Hi All,

I was listening to the audio book of Star Wars Aftermath with my son last night. It's one of the newer books and it's officially canon. It takes place a bit after Endor.

Well, there was a one off chapter about some people on Tatooine that were buying scrap from some jawas. There were blasted and scorched bits of a Hutt barge. There was also a box of scarred Mandalorian battle armor. It was hinted pretty hard that it was the remains of Jabba's yacht.

If this is the case, it shows either:

1) Boba Fet is dead

or

2) Boba Fet is without his armor.

So....there is some official something for Boba Fet. I thought it was interesting enough to share.

If they have the armor, he's not still being digested by the Sarlacc, unless it poops a lot faster than it eats.

I for one hope he stays dead.

I've said this before but one of the things that makes the OT great are the references to the universe outside of what we see in the film. With Boba Fett, we KNOW he's a bad ass. Darth pulls him aside and says "no disintergrations!". What!? There is a story in this! We, the audience, fill in the blanks. We build our own personal canon which seamlessly fits into our own interpetation of the SW universe.

I argue that Boba Fett is infintely more bad ass if he stays off screen.

Yeah, it was hardly conclusive.

At the end of the day, it's a suit of armor. Who ever has it 'can' be Boba Fett.

Or maybe they're setting up for a costume revamp

Or maybe someone else will take the armor - the more the prequels can be thrown into obscurity the better imo, who even liked the little brat boba anyways?

In any case, they made the wise writer's move of leaving it completely open ended while they have years to decide what to do.

I'm hoping that the Anthology movie on Fett will be him surviving and then doing bounty hunter stuff and getting into a spaceship fight with other bounty hunters over a valuable target as the movies finale.

I'm looking forward to Dengar or some other character getting some screen or book-time and mentioning that Boba is still out there.

And that's it.

I'm about half way through reading Aftermath, and the mention of Boba Fett was enough to distract Dengar in a fight for him to lose and risk being killed.

I hope we get the robot chicken version.

Hi All,

I was listening to the audio book of Star Wars Aftermath with my son last night. It's one of the newer books and it's officially canon. It takes place a bit after Endor.

Well, there was a one off chapter about some people on Tatooine that were buying scrap from some jawas. There were blasted and scorched bits of a Hutt barge. There was also a box of scarred Mandalorian battle armor. It was hinted pretty hard that it was the remains of Jabba's yacht.

If this is the case, it shows either:

1) Boba Fet is dead

or

2) Boba Fet is without his armor.

So....there is some official something for Boba Fet. I thought it was interesting enough to share.

Well, if they have his armor, he clearly didn't get eaten by the sarlaac.

I for one hope he stays dead.

I've said this before but one of the things that makes the OT great are the references to the universe outside of what we see in the film. With Boba Fett, we KNOW he's a bad ass. Darth pulls him aside and says "no disintergrations!". What!? There is a story in this! We, the audience, fill in the blanks. We build our own personal canon which seamlessly fits into our own interpetation of the SW universe.

I argue that Boba Fett is infintely more bad ass if he stays off screen.

He has to much potential to deserve to remain dead. He should still be a man of mystery and not the main spotlight, but should still be around and mentioned constantly.

Lucas said one of his big mistakes with the OT was killing off Fett, and he even said he had debated with adding a scene where he climbs out at the end.

Fett is the mystery man willing to switch sides at the flip of a coin.

On a side note:

Boba Fett vs. Deadpool

I like what Disney is doing, to be honest, with the Star Wars timeline. It seemed with the Extended Universe, everything could only happen after the movies. Well, not everything, but all the Boba Fett stuff was after Ep VI. I don't think you have to pull some cheesy "he lived" move to make further stories with Boba Fett. Looking at Rogue One and the personal story movies on characters shows that they are willing to go back in and fill in the blanks. I think that's pretty cool, actually.

You know, if they do go back and keep making all these various previous movies, it will be cool years later for someone to go through and take ALL the Star Wars movies and put each scene in chronological order. it could be HOURS long and have the whole epic story of Star Wars in it's entirety.

I for one hope he stays dead.

I've said this before but one of the things that makes the OT great are the references to the universe outside of what we see in the film. With Boba Fett, we KNOW he's a bad ass. Darth pulls him aside and says "no disintergrations!". What!? There is a story in this! We, the audience, fill in the blanks. We build our own personal canon which seamlessly fits into our own interpetation of the SW universe.

I argue that Boba Fett is infintely more bad ass if he stays off screen.

Exactly this.

The Prequels were bad for many many many reasons, but ultimately they never stood a chance because the pre-OT universe I had imagined was way cooler than anything Lucas was going to put out.

One of the complaints about Episode 7 was that none of what happened the last 30 years was explained. I say, "good!", fill in those blanks yourself. I've had the curtain pulled back once and it cheapened everything,

Maybe the Sarlaac digests its meals in the same 'thousand years' that the Republic was around for in the PT (instead of the thousand generations Ben talked about) and the Thousand years that Maz Kanata was supposed to have been around on Takadona. All of these could be exaggerations of one or more orders of magnitude, but Fett's armor being seen only a few years after the Battle of Carkoon is much too soon for him not to have escaped and then abandoned his damaged and acid stained suit. He probably has more suits back at his base or can easily build a new one. I doubt anyone would crawl into the Sarlaac just t salvage armor, no matter how famous.

Of course if the Sarlaac regurgitates indigestible stuff like an owl does then we should have jawas hanging out waiting for all sorts of stuff being spit back up at the pit. Too bad we don't have an xenobiologists that specialize in Sarlaac behavior.

He has to much potential to deserve to remain dead.

Fett is the mystery man willing to switch sides at the flip of a coin.

Too much potential. Agreed .. but I'm not sure why.

All we have (outside of EU) is that he has a cool suit of armour and his dad was bad ass (took on a trained Jedi and walked away). Any kid of the 80's thought the Boba Fett action figure was by far the coolest.

But outside of this .. I argue that he's actually very incompetent.

What did we see in the OT?

1. Darth Vader pulls him aside and says "No disintergrations" AFTER saying "I want them alive". I used to work in management and when you have to specifically spell out conditions after making a black and white point .. it means you're dealing with incompetence.

2. Can he fight well? Don't know. He follows Han to Bespin .. and then tells Darth. Who does all the hard work? Does Boba Fett capture Han? Nope .. Darth does. What exactly does Boba do? The same thing Bobby Farret did in elementary when he saw Peter Duncan pull Amy Brown's hair .. he told the teacher. Bad ass.

3. Oh, but we see him fight in Jedi .. and that went well!? He misses Luke at point blank range, shoots a rope (when apparently armed with an arsenal of cool stuff - oh but he wanted Luke alive .. after trying to shoot him with a blaster???) and flies into the side of a barge after being hit by a blind guy within arms reach? He couldn't defeat a blind guy at arm's reach .. the blind guy didn't even know he was there .. and Boba still lost.

He's still as useless as the white crayon. He's only cool because we say he is. Why do we say he is? Because we want him to be. Why do we want him to be? Because over the years we have built our own stories using the architecture of our own interests and experiences.

He should remain dead. That was how he died. We saw the end of the Boba tale. From a story telling perspective .. there's absolutely zero reason to bring him back apart from that fact that we think he's cool.

Darth pulls him aside and says "no disintergrations!". What!? There is a story in this! We, the audience, fill in the blanks.

The best fan theory for that comment, was that Boba Fett went with the Stormtroppers to Luke's homestead on Tatooine and used his flamethrower or etc to have charred remains of Uncle Lars and Aunt Beru.

I hope we get the robot chicken version.

have to agree with you -and the 3 experts at the end of the boba chicken-

it is simply the best alternate ending for Ep.6 possible.

I'm AT LEAST half-way serious; if they remade it with that ending, I'd grab some drinks, popcorn and have the perfect ep4-6 evening

have to watch it again now..

ewoks everywhere. hmmm.. fuzzy, warm feelings. perfect ending

He's still as useless as the white crayon.

At least white crayons can be used to make cool designs on Easter eggs before you dye them. But yeah, that's it.

What do you expect from an unaltered clone anyway? His dad was the real Fett.

My girlfriend commented when we re watched the episodes recently that Boba Fett was kind of a clumsy idiot. She said he probably accidentally parked his ship in the wrong spot in the Star Destroyer, and when he was in it stressing on how he would ever actually find Solo, got his ship thrown out with the trash. Then, as he tried to stabilize he noticed the Falcon and followed him. I like her theory.

He has to much potential to deserve to remain dead.

Fett is the mystery man willing to switch sides at the flip of a coin.

Too much potential. Agreed .. but I'm not sure why.

All we have (outside of EU) is that he has a cool suit of armour and his dad was bad ass (took on a trained Jedi and walked away). Any kid of the 80's thought the Boba Fett action figure was by far the coolest.

But outside of this .. I argue that he's actually very incompetent.

What did we see in the OT?

1. Darth Vader pulls him aside and says "No disintergrations" AFTER saying "I want them alive". I used to work in management and when you have to specifically spell out conditions after making a black and white point .. it means you're dealing with incompetence.

2. Can he fight well? Don't know. He follows Han to Bespin .. and then tells Darth. Who does all the hard work? Does Boba Fett capture Han? Nope .. Darth does. What exactly does Boba do? The same thing Bobby Farret did in elementary when he saw Peter Duncan pull Amy Brown's hair .. he told the teacher. Bad ass.

3. Oh, but we see him fight in Jedi .. and that went well!? He misses Luke at point blank range, shoots a rope (when apparently armed with an arsenal of cool stuff - oh but he wanted Luke alive .. after trying to shoot him with a blaster???) and flies into the side of a barge after being hit by a blind guy within arms reach? He couldn't defeat a blind guy at arm's reach .. the blind guy didn't even know he was there .. and Boba still lost.

He's still as useless as the white crayon. He's only cool because we say he is. Why do we say he is? Because we want him to be. Why do we want him to be? Because over the years we have built our own stories using the architecture of our own interests and experiences.

He should remain dead. That was how he died. We saw the end of the Boba tale. From a story telling perspective .. there's absolutely zero reason to bring him back apart from that fact that we think he's cool.

1. No disintegrations, could've meant more then just Han. He could've easily meant that he didn't want any of Han's companions disintegrated.

2. Actually, that proves how smart he is. He knew how to think like Han, and followed him. Then instead of doing his own dirty work, he got Vader to capture his prey, pay him, and give him the target to turn over to someone else as well. Pretty Smart

3. Luke deflects a blaster shot, and destroys his blaster, he promptly ensnares Luke with a cable, and would've had him if Han hadn't bumped into the activator of his jetpack. I'd say fairly confident in the face of overwhelming odds.

I'd say their is still plenty of potential for him there.

Fett didn't get held at gunpoint to deactivate the death stars shields, then get tossed into a trash compactor.

Just saying.

On a side note, I've heard Aftermath isn't written very well, so I stayed away from it. Is it worth a read. I finished the novelization of The Force Awakens and have just started The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader.

It's atrocious, read the wikipedia.

The audiobook was an easy few days listen.

I liked it, but I'm a sucker for Wedge in print/audio. YMMV.

I'm in the middle of reading Aftermath, and I like it so far. I'm not going into it expecting literature that will last the ages. I am expecting something that will have an enjoyable read and that I will have fun with. That's what I've gotten so far.

Now, as for Boba Fett, I do think Caleb Vance (the guy who shows up during the Jawa deal) is probably an alias for the Fett man. First, finding the Mandalorian armour all pitted as if it were doused in acid can be seen as fairly strong evidence that Fett survived. But then look at the conversation and how it plays out. Vance turns on the guy and says he is taking the armour and that it is his. When the guy reaches for a blaster, Vance has his up in a blur and gets a shot off, dropping the other guy. That last part could be possible as someone else, but he made such a big deal about getting the armour, I just have to believe it is Fett.