I totally agree, if only Ani hadn't come and stopped him then we probably would have seen palpatine's death then and there but you know they had to keep him so that it would tie in with all the other movies.
You know, you don't become somehow more right just because you repeatedly insult people who disagree with you. And it's actually possible to disagree wholeheartedly and still be cool with the other person.
Anyway, it's just my opinion, but I think it's much easier to enjoy that whole "having a life" thing if you can do it without carrying a chip on your shoulder. That said, do as you will. It's only your own heart you poison -- no skin off my back.
Well of course I was actually talking about the other fight, but sure ... that one, too. As far as Anni goes, it's just a shame to find out that the supposedly "hardcore" Darth Vader was always kind of a second-rate little punk. Well ... my opinion, once again.
i'm just at a loss to see how jango is so skilled... at all... sure he killed a jedi, who's attention was on dooku... he fought obi wan (who lost his saber quickly), and even with his ships help barely got out alive...
Imo no... we saw what luke did to bobba close quarters... i think mace outclasses either man, and i honestly dont see how either could beat him one on one...
Part of me would have liked to have seen Mace killed by Boba, but honestly, it probably would have been a bad idea ... if only because he would have been too young to justifiably have pulled it off. Then again, it would have been a great "vengeance" side-story.
But oh well.
pr1983: Part of it is just that I dislike jedi in general, I think (I'll be honest and candid: I have a serious problem with a philosophy that holds that, among other things, supressing your emotions is a key to enlightenment). Part of it is his costume was really cool -- come on; you know it was! And then of course there's the fact that characters who live in moral shades of grey appeal to me.
But okay. Seriously? The movie didn't show much of what Jango could do, other than he had a solid showing against Obi. And yeees, I know his objective was not to kill Jango, but I also don't recall a single moment when he COULD have killed Jango even if he'd been trying to. The fight with Mace, given the jetpack fiasco, was a non-fight. And I've said enough about that already.
But Jango's genuinely impressive feats are covered partly in Open Seasons (a graphic novel) and partly in ... well, frankly, in a game. Bounty Hunter. But whaddaya gonna do?
Anyway, as I said before, he defeated Komari Vosa among other things -- here's a link to her bio since I keep tossing that name out:
No, it doesn't prove he could beat any jedi who ever lived ... not by a long shot. But it does at the very least prove that it was not entirely beyond him to defeat an experienced Force-user in a direct confrontation, and it sheds a little light on why he was chosen as the template for a clone army in the first place.
__________________ "he could......if he needed too....hed juss make up lies about how one was talkin smack bout the other and then they would fight, and after they foughtit out....he would suck the other weakened one into a blackhole." - King KAN explaining how Batman could defeat Thanos and Galactus
It'd definitely have to be a "What if?" kind of thing since Mace is dead, but ... yeah.
Boba did get one shot at Mace in a little mini-series of kids' novels (which I thumbed through since I happen to work at a bookstore anyway, so hey ). He did better than you'd expect, but he still lost, although obviously he wasn't killed. But of course he was also still kind of young and nowhere near as experienced as he later becomes ... so take from that what you will.
Honestly, it would probably take a Boba Fett on the level he's reached by the end of the NJO series to actually go one-on-one with Mace with a decent chance of winning. By then, he's supposedly 18th level ... if you care about D20 stats. Mace was supposed to have been the same level when he died, I believe.
Well, of course D20 stats are hardly cannon material, though. But for whatever it's worth.
It was .. let's see ... okay, the larger collection of books it belongs to is "Clone Wars Novels." Each one about Boba was titled "Boba Fett" and then subtitled something else ... the last one being "Pursuit" (that's the one where he finally catches up with Mace). The five books before it pick up where the movie left off (with Jango's death) from Boba's point of view and go from there, and we get to see the beginnings of his career.
Sep 15th, 2005 11:07 PM
As far as Anni goes, it's just a shame to find out that the supposedly "hardcore" Darth Vader was always kind of a second-rate little punk. Well ... my opinion, once again. 
