how little we know about Star Wars, and how much we care

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B. was reading an article in the paper this morning on an exhibit of Star Wars props, and, seeing a reference to a character, asked "Who's Boba Fett?"

"I'm not sure," I said. "I think he was a bounty hunter. Was he the one that Han Solo shot in the Cantina?"

Half an hour later, I emerge from a visit upstairs on the computer to say, "I found out who Boba Fett was. He was another bounty hunter, who doesn't show up until the second movie. Han Solo was handed over to this one after being frozen into a popsicle. He looked like a robot, but even after seeing a picture, I don't remember the character at all."

"Well," says B., "it has been 33 years."

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for prompting me to look at the Wikipedia entry on Boba Fett, which helps to explain how the character, whose name wasn't even mentioned on the cinema screen until the third movie in 1983, came to be the subject of so much more fan interest than he seemed to me to deserve at the time. (I never saw the Holiday Special or the promotional campaigns described in the article.)

-MTD/neb