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[austin_tycho]

Oh gods... my sides... a conversation with my brother, who really is a very intelligent person:

Mielikki31: BTW, what is with all you geeks and Boba Fett? Why the hell is he so interesting?

Bro: Boba Fett looks really cool. He's a bounty hunter with a cool suit and a cool jetpack and a HELLA-cool spaceship and he's a bad ass. Plus he looks really cool.

Mielikki31: I'm sitting here at work laughing my ass off.

Bro: At what?

Mielikki31: that whole sentence.

Bro: Oh. Yeah...the family guy thing with boba fett's head was hilarious!
Bro: Really outted the whole country worth of 20-30-something guys and their weird closet admiration of Boba Fett.

Mielikki31: There was this cartoon last night on Cartoon Network that revolved around these geeks having a trivia face-off to see who got to buy the Boba Fett action figure that had just come in to the local comic book store

Bro: Cool!

Mielikki31: I was trying to get Eric to explain why the hell anyone cares about Mr.Fett, and he said essentially the same thing you did.

Bro: I've seen guys with big models of Boba Fett. (They're not dolls!) and there's supposed to be a whole BUNCH of 'em in the next piece o' crap Star Wars movie.

Mielikki31: oh, jeeeeezus.
Mielikki31: he just looks like a cheap knock-off of a Japanese battling seizure robot.

Bro: Yeah...one of the clips in the trailer is a bunch of Boba Fett dudes. I'm guessing their names will all be different. And NO HE DOESN'T!
Bro: He's cool, and he eats little delicate girlfolks like you for breakfast.

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[marcusdibruni.livejournal.com]

The real reason is fantastic marketing. Way back when, just after Star Wars was released, Lucas created the Star Wars Holiday Special (which was just terrible). During it, there was a short cartoon that featured Boba Fett. Then, a few months before the Empire Strikes Back came out, there was an offer to send away for a free Boba Fett action figure with working missle launcher. The promised missle launching action wasn't included, as it was deemed too dangerous. Then, in Empire, Boba Fett is singled out by Darth Vader, who looks directly at Fett and says "And no disintegrations!". Fett never says a word through all of the movies.

Guys like the whole dangerous, mysterious character. And, as importantly, he's got gadgets. Lots of them. We don't see half of them in action, so we let our imagination run.

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

Was that the special supposedly set on the wookie planet, and all the little wookies were singing Christmas carols or something like that? I've only heard rumors of it, and it's legendary awfulness. Wow.

That pinpoints why I am puzzled about him. He was such a minor character. No lines, not especially cool-looking- at least to me. Maybe if I had a Y chromosome I'd understand more.