me: man Boba Fett and Darth Maul didn’t really do anything
some nerd: UH WELL THEY’RE BOTH REALLY BADASS
me: Boba Fett stands around and dies like a little bitch and Darth Maul rides around and dies like a slightly less little bitch
some nerd: yea in the MOVIES they don’t do anything BUT IN THE EXTENDED UNIVERSE THEY BOTH SURVIVE AND DO ALL SORTS OF CRAZY COOL SHIT
me: yea cool but if you’re not going to convey them as such in the base material and expect everyone to dig past the movies to see anything cool in them besides their designs then what’s the goddamn point
seriously though what’s the point? my interest in Star Wars ends at “they’re movies,” so as far as i’m concerned these characters just suck shit and are a monument of cruddy character writing techniques
not to mention how “12-year-old writing fanfic” their stories are. “oh Boba just climbed back out of the Sarlaac pit nbd” and “oh Darth Maul just climbed right back out of that bottomless pit without his fucking legs and built new ones because he’s that smart now”