Why does Vader prevent Boba Fett from shooting the mighty Chewbacca?

In ESB, during the carbon freeze scene when Chewbacca starts trippin as they are going to freeze Han, Boba Fett attempts to shoot him. Vader forcefully grabs his gun and pushes his arm down. Why would Vader care if Boba shoots Chewbacca? It's already been confirmed to Vader that Luke is on his way. Vader also has Han to test the carbon freeze and Leia to interogate or whatever, so why would a mad wookie matter to the Dark Lord?

 

the speculation is was he wasn't worried about Chewie, but 3PO since Anakin did build him

 

I LOVE that moment! I truly do think he's protecting Threepio, now that TPM turned out how it did!




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Vader doesn't want his Rebel captives killed yet because he wants to torture and extract secrets from them.

 

So....after betraying his friends and family and having no qualms about putting his own son in carbonite to take him to the Emperor to either turn to the darkside(aka HELL) or kill him....

He nobly saves his old droid...

Anyone else find that a bit unbalanced?

 

Yeah, and it wouldn't be the first time 3PO got shot...and besides he's a droid they can fix him if Vader really want to, so there has to be another reason...

 

That's funny Darth_Fett and AdamBertocci, I beer thought of that. In my opinion, he didn't want to start a ruckace with everyone. He didn't have time to mess with whatever would have taken place as Luke was on his way and that was his MAIN priority.

 

'the mighty Chewbacca'??? Who are you, Jabba the Hutt?

Anyway, Vader couldn't be sure that his trap would work. Since he was giving Han to Boba Fett, he couldn't alow Boba to shoot all of his hostages since he would need them to bait Luke again if he escaped. Obviously Vader was right because Luke did escape.

 

Maybe it's because Darth Vader knows that all 'bad' guys are such a 'bad' shot, and that Boba might have accidentally fried Leia as well, which is something Vader probably didn't want. He loves his kids... that's why he chops off their hands and uses illegal torture droids on them, rather then kill them

Yes, the 'bad' guys are always terrible shots in almost every, if not all, movies in existence, from what I've seen anyway.

 

I could be wrong here, but I think it's more to do with the fact that Han is standing right infront of Chewie at that point, and if Boba was to miss, they'd have no one to test the carbon freezing technique on. Also, I'm sure Darth Vader just wanted to get on with it, too, as all that fighting was delaying his chances of turning Luke to the Dark Side. That's the way I read the scene, anyhow.

 

They are his prisoners. He is using them as bait for Luke. Allowing them to be killed would be colossally stupid.

 

I;m goona have to go with Dark_Vadors "bad shot" theory.

 

jewlmc...
"Anyone else find that a bit unbalanced?"

Not at all. Remember at that point in his life, C3-P0 was all Vader had. He had not yet made his proposal to Luke, nor knew where Luke stood on things.

Vader's fall was the most traumatic - and that's where most of the horrible acts you've described occurred. He's already been at rock bottom for many years now and sees his old droid.

He's thinking of destroying the Emperor and uniting with his son to rule the galaxy - the Chosen One and his son. They could accomplish things the Emperor could never do.

So, at this point in Vader's life, I don't see it as being unbalanced. I see it as being the good in him showing itself for one of the first times in a long time.

Luke knew it. Vader knew it. And it's something which was instrumental to events in ROTJ.

That one instance makes ROTJ believeable, becuase yes, there was still good in Vader. Not wanting C3-P0 blown up by Fett took him back a bit to the days of his innocence.

Vader was not a robotic killing-machine, he was human. And saving C3-P0 was a very human response. There's nothing unbalanced about that at all.

 

He just tells him to hold your fire by touching the gun! what kind of qusetion is that?

 

Ehh, ?
Did you even read the question ??? I think your missing the point here...the question is why did he prevent Boba from shooting ???

 

isn't it obvious? he has a thing for wookies. i mean....who doesn't? all that hair......chewie is a hunk.

 

I think Vader was planning to turn Chewie into a rug, and he didn't want a singe in his new welcome mat.


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No one has seemed to consider the fact that Vader was probably emphasizing his authority over Boba Fett.

 

Good point. He was showing Fett that they were his prisoners, and would do with them as he pleased.

If he didn't want them shot, they wouldn't be shot. Who was Fett to try and intervene?

(By the way, I still think he was still attached to 3PO, and trying to save him. )

 

Yup, Darth_Pseudomorph got a good point there...it got me thinking ...

 

He wasn't trying to save C-3PO!!!
With all the droids that come and go, how does Vader know thats HIS droid? Besides...Threepio didn't have gold plating in either of the prequels.

 

Where's it say he wasn't trying to save him?

Do you know what's going on inside the big, bad, sith lord's head?

Maybe he thought it looked like 3PO, and he suddenly missed him so much. And this is what he was talking about when he said to his dead mom that he would not fail again.

 

Unless Anakin rebuilds threepio personally in EIII with gold plating, then ol' Darthy will not know it is his droid. Besides, did it look like Anakin gave a flying rat's patootie about Threepio in AOTC?

 

I agree completely with Oakessteve and Darth_Psuedomorph. He had no time to deal with this and didn't want Boba doing something crazy.