Maybe it's all in my head. Or maybe not.
If you've read the books, Boba Fett is a fairly complex guy. He actually has a backstory, how he became a bounty hunter. It's told (alluded to, moreso) in Tales of the Bounty Hunters, a collection of short stories edited by Kevin J. Anderson. He was a "journeyman-protector" named Jaster Mareel, basically some type of law enforcement officer. Something happened, and he apparantly used some sort of vigilante justice, killing someone on his own, in the name of "justice", when the law wouldn't. So he was exiled.
His character is many-faceted. Yes, he is a bounty hunter. But he follows his own stringent code. He truly believes in Justice, and that's about it. He is, aside from that one former name, completely anonymous, faceless, unknown. And I like that better, as it lets you fill in all the details yourself. Only some very basic facts are known about him, basically that he is the best at what he does. Period.
Now he has a face, he has a family, he has a past. And not even a good past, IMO. He's changed from someone serving a higher ideal of Justice to someone merely out for revenge for his parent's death. Under this philosophy, he should have been hunting for Luke, not Han. He would want to get the Jedi as his first priority, because he'd blame them for his dad's death.
Oh, and "Boba Fett" is just a name he took on as a bounty hunter. Not his real name.
It would be different if Lucas had set this up in advance. If he'd put Boba Fett in the original trilogy specifically as a foil to the Jedi. But he didn't. Boba Fett was a throwaway character who was supposed to die in ROTJ. But for some reason (most likely the anonymity, the facelessness, the mystery) he became a wildly popular cult hero. Fans mean money. But he can't just plop his Boba Fett character into the prequels. So instead he'll use the character, even down to the armor, but instead of him it will be his father. That way, in theory, it'll be just as good as having Boba Fett in the movies, so it'll bring in all the Fett fans' money, right?
Which, despite the marketing inherent in that logic, I could almost have stomached it. But they destroyed what made him cool. He should have been in the movie, maybe, but still never removed his helmet, looking exactly as he did in ESB and ROTJ. Leave the mystery as to how he could survive that long.
If you read the books that he has been prominently featured in (mainly the short stories in the "Tales" anthologies, and the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy by K.W.Jeter), you'll get a picture of who Fett is. It is not what was portrayed in Episode II.
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