Boba's Clone Wars Adventures

We watched the other two episodes of Clone Wars in the Boba arc. I must say I am horribly distressed by Bossk. See, when I thought that was Cradossk I was a little weirded out that he wore the same clothes Bossk wore but thought "whatever, sure". Then I find out it is Bossk.
1. In The Bounty Hunter Wars, I believe it was, there's a part where Boba gets the visor of his helmet cracked while teaming with two or three other guys. Back at Slave I he goes to a storage container and gets a new helmet. Bossk is eager and can't wait to see what he looks like without the helmet, but the door of the container blocks his view. Either Bossk's curiosity in how human's change as they grow up is contradictory to his personality or something isn't canon here.
2. Bossk had no personality in the Clone Wars. He was just kinda... there... I haven't read the books in a very long time so I might be remembering wrong, but I seem to remember Bossk as being bloodthirsty, impatient, and reckless. Not some stoic pilot who's all "eh, whatever".

So, it is my theory that Bossk was either sick during this time, some Trandoshan disease or some such maybe, or he was in a period of taking drugs or something. Thus, he wasn't himself and he wouldn't remember Boba helmetless. Two birds with one stone, ya know?

I wonder if they're going to show how Aurra Sing escaped the crashing Slave I? Cause we all know she doesn't die at this point in time. Makes me wonder why they didn't investigate the crash site? I suppose they didn't mention that she escaped because that would take focus off Boba and might give people the idea that she would appear again in later episodes cause that would be a kind of cliffhanger ominous ending.

I love that last shot of Boba being marched away by Clonetroopers, empty holsters moving with every step, his back straight, head held high... It was a fairly decent ending to the arc, however, I did so hate that he basically became what I said to everyone he would become. The evil villain who, at the end of each episode, shakes his fist and shouts, "I would have done it too, if it weren't for those pesky Jedi!" Like the comic villain whom you know will never win. At least they let Boba walk away with some respect in tact and we can blame any error on Aurra Sing cause really it was all her fault.

I'm going to have a time working the young Boba books and Clone Wars into the timeline. I've determined that since the first few books of the young Boba books follow basically his every move after AOTC they happened first, especially since the tv show is a little while after AOTC anyway, seeing as Anakin shows up as a knight and everything it would have to be a while after AOTC. So, the last two books of the young Boba series does kinda branch off into the realm of "this is kinda embarrassing, but I'm not sure if I should count them as canon and work them in or if I should turn a blind eye and insist those books were never published... or that they were intended as AU or that at the end Boba would wake up and it would have been a dream...". Because we have Boba going after someone I don't remember who, and then in mid-mission he changes his mind, abandons the hunt (!!!), and heads towards Coruscant to get Mace. Slave I is damaged and he goes to repair it and Anakin shows up and starts helping him fix his ship while Boba paints his armor. That's about when I stopped reading. I'm still uncertain whether or not I'm going to try to work that in or not.

Anyway, you can see who is is materializing in these episodes. His moral code, and such. Which Tales of the Bounty Hunters really says his code well, but you can see it in every other thing he's in. He's a far better man than Jango was. Jango was kinda scummy. Course I doubt Jango read much. Boba spent a lot of his childhood reading. He was friends with the librarian. Boba also has a poetic side, and we've actually seen him staring into the stars and just thinking about stuff. He loves watching the swirls of hyperspace, getting lost in them.

I hate to say it, really, being that Clone Wars is my inspiration, but I'm going to re-read The Bounty Hunter Wars after I'm done with Red Harvest. Somehow the Clone Wars has rekindled my interest in Boba. Not that it ever went away, mind, it just dwindled a little. Now I itch to re-read books about him. And since it was The Bounty Hunter Wars that gave me my interest in the first place I shall head there. Then maybe the story about him in Tales From The New Republic. I also liked Enemy of the Empire so I should read that too. I'm actually not very fond of his story from Tales Of The Bounty Hunters. I do like Tales From Jabba's Palace, though, it has my favorite Boba quote (which was apparently originally said by someone here on Earth), "Reality doesn't care if you believe in it." I don't like that one comic in Tales about whatshername, the mother of Boba's daughter, which we forever fought over whether or not it was canon, which with Tales comics it's hard to tell, some of them are obviously not canon (Boba's cousin hunting down a Jar Jar sippie cup) and some could be canon (Quinlan Vos meeting a young Han and using a mind trick to make him forget the encounter). I believe the general feel was that it was not canon. At least not until Karen Traviss had her say. I hear now that she's been pushed away from writing SW books her other fandoms are starting to get irritated with her too. Now, I never read her post-NJO book but I believe I  heard somewhere that his daughter makes appearances, and I have seen pictures of her somewhere. I suppose if it's done correctly (with traviss? not a chance) it would be interesting.

Red Harvest is picking up. Finally all these separate characters who appeared for one chapter are meeting and their fates entwining. However, all these "main characters" who showed up on the Dramatis Personae are dying off as not main characters at all. I guess he had to have someone to fill the list with, though.

Me and Victor lazed on the couch all the rest of yesterday. We had our baked ziti and sat around watching Simpsons while he played the new Contra game. I was going to read but I can't concentrate when there's something playing. One episode was a clip show so I thought I could read during it. During that entire episode I managed to read half a page but I wasn't able to get into the story at all and had to re-read some sentences several times before they sunk in enough for me to progress. So I put the book away and condemned myself to lazing away the afternoon and evening. It was kinda nice being so cuddly with Victor, though, cause I used him as a pillow most the time and when I got tired of that he used me as a pillow. He even let me braid his hair! eee!

And now to end this post with yet another of my favorite Boba lines:
Neelah, "You know, you could be a hero. If that was what you wanted."
Boba, "Hardly. Heroes don't get paid enough."