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retain) a social conscience
while remaining an unre-
pentant criminal?
Gangster fables have con-
templated that question for
generations, with “The Godfa-
ther,” “Pulp Fiction,”_ “The So-
pranos” and “Breaking Bad”
serving as some of the more
notable examples.
And while the answer has
been “no” in all the afore-
mentioned examples, none of
those tales have been set in a
world as lawless as Tatooine,
where there aren’t even any
cops to bribe.
It’s no exaggeration to de-
scribe former bounty hunter
Boba Fett as a lifelong crimi-
nal, since as the clone “son”
of J ango Fett, he was “born
a crime,” to borrow a phrase
from Trevor Noah of “The
Is it possible to evolve (or
Daily Show.”
Worse yet, Boba Was or-
phaned when J ango was
killed by the Jedi, whowere
acting as self-appointed
agents of law and order for
the Republic, while also being
totally unaccountable t0 the
same.
was; figxtfifitéfit
IN THE
DARK REVIEWS
That Boba wound up in
a profession that skirts the
boundaries of the law (at
best) was no accident. Even
when he accepted assign—
ments from the Empire, he
had no qualms about mouth—
ing off to Darth Vader when
there was apossibility that
the carbonite freezing process
meant he might not collect
his bounty from J abba the
Hutt for bringing in Han Solo.
In short, it was never in
the cards for Boba Fett to be—
come a law-abiding citizen. A
lifetime of getting kicked in
the teeth by people wielding
legally sanctioned power over
Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) and Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) take stock of
their situ-
ation on Tatooine in “The Book of Boba Fett." Courtesy photo
him ensured that he would
never respect those in author-
ity, even when he condition-
ally did their bidding.
Boba Fett became the
lone-wolf operator we saw in
the original trilogy of “Star
Wars,” and where that got
him was knocked into the
belly of the Sarlacc and left
for dead in “Return of the
Jedi.”
And now, after his guest-
starring appearances in “The
Mandalorian,” Boba is back in
“The Book of Boba Fett,” and
after two episodes of his own
streaming series on Disney+,
J
we’ve seen how he freed him-
self from the Sarlacc, how
he came to be treated as an
equal member of a Tusken
tribe that initially took him
in as a slave labOrer, and
how he and his Spry assassin
see REVIEW, page A-1 8
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