Back to the Clone Wars: The "Boba Fett Arc"
With the thought that I ought to try and finish my DVD set of the second season of Clone Wars before the fifth season starts on TV, I took the rare step of watching three episodes of one program in one sitting and managed to polish off the season. That also meant I had watched the entire "Boba Fett arc" that finished it off at once, and while there was no little documentary to go with those episodes (the one on the disc was for the previous "Zillo beast arc"), I did find myself remembering certain impressions I'd had the first time around.
One notable feature of the arc seems Boba Fett's constant reluctance to claim the lives of additional people in his drive for a specific vengeance against Mace Windu, even as Aurra Sing pushes him on in exasperation. I kept facing the thought that this represented "the 'woobification' of Boba Fett," even as I wondered if I really know what other people ascribe to "woobie"... In any case, while I can see we're meant to contrast this to the impression of utter money-grubbing amorality imposed on the near-absolute blank slate (in a neat suit of armour, of course) of The Empire Strikes Back, I did find myself thinking of Attack of the Clones and how the young Fett seemed quite willing to help his father fight Obi-Wan, even as I have to acknowledge Obi-Wan could be seen as the clearly defined aggressor. I suppose my best way out was to in the end wonder if anyone would get upset just at the thought of the first contrast mentioned, and then wonder if I wasn't so much wondering if I wanted to see this particular conception of Boba Fett as if I wanted to see him show up at all. I might have also been just a little intrigued by the show blowing up a helmet identified as Jango Fett's (even with the little touch of a dent being put in it during Attack of the Clones apparently identical with one in Boba's) and sending Slave I hurtling off to an uncertain over-the-horizon sort of landing even as its inheritor is sent off to prison.
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One notable feature of the arc seems Boba Fett's constant reluctance to claim the lives of additional people in his drive for a specific vengeance against Mace Windu, even as Aurra Sing pushes him on in exasperation. I kept facing the thought that this represented "the 'woobification' of Boba Fett," even as I wondered if I really know what other people ascribe to "woobie"... In any case, while I can see we're meant to contrast this to the impression of utter money-grubbing amorality imposed on the near-absolute blank slate (in a neat suit of armour, of course) of The Empire Strikes Back, I did find myself thinking of Attack of the Clones and how the young Fett seemed quite willing to help his father fight Obi-Wan, even as I have to acknowledge Obi-Wan could be seen as the clearly defined aggressor. I suppose my best way out was to in the end wonder if anyone would get upset just at the thought of the first contrast mentioned, and then wonder if I wasn't so much wondering if I wanted to see this particular conception of Boba Fett as if I wanted to see him show up at all. I might have also been just a little intrigued by the show blowing up a helmet identified as Jango Fett's (even with the little touch of a dent being put in it during Attack of the Clones apparently identical with one in Boba's) and sending Slave I hurtling off to an uncertain over-the-horizon sort of landing even as its inheritor is sent off to prison.
This entry was originally posted at http://krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/175124.html. Comment here or there (using OpenID) as you please.