Comment on Boba says... by ramova
I think you've got it backwards.
The movies are generally the worst part of any fandom. Take, for example, the X-Men movies. I'm also hoping that you weren't trying to be rude to me with that previous comment, since I'm being courteous to you. I don't regard myself as a nerd and I am intimately familiar with the EU of Star Wars. Also, you're not really being fair. You hate Boba Fett for his popularity, which was spawned FROM the EU, and yet you disregard the EU. He may have been regarded as "cool-looking" in the movies, which amassed a small popularity (which still pales in comparison to both the movie and EU fandom of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, I might add), but he didn't really receive much attention until they started doing more about him in the EU.
Please don't be rude to me again. I'm not interested in an argument.
The movies are generally the worst part of any fandom. Take, for example, the X-Men movies. I'm also hoping that you weren't trying to be rude to me with that previous comment, since I'm being courteous to you. I don't regard myself as a nerd and I am intimately familiar with the EU of Star Wars. Also, you're not really being fair. You hate Boba Fett for his popularity, which was spawned FROM the EU, and yet you disregard the EU. He may have been regarded as "cool-looking" in the movies, which amassed a small popularity (which still pales in comparison to both the movie and EU fandom of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader, I might add), but he didn't really receive much attention until they started doing more about him in the EU.
Please don't be rude to me again. I'm not interested in an argument.
No, no, no... you have to understand each franchise/creation has a different Bible and that "bible" is the REAL beginning of the creation.
EXAMPLE
*Ghostbusters... unfortunately the movies are the "real" bible of them. Not the cool cartoons
*TMNT... the comics books are the real deal, not the movies nor the cartoons. Now I prefer the 80s cartoon but the real point of creation is the comics.
Rude? Why? I am a nerd/geek and proud. I thought we were just talking but if I am offending you then I apologize and here I stop.
EXAMPLE
*Ghostbusters... unfortunately the movies are the "real" bible of them. Not the cool cartoons
*TMNT... the comics books are the real deal, not the movies nor the cartoons. Now I prefer the 80s cartoon but the real point of creation is the comics.
Rude? Why? I am a nerd/geek and proud. I thought we were just talking but if I am offending you then I apologize and here I stop.
Sorry, I thought you were insulting me. If that wasn't the case, then I would like to continue the discussion.
While every fandom does have a beginning, and the movies are definitely where Star Wars began, the truth is that the EU has covered more of the Star Wars universe than the movies ever did. And if the EU is just an expansion to the movies, then I don't see why it should be so dismissed. Like I said, I once did not care for Anakin (I'm not really the kind of person to outright hate something) and could hardly stand to watch the prequels but for Ewan as Obi-Wan and, of course, Jango and little Boba. But then they did some covers of him in the EU and reading his character, seeing some of the other aspects of him, made me change my mind. Boba Fett I did not regard so highly, either, before the EU. I didn't hate him, but I thought Jango was much better. But the EU gave Boba depth and character.
They show his interactions with a family he once had, and his strange rivalry with Han, his most intimate moments. He really is quite interesting. Very few cliches to him, aside from his definite "spaghetti western" style. Boba Fett didn't have anything in the movies, really, which is why I think judgement of him should be based off of the EU. And, also, it never in the movies says that Boba Fett died. He was knocked into the sarlacc pit, and so it was assumed that he died. But with artists like Lucas, anything unconfirmed can become a twist.
While every fandom does have a beginning, and the movies are definitely where Star Wars began, the truth is that the EU has covered more of the Star Wars universe than the movies ever did. And if the EU is just an expansion to the movies, then I don't see why it should be so dismissed. Like I said, I once did not care for Anakin (I'm not really the kind of person to outright hate something) and could hardly stand to watch the prequels but for Ewan as Obi-Wan and, of course, Jango and little Boba. But then they did some covers of him in the EU and reading his character, seeing some of the other aspects of him, made me change my mind. Boba Fett I did not regard so highly, either, before the EU. I didn't hate him, but I thought Jango was much better. But the EU gave Boba depth and character.
They show his interactions with a family he once had, and his strange rivalry with Han, his most intimate moments. He really is quite interesting. Very few cliches to him, aside from his definite "spaghetti western" style. Boba Fett didn't have anything in the movies, really, which is why I think judgement of him should be based off of the EU. And, also, it never in the movies says that Boba Fett died. He was knocked into the sarlacc pit, and so it was assumed that he died. But with artists like Lucas, anything unconfirmed can become a twist.