With The Book of Boba Fett winging its way towards us at lightspeed, StarWars.com as an almost impossible question; when was the greatest Boba Fett moment? Two writers, Dustin Diehl and Amy Richau ponder and pick their choices.
It’s the Battle on Tython, says Dustin.
Best Boba Fett moment so far? It’s hard not to point to his triumphant return in The Mandalorian’s second season episode, “Chapter 14: The Tragedy.” It was also hard not to squeal with nerd-delight the minute his starship graced my TV screen on that memorable day last December. Because we all knew who was flying that Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft. And by that point, we all but knew we’d see Temuera Morrison step into the iconic bounty hunter’s boots. What I didn’t yet know, was just how awesome that return would prove to be.
I still sometimes forget the other happenings on Tython in that episode (magical butterflies, mystic Grogu, dark troopers), because this will forever be known as the episode Boba Fett returned. After nearly 40 years, we got to see grizzled, post-Sarlacc Fett back in the thick of it. And all without his iconic T-visor helmet.
It’s his mysterious introduction in the original trilogy, says Amy.
One of my favorite parts of an ever-expanding Star Wars universe is learning more about my favorite characters at different parts of their lives. Star Wars fans have seen Boba Fett as a child during the Clone Wars and as a man who survived what I can only imagine was a traumatic close encounter with the Sarlacc monster. But my favorite Boba Fett moment remains the first time I saw him on screen in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
