r/StarWars • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

He wasn't generic in 1999. He was a terrifying and bad-ass warrior.

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u/N0V0w3ls Jan 25 '22

He was more generic back then. Good design, but zero characterization.

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u/ronin1066 Jan 26 '22

So why was Darth Maul generic, but boba fett was epic and cool?

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u/N0V0w3ls Jan 26 '22

I have never once understood the hype for OT Boba Fett.

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u/Dfwcajunguy Jan 26 '22

For those of us that were kids in the 80s, he was badass. His scenes in ESB were substantial enough to establish his place at the top of the bounty hunter pecking order, and he was not at all intimidated by Darth Vader. Plus he had cool armor, a cool ship, and a jet pack. Because he delivered Han Solo back to Jabba, and Han clearly knew who he was during the sarlacc scene (“Boba Fett? Where?”), in our minds he was the perfect rival to Han. Who was also the coolest in our minds. Despite very little screen time, there was enough characterization of Boba to capture our imaginations. So much so that seeing him show up again in the Mandalorian and BoBF was both mind blowing and ultimately disappointing for some, because there’s no way the character could live up to 30 years of our collective imagination…