There are many reasons Fett is a great character (and why he Bad-Ass). I'll try to avoid all of the stuff from the books but they reinforce Fett and the characteristics that define him.

1). Disintegrations: In the Dark Horse Comic "Enemy of the Empire" - Baba Fett had been given the order to disintegrate his target giving him a reputation for being relentless.

2). Boba Fett wears braids made of Wookie hair as trophies of Wookies that he has bested.

3). Boba Fett outsmarts Has Solo. When Han comes up with the idea of floating away with the trash, Boba Fett sees through Han's plan and is able to track him and arrive in Bespin before they can even land the Falcon

4). Boba Fett has the balls to negotiate with a Sith Lord and still come out with a good deal - something few people can do. Then later he has the balls again to challenge Vader when he warns "he's no good to me dead"

4). Once Boba Fett has Han captured (frozen), he had to outsmart and fend off two different IG-88 droids in two separate attacks, as well as defend his bounty against the team-up of Bossk, Zuckus and 4-Lom multiple times before he could get Han to Jabba and claim his reward - some of the toughest and most ruthless mercinaries in the bounty hunter's guild. (Also, an aside from the books... Boba Fett was able to outsmart and dissolve the entire Bounty Hunter's Guild.)

5). Boba managed to get two bounty payouts for the same bounty from two of the hardest villains around. He was paid by Vader to provide Han as bait to get Skywalker and he was able to turn him over to Jabba once Vader was finished with him. Successfully!!

6). Shooting at Luke while on the Sail Barge. - It's believed that Boba missed Luke on purpose because he knew Vader wanted him alive. The reason he tried to catch him using the wrist lasso and why he jet-packed to the skiff instead of staying on the barge..

7). Why was Boba Fett hanging around Jabba's Pallace after he delivered Han?
Jabba offered Fett more credits, knowing Skywalker and the other would probably try to rescue him. Jabba was known for keeping multiple bounty Hunters and mercenaries on retainer both through blackmail and by paycheck. Having many different factions close by ensured that even if there was mutiny, there was always another faction standing by to protect him for a cash payment.

. Boba Fett has the best ship in Star Wars galaxy with best weaponry and gadgets. He also has the cash to keep it up to date functioning perfectly - because he is the best at what he does. Slave One is a modified prototype police vehicle (Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft) made by Kuat Systems Engineering, the largest ship builder in the galaxy. (I also like the B-wing fighter, it's pretty cool too.)

9). Boba Fetts custom Mandalorian Armor is just plain cool.

10). Fett had to end up in the Pit of Carkoon/Sarlac Pit". It was the only option story wise. Fett would have pursued Skywalker and the gang if he could have and then where would that leave our heroes - DEAD, that's where.

I shouldn't have to defend him but there you go - Truth be told I also like Bossk and Dengar for their own reasons as well.

>> ^direpickle:

I've always thought Bubba Feet was a terrible bounty hunter. The only thing he ever does is suck and die.


I agree. He was an informant, then a courier, then lunch.

Oh, *spoiler alert*,

I've always thought Bubba Feet was a terrible bounty hunter. The only thing he ever does is suck and die.

>> ^shang:

lol Bubba Feet is a terrible bounty hunter


His father Jungle Feet wasn't that good of a bounty hunter either!

lol Bubba Feet is a terrible bounty hunter

Of course Boba Fett just looks on! He's a bounty hunter, not a fucking superhero. He ain't doing shit unless he gets paid!

Bashir asks some good questions, but never gives the guy a chance to respond. Bashir is clearly the wrong type of interviewer for such a nuanced subject. He talks to the pastor like he would Dog the Bounty Hunter. Also he has a short attention span.

>> ^Payback:

Kubric creates art, Speilberg creates entertainment. Comparing the two is inane.


Yeah eventually you just show Dog the Bounty Hunter reruns all day anyways,.

>> ^Enzoblue:

Seems funny to me that no one mentions Everquest any more. Now it's like WoW is the only mmo that ever was. Everquest was the first online game to have an economy larger than some 3rd world nations. I played it for 3 yrs or so and I still miss it sometimes.


I'm right with you there! The economy was much more player driven in EQ, without limits/restrictions put in place such as Bind on Equip/Soulbound armor (the most epic of the epic stuff was indeed non-tradable). Once you were done with a piece of armor you could easily resell it to another player. It was really fun to haggle with people/search for deals and just upright barter.

The whole game in general was just more player driven, and less rigorously structured around soloing: especially the PvP servers, with the pro-PK vs the pacifistic non-PK guilds, waging war and providing either their protection to newbs from highway thieves or pillaging certain zones of all players and looting the spoils. Not to mention all the social intrigue of player alliances, betrayals, guild spies and secret plots to overthrow/assassinate and usurp leaders, bounty hunters, and tests of loyalty to your compatriots. Such a dynamic has never existed in any other MMO, to my knowledge. It was a hard, unforgiving place where loyalty was worth more than any piece of gear.

If you're interested in revisiting Classic EQ PVE progression for FREE (Kunark is being beta'd atm and then Velious) I'd check out Project 1999, the finest private server available for purely Classic EQ, no custom modifications just the real deal. I have a level 37 Darkelf necro and have been playing fairly regularly, the server population is pretty good and everyone is friendly, helpful towards newbs as well. You wouldn't believe how happy I was when I discovered P99 and ended up seeing a few people I remember from my dear old Quellious server. It really is everything one could ask for considering Live EQ1, at this state, is an abomination. Well, there it is. Try it out, I'll help you get started right! PM me if you decide to come back to Norrath, this also goes for anyone else on the Sift who would try it/return. It really surprised me how harsh they start you out in that game after years of WoW, one needs all the help they can get.

Great WoW trailer as well, and I love Blizzard, but I just can't get back into the game despite my attempts to literally will myself into playing. I really feel as if I'm just being touted around, top-down style, by Blizzard to do this dungeon or that. My choices feel like they have no real impact on the game world, my actions rarely end up having actual consequences, besides maybe a momentary invconvenience. It's just too damned safe to be exciting! Raids are easy mode, though from all the impressions of Cataclysm is seems like they're trying to return to form of having the content be much more stimulating, brain intensive. If raiding becomes more like pre-BC/BC then I will return. I will most definitely at the very least try Cataclysm and see what happens.

:30 seconds in - DOG, THE BOUNTY HUNTER sighting.

I'm disappointed - seeing the title I thought this video was featuring a certain Bounty Hunter...

My biggest beef with camera man is that he is highly ineffective and preys on the weak and pathetic (i.e., the Lowes guy).

Is he the only guy with a family and kids on his block? Is he the only guy with a camera? In this day everyone in his neighborhood has both. So why not mobilize the neighborhood against the prostitutes. No violence or dramatic confrontations, just a big brother presence to act as a deterent.

I can't help but see a lot of narcissism in his Dog the Bounty Hunter schtick.



Also, because I don't agree with anyone on a particular topic means I take any of this personally.

>> ^longde:
Why does there need to be a whole dramatic scene in the first place?
This guy could throw sand in the hookers' game everytime by simply showing the potential johns the camera and throwing a sharp word or two ("hey buddy, I know what you're up to!") as they stroll the block.
But nooooooo....we HAVE to have a whole dramatic chase, topped off by a voyuer film, and then a righteous lecture. This guy is vying to be the next Dog the Bounty Hunter: same M.O.
How many other hookers scored johns in front of playing kids, while the cameraman wasted so much time to get the Lowes guy arrested? Plenty of quickies near the playground, I'm sure.



IT IS fucking RIDICULOUS to expect this guy to walk around his neighborhood everyday, as apparently he has been doing!, enforcing the frigging law and telling people hey asshole you shouldn't be picking up hookers over here by where our kids play. I mean wtf .. this is obviously an ongoing problem over there and he is exposing it. I guess for you that's a voyeur film.

Why does there need to be a whole dramatic scene in the first place?

This guy could throw sand in the hookers' game everytime by simply showing the potential johns the camera and throwing a sharp word or two ("hey buddy, I know what you're up to!") as they stroll the block.

But nooooooo....we HAVE to have a whole dramatic chase, topped off by a voyuer film, and then a righteous lecture. This guy is vying to be the next Dog the Bounty Hunter: same M.O.

How many other hookers scored johns in front of playing kids, while the cameraman wasted so much time to get the Lowes guy arrested? Plenty of quickies near the playground, I'm sure.