Bringing back Jango

I was watching the Star Trek episode 'Spock's Brain' last night and it got me thinking, would it have been possible to bring Jango's head back to Kamino, swap brains with a clone, and refire the synapses? Don't get caught up with the fact that we can't do it because SW medicine is far beyond ours, so only take it into account.

 

Since they were in the middle of a battle, I doubt Jango's head/brain could have been put on any type of life support system fast enough to avoid brain damage, assuming the GFFA has the technology. I believe if your brain is deprived of oxygen, as it would be if your blood stopped flowing to it, it is only a matter of minutes until brain death begins. Since Jango is represented as human, I would imagine his brain would have been under the same time constraint.

 

Oh, right, I can see it now: "Star Wars Episode III - Jangos' Brain"

 

Just thought it would be an interesting discussion. I still want to know how Boba completes his training. I am not suggesting that Jango comes back and completes it, so don't go there!

 

Whoa, whoa, whoa....you were watching Star Trek last night?...

 

Actually Jango and Boba had taken an adult clone of Jango with them from Kamino.

They gave him Jangos reserve-suit and sent him against Mace Windu when nobody was looking.

This way Jango was able to retire without having to fear being persecuted.

 

Yeah, I watched an episode of Trek last night. I know, this is a SW forum, but no flaming!

 

Given the vast numbers of clones we already see on-screen, I wouldn't be surprised if the Jango we saw decapitated was a clone himself, though the Kaminoians touring Obi-Wan probably would have mentioned it.

 

While that's an interesting theory, they would have to give the clone the exact same scars and roughness to his face, as we do see Jango without his helmet on the balcony.

Also, for that to be true, Boba must've been unaware of his father's plans. He seemed genuinely devastated picking up that helmet...

 

I think laj is right. The depravation of oxygen to the brain would result in irrevocable brain damage within minutes. And I think we'd have to assume that even if this weren't the case, if somehow the GFFA had some technology to reverse or inhibit such damage, that they did not have the requisite technology to transplant a brain even in the best of conditions- or else there would be no death in the GFFA, but eternal life.

 

jango replaced by clones of him... what next, supreme chancellor palpatine using clones?

 

jawa - 'stranger things have happened'

Q99213 - If you are curious about Boba's story between AOTC and Ep III, check out the Boba Fett books currently out. Although they are aimed at young adults, they are quite good. There are 3 out:
'Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive'
'Boba Fett: Crossfire'
'Boba Fett: Maze of Deception'

and 1 due in October:
'Boba Fett: Hunted'.
The first two are by Terry Bisson, the latter two by Elizabeth Hand. The first 3 are out in paperback.
'Fight to Survive' gives Boba's story
during and immediately after AOTC, and covers Jango's burial by Boba.
In 2 and 3, Boba encounters Dooku and Aurra Sing, with the promise of Jabba the Hutt and Durge in 'Hunted' (judging by the cover).

 

Hmmmm, I'll have to check those out. Thanks

 

Did anyone else notice that the clones didn't even look like Jango? They looked like Captain Typho to me...

 

Well, Typho and Jango are played by tall, sturdily built and middle-aged Pacific Islanders, so it's easy to expect some common traits between the actors. In-universe, it's a big fricken galaxy, and only so many strains of DNA running through the gene pool.

 

Well if you look in the Visual Dictionary for AotC it looks like Typho and the clone are played by the same actor.

 

They're not, Typho is played by Jay La'gaia(sp?) and the clone is played by Bodie Taylor. They morphed Bodie's and Temuera's (Jango's) faces together for that scene.

 

Well that's Star Trek, and that's why Star Trek is so lame

Bringing Jango back by any means would be even lamer then the bring Anakin back idea

 

Star Trek is not lame, but I won't get into that whole discussion...

And I'm not saying Jango should be brought back, rather would it be possible.

 

Based on both the movie and the novelization interpertations of Jango and Boba's relationship, I don't believe Jango would have taken an adult clone of himself, put it in a reserve suit, and sent it to fight Mace in his stead. By interpertations of their relationship, I'm refering not to them being father and son, but to how close both sources show them to be. We know that Jango is raising Boba, a clone of himself, as if he were a son he and some woman, possibly a wife, concieved rather than a clone of himself. Yet the two seem tremendously close, too close for Jango to want to fool his own son in order to make his "death" seem real. Particulary when no one was paying any attention to Boba when Jango died. Mace looked at Dooku after he killed Jango, far more concerned with seeing his reaction to his hired bounty hunter's death than the reaction of the man's son.

Boba was extremely emotional over his father's death. He couldn't believe he had died. And that came through in both the novelization and the movie. Jango would have taken Boba out of the arena if he substituted a of himself in his place to fight Mace. He planned to train his son himself, and that would have been the time for both of them to vanish.

 

Ok, another question. From the look on Mace's face when he kills Jango, it almost seems that Mace didn't know it was a human, but rather another droid. Given the Madalorian armor I could see where Mace would get confused, and I don't believe that Obi-Wan was ever able to send a picture of Jango or even a name back to the Jedi Council.

 

The AOTC novel gives the impression that Mace knew Jango was a man. After Jango's stomping by the reek, the novel has:
"The man was good, Mace had to admit. Very good , and more than once the Jedi had to parry desperately to turn a bolt aside. He kept up his offensive flurry, though, keeping Jango on the defensive
with sudden stabs and slashing cuts.
One misstep..
And then it happened, all of a sudden. Mace started to slash to the left, cut it short, and stabbed straight out, then reversed his grip and sent the lightsaber slashing across, left to right. He spun a complete circuit, coming around to parry a blaster shot, but there was no shot forthcoming.
That left to right reversal had cleanly landed. Jango Fett's head flew free of his shoulders and fell out of his helmet, to settle in the dirt."

I think Mace's look was more of surprise that his maneuver had that effect, rather than surprise at Jango being a man.

 

I think Mace was more giving Dooku a reproaching look, as if he were telling him that if he thought he could hire someone to be his bodyguard, someone who could easily defed him against any other Jedi that he'd have to think again. Think again or do his own dirty work.

 

I took it as more of a "yea thats right, and your next buster" look

 

You could be right, ForceHeretic. The look he gives Dooku is something we each may interpert differently since there is nothing to tell us exactly what it means.