy until we all decided upon the fact that he just looked cool.

Anyone can be the ultimate badass in a film or in space, but if you don't look cool, then you're just some guy wth a lot of skill. Look cool, be the ultimate badass, and you've got a cult of Fett-like proportions.

 

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henderson  307 posts
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Date Posted: 12/28/08 7:08pm Subject: RE: Why is Boba Fett so popular?
Funny, someone said that Fett was ruined by GL b/c he created a back story for him and made him a clone of his father who is a template for the clone troopers. You know, Boba was probably put into the story b/c Fett was soooo popular (for no real reason) with the fan boys. So the ones who complained about Bobas' back story are sort-of the ones who caused his back story.

 

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