But that's just it. If Jango is not Mandalorian, that means he is not one of them. That means he couldn't have joined them in his past. I don't think Lucas was referring to the Battle of Galidraan when he says Jango is not a Mandalorian.
On a side note, he is right - force powers not shown in the trilogies are non-canon.
Just cause someone uses the Force beyond the movie limitations in a video game doesn't make those powers canon.
Jango's backstory has to be a clean slate now. He could never have been a member of the Mandalorians. How else do you interpret OFFICIALLY "he is not of the Mandalorians...but he wears their armor."
Anyone else agree - or is just denial? I LOVE Jango - but now it's like...well, then just who in the hell is Jango? To me, it's damn intriguing. I'd love to see what Lucas' vision of Jango is without the constraints of EU.
Sucks I bought the game and graphic novels. Y'know, Jango killed Gardulla the Hutt in the video game, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (which takes place before Episode II) - but she came out, recently, starring in an episode of the Clone Wars.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Oh yeah, I forgot about Cassus Fett... for good reason. 4,000 years, 160 generations. And the name Fett was handed down every time?F*ckin Drew Karpyshyn.
...You realize it's science-fiction, right? It never works out properly.
Not to mention the fact that explaining magic (à la Lucas and midi-chlorians) is much worse than the idea that a name can be passed down for generations...
Originally posted by The Rover...You realize that we have absolutely nothing else to discuss anymore, right? Star Wars is stagnant for us.
...You realize it's science-fiction, right? It never works out properly.Not to mention the fact that explaining magic (à la Lucas and midi-chlorians) is much worse than the idea that a name can be passed down for generations...
I am going to finish FOTJ. I'm not going to BUY any of the books, just read them at the bookstore. but FOTJ might be my last book series. For sure it will be if they kill Luke.
But seriously, its only every 4 or 5 months I get a new book. Maybe i'm getting old, but I really am to the point where when it comes to star wars, i just don't care anymore. i don't even bother to fight the Revan fanboys anymore...
The appeal of Star Wars to me years ago was the feeling that all the EU was connected. I loved that. I followed and bought the Clone Wars graphic novels - jumping into the newly released ever-expanding universe. I've been dying to know about the Clone Wars since I was a kid.
Clone Wars TV series came out, killed all that. My nine Volumes...all that crap is now null and void. Jango's backstory - poof - gone. Clone Wars? We won't even begin to know how everything fits until the TV series is over with.
I don't even bother skimming through the comics anymore. Whatever's in there is probably gonna be obsolete in a few months anyway. That show burnt my EU habit.
I own both Seasons on Bluray - it's a GOOD show despite it pissing all over the EU, but I haven't felt the need or desire to buy EU stuff in a VERY long time, either.
I think it's cool that Jango is now mysterious again.
Oh, and I ain't denying Jango his Mandoness. Lucas is. Apparently, he has plans for Jango...his own.
Originally posted by Anakin_the_Hutt
The appeal of Star Wars to me years ago was the feeling that all the EU was connected. I loved that. I followed and bought the Clone Wars graphic novels - jumping into the newly released ever-expanding universe. I've been dying to know about the Clone Wars since I was a kid.Clone Wars TV series came out, killed all that. My nine Volumes...all that crap is now null and void. Jango's backstory - poof - gone. Clone Wars? We won't even begin to know how everything fits until the TV series is over with.
I don't even bother skimming through the comics anymore. Whatever's in there is probably gonna be obsolete in a few months anyway. That show burned my EU habit.
I own both Seasons on Bluray - it's a GOOD show despite it pissing all over the EU, but I haven't felt the need or desire to buy EU stuff in a VERY long time, either.
I think it's cool that Jango is now mysterious again.
Oh, and I ain't denying Jango his Mandoness. Lucas is. Apparently, he has plans for Jango...his own.
I agree, it kinda defeats the purpose when you feel like you really know something, and then they just pull the rug out from under you in the next release, so that your information is no longer valid, and in all honesty you wasted your time and money learning about it. It was fun learning about another universe, but it is now a universe that has ridiculous, unbelievable coincidences, and contradicts itself. That destroys my ability to believe in the universe at all, and killed my interest.
George Lucas retconned Jango Fett's backstory. He's no longer a part of the Mandalorian mythos. He is simply a mysterious bounty hunter who wears Mandalorian armor. How he got it - why he wears it, is all a big mystery now. Despite it all already have been revealed through a graphic novel and video game...AND all the EU after that referenced his Mandalorian origins.
BUT thanks to Lucas - we'll get to see the Jango Fett that he had originally envisioned. Which, to me, is ****ing bad-ass...even though I am amongst the many who coughed up the bread years ago to learn Jango's backstory. But then there are others who view this as Lucas personally going to their house, killing their dog and raping their kids.
I dig it. I'd love to see who Lucas' Jango Fett is.
I dig it. I'd love to see who Lucas' Jango Fett is.