Too bad it weighs us down, especially after The Mandalorianthe series of boba fett book is summed up pretty well in the question a friend asked me the other day. If he had already seen her, to be able to split to her liking without making me spoilers.
The treatment of the character and his motivations is, at least, curious (I’ve been told to be a diplomat, I’m sure Disney bosses read The Output every day), plus some action scenes are blushing and I thought I saw Steven Seagal’s spirit float.
But the thing is, to explain the former at least, a theory, quite crazy, would turn everything upside down and it would fit better than what the writers have done.
The fan theory that changes everything in Boba Fett
Of course, the thing was born on Reddit, one of the favorite places where fans meet to unleash their ambition as frustrated screenwriters.
The user XenoSyncXD suggests that, in fact, Boba Fett is not Boba, but another clone of Jango Fett.
All to try to explain that, in reality, Disney has not done the same as it does with everything, which is throw a ton of sugar to whiten the darker aspects of the protagonists of their stories.
In this case, the fact that Fett goes from being a cold-blooded murderer and torturer to a soft “crime lord” who, in the end, practically fights crime, would be due to that.
The theory, by the way, would also serve to justify the fact that, as happens with the new incarnations of star trek, the commissioned writers seem to have not seen the moviesThey do not understand the universe, nor do they know the characters.
In this way, this would explain, in addition to kindness, things like Boba doesn’t seem to have much of a clue about Jabba the Hutt’s mannerisms or certain basic details. (when he’s supposed to have worked for him for a long time) or that he doesn’t give a damn about getting revenge on Han Solo or Luke Skywalker for causing him to fall into the Sarlacc. Or that he was left on the dunghill on Tatooine because, in a galaxy far, far away, that planet hardly seems to exist.
The mental pirouettes that we fans take, in order not to recognize the flaws of what we love, are impressive. And that’s what he does XenoSyncXD to explain continuity errors in a lazy script (the armor issue in Sarlacc) or that Disney has told us a typical story of his trying to misfit Boba Fett, a ruthless murderous mercenary.
Doing something realistic with a dark antihero is not his thing and let’s remember that this is the company that already rejected Marvel once because: “It was too risky for its family audience”.
In the end, it turns out that The Boba Fett book would beactually the Pepe Fett book or something. The real Boba would be dead and digested in the Sarlacc and this clone, knowing the bounty hunter’s legend, has taken his identity and proceeded to make no effort to resemble him.
At the moment, nothing is known about whether there will be a second season or not. However, everything seems to indicate that if they hired a handful of Reddit users as writers, it would be just as bad, but at least it would be a more fascinating derailment.
