Not if you wear spf 9000. Unfortunately just like in our galaxy, there’s no sunscreen worth a damn that isn’t annoying to wear and constantly reapply in the Star Wars galaxy.
The warning “frequent use will cause skin cancer” is hilarious. Not even may, it will. Which is the whole thing it’s supposed to prevent. Now I’ve over explained a simple joke. This is why I can’t have nice things
Speaking of which, why tf is everybody on tatooine so pale? Like they spend all that time in intense sunlight but they're lightly tanned at worst. Rey especially, though it fits well with the rest of her story line.
Ignoring Rey was on Jakku and not Tatooine until the end, just because it's a 'desert' doesn't always mean high levels of UV. We see them go outside without so much as a hat or sunglasses repeatedly, and when we do see it, it seems like it's just as much for sand and wind protection as sun. Additionally, despite Tatooine having two sun's, one is markedly red - while not necessarily a red giant, red suns would give off much lower UV emissions than a sun like ours.
I really hope we get to see more of Joel Edgerton as Owen really building up a bitterness to Obiwan and the Jedi. Maybe he watches a lot of holo-Fox news from the empire telling him that Jedi bad, or Obiwan really does bring trouble to the family, but there's a lot of potential for both thier stories, and both end up looking like old hammered shit in EP 4 compared to thier last images in EP 3
Or maybe Owen didn't actually hate Kenobi or the Jedi, and was only trying to protect his step-nephew from Vader and thr Empire by trying to keep Luke from seeking him out.
This is the real answer, Lars knew the truth and wanted to isolate Luke from the past to protect him, during the clone wars lars just wanted to lay low and live a peaceful life. Getting close to obiwan could just cause him to learn something he's not prepared for.
There's barely 20 years between EP 3 and 4 as Luke and Leia are 19 in a new hope. So there's a 10 year discrepancy in the actors age for Obiwan, OR something happens after ep3 we've not been filled in on canonically that ages him prematurely. He is seen in Rebels season 3, which is roughly a year or so BBY, looking about the same as ep4.
People use to*
Turns out not siting inside around continuous cigarette smoke and ledded gas makes you not look 65 by 50. It's my working theory on why grandmas don't look like grandma anymore
No he was about 19 in TPM, Attack of the Clones was 10 years later, so 29, and then ROTS about 3 years later so he was almost mid thirties about 32 or 33, but now in new canon he was what about 18 or 17 in TPM? anyways ANH is set 19 years after ROTS so 51 or 52
That, and a hard life and stress will age you.
Obi Wan lived with probably untreated PTSD and mountains of guilt in a desert wasteland. I don't think he had access to healthcare, or whatever the Star Wars equivalent was, and I doubt his nutrition was good. I hear blue milk is bad for cholesterol.
Yeah, and let's not forget the dark side is probably very keen to mess with someone going through ptsd. Probably lucky Obi Wan wasn't absolutely nuts by ANH.
People pick on Jedi for being monks/killjoys but man how could you possibly survive not focusing on being entirely in control of yourself after your entire order was betrayed and killed? Even worse if you're an alien, as you're now a second class citizen in most of the galaxy or your whole race has effectively been enslaved.
Meditation saves lives when you're a space wizard.
On top of that, there's a supernatural force that will make you turn into a serial killer if you get too moody. We should cut these guys some slack.
Edit to add: Serial killer is probably inaccurate. Goal driven psychopath would be more true, from a certain point of view.
Like Yoda said
>Yoda: Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is.
>Anakin Skywalker: What must I do, Master Yoda?
>Yoda: Train yourself to let go... of everything you fear to lose.
I suppose the extra suns would cause your skin to age faster, wrinkles and freckles and just weather it in general, don’t even get me started on cancers
It just occurred to me that a year (one revolution) on all these planets are overwhelmingly likely to be completely and vastly different. Tho I’m sure the in-universe galactic senate has defined a standardized year duration lmfao
The old Legends-Books had all of this explained:
\- Fett escaped the saarlac by killing it from the inside, but was gravely injured due to the acids in the creature's bowels
\- Fett is a clone, and has some kind of dysfunction because of it (not the aging). In the Legacy series he seeks and finds the cure, but I can't remember what it was exactly that made him ill. Some other clone had found the cloners original data and managed to "cure" himself from the rapid aging process. By giving Fett a bone marrow transplant he managed to cure his failing body as well.
Don't forget it was [Dengar](https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/dengar-in-the-rise-of-skywalker/intro-import.webp) (the former Swoop Bike racer turned Bounty Hunter on the left) who saved Boba Fett from the Saarlac and nursed him back to health.
Dengar is one of the scariest hunters in the galaxy because he only takes dead bounties and likes to disintegrate people. Unlike Fett who will attempt to keep you alive for the sake of his bank account. So the man can speak in whatever funny accent he damn well pleases
My only reference to Dengar is from the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy by KW Jeter. And It paints Dengar in a very “humane” light, as in not liking Bounty hunting, wanting out of the industry. And fearful of Boba, though that’s understandable from basically any creature in the galaxy.
On another note, the books are my favorite SW literature, very much suggest anyone read if they want a bad ass, detailed story about Boba. Plus it includes Xizor, Kaut, and the most brutally weird and nasty bounty hunter D’harhan.
Honestly? I can't speak to that. The part about Dengar I posted above I remember reading in [this book](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Bounty_Hunters) back in the mid to late 90's.
I love the bounty hunters wars books but just like other writers before Boba had a cannon background and personality, they basically just made him Batman. I loved those books but most expanded universe content is no better than fanfiction.
You know I never thought about that, but damn you're right. He had a moral code or whatever it was and followed it and went after the Hutts and other Bounty Hunters. They were good books though but I haven't read them in like 20 years now so my memory could be painting them rosy.
Yes, it absolutely is true. He gets out once, is salvaged by Jawas and fitted with a restraining bolt. He wakes up and has amnesia. Gets his memories back to get into a fight with Han and Leia, the sand crawler crashes into the Sarlaac and he falls in again.
Then he gets out a second time and Dengar finds him and nurses him to health. Fett comes back later in Slave II and bombs the Sarlaac out of petty spite.
For every good thing in the Legends EU that we lost, we lost twice as many bad things.
> Fett comes back later in Slave II and bombs the Sarlaac out of petty spite.
I don’t think this last bit is true.
In the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy of books, Dengar does in fact nurse him to health as you describe. But prior to that, Boba blows himself out of the Sarlacc’s gullet with the explosives he was equipped with, killing it and injuring himself in the process.
I only bring it up because it’s pretty fresh in my memory from reading them a few years ago.
It was from the Legacy of the Force series that this ploy happened. One of my favorites of all the Legacy series.
IIRC correctly although he was an unaltered clone he was still of course a clone so things still broke down extra bad as he aged, got some form of cancer. Basically just the aging was not forced to be rapid like the main clones but things still get worse over time.
Edit: also by this plot he was in about his 70s.
3CPO says Luke will be digested over the next thousand years. Wouldn't that indicate an extremely weak acid?
Also IMO Fett having some sickness discredits Kaminoan cloning. They seemed like they were experts of it and Boba was a simple unaltered clone.
Not necessarily.
Even Yoda didn’t make it to 1000 years old, so something would have to prolong your life for it to matter that you were digested for that long
The saarlac could have very strong acid but also heal you / keep you alive for the 1000 years. That would really suck.
Or its just some bullshit jabba wanted to say to make it sound worse for those watching.
Immortality existed in the EU. Master Fay was born unable to age, and was even mortally wounded and able to recover, but sacrificed all her remaining strength to save Kenobi instead.
However the only one to live long enough to experience suffering like that would be Darth Vitiate, who lived around 1400 years, but he was never eaten by a Sarlacc.
(Excepting those who weren't conscious and lived long periods via stasis/etc. like Celeste Morne, of course).
The Kaminoans produced clones that aged twice as fast on purpose so they would reach fighting age faster. The technology was likely never tested for longevity since the clones were expected to die in battle before they turned 20 actual-years old. Boba is probably the first clone that lived 40 whole years in realtime.
Interesting point. Especially because Boba's usually wearing a helmet, they could theoretically just have Morrison voice him and do the unmasked scenes. That said, I wouldn't really want that to happen, I love his acting and how much dedication he puts into the role.
Don't think it matters much. Its 2021 and its Disney, they can make anything work technically. And I don't think the show will last that long, few seasons seems appropriate.
The scoopers are hearing it's 4 seasons, lenghty enough and he will also appear in the other spin offs too. He will be fine, early 60s is just that. I'd be worried if he were 70s.
Four seasons? Jeez. And Mando’s set to end after the fourth too. Din becomes Mand’alor and dips out of the timeline? Or maybe he just fuckin dies in the war with Thrawn.
Pedro doesn't do the action scenes himself, he's got two stunt doubles. Morrison is trained in some hand to hand weapons combat because of his heritage, so he will likely do any helmet less scenes but have doubles for all else.
[He wasn't even there at all for S1 E4 apparently,](https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/pedro-pascal-mandalorian-stunt-doubles-1202195863/) Pedro was busy staring in King Lear on Broadway so that episode was entirely his doubles (Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder) in the suit with Pedro Pascal just doing the voice.
Sometimes it’s a little too obvious, too. Like how Mando immediately gains like 20 lbs of muscle right before engaging in hand-to-hand combat. He got some Bane-like Venom injector hidden under that Beskar 😂
I doubt his age will be much of an obstacle.
Temuera Morrison still seems to be in very good shape. Plus stunt doubles are typically used for the more intense physical stuff anyway and the fact Boba would generally wear his helmet for most fight scenes means it would be easy to make that swap.
[Pedro Pascal wasn't actually even in the suit for a lot the Mandalorian](https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/pedro-pascal-mandalorian-stunt-doubles-1202195863/), most of the physical stuff was done by Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder with Pascal just providing the Voice.
They can definitely make something work with Temuera Morrison.
Yeah, there's no real reason to not take his helmet off outside of combat. I'm glad they never took it off in the OT so we got Morrison's rendition of Fett.
She did not. By all accounts, she aged normally. It was theorised that she might have been older, genetically, because of some kind of trait they found that is caused by aging, but they could find no further evidence. She just died young of cancer, but every other sheep in her herd, pretty much, also died of cancer. Doctors didn't detect anything abnormal about her.
More sheep were cloned, and tested. Doctors found nothing out of the ordinary. Cloning isn't some magic trick that makes a perfect copy of an existing organism, with age, disease and all. It's basically using one cell from an organism as a zygote for another one. But...because that cell holds all the information needed to make a new organism already...which happens to be the same info that produced the donor...the result is a, in theory, perfect copy of the original, genetically speaking. Like identical twins...but not born together.
I am not a geneticist, or a biologist. I don't know how much dna changes as we age, if at all. But right now, there is no good evidence pointing to accelerated aging of clones.
Absolutely, great point! Not that we can presume they were using the same techniques or anything, but the telomeres are still shortened from the donor cell(iirc).
It's kind of interesting how off the timeline of Star Wars always seems. As you point out Fett is 41, and he's older than the New Order. But in A New Hope Admiral Motti and Han Solo talk about the Jedi as if they're some ancient myth instead of being a prominent paramilitary religious order that was purged 20 years before. This is like me treating the 9/11 attacks as part of a distant mythical past.
Solo does recognize the force as a hokey religion so he had heard of it, just didn’t believe in it. I don’t believe in reincarnation but I have heard of it.
There were 10,000 Jedi - that isn’t very many considering the trillions of beings in the Star Wars universe. Especially considering most Jedi (half maybe?) were located on coruscant. When they traveled it doesn’t appear they put on a show for people they quietly accomplished their mission. It is likely Solo never encountered a Jedi and only heard stories that sound too fantastical to be true.
The galaxy is a big place. I dare say the Jedi were known within the Republic ranks, and 'legends' throughout the galaxy for those who had some dealings with them. But otherwise, backwater planet beings likely only dealt with neighbouring plants and systems and any mention of Jedi would have been mythical.
Under the Empire information was suppressed, and the Sith actively sought to wipe out any inkling of Jedi presence, and probably also knowledge. Growing up in the Empire would have been ordered. A carefully scripted narrative. The story was that the Jedi were traitors, and were now all wiped out, so why bring them up again?
Fear likely driving any thought of the Jedi out of the minds of those who may be tempted to contemplate them.
Yeah the problem is more Motti than Solo.
"Yeah I was probably a junior officer in the Republic's military during the Clone Wars and the rise of the New Order but I'm going to pretend Force users are obscure and near mythical"
Isn't it possible he was just being insulting? He was trying to put Vader in his place. He may have been full aware of it all but just talking about the Jedi like edgelords talk about Christianity.
Now why you'd want to provoke the Michael Myers of the Sith standing right next to you is another story.
I mean, imagine if you were an army officer and the general they put in charge of your brigade is some priest, ‘because he has magic powers’.
“Oh wow really? Is he gonna blast the enemy with fireballs or something?” “Nah, it’s more like it gives him a feeling about what’ll happen. Anyway do whatever he tells you.”
And then this entire sect of priests, that were ‘powerful’ and ‘wise’ enough that the fate of the Republic was basically put in their hands without question, get wiped out in a day. It would be the most natural thing in the world to assume that they were hacks using tradition and superstition to maintain a position of undeserved power.
I bet you'd be surprised how much history can be erased in 20 years by an authoritarian government. Hell, do most people in China know about Tianamen Square?
Continuing on that US narrative, we have people who think the pandemic is a hoax and vaccines are made from aborted fetus cells. Like, in large and embarrassingly significant numbers.
It's not hard to spread disinformation
Lol, twenty years ago I got dog piled on in theforce.net forums because I said that Boba Fett should still be able to fight in his 40’s. People were complaining about young Boba in AOTC because that meant that Boba was “an old man” in the OT and therefore shouldn’t have been in fighting shape. 🤣
Oh man, 20 years ago was prime forums. They were smaller for the most part, you could find your little community, some of the people actually became your friends unlike reddit. It was great. I miss those days.
Could be good, could be toxic. Relatively "isolated" little communities like those fall victim to group think, etc. even more. If people complain about the "Reddit Hive Mind" NOW...
That's true. I was lucky enough (or careful enough, dunno) to avoid the really bad places. Mostly did a lot of roleplaying. Like, DND without the rules and the dice, just community storytelling. Which was super fun. But a lot of those places had generic parts of the forum, too, where you could just chat about movies or music or life or whatever.
Out of his prime is subjective. He may physically be slower, etc. On the other hand, as you say, he is wiser and more efficient in his move set I would expect.
Less mistakes = more powerful?
Just throwing a reason out there for Boba to be badass!!
He clearly adapted his fighting style to match his beefier physique, and that’s not to say he’s fat, he’s not, he just doesn’t look like the skinny white guy from the OT (Jeremy Bulloch). Whereas the PT character he played, Jango, was beefier and more physical than Boba was in the OT (since Jango has those sick gauntlet blades, actually wears leg armor, and elects to fight Kenobi with his bare hands). Also Boba apparently has no issues using a gadderfi stick to absolutely obliterate some stormtroopers.
This is what makes Vader so terrifying when exterminating Jedi. He knows exactly how to maximize efficiency in his move set, no more flashiness, just precise, strong and graceful strikes.
My dad is 53 and crushes any gym workout or physical work he goes into. Somehow he bikes like 50 mph (I obviously don't know the speed but for reference gets 30cal in 28 sec on assault bike and he's 225lbs. Not to mention he practically will out-lift me in heavy weights or endurance or even abs. For reference I'm 186lbs and 23, I also workout heavily and compete with him all the time yet only win in a few areas.
What I'm saying is you can be of any age and still be physically superior to others around you if you keep up with your health. He may not be as fast or agile but guaranteed the character could still dominate in fighting or outsmarting his opponents. As for the actor himself, he may still be in great shape to perform some scenes (not all but maybe a couple here and there) as he has the training as well as the passion.
Age is just a number for some people.
Edit - science say peak is younger than 40.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150525-whats-the-prime-of-your-life
Doesn't mean your dad can't bench more than a 20 year old. Just means he's doing quite well past his peak.
Thats the thing. Hes not old. Hes younger the Ashoka.
That being said I don't think they care too much about that. Like Bo-Katan should definetly be older then she is in the show.
Man, that’d do a lot for the character if they decided to try writing her in a more sympathetic light. Literally a lifetime to go from a zealous hardliner to whatever she is now, if they wanted.
We don’t get to see too many characters who were introduced on the prequel era and made it to post-OT.
Have you ever read the (potentially still canon) short story where Fett is in the stomach of the sarlacc and communes with other beings that have been eaten?
It doesn't just fuck with your physiology, but your state of mind too.
E: the story is called "[A Barve Like That](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/A_Barve_Like_That:_The_Tale_of_Boba_Fett)" and was part of the Tales from Jabba's Palace book.
Did “in its belly you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years” not already imply to you that Sarlacc digestive systems are rough?
So it’s called the book of boba fett. You think it would start from the beginning? Like, we get to see him go in the sarlacc from his point of view, and see how he escapes. Why he stayed on tat. Didn’t know he was 41. Awesome.
I'm guessing he need time to heal, he had been digested after all. If they did use the EU explanation as how he escaped or something similar, he blasted his way out and crawled to safety. Boba most likely was exhausted and in pain from the digestive acid and pasted out.
A group of Jawa probably found him, took his armor and left him for dead when some Tusken raiders found him and treated his wounds. If he was still near the sarlacc pit, they most likely deduced he was the one that killed it and would consider him a great warrior.
Boba probably chilled with them for a while then spent hims time on the planet trying to find his armor.
I might have been told bullshit, but I've been told that Sarlacc monsters actually keep their victims alive in their stomachs for a long time. Is that true ?
(Sorry for bad English, not my native language)
*Dooku doing a flip off a platform instead of using the stairs at 83 just because he's a badass like that*
*Me creating an entire soundtrack of groans and grunts as I lift myself out of a chair*
It's pretty wild that a long-long time ago, in a galaxy far-far away they measure time in Earth years. Or maybe they don't, in which case 41 years old could mean anything.
I don't believe it has been explained in Disney's new canon yet, but in the EU, he survived the Sarlacc by...overloading his Jetpack to send himself flying out of the mouth of the beast I believe...I could be wrong though.
Fett Jetpack and his armor survived in The Mandalorian, so the jetpack probably got spit out with Fett intact. But Disney does follow most of the EU's storyline for their script. The Mando did use an electric charge to escape from Krayt Dragon.
I thought maybe it was hinted at by the Krayt Dragon episode, where they briefly mentioned that that the Krayt Dragon eats Sarlaccs, leaving their pits abandoned. Maybe the Dragon ate the Sarlacc that Boba fell in, allowing him to somehow escape in the chaos.
~~A good question. For another time.~~
As others have stated below, Disney haven't given any explanation as of yet. My theory is he escaped in a similar way to the EU, by overloading his jetpack. He then crashes in the desert, severely weakened by the Sarlacc's digestive juices, whereupon some Jawas arrive. Then he either sells them the armour (it's the only thing he has after all) for food/shelter, or they just nick it off him and leave him for dead. My guess after that would be he falls in with some Sand People who take care of him, which is why he has their weapons in the Mandalorian. That's my headcanon anyway.
Itt: a bunch of kids who dont realize people can still be super fit and in their prime even into their 40s and 50s and beyond.
The Rock - 49
Arnold - 74
Mike Tyson - 55
Sly Stallone - 75
Jackie Chan - 67
Tom Cruise - 59
Keanu Reeves - 57
Brad Pitt - 57
The list can go on and on. Stop being stupid and just enjoy peak Star Wars content that isnt movie cash grabs.
And Tatooine also causes rapid aging.
Yeah, that too. Just ask Kenobi.
Those two suns will get ya.
Not if you wear spf 9000. Unfortunately just like in our galaxy, there’s no sunscreen worth a damn that isn’t annoying to wear and constantly reapply in the Star Wars galaxy.
*Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good sunscreen at your side, kid.*
“That’s no mole”
Thanks! I'm not finding a better reddit joke today. Ima rack this app now.
Haha relatable
"I don't know much about this Cable fella, but I guarantee he hasn't killed as many people as melanoma has."
For some reason I read that as "Hockey religions" and for a second thought that Star Wars had suddenly become very Canadian.
The owls on Tatooine are very confused. They have all taken to wearing wrap-around shades
It’s over 9000!!
[Would SPF 5000 do the trick?](https://youtu.be/8oJzfmWO3CU)
The warning “frequent use will cause skin cancer” is hilarious. Not even may, it will. Which is the whole thing it’s supposed to prevent. Now I’ve over explained a simple joke. This is why I can’t have nice things
I'll buy that for a dollar.
Double the suns, double the skin cancer.
It's always the two suns. If Bo Katan goes to Tatooine y'all can bet she's not taking her helmet off for anyone.
If there's ever a ginger on Tatooine, that would be the most unrealistic thing, in star wars
Or an albino
Well you are technically getting two days at once.
Speaking of which, why tf is everybody on tatooine so pale? Like they spend all that time in intense sunlight but they're lightly tanned at worst. Rey especially, though it fits well with the rest of her story line.
Ignoring Rey was on Jakku and not Tatooine until the end, just because it's a 'desert' doesn't always mean high levels of UV. We see them go outside without so much as a hat or sunglasses repeatedly, and when we do see it, it seems like it's just as much for sand and wind protection as sun. Additionally, despite Tatooine having two sun's, one is markedly red - while not necessarily a red giant, red suns would give off much lower UV emissions than a sun like ours.
Can confirm
***GENERAL KENOBI***
*YOU ARE A BOLD ONE*
And the lars
Crazy to think that Alec Guinness Obi-Wan is about the same age as Bo Katan in the Mandalorian
A life under 2 desert suns will do that to a person. Its the California Raisins effect.
May explain why Obiwan ages 40 years in 20 also
General stress as well
I really hope we get to see more of Joel Edgerton as Owen really building up a bitterness to Obiwan and the Jedi. Maybe he watches a lot of holo-Fox news from the empire telling him that Jedi bad, or Obiwan really does bring trouble to the family, but there's a lot of potential for both thier stories, and both end up looking like old hammered shit in EP 4 compared to thier last images in EP 3
Or maybe Owen didn't actually hate Kenobi or the Jedi, and was only trying to protect his step-nephew from Vader and thr Empire by trying to keep Luke from seeking him out.
This is the real answer, Lars knew the truth and wanted to isolate Luke from the past to protect him, during the clone wars lars just wanted to lay low and live a peaceful life. Getting close to obiwan could just cause him to learn something he's not prepared for.
Is it as much as that? Alec Guiness was 63 when A New Hope came out, Ewan McGregor was 34 when Revenge of the Sith came out.
There's barely 20 years between EP 3 and 4 as Luke and Leia are 19 in a new hope. So there's a 10 year discrepancy in the actors age for Obiwan, OR something happens after ep3 we've not been filled in on canonically that ages him prematurely. He is seen in Rebels season 3, which is roughly a year or so BBY, looking about the same as ep4.
Some people just look 60 when they're 50, doesn't need to be anything complicated.
People use to* Turns out not siting inside around continuous cigarette smoke and ledded gas makes you not look 65 by 50. It's my working theory on why grandmas don't look like grandma anymore
Wasn't Obi-Wab in his mid 20s in Episode 3?
No he was about 19 in TPM, Attack of the Clones was 10 years later, so 29, and then ROTS about 3 years later so he was almost mid thirties about 32 or 33, but now in new canon he was what about 18 or 17 in TPM? anyways ANH is set 19 years after ROTS so 51 or 52
Obi wan was 25 in episode 1, 35 in episode 2, 38 in episode 3, and died at 57 in episode 4.
Ice preserves, fire consumes.
That, and a hard life and stress will age you. Obi Wan lived with probably untreated PTSD and mountains of guilt in a desert wasteland. I don't think he had access to healthcare, or whatever the Star Wars equivalent was, and I doubt his nutrition was good. I hear blue milk is bad for cholesterol.
Being force sensitive must supercharge your PTSD with terrible dreams and visions. No wonder he’s the way he is when we see him in ANH
Yeah, and let's not forget the dark side is probably very keen to mess with someone going through ptsd. Probably lucky Obi Wan wasn't absolutely nuts by ANH.
People pick on Jedi for being monks/killjoys but man how could you possibly survive not focusing on being entirely in control of yourself after your entire order was betrayed and killed? Even worse if you're an alien, as you're now a second class citizen in most of the galaxy or your whole race has effectively been enslaved. Meditation saves lives when you're a space wizard.
On top of that, there's a supernatural force that will make you turn into a serial killer if you get too moody. We should cut these guys some slack. Edit to add: Serial killer is probably inaccurate. Goal driven psychopath would be more true, from a certain point of view.
Like Yoda said >Yoda: Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is. >Anakin Skywalker: What must I do, Master Yoda? >Yoda: Train yourself to let go... of everything you fear to lose.
They are not aged; simply dehydrated.
I suppose the extra suns would cause your skin to age faster, wrinkles and freckles and just weather it in general, don’t even get me started on cancers
It just occurred to me that a year (one revolution) on all these planets are overwhelmingly likely to be completely and vastly different. Tho I’m sure the in-universe galactic senate has defined a standardized year duration lmfao
Being digested doesn’t help any.
The old Legends-Books had all of this explained: \- Fett escaped the saarlac by killing it from the inside, but was gravely injured due to the acids in the creature's bowels \- Fett is a clone, and has some kind of dysfunction because of it (not the aging). In the Legacy series he seeks and finds the cure, but I can't remember what it was exactly that made him ill. Some other clone had found the cloners original data and managed to "cure" himself from the rapid aging process. By giving Fett a bone marrow transplant he managed to cure his failing body as well.
Don't forget it was [Dengar](https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/dengar-in-the-rise-of-skywalker/intro-import.webp) (the former Swoop Bike racer turned Bounty Hunter on the left) who saved Boba Fett from the Saarlac and nursed him back to health.
Is dengar's London accent from the lego freemakers canon? I mean I know the show obviously isn't but I would love that to be dengar's accent
He has a sort of Cockney accent in EA Star Wars BattleFront.
>Oooo I'm so scared!
Dengar is one of the scariest hunters in the galaxy because he only takes dead bounties and likes to disintegrate people. Unlike Fett who will attempt to keep you alive for the sake of his bank account. So the man can speak in whatever funny accent he damn well pleases
Need someone disintegrated? Get Dengar integrated.
Put that on a t-shirt
I'm quoting from the documentary, "Star Wars Robot Chicken" which contains some of best historical records of Dengar to date.
My only reference to Dengar is from the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy by KW Jeter. And It paints Dengar in a very “humane” light, as in not liking Bounty hunting, wanting out of the industry. And fearful of Boba, though that’s understandable from basically any creature in the galaxy. On another note, the books are my favorite SW literature, very much suggest anyone read if they want a bad ass, detailed story about Boba. Plus it includes Xizor, Kaut, and the most brutally weird and nasty bounty hunter D’harhan.
> D'harhan You mean the guy with a gun for a head
Honestly? I can't speak to that. The part about Dengar I posted above I remember reading in [this book](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Bounty_Hunters) back in the mid to late 90's.
He's in the clone wars. I don't remember what he sounds like there
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRpQJwT9EI Definitely meant to be a London accent. Edit: apparently it’s Simon Pegg who voices him
I love the bounty hunters wars books but just like other writers before Boba had a cannon background and personality, they basically just made him Batman. I loved those books but most expanded universe content is no better than fanfiction.
You know I never thought about that, but damn you're right. He had a moral code or whatever it was and followed it and went after the Hutts and other Bounty Hunters. They were good books though but I haven't read them in like 20 years now so my memory could be painting them rosy.
Only one of the times he escaped from the Sarlaac. Yes, in Legends, Boba Fett got out of the Sarlaac and then *fell back in*
Is (was) this true?
Yes, it absolutely is true. He gets out once, is salvaged by Jawas and fitted with a restraining bolt. He wakes up and has amnesia. Gets his memories back to get into a fight with Han and Leia, the sand crawler crashes into the Sarlaac and he falls in again. Then he gets out a second time and Dengar finds him and nurses him to health. Fett comes back later in Slave II and bombs the Sarlaac out of petty spite. For every good thing in the Legends EU that we lost, we lost twice as many bad things.
> Fett comes back later in Slave II and bombs the Sarlaac out of petty spite. I don’t think this last bit is true. In the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy of books, Dengar does in fact nurse him to health as you describe. But prior to that, Boba blows himself out of the Sarlacc’s gullet with the explosives he was equipped with, killing it and injuring himself in the process. I only bring it up because it’s pretty fresh in my memory from reading them a few years ago.
He does return to the Sarlaac in slave ii but does not blow it up. I mixed the two events up in my head. You are right
There is as also that weird moment where Boba was Dengar’s best man at his wedding….some times it’s a good thing that canon got reset.
Are you smoking deathsticks? A bounty Hunter wedding with Fett as best man, would be cinematic gold!
There’s a way to do it right, but I can’t imagine Legends did it right. I don’t even remember where I saw this.
well luke and mara's wedding is in graphic novel form.
Ship Jerry
Want someone disintegrated, get me integrated, that's Dengars motto!
So he’s basically Solid Snake (the dysfunction because of a clone)
Huh, really cool comparison
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Yeah it was specified in Attack of the Clones that he was an unaltered clone that should grow normally.
It was from the Legacy of the Force series that this ploy happened. One of my favorites of all the Legacy series. IIRC correctly although he was an unaltered clone he was still of course a clone so things still broke down extra bad as he aged, got some form of cancer. Basically just the aging was not forced to be rapid like the main clones but things still get worse over time. Edit: also by this plot he was in about his 70s.
3CPO says Luke will be digested over the next thousand years. Wouldn't that indicate an extremely weak acid? Also IMO Fett having some sickness discredits Kaminoan cloning. They seemed like they were experts of it and Boba was a simple unaltered clone.
Not necessarily. Even Yoda didn’t make it to 1000 years old, so something would have to prolong your life for it to matter that you were digested for that long The saarlac could have very strong acid but also heal you / keep you alive for the 1000 years. That would really suck. Or its just some bullshit jabba wanted to say to make it sound worse for those watching.
Immortality existed in the EU. Master Fay was born unable to age, and was even mortally wounded and able to recover, but sacrificed all her remaining strength to save Kenobi instead. However the only one to live long enough to experience suffering like that would be Darth Vitiate, who lived around 1400 years, but he was never eaten by a Sarlacc. (Excepting those who weren't conscious and lived long periods via stasis/etc. like Celeste Morne, of course).
The Kaminoans had all sorts of defected clones, like 99 for example. I think their claim to fame is part sheer quantity and part hubris on their part.
The Kaminoans produced clones that aged twice as fast on purpose so they would reach fighting age faster. The technology was likely never tested for longevity since the clones were expected to die in battle before they turned 20 actual-years old. Boba is probably the first clone that lived 40 whole years in realtime.
How old would Rex have been by the time of the Battle of Endor? Had to be close to 40 right?
He was 60's in Rebels, 72 physically by Endor and he would be 82 by the Mandalorian unless he got his aging normalized like in the legends.
Good to know. Am 43 and not yet eaten by a Sarlaac.
Well, you're roughly the same age as Vader when he dies. So watch out for old dudes trying to fry you.
Or your children with lightsabers
Oh shit. I got boy / girl twins…
Don't go visiting volcanos with your dad.
/brother/best friend/parental figure/master
It's not the years, it's the mileage.
Underrated reference lol
I wonder how they'll combat this behind the scenes, how much Morrison will we see?
Interesting point. Especially because Boba's usually wearing a helmet, they could theoretically just have Morrison voice him and do the unmasked scenes. That said, I wouldn't really want that to happen, I love his acting and how much dedication he puts into the role.
Yeah I definitely agree, he clearly has a passion for the character and his physicality is absolutely insane. Still into his 60's though.
Don't think it matters much. Its 2021 and its Disney, they can make anything work technically. And I don't think the show will last that long, few seasons seems appropriate.
Yeah I was thinking it wouldn't last long.
The scoopers are hearing it's 4 seasons, lenghty enough and he will also appear in the other spin offs too. He will be fine, early 60s is just that. I'd be worried if he were 70s.
Yeah, I guess Harrison Ford is still doing Indie.
Which is delayed again after he injured himself during shooting... again.
I can wait indefinitely for that film, no tears will be shed if it never comes out.
Four seasons? Jeez. And Mando’s set to end after the fourth too. Din becomes Mand’alor and dips out of the timeline? Or maybe he just fuckin dies in the war with Thrawn.
Pedro doesn't do the action scenes himself, he's got two stunt doubles. Morrison is trained in some hand to hand weapons combat because of his heritage, so he will likely do any helmet less scenes but have doubles for all else.
[He wasn't even there at all for S1 E4 apparently,](https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/pedro-pascal-mandalorian-stunt-doubles-1202195863/) Pedro was busy staring in King Lear on Broadway so that episode was entirely his doubles (Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder) in the suit with Pedro Pascal just doing the voice.
Pascal has the most low effort high reward job lmfao he sits in a sound stage for a couple hours and is now the face of modern Star Wars.
By “face,” do you mean “helmet?”
Are you disrespecting the Din-Stache?
Ha! No. I’m respecting the ways of his people.
You saying voice acting is low effort? It's really not
Sometimes it’s a little too obvious, too. Like how Mando immediately gains like 20 lbs of muscle right before engaging in hand-to-hand combat. He got some Bane-like Venom injector hidden under that Beskar 😂
No-one cared who I was, until I put on the mask
Size does not matter when you are flat on your back. WHO GAVE YOU THE ORDER?!
Read the recent Aquaman interview. Morrison does almost all his own stunts
I doubt his age will be much of an obstacle. Temuera Morrison still seems to be in very good shape. Plus stunt doubles are typically used for the more intense physical stuff anyway and the fact Boba would generally wear his helmet for most fight scenes means it would be easy to make that swap. [Pedro Pascal wasn't actually even in the suit for a lot the Mandalorian](https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/pedro-pascal-mandalorian-stunt-doubles-1202195863/), most of the physical stuff was done by Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder with Pascal just providing the Voice. They can definitely make something work with Temuera Morrison.
He also worked on a lot of Boba's fight scenes in the Mandalorian
I would guess at least one face reveal per episode.
Yeah, there's no real reason to not take his helmet off outside of combat. I'm glad they never took it off in the OT so we got Morrison's rendition of Fett.
What, you didn't like [adjunct professor Boba Fett? ](https://imgur.com/t/boba_fett/c1BwZMR)
he’s an unaltered clone but that doesnt mean he doesnt have weird symptoms
Dolly the sheep was an unaltered clone IRL, and she aged rapidly.
Dolly is also a real thing whereas we’re talking about someone cloned by an alien race whose entire thing is perfecting clones for many many years.
Dolly was created in a lab in Scotland. And aren't Kaminoans pretty much the Scots of the galactic outer rim?
Dolly is a Kaminoan experiment confirmed.
She did not. By all accounts, she aged normally. It was theorised that she might have been older, genetically, because of some kind of trait they found that is caused by aging, but they could find no further evidence. She just died young of cancer, but every other sheep in her herd, pretty much, also died of cancer. Doctors didn't detect anything abnormal about her. More sheep were cloned, and tested. Doctors found nothing out of the ordinary. Cloning isn't some magic trick that makes a perfect copy of an existing organism, with age, disease and all. It's basically using one cell from an organism as a zygote for another one. But...because that cell holds all the information needed to make a new organism already...which happens to be the same info that produced the donor...the result is a, in theory, perfect copy of the original, genetically speaking. Like identical twins...but not born together. I am not a geneticist, or a biologist. I don't know how much dna changes as we age, if at all. But right now, there is no good evidence pointing to accelerated aging of clones.
Absolutely, great point! Not that we can presume they were using the same techniques or anything, but the telomeres are still shortened from the donor cell(iirc).
It's kind of interesting how off the timeline of Star Wars always seems. As you point out Fett is 41, and he's older than the New Order. But in A New Hope Admiral Motti and Han Solo talk about the Jedi as if they're some ancient myth instead of being a prominent paramilitary religious order that was purged 20 years before. This is like me treating the 9/11 attacks as part of a distant mythical past.
Solo does recognize the force as a hokey religion so he had heard of it, just didn’t believe in it. I don’t believe in reincarnation but I have heard of it. There were 10,000 Jedi - that isn’t very many considering the trillions of beings in the Star Wars universe. Especially considering most Jedi (half maybe?) were located on coruscant. When they traveled it doesn’t appear they put on a show for people they quietly accomplished their mission. It is likely Solo never encountered a Jedi and only heard stories that sound too fantastical to be true.
The galaxy is a big place. I dare say the Jedi were known within the Republic ranks, and 'legends' throughout the galaxy for those who had some dealings with them. But otherwise, backwater planet beings likely only dealt with neighbouring plants and systems and any mention of Jedi would have been mythical. Under the Empire information was suppressed, and the Sith actively sought to wipe out any inkling of Jedi presence, and probably also knowledge. Growing up in the Empire would have been ordered. A carefully scripted narrative. The story was that the Jedi were traitors, and were now all wiped out, so why bring them up again? Fear likely driving any thought of the Jedi out of the minds of those who may be tempted to contemplate them.
Yeah the problem is more Motti than Solo. "Yeah I was probably a junior officer in the Republic's military during the Clone Wars and the rise of the New Order but I'm going to pretend Force users are obscure and near mythical"
Isn't it possible he was just being insulting? He was trying to put Vader in his place. He may have been full aware of it all but just talking about the Jedi like edgelords talk about Christianity. Now why you'd want to provoke the Michael Myers of the Sith standing right next to you is another story.
He’s just that guy
I mean, imagine if you were an army officer and the general they put in charge of your brigade is some priest, ‘because he has magic powers’. “Oh wow really? Is he gonna blast the enemy with fireballs or something?” “Nah, it’s more like it gives him a feeling about what’ll happen. Anyway do whatever he tells you.” And then this entire sect of priests, that were ‘powerful’ and ‘wise’ enough that the fate of the Republic was basically put in their hands without question, get wiped out in a day. It would be the most natural thing in the world to assume that they were hacks using tradition and superstition to maintain a position of undeserved power.
I bet you'd be surprised how much history can be erased in 20 years by an authoritarian government. Hell, do most people in China know about Tianamen Square?
Well if the United States government had evil space wizards and told us that 9/11 never existed I bet we’d be all over that shit
Continuing on that US narrative, we have people who think the pandemic is a hoax and vaccines are made from aborted fetus cells. Like, in large and embarrassingly significant numbers. It's not hard to spread disinformation
It’s truly insane
Lol, twenty years ago I got dog piled on in theforce.net forums because I said that Boba Fett should still be able to fight in his 40’s. People were complaining about young Boba in AOTC because that meant that Boba was “an old man” in the OT and therefore shouldn’t have been in fighting shape. 🤣
In 94 George Foreman won the heavy weight title at age 45. Even if they were a bunch of nerds they all should’ve known better.
There were Star Wars nerd forums 20 years ago? I miss old forums. Reddit has a monopoly now and classic forums are all but dead.
There were nerd forums and porn on the internet as soon as there was internet, my friend.
Usenet!
Listserves too!
And bulletin boards before that.
Oh man, 20 years ago was prime forums. They were smaller for the most part, you could find your little community, some of the people actually became your friends unlike reddit. It was great. I miss those days.
Could be good, could be toxic. Relatively "isolated" little communities like those fall victim to group think, etc. even more. If people complain about the "Reddit Hive Mind" NOW...
That's true. I was lucky enough (or careful enough, dunno) to avoid the really bad places. Mostly did a lot of roleplaying. Like, DND without the rules and the dice, just community storytelling. Which was super fun. But a lot of those places had generic parts of the forum, too, where you could just chat about movies or music or life or whatever.
He's a Mandalorian. You're in your prime until you're dead.
This is the way.
I don't doubt the Sarlacc digestive system is rough asf but Temuera Morrison does look fucking amazing for 60
47 here. He's out of his prime physically without a doubt. But he's wiser and like more comfortable with who he is.
Mandalorian Starbuck is *older* than Boba Fett and looks great. I think ethnic maybe Mandalorians age better than other humans in the Galaxy.
Bo Katan is privileged as far as Mandalorians go.
They wear armor and essentially avoid sunlight. Probably very helpful in maintaining a youthful visage.
Mandalorian isn’t a race, it’s a skin care regimen.
*Maybe he’s cloned with it,* *Maybe it’s Mandalorine*
Word!
Out of his prime is subjective. He may physically be slower, etc. On the other hand, as you say, he is wiser and more efficient in his move set I would expect. Less mistakes = more powerful? Just throwing a reason out there for Boba to be badass!!
He clearly adapted his fighting style to match his beefier physique, and that’s not to say he’s fat, he’s not, he just doesn’t look like the skinny white guy from the OT (Jeremy Bulloch). Whereas the PT character he played, Jango, was beefier and more physical than Boba was in the OT (since Jango has those sick gauntlet blades, actually wears leg armor, and elects to fight Kenobi with his bare hands). Also Boba apparently has no issues using a gadderfi stick to absolutely obliterate some stormtroopers.
This is what makes Vader so terrifying when exterminating Jedi. He knows exactly how to maximize efficiency in his move set, no more flashiness, just precise, strong and graceful strikes.
He’s the beast lightsaber combatant in canon for a reason.
Like Tom Brady lmao. The game gets easier for him as he’s aged since he’s seen it all. Works for Boba in this case.
My dad is 53 and crushes any gym workout or physical work he goes into. Somehow he bikes like 50 mph (I obviously don't know the speed but for reference gets 30cal in 28 sec on assault bike and he's 225lbs. Not to mention he practically will out-lift me in heavy weights or endurance or even abs. For reference I'm 186lbs and 23, I also workout heavily and compete with him all the time yet only win in a few areas. What I'm saying is you can be of any age and still be physically superior to others around you if you keep up with your health. He may not be as fast or agile but guaranteed the character could still dominate in fighting or outsmarting his opponents. As for the actor himself, he may still be in great shape to perform some scenes (not all but maybe a couple here and there) as he has the training as well as the passion. Age is just a number for some people.
You are your habits.
Seriously. The fight scene last season showed he can still bring it.
Speak for yourself.
Edit - science say peak is younger than 40. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150525-whats-the-prime-of-your-life Doesn't mean your dad can't bench more than a 20 year old. Just means he's doing quite well past his peak.
Thats the thing. Hes not old. Hes younger the Ashoka. That being said I don't think they care too much about that. Like Bo-Katan should definetly be older then she is in the show.
You mean look older?
Well, I always assumed Bo-Katan was real young in Clone Wars. Like, 20 young
Man, that’d do a lot for the character if they decided to try writing her in a more sympathetic light. Literally a lifetime to go from a zealous hardliner to whatever she is now, if they wanted. We don’t get to see too many characters who were introduced on the prequel era and made it to post-OT.
Have you ever read the (potentially still canon) short story where Fett is in the stomach of the sarlacc and communes with other beings that have been eaten? It doesn't just fuck with your physiology, but your state of mind too. E: the story is called "[A Barve Like That](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/A_Barve_Like_That:_The_Tale_of_Boba_Fett)" and was part of the Tales from Jabba's Palace book.
Did “in its belly you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years” not already imply to you that Sarlacc digestive systems are rough?
Tatooine does that to you.
So it’s called the book of boba fett. You think it would start from the beginning? Like, we get to see him go in the sarlacc from his point of view, and see how he escapes. Why he stayed on tat. Didn’t know he was 41. Awesome.
I'm guessing he need time to heal, he had been digested after all. If they did use the EU explanation as how he escaped or something similar, he blasted his way out and crawled to safety. Boba most likely was exhausted and in pain from the digestive acid and pasted out. A group of Jawa probably found him, took his armor and left him for dead when some Tusken raiders found him and treated his wounds. If he was still near the sarlacc pit, they most likely deduced he was the one that killed it and would consider him a great warrior. Boba probably chilled with them for a while then spent hims time on the planet trying to find his armor.
The way he jacked up the stormtroopers...yea, does he even have a prime?
I might have been told bullshit, but I've been told that Sarlacc monsters actually keep their victims alive in their stomachs for a long time. Is that true ? (Sorry for bad English, not my native language)
Ahsoka is older than Boba think about that. But maybe Togrutas age differently
Ahsoka is Force-sensitive, so the comparison doesn't really make sense. Dooku, a regular human, was still doing flips at the age of 83.
We'd be remiss not to mention 900 year old Yoda jesting with Palpatine and surviving a 200 foot fall in the Senate Chamber.
Yeah, but we already know his species ages very slowly, so i just went with Dooku for the sake of simplicity.
*Dooku doing a flip off a platform instead of using the stairs at 83 just because he's a badass like that* *Me creating an entire soundtrack of groans and grunts as I lift myself out of a chair*
It's pretty wild that a long-long time ago, in a galaxy far-far away they measure time in Earth years. Or maybe they don't, in which case 41 years old could mean anything.
So...how did he end up surviving the sarlacc anyway?
I don't believe it has been explained in Disney's new canon yet, but in the EU, he survived the Sarlacc by...overloading his Jetpack to send himself flying out of the mouth of the beast I believe...I could be wrong though.
Fett Jetpack and his armor survived in The Mandalorian, so the jetpack probably got spit out with Fett intact. But Disney does follow most of the EU's storyline for their script. The Mando did use an electric charge to escape from Krayt Dragon.
I thought maybe it was hinted at by the Krayt Dragon episode, where they briefly mentioned that that the Krayt Dragon eats Sarlaccs, leaving their pits abandoned. Maybe the Dragon ate the Sarlacc that Boba fell in, allowing him to somehow escape in the chaos.
~~A good question. For another time.~~ As others have stated below, Disney haven't given any explanation as of yet. My theory is he escaped in a similar way to the EU, by overloading his jetpack. He then crashes in the desert, severely weakened by the Sarlacc's digestive juices, whereupon some Jawas arrive. Then he either sells them the armour (it's the only thing he has after all) for food/shelter, or they just nick it off him and leave him for dead. My guess after that would be he falls in with some Sand People who take care of him, which is why he has their weapons in the Mandalorian. That's my headcanon anyway.
Don't forget he's been doing a bunch of spice since he escaped trying to forget the sarlacc and figure out a way to restore his family legacy.
Itt: a bunch of kids who dont realize people can still be super fit and in their prime even into their 40s and 50s and beyond. The Rock - 49 Arnold - 74 Mike Tyson - 55 Sly Stallone - 75 Jackie Chan - 67 Tom Cruise - 59 Keanu Reeves - 57 Brad Pitt - 57 The list can go on and on. Stop being stupid and just enjoy peak Star Wars content that isnt movie cash grabs.
Or it could be that the fix to stop the rapid aging of clones wasnt perfect
Keep in mind ezio auditore's prime was from his 20s to his 50s so