13 hours ago, Azrapse said:

So I guess it will be the adventures of Sabine Wren in her search for Ezra Bridger and Thrawn?

Hadn't even crossed my mind until I saw that Dave Filoni (who invented Sabine) is directing the pilot episode and is an executive producer of the series. So...Ahsoka and Sabine confirmed, basically.

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If wouldn't mind if the protagonist is a mandalorian as long as it doesn't involve the mandalorians as a society yet again. Those were the yawnest, lamest episodes both in Clone Wars and Rebels.

Also: this.

7 minutes ago, nikk whyte said:

There’s a Mohawk ridge that boba doesn’t have. This isn’t his armor.

I agree that does seem to suggest otherwise, but I feel there are more similarities to Boba’s armour than differences

The interludes in the Aftermath series were put there, and approved, for a reason. There is plenty potential.

As to Dave Filoni directing... i don't think it confims anything other than a visual storyteller, that Filoni is, wanting to try another medium. The thing with us creative types is we create, and sometimes doing something outside our usual comfort zone (in this case directing live action) is a welcome challenge, like a painter trying a different style such as drawing in pastels when used to oil paint, or said painter trying sculpting in bronze.

44 minutes ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

So lets look at the 1st official picture. I want to draw close attention to the most important, but subtle detail from this picture. Above the left eye is a small dent in the helmet, almost imperceptible, but there. This is important because Boba Fett’s helmet had a dent in the exact same place.

I see what you’re talking about, but that could also just be something reflecting off the helmet.

4 minutes ago, Forgottenlore said:

I see what you’re talking about, but that could also just be something reflecting off the helmet.

Like part of an awning ahead of him and to his right a bit.

52 minutes ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

So lets look at the 1st official picture. I want to draw close attention to the most important, but subtle detail from this picture. Above the left eye is a small dent in the helmet, almost imperceptible, but there. This is important because Boba Fett’s helmet had a dent in the exact same place.

In canon a set of mandalorian armour scoured as if by acid, was purchases by Cobb Vanth from Jawas on tatooine. Acid tends to burn things away, possible dirt and paint and could leave things shiny as this armour is. The dent is there for a reason I believe.

This official image has me, about 90% sure this armour belonged to Boba Fett, and now is owned by Cobb Vanth. The story details seem to match up and this art depicts small and subtle clues - the dent. That this is indeed the story we shall be getting.

Very nice looking. I’m particularly pleased that he seems to only have a single pistol. The duel blasters stereotype for Mandalorians is something I will be glad to see less of.

I dont know.. if you enlarge the image.. the dent kinda looks like a head... cameraman perhaps?

Looks alot like images from 1313...

https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/2017-01-11-ex-lucasarts-artist-posts-concept-art-of-the-cancelled-star-wars-1313

2 minutes ago, RuusMarev said:

Looks alot like images from 1313...

Agreed. Maybe it can in some way make up for 1313 getting canned.

2 hours ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

This official image has me, about 90% sure this armour belonged to Boba Fett, and now is owned by Cobb Vanth. The story details seem to match up and this art depicts small and subtle clues - the dent. That this is indeed the story we shall be getting.

2 hours ago, nikk whyte said:

There’s a Mohawk ridge that boba doesn’t have. This isn’t his armor.

2 hours ago, Ixidor said:

Other than that, and the bits on the side being a little different, this is reaaaaly similar.

This could be artistic license.

But I'm not convinced of that yet. It is something that Cobb Vanth was setup some time ago and that hasn't really paid off, though. There might be something to it.

Whilst that would a cool tidbit, and if Filoni's involved it's highly likely such things will be added, I don't believe this is Boba's armour. The mohawk ridge on the helmet has been mentioned, but also the breast plate is a completely different shape and so are the pauldrons. Boba didn't wear cuisses, and the vambraces don't match.

Now I know this could be a 'moderisation' etc, so I'm not saying its not his armour for sure, but the only detail that matches is the dent. I also think the dent is in the wrong spot to match Boba's helmet (Boba's dent is higher), it looks more like a scratch to me.

If you zoom the pic, the “dent” looks much more like the reflection of a head than a dent.

1 hour ago, weisguy119 said:

If you zoom the pic, the “dent” looks much more like the reflection of a head than a dent.

Don't really need to zoom it, just follow the lines of the reflections on the helmet.

11 hours ago, JJ48 said:

Harry Potter stories were still good and evil, though. I guess I'm confused about what you mean by "[Star Wars] should grow up", given that particular analogy.

Only referring to the movies, since I didn't read the books, I felt the Potter material got more serious and mature as the story went along, because Rowling's "target audience" was likely maturing as the story went along.

16 hours ago, JJ48 said:

I feel about this much the same as I do about Solo. It sounds entertaining, but it's not the kind of epic, good-vs-evil story that I can really get excited about.

Naaaah, there have been enough giant showdowns.

I think a bit of Sparks Nevada: Marshall on Mars would be a nice change of pace.
Star Wars has a huge universe to be just about the same characters over and over again. There are so many levels of stupid to be explored.

Man, and Taika Waititi might direct some of it? Sign me right up!

This looks very interesting.

ZZZZzzz..... sorry but I just don't care about the Mandalorians anymore. The cartoons ruined them for me. They just seem rubbish and well, are just a form of human like everybody else.

49 minutes ago, william1134 said:

ZZZZzzz..... sorry but I just don't care about the Mandalorians anymore. The cartoons ruined them for me. They just seem rubbish and well, are just a form of human like everybody else.

Um.

Yeah.

That's- that's always been the case. What's more, Mandalorians are inclusive so long as you can prove yourself by their standards. s**t like Rodian Mandalorians are perfectly possible. Mando'a is a culture, _not_ a race. I uh, I dunno' where you got otherwise, dude.

Im going by some old comics I remember. I think they were tales of the old republic.

9 hours ago, That Blasted Samophlange said:

So lets look at the 1st official picture. I want to draw close attention to the most important, but subtle detail from this picture. Above the left eye is a small dent in the helmet, almost imperceptible, but there. This is important because Boba Fett’s helmet had a dent in the exact same place.

In canon a set of mandalorian armour scoured as if by acid, was purchases by Cobb Vanth from Jawas on tatooine. Acid tends to burn things away, possible dirt and paint and could leave things shiny as this armour is. The dent is there for a reason I believe.

This official image has me, about 90% sure this armour belonged to Boba Fett, and now is owned by Cobb Vanth. The story details seem to match up and this art depicts small and subtle clues - the dent. That this is indeed the story we shall be getting.

Dude, go and look at Boba's armour and take more than a cursory glance at it.

This armour is totally different.

The shouler pads are different shape, much more rounded than Boba's. They also sit higher on the shoulders

The chest piece is much smaller and not segmented. Boba's armour is made up of a neck piece, two angular pectoral plates that are longer on the outer edge than the inner and a stomach piece. While you could maybe argue that this one is smaller because it's lost the chest piece, the top part of the armour is just not the same shape as the two pectoral plates on Boba's.

The comm device, or whatever, on the left side of this helmet is also different from Boba's. Boba has a raised oval shape that extends the whole length of the helmet down to the bottom. This one is much shorter

The gauntlets are slightly different, and quite apparently lack the weaponry that was built into Boba's. While you could ague the weaponry was too damaged and removed, I would expect to see more obvious empty mounting points if that were the case.

But the big one is that Boba's armour doesn't include greaves. At all.

The right thigh plate shown here is exactly the same colour and material as the chest piece and left shoulder pad, and is scarred in the exact same way. It can't have been Boba's. And if it's not, that would indicate the scarring on the chest and shoulder piece can't be from the Sarlacc. It would be an astounding coincidence if Vanth found another piece of Mandalorian armour that just happened to have been scarred in the exact same way as Boba's.

Finally, I'm not even sure I see the dent. If it's where I think you're seeing it, then it's not even in the same place as Boba's. It's much lower down. Boba's dent is near the top of his helmet, the dent I think you're saying here is just above the brow.

This is a classic case of confirmation bias.

You came up with a theory, and you're now looking at the one thing that might confirm it while ignoring all the other elements that argue against it.

Occam's Razor: the dent could just be a real world nod to Boba. An in-joke.

With all that said, given the similarities between this outfit and the concept art for Boba Fett in 1313, I'm still not convinced this isn't actually Boba himself.

I hope not, but I can't wait to find out. That armour is BAD. ***.

11 hours ago, Ixidor said:

Other than that, and the bits on the side being a little different, this is reaaaaly similar.

This could be artistic license.

But I'm not convinced of that yet. It is something that Cobb Vanth was setup some time ago and that hasn't really paid off, though. There might be something to it.

Literally the only pieces of armor in this shot that look anything like boba’s are the gauntlets.

Just now, nikk whyte said:

Literally the only pieces of armor in this shot that look anything like boba’s are the gauntlets.

I literally said in the quoted text that I'm not convinced it's his.

The helmet looks similar but has some significant differences, which I also mentioned in my comment.

1 hour ago, GuacCousteau said:

With all that said, given the similarities between this outfit and the concept art for Boba Fett in 1313, I'm still not convinced this isn't actually Boba himself.

How old would Boba be at the time of the show? Assuming he survived in this canon, would it even make sense for him to be a lead, or would he be more of a supporting character?

On a side note, in many RPGs, you have the character who is incredible during cutscenes, but horrible after he joins the party. Since Boba was pretty useless during the movies, does that mean he'll be awesome after joining the party?

1 minute ago, JJ48 said:

How old would Boba be at the time of the show? Assuming he survived in this canon, would it even make sense for him to be a lead, or would he be more of a supporting character?

Mid to late thirties, depending on how far past RotJ they set it. It sounds like it's not too long after. Pretty much around Pedro Pascal's age, I guess.

2 minutes ago, JJ48 said:

On a side note, in many RPGs, you have the character who is incredible during cutscenes, but horrible after he joins the party. Since Boba was pretty useless during the movies, does that mean he'll be awesome after joining the party?

Useless during RotJ maybe, but I don't like the idea he was useless in ESB.

His job was, and I quote, to be "the one who finds the Millennium Falcon". Beyond that, they're told not to kill them. He is not specifically ordered to capture him, though I suppose that can be inferred by the 'any means necessary' line.

Boba is the only one out of all six bounty hunters and the entire Death Squadron fleet to suss out Han's ruse and track them to Bespin without being detected. Once he figures out where they're going, he calls up Vader to let him know and they work out a deal where Vader uses him as bait until he has Luke, and then Boba gets to drag him off to Jabba. The reason Boba doesn't nab Han right away is because he's playing the field so he can claim both Vader's bounty and Jabba's.

Boba does his job to his employer's satisfaction, and gets an extra profit on the side. That's good enough.

Beyond that, he also figures out that Luke is tailing him later on and does enough to keep him pinned while the Bespin guards get Han away and the Imps split Leia and Chewie off, but doesn't stick around long enough for a proper fight because he knows Vader wants him alive.

And let's not forget the sass he gets to throw Vader's way without reproach.

ESB Boba is and always will be a badass in my book.

3 minutes ago, GuacCousteau said:

Mid to late thirties, depending on how far past RotJ they set it. It sounds like it's not too long after. Pretty much around Pedro Pascal's age, I guess.

Useless during RotJ maybe, but I don't like the idea he was useless in ESB.

His job was, and I quote, to be "the one who finds the Millennium Falcon". Beyond that, they're told not to kill them. He is not specifically ordered to capture him, though I suppose that can be inferred by the 'any means necessary' line.

Boba is the only one out of all six bounty hunters and the entire Death Squadron fleet to suss out Han's ruse and track them to Bespin without being detected. Once he figures out where they're going, he calls up Vader to let him know and they work out a deal where Vader uses him as bait until he has Luke, and then Boba gets to drag him off to Jabba. The reason Boba doesn't nab Han right away is because he's playing the field so he can claim both Vader's bounty and Jabba's.

Boba does his job to his employer's satisfaction, and gets an extra profit on the side. That's good enough.

Beyond that, he also figures out that Luke is tailing him later on and does enough to keep him pinned while the Bespin guards get Han away and the Imps split Leia and Chewie off, but doesn't stick around long enough for a proper fight because he knows Vader wants him alive.

And let's not forget the sass he gets to throw Vader's way without reproach.

ESB Boba is and always will be a badass in my book.

THIS. ALL OF THIS. **** YEAH.

While I do admit there are a number of dissimilarities between how Boba’s armour looked and this suit, I still think they are meant to be one and the same.

My tbeory is based not only on this image, but the Tatooine feel from the set, the pitch paragraph given by Favreau and the story interlude by Chuck Wendig all seem to be very similar to each other in scope and setting. Yes, this could be a coincidence, but I don't think so.

Lucasfilm has tied things together before; battlefront 2 has story elements from the comic, the last Jedi (Luke’s compass) and Aftermath.

I will concede two things that this may not be Boba’s armour, it is possible, hence not being 100% sure in my post earlier. The armour may be transfered between owners, making an anthology series with the armour being passed to new owners.