Episode 06
In this episode, we investigate The Book of Boba Fett and discuss how this new Star Wars series pulls many of its themes and motifs directly from old Hollywood Westerns, including a few regressive tropes popular in that genre. Friend of the show and professor of clinical law, Carl Williams, joins the conversation.
Subscribe
You can listen and follow via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google podcasts, YouTube, or look for Pop Culture Detective: Audio Files wherever you normally get your podcasts.
Support this project
All of our Pop Culture Detective media projects, including this one, are 100% funded by listeners and viewers. You’ll never hear ads and all episode will be made available for free online. So if you enjoy the kind of in-depth media criticism you just heard, please consider supporting our work over on Patreon.
Fair use
All multimedia clips included in this podcast constitute a ‘fair use’ of any copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of U.S. Copyright law, which allows for criticism, comment, and scholarship. Learn more about fair use via New Media Rights!
Show credits
Audio production: Jonathan McIntosh
Intro music: Simon Stålenhag
Outro music: Rick Lopez
1 Comment
Add Yours →I think that part of the lore of Boba Fett comes from his first scene in ESB. Vader has assembled a bunch of bounty hunters to help search for the Millenium Falcon, and tells them “You are free to use any methods necessary, but I want them alive.” He then stops in front of Boba Fett, looks directly at him, points at him, and makes the point *to Boba Fett* “No disintegrations!” – in what sounds like a slightly more menacing tone than his usual menacing tone.
It’s not much, but there’s kind of an implication there that Fett has worked for Vader before, and has irked him by being too kill-happy on a previous job.
Too kill-happy. For Darth Vader. But good enough at his job that Vader not only didn’t force choke him for disobeying instructions, but is willing to hire him again.
It’s thin, and you have to read a lot into it yourself (but no-one has ever claimed that Star Wars fans aren’t masters of that), but I think that’s where some of the “He must be a total bad-ass” comes from.