You know what I just realized? Boba Fett has 4 lines in The Empire Strikes Back, and yet, with only those 4 lines to go on, Lucas can't keep his characterization straight.
Fett's first line is a not-at-all-Westly-ish "As you wish," his grudging response to Vader's insistence that he not disintegrate the Millennium Falcon. And yet half an hour later, he's complaining to Vader that "He [Han Solo, you know, the Falcon's captain]'s no good to me dead," and "What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me." Well, if he wasn't you wouldn't have had that response to Vader's "no disintegrations" order, wouldn't you?
The only possible way to make sense of this is to suggest that Fett didn't know that Han Solo owned the Millennium Falcon. And frankly, undignified-and-subsequently-retconned death notwithstanding, Fett is, in films V and VI at least (and the less said about II, the better), far too badass to be that dumb.
Image of the Week: Pearl Harbor and the Fog of War
I follow a lot of naval history accounts, so this "Japanese map showing their assessment of the damage done to the United States flee...
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