From: goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Goudswaard)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars
Subject: Re: question + ROTJ FLAME
Date: 21 Aug 92 22:55:25 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

dweddin@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:

>two questions:

>1) how come darth vader can not be hurt by a blaster (ala Han Solo in 
>ESB) but CAN be hurt by a light saber in ROTJ????  

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the light saber was
wielded by a Jedi, and the blaster was not.

>2) how many other people were really bugged by the way Boba Fett died???
>he was such a great character, i could accept his death if it had
>been more valient....instead it was so pathetic!!!!

I have to disagree, if you take the movies only as canon, there was really
nothing that made Boba Fett very outstanding.  Personally, I only remember
the Kenner (I think) commercials advertising his action figure, and making
Fett out to be a main character in the next movie (ROTJ).

>god! i'm bugged about the whole ROTJ movie!!!! it really ruined the
>trilogy!!!

>heck, while i'm at it.....FLAME ON!!!!

>stuff about ROTJ that i didn't like....

>a) i was expecting a really evil Jabba the Hut that would be a worthy
>fiend who would even scare han solo from across the galaxy.

You have to give him credit, though.  He was not overcome by the Jedi
mind tricks, he managed to get Leia, Luke, Chewie, and Han in his
custody at least briefly, and if you subscribe to other sources, he
did have a stranglehold on illicit trading, or "business" (whatever)
over quite a large area.

>instead, we get a pathetic giant slug who gets strangled in the most
>boring fight scene in any movies...capped off with the pathetic death
>of the best villan this side of darth vader, boba fett!!!

I agree completely with you on this -- choking such a large creature
would take a helluva lot of strength, a lot more than Leia could
muster (unless it was her Jedi powers shining through!!!!!)  Just
try to strangle, say a hippo, with just your weight as leverage.

>b) didn't jabba's court just riek of muppets????? god, i was just
>waiting for kermit and miss piggy.


>c) i didn't even cheer when Jabba died like i did when the death star
>blew up in ANH...i just yawned and hoped the rest of the movie would
>pick up.

>d) i hated how the eperor died...i was expecting some great fight scene
>where we could get a good look at the emperor's powers up close and 
>personal like...instead, he gets tossed down a shaft and dies....

You did get a good look at his powers -- witness the power it took
to keep the fleet in order (only possible with a Jedi's help), as
well as the power it took for the Emperor to look at that ugly face
in the mirror each morning (yeck)  ;)

>how could that putz have ever conquered a galaxy and wiped out the
>jedi knights?????

Not too hard, with Vader at your side.

>e) don't even get me started on the ewoks....

Marketing ploy, obviously not on anyone's favorite character list.


>FLAME OFF


>ok, now that i got that off my chest...i loved ESB!!!

>ANH is by far the greatest movie ever made....just that i really hated
>ROTJ (maybe cuz my expectations were so high )
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