For those who don’t remember him, Boba Fett is the bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi who brings Han Solo to Jabba’s palace frozen in carbonite. Boba had four lines of dialogue and six minutes of screen time over the two films, knocked into the maw of the fearsome Sarlacc monster in the opening sequence of Return.
Just how Fett survived the Sarlacc’s digestive juice hasn’t yet been revealed, but he played a major role in the second season of The Mandalorian, and now he has his own show.
The Christmas release is appropriate, because Boba made his first appearance not in The Empire Strikes Back, but in an animated sequence halfway through the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special in 1978. Making your way through that whole ill-conceived special is tough even for a diehard fan like me, so I've cued up Boba’s appearance in the video below.
