I love the idea of an accountant bounty hunter that can suck all the cool factor out of the romanticised profession

@Cotif11

2 жыл бұрын

after a hard hunt, he retires to the canteen to do some high-stakes investment trading

@WhichDoctor1

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a comic sci-fi I read a while ago that had assault cruisers full of elite battle accountants that would be sent in onboarding actions of wealthy people space stations and starships for surprise tax audits

@meewec2091

2 жыл бұрын

i mean, fett kinda was in the books but was also an excessively armed bad-ass

"I want to see the real Boba Fett. I said the _REAL_ Boba Fett." *small Floridan mouse-girl in Mandalorian armor* "Perfection"

@TheSilverOrn

2 жыл бұрын

If she is Boba Fett, does that mean she has Booba Plate armor?

he looks like pyrion travelled back in time and tied up the actual actor to play boba fett

Thats not even the real Boba Fett. Thats Don Bies who was in the costume for the special edition reshoots of ROTJ. That photo wasn't the original guy in costume. So thats not even "Real". Jeremy Bulloch was the original actor in the costume, and he played a few other background characters you can spot.

I think my introduction to boba fett was the lego games and I mean I definitely got the impression that he was supposed to be cool enough to have his own brand of door panels.

"It's a numbers game" is so rizz.

Funniest Boba Fett impression ever!

whoa, that actor looks just like tom!

Answer: He looks super cool

I mean he was originally supposed to be the main villain of episode 6, not to mention his iconic debut in the holiday special

I also always found it weird that boba fett had such a cult following. He's some random faceless henchman who never does anything meaningful and then dies pathetically.

@MellyMelon1331

2 жыл бұрын

It was kinda just his his costume. The documentary on Disney+ highlights this, by the fact his first ever appearance was a little parade with Vader, but he got way more people wanting autographs and such, despite never having appeared yet while Vader had

@drafezard7315

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's the fact he's a cool looking mysterious baddass. It's the same deal with Darth Maul before the star wars universe got over saturated with his appearance later on. Though Darth Maul was definitely more of a badass in the Phantom menace than Boba Fett was in the original trilogy.

@Fredy_The_Yeti

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure, because the cult following could have been there from day one. But when I was growing up, we had tons of star wars comics coming out and bounty hunters were featured in lots of them. Despite Kathleen Kennedy's statements, there are in facts thousands of star wars sources outside of just the movies

@fugyfruit

2 жыл бұрын

His lack of personality is not really much of an issue since he so clearly represents the classic western trope of the bounty hunter that people just fill in the rest

i swear they did a bit before on Boba Fett, i recall them saying he's a real swot on tax returns

@aethernaut1899

Жыл бұрын

I thought so too! I feel like I'm having a Mandela effect moment, I can't find the other conversation anywhere, which is really similar to this one but includes a bit about how they can't go for a ride in Slave One because then it wouldn't be tax deductible...

It's actually a bit misleading to say the 'real guy', since there were a few. I watched the Disney mini-doc on the conception of the character, pretty interesting. You had the first guy to wear the suit, before Boba even appeared in a movie. Then the guy in Empire, who was probs the most 'indentifiable' OG Boba. Lovely guy, all told, did the cons and stuff for years, and passed not long ago. But you also had some stunt men stand in as Boba for RotJ.

@MellyMelon1331

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the guy in the photo here is Don Bies, who was an ILM modelmaker, who they had wear the costume when shooting addition footage for one of the Special Edition versions of Return of The Jedi (pretty sure was the 1986 version, but probs wrong on that. Just know it was one of the Special Editions, but forget which year). So this guy only wore the costume for a scene or two

@assassinLOLGASM

2 жыл бұрын

I met Jeremy bulloch and his wife at a con, wonderful people. I distinctly remember getting my picture out for him to sign and his wife just going: Jeremy, this is a fantastic picture of you! 😅😂 It’s a shame he passed, world really did lose a nice guy that day :(

@Cotif11

2 жыл бұрын

Okay okay but... who was the MAIN actor? Not the stunt doubles, not the one they used for extended editions, but substantially, who was it that had the most prominent screen time? All the others are posers. TEMEURA MORRISON IS A SHAM!! WE KNOW THE REAL BOBA NOW

@Blisterdude123

2 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Bulloch 'performed' in Empire Strikes Back, and probs was regarded as 'the' Boba, for the longest time. Also that's just silly. Temuera Morrison is great. It's not an either/or, it's so easily a 'both' situation.

@MellyMelon1331

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cotif11 That'd be Jeremy Bulloch who was in the costume the majority of the time. And then it was Jason Wingreen who performed the original voice for the role, before later being dubbed over by Temuera Morrison for the special editions. The guy in the photo Tom and Ben pulled up wore the costume only once for one singular scene when reshooting, cause they needed someone who had the right body shape to wear the costume and match the other performers who had worn it

Nah the original dude is cool You know he fucks with a moustache like that

THIS FUCKING KILLED ME

He was awesome in the star wars christmas special

How can I send you a clip I got one of Simon off his twitch chanel.

They dropped Star Trek to talk about Star Wars? Treason!!

i also really hate boba fett (originally just uncaring but after so many attempts to "correct" my clearly wrong view from people it has progressed to outright hate) but yogs boba now there is a cool character with a very interesting backstory and non-bland personality! Real boba forever!

Please don't put that this is the original actor. This is just some schlub from ILM who stood in for one scene for the goddamn ROTJ special edition.

@MellyMelon1331

2 жыл бұрын

Its kind of annoying how many people associate this guy as the og Boba, just cause people liked to make fun of how he looked so much, that he is the one who comes up often

It's literally just the best designed costume in the whole SW universe and the jet pack. What he actually did in the films is kinda irrelevant.

Yall being a bit cynical here, lol. How is the "son" of the original clone a "Mister Magoo" type character...

Ben **whines about Boba Fett not being a character** Also Ben **refuses to watch all of the stuff where Boba Fett is a character**

@sirdiesalot2975

2 жыл бұрын

He's talking about Fett's cult following before shows like the Mandalorian were even conceived. He's always had one, even before the expanded universe stuff which Disney has recently disavowed, and it's literally just because he looks kind of cool. It's a bit weird, but hey, people like what they like I guess.

That awkward moment when Captain Phasma had more badass moments than Boba Fett in movies...

The Mandalorian is all over the place in quality, and it seems that the Boba Fett show is gonna be similar in that regards since it's also doing the multiple directors thing. Like there's some great episodes, but it's definitely balanced by garbage.

@aleckgardner6845

2 жыл бұрын

For me first episode was terrible, second was so much better and weird in a good way. I m glad they're at least trying something different and out there with Boba Fett.

@the_decryptor

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, one of the weakest episodes IMO of The Mandalorian was directed by the same guy (Robert Rodriguez) who directed the first episode of Book of Boba Fett. I remember watching it and saying the fight scenes looked like something out of a high school film project, real strong "we didn't rehearse this" vibes. You can even spot an error in the first episode with the gamorrean guards, they disappear after a camera angle change and then reappear later when needed.

Most of Boba Fett's "cool factor" comes from being a clone of Jango (who managed to outplay Jedi more than once), and from his Extended Universe appearances. So to most people...... it's mostly just because of Jango. Though the Book of Boba Fett *does* do some work to rectify this.

@Blisterdude123

2 жыл бұрын

Uh...what? Boba's 'cool factor' goes back a lot further than Jango Fett lolol

@MellyMelon1331

2 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about? Boba has always been a fan favorite since the original films. You can find evidence of this everywhere. He was beloved way before Jango was even a thing. Even before his first appearance, Lucas had a mini parade with the Vader and Boba costumes, and more people wanted autographs from Boba, despite never having even appeared in the Holiday Special, never mind the movies. He's always had a fanbase

@vegladex

2 жыл бұрын

I want to make it clear that I know Boba was well-beloved long before Jango existed, but Tom and Ben make a good point that Boba *himself* conspicuously failed to do anything cool in the mainline films. I've identified some things that make him cool *now*, and the EU has existed long before Jango has too, but I've never seen anything to sugest why people liked him at first (Other than the cool armour I guess, but that's not exactly a good reason).

@Blisterdude123

2 жыл бұрын

@@vegladex It's one of those nebulous 'right time, right place' things. Your opinion on it is fine, but it's not really 'the' explanation. Why Boba is cool is just...there is no mathematical answer. He just was. He popped up, looked good, had mystique. He had that indefinable cool factor. Good reasons, bad reasons, it's just not relevant. If you can't make sense of it, that's okay. You don't need to. For some people, that's just how it is. You think Boba is cool, or you don't. It's the cool factor. So much so, that for decades 'before' Jango, Boba featured in Star Wars novels, comics, games, and other media 'because' people grew up from kids, into adults, wanting to explore 'why' they thought he was cool.

@vegladex

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blisterdude123 You're right, really, Tom and Ben asking for "reasons" just doesn't make sense for this kind of thing.