My top five favourite Star Wars characters…. Whats yours? Number 4 is Boba Fett…..

  Number four in my list of favourite star wars characters is that might mandalorian Boba Fett!!!!  We first officially saw Boba Fett in Star Wars episode  V Empire Strikes Back but he did make an appearance in Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope (the revamped one in the star wars trilogy box set)  In Empire Strikes back we meet Boba Fett and a band of bounty hunters on the bridge of the Executor and Darth Vader delivers that line…….

Darth Vader – “There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millennium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive. No disintegrations.“

Boba Fett – “As you wish.“

After that small cameo Boba Fett became a firm favourite with Star Wars fans!!!  With his Mandalorian armour and his ship Slave I he looked the ultimate bad ass!!!!!  Under that no nonsense get the job done no job is to small attitude Boba did have a soft side when it came to his father Jango who he sorely missed.  My favourite part of Boba’s life is when he becomes Mand’alor of a planet he really knows nothing about.  He cant speak the language and dose not really know anything about the Mandalore way of life but that dose not stop him being a great mandalore!  There are rumours that Star Wars episode VII will feature mandolorians so hears hoping Boba will be making an appearance once again!!!!!!  Also there is talk on a Star Wars standalone film about Boba Fett which I really hope they do make!!!!

Boba’s story starts on the planet Kamino.  The one unaltered clone of his father (part of Jango’s payment for being the template for the republics clone army)  Boba had a happy upbringing with his father who taught him the ways of being a bounty hunter until Jango was beheaded by Mace Windu on Geonosis.  Boba started his career as a bounty hunter not long after the death of his father and over the years became the best in the business.  At the age of 16 he married Sintas and they had a baby girl called Ailyn.   The marriage did not last long and they parted ways only to meet again much much later.( read Star Wars legacy of the force)  Boba had many run ins with Han Solo and he also faced off against Darth Vader (and lived!!!!!)  When he did eventually get Solo and delivered him to Jabba the Hutt Boba was thought to have been killed when during the execution of Luke Skywalker to the sarlacc a blind Han Solo accidentally damages Boba rocket pack sending him into the mouth of the sarlacc.  Was this the end of the mighty Boba Fett?  Nope he managed to fight his way out of the sarlakcc’s stomach and blasted out to safety.  Boba was left scared from the acids in the sarlacc’s stomach but this didn’t stop him from carrying on being the best bounty hunter in the galaxy.  Around the year 23ABY Boba promised the dying Fenn Shysa that he would become the next Mand’alor.  Now not only being the best bounty hunter he was now the leader of the planet Mandalore.  Boba would go on to have a very long and productive life!!!!!

Star Wars Episode VII Rumours

I don’t know if you have read the latest rumours about episode 7 but I have and let me tell you as a massive fan of the star wars books I’m getting very worried about the plot for the new trilogy.  I know that Lucus films and Disney have said that only the six films, Clone wars and the up and coming Rebels will be canon but come on JJ you have to keep to the expanded universe in some ways!!!!!  Also its been nice to see the supposed leaked pictures on the Dubi set and the pictures if the Millennium Falcon being build at Pinewood studios but and I guess I`m speaking for a lot of Star Wars fans lets have some plot details and character info.  I think that would put my mind and a lot of other minds to rest!!!!!  Ok lets have a look at the new rumours and try to second guess what they mean……..

 

There will be a female villain. Over 50% sure she’s a Sith. I’ll follow up on this in later weeks.  I would like to see Admiral Daala as the baddie.  She was the only woman to make admiral and she was Grand Moff Tarkins lover plus as she has been guarding the maw installation (a top secret weapon development facility situated near a couple of black holes) she is unaware what’s been going on in the outside world.  In the books when she does find out the Empire has been overthrown and when she does leave the Maw she has a whole range of experimental weapons at her disposal.  She is ruthless and great tactician and wont take any shit from anyone!!!!!

Despite having 30 Years after Jedi to set one up, there is NO New Republic at the start of Episode VII.  Not to sure about this rumour and it got me a bit worried.  How can there not be a New Republic after all this time.  The only thing I can think of is that its now the Galactic Alliance.  That would tie in with the time line of the expanded universe (Stop shouting its not canon) but they would have to keep some elements of the expanded universe or all the millions of die hard star wars fans are gonna hang JJ Abbrams from the top of the Disney castle.

Boba-Fett-similar armor is around. Probably not for the man himself. Mandalorians? Clone drama? Still unclear on a plot/character connection.  Would love to see Boba Fett in the films with a bigger role to play.  In the expanded universe he plays a bigger role as the head of Mandalore.  We saw in the Animated series of Clone Wars alot of Mandalorian action specially with Death Watch.  I love the Madalorians way of life in the expanded universe.  They are a strange lot!  On one hand they are a bunch of no nonsense bounty hunters, assassins and an army for hire but on the other hand they are very loyal, family orientated people!

John Boyega isn’t a Jedi or a Padawan at the beginning of the movie, he’s the one that has the story arc that brings him into Star Wars’ greater universe. It has echoes of Luke’s arc in A New Hope.  This sounds to me a bit like a Kyp Durron character.  Kyp was one of the new Jedi who lived most of his childhood and teen years in the Kessel spice mines until he escaped with Han Solo.  Han Solo when he first met Kyp was reminded of the time he first met Luke Skywalker and how similar they were to each other.

So that’s my ideas on the latest rumours.  Here’s hoping that the next lot of rumours to reach our ears will give us some idea of a plot and some character names and May the Force be With You!!!!!