Did Boba Fett kill Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru?

[Sonikku]

This seems to have become an emerging theory on Star Wars.

-Boba Fett was present on Tatooine at the time.
-The recovery of the death star plans may have been deemed too important and critical an investigation to entrust to run of the mill stormtroopers, especially if Fett was available nearby.
-Vader has a proven track record of employing Fett as far back as the Holiday Special. He is likely one of Vaders favorite agents for getting the job done and has unlimited funds to pay him with.
-Vader made it a point in Empire to tell Fett NO disintegrations. That suggests he was irritated by his actions at an earlier event, but stopped short of force choking him for being a useful agent and not actually disobeying orders. Fett could not have known at the time they were people Vader had known and respected.

 

[JulesMaximus]

No, George Lucas did it... in the library, with the candlestick.

 

[zinfamous]

This seems to have become an emerging theory on Star Wars.

-Boba Fett was present on Tatooine at the time.
-The recovery of the death star plans may have been deemed too important and critical an investigation to entrust to run of the mill stormtroopers, especially if Fett was available nearby.
-Vader has a proven track record of employing Fett as far back as the Holiday Special. He is likely one of Vaders favorite agents for getting the job done and has unlimited funds to pay him with.
-Vader made it a point in Empire to tell Fett NO disintegrations. That suggests he was irritated by his actions at an earlier event, but stopped short of force choking him for being a useful agent and not actually disobeying orders. Fett could not have known at the time they were people Vader had known and respected.

Is the Holiday Special considered canon? lol...even if the SW nerds consider it canon, even if Lucas shits out the words "this is canon" should it be?

I think any use of the Holiday Special, in any such theory, immediately dissolves that theory.

 

[zinfamous]

Also, here's the thing:

Bobba Fett didn't exist until Lucas wrote Empire. It wouldn't be possible. Storm Troopers were there to kill them, and that's what happened.

wait...is this sort of a spoof on the second shooter conspiracy nutsos?

:hmm:

 

[Sonikku]

The cartoon was where fett got his first appearance. I'd consider it cannon even if the awful live action segment (preferably) wasn't. But that's beside the point. Vader employed Fett in the expanded universe as well before the events of episode 5.

 

[crownjules]

The line in Empire is just to give context to Boba's character, whom we're meeting for the first time, as a badass among badasses. Reading any further into it is pointless.

 

[rudeguy]

I have went into a level of nerddom that I did not know existed.

 

[sactoking]

Also: they weren't disintegrated, their skeletons still were left.

 

[Platypus]

who knows, but we can agree Lucas murdered my childhood.

 

[Via]

Of course the storm troopers did it. When they found out that those Jawas sold C3PO and R2D2 to the Lars, that led them back....

...home (cue stirring music).

The only strange thing about it is the brutality of the attack. Storm troopers are generally dim-witted douchebags who can't shoot straight. They don't seem to have orders to viciously kill their targets, and take prisoners multiple times throughout the Star Wars movies, even when it would seem unwieldy and unnecessary.

It would be logical to assume that Vader would want to interrogate Owen and Beru personally, and there is no way he was present at the time of the attack. If he had been he surely would have been waiting for Luke at Mos Eisley with the storm troopers.

But if you think about it - storm troopers are all clones of Boba Fett's father, so he does have a connection to it all.



But then again - why would Storm troopers slaughter Jawas? And in such a vicious and brutal way?

Maybe it was sand people who were were responsible for both crimes. Perhaps they were angry about how Ben scared them off, felt emasculated (surely a heinous thing in sand person culture), and somehow made their all the way back to the farm (it's only logical that Luke's speeder would leave tracks). Perhaps the jawa slaughter was simply more blood rage. They were in berserker mode, and that's why they didn't hide their numbers by moving single file.

Holy shit... the entire chain of events that led to the destruction of the Death Star could have been the result of some random sand people raging about.

 

[xBiffx]

I have went into a level of nerddom that I did not know existed.

Wait until lvl 80. That's when the real fun begins.

 

[BudAshes]

R2D2 did it.

goddamn the new movies suck. I can't decide which I'd rather watch less, Matrix 3 or Phantom Menace?

 

[HN]

Now you too can recreate the scene!

 

[rudeguy]

Now you too can recreate the scene!

holy shit!

I want them

 

[xBiffx]

That is hilarious.

 

[zinfamous]

who knows, but we can agree Lucas murdered my childhood.

So my nephew had his 7th birthday this year and decided to have a sleepover. My SIL and her boyfriend agreed to host about a dozen screaming six year-olds (horrible idea, can't believe they survived).

The kid got the prequels on Blu Ray as a gift from someone (not sure who, but I'm guessing he wanted it. Kids these days...it's all about Anakin and the clone wars and Darth Vader really isn't all that bad...sigh)

Anyhoo, before starting the first shitty movie, the boyfriend announces to all the kids, "Now, before we start The Phantom Menace, I want all of you to know that this is the film that killed my childhood. Let's go!"

 

[Puppies04]

I have went into a level of nerddom that I did not know existed.

I here too! Can I hold your hand while we find our way back to reality... No homo.

 

[rudeguy]

I here too! Can I hold your hand while we find our way back to reality... No homo.

fuck no

Only if there is much homo

 

[xBiffx]

But I get to watch then.

 

[BudAshes]

fuck no

Only if there is much homo

I think all we have to do is put on some red pumps, touch our cocks together and whisper "there's no place like home" over and over.

 

[Via]

Funniest line in movie history, uttered by a Jedi Knight no less:

"Only Imperial Storm troopers are so precise"

LOL - WHAT?!?!?!?

I think the only important person they hit in all of the movies was Leia, and they didn't even kill her.

 

[Platypus]

touch our cocks together

well this thread just got a lot better

 

[Via]

I think all we have to do is put on some red pumps, touch our cocks together and whisper "there's no place like home" over and over.

*...starts to back away slowly from thread*

 

[xBiffx]

I think all we have to do is put on some red pumps, touch our cocks together and whisper "there's no place like home" over and over.

Just make sure to never cross the streams.

 

[rudeguy]

I think all we have to do is put on some red pumps, touch our cocks together and whisper "there's no place like home" over and over.

I'm going to need you to write a note to everyone in my office explaining why I just cracked up like a mad man. This place is dead quiet and I'm busting a gut.