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Fett

Everyone knows that Han Solo is my favorite Star Wars character, period.

And everyone knows that a close second is Boba Fett.  So much so that I’ve always seen him as a hero, not a villain.  The guy is just trying to get paid by whoever hires him.

Even though he was paid to capture favorite character number one in The Empire Strikes Back.

Anyways, when Return of the Jedi came out, even I thought that Fett went out stupidly, knocked into the sarlacc by a blind scoundrel a.k.a. favorite character number one.

But I never thought he was dead.

I always believed that his armor would protect him and somehow he’d escape the sarlacc.

And for 37 years I never waivered from that belief, even when so many people would try to convince me otherwise.

Then came The Mandalorian.

The show featured a character dressed like favorite character number two; indeed, he did everything that I always thought that character would be capable of doing, Baby Yoda aside.

This season, however, they took a turn toward rewarding my belief in that character, first by casting the last person to voice him in the revised Special Editions, and who played his Dad in Attack of the Clones, in a cameo in the first episode of the season that featured his iconic armor.

And then they revealed that that was indeed him, first by showing his goddamn awesome spaceship, Slave 1, and then showing him off as a badass warrior without the armor.

And then, he was back in the armor.

And they showed him to be that badass that I always knew him to be, even if just in Expanded Universe stories and my own imagination.

A couple of episodes later, at the end of the season, the biggest surprise of all came, a Christmas present to me as far as I’m concerned.

A separate series on favorite character number two.  I’m extremely excited about this.  Probably more than I was when the Solo movie was announced, or when The Mandalorian was announced.

Thank you, Jon Favreau.

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I Have Spoken

I’m gonna say it:

After one episode, The Mandalorian is my favorite Star Wars since the original film.

It’s everything I’ve wanted from Star Wars since I was 10 and 11: it’s a Star Wars TV series AND it’s got a guy who looks like the guy that I liked from the cartoon in The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Seriously, I’ve wanted a TV version of Star Wars since I saw the original movie.  I even imagined episode descriptions as listed in TV Guide, like “Artoo gets captured by the Jawas again.”

And Boba Fett has been my second favorite character since I first saw him in that animated short in 1978.

I’ve gotten lots of shit from people over the years because Fett was a ‘do nothing’ character, much like Captain Phasma in the newer films.  But like Phasma, Boba Fett was a much better character in other media, like comics and novels, and my own imagination.

My gaming group actually met Boba Fett during one scenario, where my bounty hunter character called in a favor from him.

It was the look, and the mystery of Fett and his Mandalorian armor, that made him one of my favorites.

And even back then, and through the years, I never let other people’s opinion’s about him change my fandom.

If there’s one thing I actually hate about the prequels, it’s the way they changed the back story of Boba Fett, making him the son a guy who was the original clone of the Clone Wars.  No more Jaster Mereel, no more Mandalorian background except for the armor.

Which brings us to now, where this new Mandalorian character is everything Boba Fett SHOULD had been, but wasn’t, but it doesn’t matter now because he’s just as much of a badass as I imagined Fett to be in the first place.

Thanks again to Jon Favreau, for breathing life into the side of the Star Wars universe that always appealed to me: bounty hunters and the scum and villainy of the underworld in a galaxy far, far away.