What is with all the Jango hate and disrespect? (Page 6 of 7)

I smell a spoof skit coming up.  BUt not from me.

Back to Drako's original hitlist:

That's called expanding your business.  Unless you can prove that Jango was cowering in a corner while his stringer's were working a job aranged by him, that's an unfair attack

Never read that, so don't know.  Sound's like bad writting (or bad illustration based on the confusion on whether or not it even WAS a rocket)

You talking about not wearing his helmet in the arena in Ep. II?  Who was going to recognize him??  The bugs??  They're almost totally planetbound (by choice as I understand it due to their hive nature); and if Dooku doesn't already know his face from when they met on Galidraan, then I'm sure Jango feels that Dooku's position as "Republic's Most Wanted" places him in an unlikely position to harm his reputation.

As I understand it, Jango led the True Mandalorians back from the brink and was kicking Death Watch BUTT untill betrayed by the Governor of Galidraan; think you wouldn't have fallen for it?

This one I have to aggree with.  I feel this was a flaw by the writers/Lucus; but as you said, it did happen, and it's up to us to interpret.  We know Jango is a Jedi killer; he supposedly killed many by himself at the Battle of Galidran.  So I don't think he was afraid of them.  However, I'm sure he did his research and knew who was guarding Padme', and perhaps knew that those two together were too much for him.  There's all kind's of speculation here about "he should have shot a rocket", "he should have fired a dart into each."  Maybe he did.  Maby 'Mandalorian Assassin' had it right in a way.  He could have taken a shot at one of the Jedi but missed (it was a very long shot); but who knows.

This is just nit-picking.  It's hard NOT to stand out in the crowd when you're wearing Mandalorian Battle Armor; and based on some of the earlier posts it doesn't sound like he had any trouble with stealth

All in all, I like him.  Not as much as Boba, I think, but up there.

I still would have to disagree.  I think Jango's not as good.  I like him (he's Mando) but he can make judgmental errors.  I still maintain that he could've killed the Jedi, but hey, Lucas needed a loophole for Kenobi to extort.  And in the comics the two guards with two rockets does seem to be a waste of ordnance.  Boba wasn't even originally intended to be a clone, in fact, he was slotted to be a Jaster Mereel, before Lucas caught onto the fan hype, and fleshed out his background more.  With the new history, Boba would not exist if not for Jango, but nonetheless, he managed to outdo his "father" in his line of work.  And as to the removal of the helmet, well, in Kamino and at Geonosis, I can understand why he would feel comfortable doing so.  But that doesn't mean I have to like it.  It all comes down to a matter of aesthetic prefernce in the end.

But then, Boba wasn't thrown in all of Jango's situations.  And JAngo didn't go through what Boba had to go through.

I don't think he's as good as Boba either; I'm just confused at why people nit-pick (yeah, I like that phrase) over the little things Jango did wrong.  My biggest complaint against Jango is that he doesn't use his blasters properly.  None of the Jedi he faced was using 2 light sabers, meaning he that if he sent a burst of rapid fire at either Obiwan or Mace he should have taken them down without much trouble (I don't care how good you are with a light saber; you can't block more then one bolt at a time for long, especailly if they're well spread). 

This stuff about "he used 2 rockets" and "his armor is too shinny" seem to me like lines that are being thrown around to justify some other reason for not liking him.  Don't know what that could be, as he seems like an interesting character to me, and he and the battle at the end made an otherwise boring Ep. II for me. 

Jango didn't jump onto a hover skiff with a Wookiee, Han Solo, AND a Jedi, but everybody still loves Boba (including me, even though it was a really stupid thing to do).  You (yes, I mean you, Draco) could pin the "idiot" tag on Boba for that one, and it's really a much more stupid move then using 2 wrist rockets.

If you guys hate Jango because he brought light to a formerly dark and mysterious character, fine.  But lets start giving the real reasons for Jango hating.

In my opinion the worst thing Jango did was dive for that lightsaber, not the smartest move when he could've just shot Mace.

You don't?!?  Ok, if you say so. . .

But you HAVE called him an idiot and a coward.  Those are the two points that I contest with you

About grabbing for Mace’s lightsaber instead of shooting him; yeah, dumb move.  Yet another case of bad writing, I think.  We know Jango fought and killed several Jedi, so we can assume he’d know to shoot first when given an opening like that.  Since that IS the move the damn writers AND Lucas chose to give him, I interpreted it as a move made out of disorientation from just being run over by the Reek.

I’d rather just pretend it didn’t happen that way and reshoot the whole thing in my mind   

Fine then "Adam"...

Hecks yeah
*gets into rocket car covered in anti radar gun material, and prepares to race a toy car*

I call one of my rabbits mentally challenged and cowardly, but I certainly do not hate him.

That's what I used to say (and still say a lot); but Draco makes a good point on this.  We literally SEE what he does.  In the movies and in the EU.  Content that is considered canon can't really be rejected.  He does something stupid (because of a stupid writter), and it's up to us to decide how we want to interpret it. 

I personally only take the movies as 100% canon (though I really don't want to with most parts with Jango AND Boba, because of how bad Lucas and the writters make them look at times).  The EU I pick and choose from depending on what sounds right to me.

On the flip side; this is SciFi, ment for our amusment!  Non of this needs to be fact or fiction.  If you or I don't want to see Jango or any other charachter in a cirtain light, make a fanFic or something and recreate/improve him/her to your heart's content.  Not all will agree with you, but if it's the way you want to see that character, go for it!