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1979
Before he was revealed to be possibly the lamest (not counting Greedo) most incompetent Bounty Hunter in ROTJ
It's because (unless you were there for the Three Year Gap between ESB and ROTJ, part of that gen and time who saw it in the actual movies , you will never understand this);
ESB not being a closed ending film, ended on a cliff hanger, with till then the most bad ass, cocky character Han Solo, being hauled off by a total mysterious masked/helmeted, geared-out stranger you knew little to nothing about.
Who was that guy? ...became the topic of discussion and fueled imagination and speculation for the next three years.
You couldn't pop in the next video tape, or DVD , or read the novel, or the comic or look on wiki, or anything, to find out what happened to Solo, or get the story on Fett's character, anywhere.
You had to wait 3 years.
And what every kid did in those 3 years, was forever project and imagine every wicked, awesome scenario and narrative they could dream up onto this character.
That's who he was.
For those three years this character belonged to the audience, to every kid's imagination, and he was the best!
And that's who he remained. (despite ROTJ)
Plus there was the somewhat obscure if you didn't catch it then you missed it Holiday Special, which introduced and did in fact show him as a badass.
Those who come to the character after ROTJ, after everything was said and done, and are like - I don't get it, he did nothing, and he gets knocked in the hole and dies, what's the fascination?
That's just it, they will never get it. They will only "know" him post ROTJ
Because they never had those three years, where he pretty much did and was anything you could imagine. The character was already much greater than anything that showed up in ROTJ.
And that's what you will never get.
Hence the fandom.
Later novels, games, fiction of course expanded on all this (as will Favreua, Filoni, Rodriguez and co.) , knowing it's how the fans always saw him.
I wasn't dissing OT Boba. Was just giving my opinion from someone who only saw the OT in the early 00's as a teenager.
As to why people of that generation (Favreau, Rodriguez, Fandom, etc) became so obsessed with Fett, besides his obvious badass look and role.
Before he was revealed to be possibly the lamest (not counting Greedo) most incompetent Bounty Hunter in ROTJ
It's because (unless you were there for the Three Year Gap between ESB and ROTJ, part of that gen and time who saw it in the actual movies , you will never understand this);
ESB not being a closed ending film, ended on a cliff hanger, with till then the most bad ass, cocky character Han Solo, being hauled off by a total mysterious masked/helmeted, geared-out stranger you knew little to nothing about.
Who was that guy? ...became the topic of discussion and fueled imagination and speculation for the next three years.
You couldn't pop in the next video tape, or DVD , or read the novel, or the comic or look on wiki, or anything, to find out what happened to Solo, or get the story on Fett's character, anywhere.
You had to wait 3 years.
And what every kid did in those 3 years, was forever project and imagine every wicked, awesome scenario and narrative they could dream up onto this character.
That's who he was.
For those three years this character belonged to the audience, to every kid's imagination, and he was the best!
And that's who he remained. (despite ROTJ)
Plus there was the somewhat obscure if you didn't catch it then you missed it Holiday Special, which introduced and did in fact show him as a badass.
Those who come to the character after ROTJ, after everything was said and done, and are like - I don't get it, he did nothing, and he gets knocked in the hole and dies, what's the fascination?
That's just it, they will never get it. They will only "know" him post ROTJ
Because they never had those three years, where he pretty much did and was anything you could imagine. The character was already much greater than anything that showed up in ROTJ.
And that's what you will never get.
Hence the fandom.
Later novels, games, fiction of course expanded on all this (as will Favreua, Filoni, Rodriguez and co.) , knowing it's how the fans always saw him.
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