Jango: Worthy to be a Fett? (Page 2 of 16)

try to take it easy on him...he is pretty new...he'll get it though...

                                                     {MW} MS9

words of wisdom...i agree completely!

                                   {MW} MS9

He's lame. I hate the voice. I hate the fact he's unmasked so often. He isn't very good. Ugh. No Boba Fett, fo sho.

I think you bring up a valid point. Boba Fett really set the standard for being Fett (cinematically).  Viewed in that context, Jango falls short of the mark.  I think Boba exceeded his father in terms of skill. Character wise, he's a singular entity even if he is a clone. There is something about his depiction that makes him less accessible than Jango and more iconic.

If you want to consider who lives up to whom and how different they are, at the very least from a tolerance perspective consider the following:

Some jedi turns up at Jango's pad, a spic and span two bedroom on a modern but wet planet. Janog's hanging with the sprog Boba, dressed in a light blue tunic,. He answers the doorbell and conversation ensues. Not Mexican standoff conversation, but rather polite discourse and at one point Jango says "I'm just a simple man trying to make his way through the galaxy."  Jedi leaves, in one piece. Yes, they fight later. But still, Jedi walks away. A-okay. Lives to sell his cookies another day.

Try the same exchange with Boba Fett.  Some jedi turns up at Boba's pad, which is Slave I (enough said). Boba is dressed as always: in armor. He does not answer the doorbell in the conventional sense. Perhaps he crawls out the airlock and gets the jump on the scum. Perhaps he just employs some special weaponry thing that is part of Slave I's exoskelleton. The jedi is either dusted, blasted, or captured and turned over to the Empire for collection of credits. Jedi leaves in one piece ONLY if it's because the client specified "no disintegrations" - and when he leaves it's in the force cage in the belly of the Firespray.

That's the difference in a nut shell.  I think Jango had hope for positive outcomes.  Boba plans for the worst, and doesn't waste time on hope.  If he wants an outcome, he drives towards it with a relentless pursuit. He is more the proto-type than dad. Dad was a marshmallow compared to junior.

I think he does have some humanity, it's just not worn on his sleve , or dispensed like pez. He's edgier than Jango.

well, im a jango fan, he has a right to be a fett cause all hes been through, go to google and type in jago fetts bio, and youll get some really good stuff on him, boba is preety good, surviving the saralac pit and all, but just his dad(jango) died, Jango had his whole family killed along with his father like mentor, Jasper. And jango single hanedly killed kamari vosa and destoyed the bandogora. so if youve never done your jango reserch, do so.

Actually, I'd say Boba is the proverbial "chip off the old block".

Think about it, Boba is definitely more "raw" in the way he interacts with people, both bounty and client, but you have to think about the reason.  Dad pretty much dies while he watches, the only person he knows that took care of him just got decapitated, that's gotta make ya mean inside.

I don't know what happens to Boba after geonosis, if I understand it right he learns his craft pretty much by himself, trial and error.  And when error can cause you your life, you tend to be on the extremely cautious side and you will make sure that your opponent is toast or otherwise unable to hurt you.

Jango was adopted into mando culture, he grew up in a "social" environment.  He'd still kill you because he had the skill, but he grew up being "civil".  That explains the less gritty attitude when it comes to talking with Jedi.  When Jango talks with Obi wan, he's sizing him up, checking to see if he's going to be difficult to kill.  You actually have to commend Obi wan, lesser Jedi have died in Jango's bare hands, I repeat, bare hands.  You have to consider how many Jedi Jango took out, including Trebor Coleman (shot down from the balcony on geonosis) and consider how many Jedi Boba killed.

Jango also escaped from a prison ship, contributed to the end of the Deathwatch, stole a prototype firespray (Slave I), became the template for the hundreds of thousands of clones you have grown to love, and spawned our very own Boba Fett.

Boba nodded, quick drew, and asked what would happen if solo died because he's worth a lot to him, and that made him the coolest "bad guy" in the original trilogy.  It's true he goes on to reassemble the mandalorians and becomes mandalore, has an actual daughter that's not cloned from himself, and does perpetuate the fear of being hunted by Boba Fett, but you have to consider the source.

Truly, dad was actually quite busy during his prime and accomplished quite a bit in the star wars universe, an exact duplicate of him could only achieve equally impressive things yet we know very little of what Boba has accomplished and that's what makes him more mysterious, more raw, seem somewhat more deadly. 

In the end, Jango wasn't less of a Fett than his clone/son, he was just a more elegant bounty hunter from a more civilized time.

Very convincing argument!

I like Jango.  He rules, in fact.

On his death...  Who wouldn't die from that situation?  But, alas, it was necessary so that Boba could grow up pissed, and become meaner than his father.

On the shiny armor...  Aye, it's quite a statement.  Makes you wonder if it would be shinier if he did polish it.  Perhaps that's what the fashion was for that time, like he was trying to be different from the designs of the other Mandalores.  Or, perhaps it was just to show the differences from Jango to Boba (so there would be a few Jango-haters out there in the Boba Fan Club).

On the jetpacks...  Live by the jetpack, die by the jetpack.

I actually liked the jetpack he used during the battle of Geonosis.  The Merr-Sonn JT-12.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Merr-Sonn_JT-12

It just seemed to be more practical, as you didn't have that huge missile that was higher than your head, to get in the way of things, when you're walking around.  I mean, you still had a missile on it, but it wasn't stacked up so high.

Plus, the color scheme matched the armor's color scheme.  It just looked nicer.

I think Jango is good, not as good as Boba (obviously), but thats like saying a Dodge Viper isn't quite as good as a Ferrari. He is still one of the best, and is certainly worthy enough to be a Fett. But he is in a strange place in the storyline. He is the Republic army's template, yet he works for the Separatists. But he has a more 'complete' set of Mandalorian Armor, as boba doesnt have the shin armor or the thigh armor, but Jango does. Jango also has a different view on Starfighter Combat. Boba opts for the more stealthy approach, yet Jango goes for the destructive version. They are just 2 great Bounty Hunters, but the son learns from his father, and from his own experiences, so he is going to be better.

HOW is he a coward!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Its SMART to send someone in to assasinate someone else. Hes NOT as good as Boba ya know! He might have been TRAINNING Zam or something, or he might have had another assasination or bounty hunt he had to attend to in Corescant, ever think of THAT!?!?!?

TW