![]() Yet at the same time, I don’t want everything explained in Star Wars. Most of them have actually been made in the ensuing 40 years of Star Wars fandom. My friends and I would imagine action figures for all of them. I liked the menagerie of aliens in Mos Eisley, and coming up with complicated back stories for each of them. ![]() I liked the grimy Sandpeople, and the eternal mystery of what’s under all that wrapping. The inscrutable Jawas and their building/vehicle stacked with stolen droids. ![]() The opening hour or so of Star Wars: A New Hope, before it left Tatooine, is rich with worldbuilding for me. I liked the seamy, lived-in side of Star Wars. I can launch a detailed explanation of how 4-LOM and Zuckuss’ names apparently got messed up by Kenner when they made the action figures, so even though they’ve corrected the error, I still always think of Zuckuss as 4-LOM and vice-versa. I got kind of obsessed with those bounty hunters, even the goofy-but-fun novels exploring them. That’s the best of Star Wars, to me – the lived-in sense, the countless possible back stories of background aliens and extras running around with ice cream containers. Those 47 seconds launched the imagination of a million dweeby kids and an entire subsidiary industry of books, comics and cartoons looking at just who or what those dirty bounty hunters were. (Although some harried crew member apparently threw the IG-88 model in the cluttered background of a Cloud City scene for extra set dressing, spawning endless fan theories.) These characters are seen, don’t speak, and with the exception of Boba Fett, they’re never heard from again in the movies. There’s Boba Fett, of course, cult icon for the ages, and another five briefly glimpsed characters – spindly robot IG-88, reptilian Bossk, battered Dengar, Cronenbergian nightmares 4-LOM and Zuckuss. We’re introduced to a disreputable mob of bounty hunters hired by Darth Vader to hunt down Han Solo. ![]() If I absolutely had a pick a favourite scene from all the Star Wars movies, it’s a mere 47 seconds in The Empire Strikes Back. ![]()
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