Thoughts on Boba Being a Clone

I strongly dislike his being a clone, but I do like that thety actually had a Jaster Mereel character.

I gotta agree with Humorbot5... the rumor that Boba Fett was a rogue Stormtrooper was pretty prevalent for quite some time, and I like that Lucas decided to tie those ends together for his origin.
Myself, I think Lucas' backstory was much more interesting than the original Jaster Mereel storyline. I'm glad that he ditched that idea in favor of the Jango Clone origin for the movie... plus, they depicted Jango as such a badass. Now we know where Boba gets it from.

Yeah. Badass. That's right.
What? He wasn't?

Yeah, that was annoying, I admit. Why did he subcontract that job, anyway? Killing a Senator would seem like a pretty tall order. Why trust it to someone else? I'm sure the EU expounds on this topic somewhere... I'll have to try and find out.
But back to the subject at hand:
~He did punk out Obi Wan.
~He wasted Coleman Trebor.
~He had Mace on the ropes (so to speak) until his jetpack failed.
~And most importantly, who was chosen by the Sith to be the template for the destruction of the Jedi? I'll give you a hint... He's enough of a badass to take on Jedi Councilmembers.

Yeah, Ciepher's right on that point on Jango hiring Zam. Another reason he did it is cause I read (where... on a trading card? Insider? Action figure box? something like that) is cause he doesn't like to do assasinations but knew Zam did, and since he and Zam are partners pretty much I don't think it was that a big a deal to walk up to your best friend and go, "Hey, wanna help me out on a job?"

Anyway, at first I was upset over Boba being a clone, cause I thought clones were like 100% copies of the original. But Boba did turn out a bit different than Jango, even in looks. And he's also very unique, not "one of millions". The clonetroopers are far different from Boba, anyone who's read the young Boba books can easily see that much, Boba even points out differences. And Boba's unique enough to be like a real kid so anyone seeing Jango and Boba wouldn't think Boba's a clone. In fact, Zam didn't think so, she was even going on like, "No, really, where's his mom?" Anyway, I like this so much better than the old story that he was some cop who killed a prisoner and got kicked off planet like a criminal. It totally destroys the whole mystery "who's behind the mask" thing. If everyone on Concord Dawn knew of him, saw his face on tv, then...... there is no mystery. Even if Concord Dawn was beyond the outer rim, obviously if Boba can get offplanet other people can too and would go spread the rumors, go give out pictures of his face. You know, you could just go to the SW-version of ebay and pick up a picture of his face along with a life biography. No mystery at all. But with the clone, he's alone all the time on a planet of aliens that don't care about other planets and would therefore not be inclined to go selling his pictures, and it gives his life more of a tragicness to it. Now he's not some down-kickedoffthejob-cop who "did what his sense of justice says is right" and went, "Hmmm..... now what, now what.... back to a cop job? Nah, hmm... oh bounty hunting sounds like fun, ok but what shall I wear!!!" Now he's got a very good reason for what he wears, for what he does, how he acts, for everything. It gives him more character and more depth.

Just cause someone doesn't like doing something doesn't mean they won't do it at all.

I agree with Miba. I like the clone story better.

I personally like the idea of Boba being a clone, merely for the fact that he is gentically like all the other clones, but he was raised by his 'father.'  Thus making him unique from all the other clones.  If you've read my post in the appeal of Republic Commandos thread, I like the idea of even though all these men are the same, individual personalities still shine through, and make them more human to me.

I liked the idea of Boba being an unaltered clone. It was fascinating seeing Boba as a kid and getting some background on what his life was like. I prefer it over the original story of him being an ex-journeyman protector. I was even more pleased to find out from the books he differs from Jango in some ways.

Not physically....

Just in the way that he doesn't age as fast (which I suppose is physically) and that he isn't as obedient.

They age rapidly throughtout their lives.
Lucas made a mistake by changing the Stormtroopers voices to make them all sound like Jango as all the Jango of clones would've been dead by then.
Unless the Kaminoan's were still using Jango's dna.
They used other clone templates as well such as the son's Imperial governers ect and they recruited people like a real life army.
Although there weren't many volunteers in the Empire.
Mostly people that were forced to join or clones.

I menat they would all be dead or retired.
If they lived long enough to reach retirement age.
I heard on the latest DVD release he had changed all the Stormtroopers voices.