1. Eh, the scene should've done that, but...anarky wrote:Although Anakin blowing up the Droid Control Ship borders on silly, I'd have to humbly disagree with you for four reasons:Senor JabbaJohnL wrote:If you accept that Anakin destroyed a Droid Control Ship when he was nine, you can't complain about this.anarky wrote:Boba Fett took down a Star Destroyer before he was old enough to drink?
And people still tell me that Clone Wars was a well-written show.
1) It serves to highlight Anakin's incredible power level, if you somehow don't know it already. With Boba, he's just going to wind up a thug who stands around in cool armor until he falls into a vagina dentata and dies.
2) It is partly dumb luck on Anakin's part that he succeeds, Force or no.
3) There's a parallel between Anakin and Luke having very similar experiences early on. Boba, again, is just going to die a chump and there's no reason to draw a parallel with Luke or Anakin.
4) It expands upon the reason Vader essentially disobeys Tarkin in ANH and takes his personal wingmen to fight the X-Wings. You now know he's thinking, "They got the plans for this thing, and they're launching little tiny ships that seemingly have no chance? Fuck me, there is a danger, because I pulled that same shit off when I was a kid."
2. ...this is more how it's portrayed in TPM.
3. There's not really any parallels being drawn by the show, just by my comment.
4. Sure, I can buy that.
Boba was shooting the reactor (or something like that) from the inside just to fuck it up (since his first assassination attempt on Mace didn't work), and the ship got ripped apart from the explosions and landed on nearby Vanqor. Right before he started shooting, the episode was dealing with his identity and how he wanted to separate himself from other clones. Seriously, it's very, very good stuff and more than makes up for his limited characterization in AOTC and no-show in ROTS . . . but if you'd still rather just dislike it without watching it, it's your loss. (How's Game of Thrones going, by the way?
)At this point in the show, Aurra Sing and Bossk are piloting the Slave I. They pick up Boba at the end of the episode (and the ship is destroyed in the next episode, rebuilt by Hondo, and doesn't show up again until three seasons later and Boba doesn't even pilot it then).Ran wrote:I haven't seen this thing were Boba Fett takes out a Star Destroyer, but it seems silly. Was it some sort of sabotage? I'm only guessing that because don't recall him being known for his piloting skills, even though he has a cool space ship.
I honestly can see how it sounds goofy – I mean, Starkiller fucking ripping one out of the sky is pretty goddamn goofy – but it's not what it's about, it's how it's about it, to paraphrase the late Mr. Ebert. Long story short, these Clone Wars episodes serve to finally give Boba a more interesting motivation and make him into an actual character, which is why I like them so much.
