Again, that makes Jango's decision to engage the Jedi even more foolish. They're not prepared to fight the Jedi. They just got done fighting Galidraan insurrectionists. And yet he keeps blaming the Jedi for the deaths of his men when he killed them by siccing them on the Jedi. Montross is very much correct. Jango was a better character in the Bounty Hunter game, where he was cynical, but smart, and he comes up with plans on how to crack open the Bando Gora case and get that sweet 5 million credits from Dooku.
As I said, Haden Blackman's work has the tendency to focus on how badass characters like Vader and Jango Fett are, while making them drop the idiot ball more than once. His script for the Force Unleashed, which George Lucas encouraged and used as a bridge between Episodes 3 and 4, has Vader as a Force-powered badass who is practically a walking tornado of pain and suffering, but character-wise, he's some kind of wishy-washy guy who supposedly lies to the Emperor but then lies to his apprentice and betrays them, ostensibly to force Starkiller to be a Jedi and make him fight both Vader and the Emperor, even though logically, Vader could have and SHOULD HAVE totally used Starkiller to kill the Emperor and take his throne. In the same vein, Jango's the kind of badass who kills Jedi with bare hands, but he's kind of an idiot as a war leader and a Mandalore, repeating Jaster's mistake and siccing his men on targets that can totally wreck them. Which contradicts his portrayal in EPII and the Bounty Hunter game as a more rational, cynical man who won't stick his neck out if it's too much trouble, not the kind of guy who would order his men to open fire at a ship's worth of Jedi Knights.
Not unfaithful per se, but still, kind of damages the character. People's perceptions of Vader and Jango Fett as calculating, clever warriors were damaged by the Force Unleashed and Open Seasons, even though those works portray them at their most badass in combat. Other works like Dark Lord: Rise of Darth Vader and the Bounty Hunter game do a better job of portraying Vader and Fett as characters.
Power levels denote which character wins the fight. Heck, even Lucas obsessed over power levels, which is why Luke and Anakin were important, since if they were fully trained, they could wipe out just about anyone, something Luke eventually gets to in the EU.
"Luke, you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this." -Darth Vader, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
"Soon Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us!" -Darth Sidious speaking to Yoda, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Er, no. Lucas portrayed the Prequel Jedi as correct about emotional attachments, down to the point where he made Anakin Skywalker unsympathetic when compared to the likes of say, Kenobi or Yoda. The only thing they were wrong about was whether or not Vader could be saved, and Jedi dogma says that all life is precious and that every soul deserves the right to be redeemed, even those of Sith Lords like Vader and Revan. If anything, Luke was more loyal to Jedi dogma than Yoda and Kenobi were, especially since the two were willing to forgo Jedi dogma to turn Luke into a magic hitman to kill the Sith instead. That, and if he wanted to portray the Jedi as gray, he'd have said as much in his many, many interviews. Instead, he keeps portraying the Jedi as good, and he approved of a mountain of works where the Jedi are undeniably the good guys. His input in the EU, mostly the Force Unleashed game he made with Haden Blackman and the Dark Empire comic that Tom Veitch spearheaded, portrayed the Jedi as good and everyone who opposed them as the bad guys. There was no grey with Lucas outside of EPVI, and that's because in that movie, Luke believed more in the Jedi dogmas than Yoda and Kenobi did.
Er, no. Jedi toys sold as well, if not better than, their Mandalorian counterparts. Especially when the kids know nothing much about Mandalorians except what the movies portray, and the movies portrayed them as people who get killed by Jedi and blind men. It's the adult fans who see the potential in the Fetts and who read all the comics and novels who are Mandalorian fans. Kiddie Star Wars fans are more likely to gravitate towards Luke, Kenobi, or Ahsoka Tano. Yes, Filoni's orange waifu is now more popular than the Mandalorians among the kids, even after a show came out that was specifically about the Mandos. Down to the point where there's talks that indicate she will show up in said Mandalorian show.
I already talked about how Lucas portrayed the Jedi as more grey in the Original Trilogy than the Prequels. In the OT, they lied to Luke, but were portrayed to have good reasons behind it, with Luke not holding grudges and only complaining about it somewhat meekly. In the Prequels, they're Captain America with psychic powers and laser swords. The Prequels were a Jedi power fantasy where they cut down droids like logs so they don't have to feel guilty about killing live men, and they only cut down the clones after the clones coldly betrayed them so that's OK in the audience's eyes too. That, and the Separatists who were fighting the Jedi were portrayed by the films as money-hungry war-profiteers, which justifies the use of a massive clone army to put a blaster bolt in their collective bottoms. NOT ONE CHARACTER in the film questioned the use of a slave army, and Order 66 would have never happened had Anakin and his daddy issues never gotten in the way.
Jango only caught said Jedi Council member by surprise. If he was face-to-face with a Jedi, he would have lost, which he did. And again, the fight between Mace and Sidious was staged already, so Mace would have been killed by Fett AFTER he defeated Sidious, when he's tired and exhausted. And of course, Lucas changed his mind and had Anakin deal the crucial blow, which means not even Lucas stuck with the idea that Boba could kill Mace. Again, CONTEXT IS IMPORTANT. Which goes to prove EPII's thesis, that in Lucas' view, if a Jedi and a Mandalorian are in a fair fight, the Mando loses. Heck, in the OT, Boba loses to a blind man with a stick, not even a Jedi. Which is rather unflattering when it comes to portraying Mandalorians. For all your talk of how Lucas' will is against the Jedi, what happened in Lucas' films goes to show his rather unflattering view on the Mandalorians, where not even Jedi, but blind men, could defeat Mandalorians in a rather humiliating fashion. The Expanded Universe had to go on overdrive to show the Mandos COULD be a threat to Jedi, and even then, the Mandos get massacred half the time when they don't have powerful backers like the Sith Empire.
We don't have much knowledge on Lucas' input. But we do know that he had input on the show, especially when Dave Filoni couldn't write a show at the same level as TCW without Lucas. However, Lucas had zero input on the novels and comics which portray the Mandalorians in a positive light, since his portrayals of them in the films denote that A) that they're greedy assholes who work for money, and B) they get killed like scrubs when the enemy knows they're there and isn't distracted by something else.
Regardless of Palpatine's thoughts, the Jedi were still in the right on the clones. Especially when the only alternative to the clones, especially since Jango and his people already indoctrinated them to be loyal to the Republic, would be to have the clones be led by guys like Tarkin and other "favorites" of Palpatine, guys who wouldn't blink at massive casualties and PTSD caused by committing war crimes.
Except the Jedi who were captured were students in the Order. Also, the guy in charge of capturing them was Demagol, a close associate of Mandalore, who would have access to more elite Mandalorian troops. Also, in the very same comic, Zayne Carrick has no problems fighting off Mandalorians and even defeating them, even though he's a wash-out padawan who's practically nothing when compared to a real Jedi like Revan.
Also, the Bounty Hunter character in TOR is portrayed as being far better than most Mandalorians. The Hunter defeats Tarro Blood's Mandalorian comrades, makes the Mandalorians in Dromund Kaas look like a joke by killing a powerful monster that the Mandalorian clans have failed to kill, and the Hunter is also Mandalore's representative among the Grand Champions of the Great Hunt. The Hunter can also REFUSE to become Mandalorian, which is a logical choice considering that Mandalore doesn't protect the Hunter when the Jedi and the Republic slander them, and several Mandalorians have caused enough problems for the Hunter during the Great Hunt. Face it, the Hunter isn't strong because they're Mandalorian, the Mandalorians wanted them to join because the Hunter is strong.
Zym wasn't that strong to begin with. Later, Braden was held hostage by another Jedi named Orgus Din, the Jedi Knight's master. If another Jedi can get to the point where Braden's neck can be bisected with a lightsaber, it goes to show that neither he nor his targets were that strong to begin with.
Plus, again, SWTOR has no shortage of Jedi killing Mandalorians. Aside from the Jedi player characters who wind up fighting the Mandalorians and piling body after body of them in the campaigns and expansions, Jedi such as Kellian Jarro and Corin Tok have made a sport of killing Mandalorians, with the former becoming the "Mandalorian Killer" and the latter being known as "Verda'Jedi" by the Mandos. Neither one was killed by a Mandalorian warrior from the clans, falling to either the Hunter in the case of Kellian Jarro, or some Sith/Imperial in Corin Tok's case.
But that's the point. The stronger Mandalorians kill Jedi now and then and cause problems for them, but when the Jedi go on Total War mode against the Mandos, the Mandos start losing. HORRIBLY. To the point where in both wars they had with the Jedi, that being Galidraan and the Mandalorian Wars, the Mandalorians wind up nearly extinct. The Jedi Order still had enough Jedi after the Mandalorian Wars to wage a Jedi Civil War, whereas by that time, the Mandos were so scattered and weak that when a new Mandalore turns up, other Mandalorians note that some swoop biker could have bought a helmet and made such a claim, or even tried to kill said Mandalore to take his helmet. And after Galidraan, the True Mandalorians get driven to extinction so hard that the following Mandalorian conflict had to be between their rivals in the Death Watch, and some hippie pacifist group.
Not a false assumption when people want you to put spoiler tags.
Which is accurate considering that most people who only watched the films think both Fetts are a joke. I respect the Fetts, but basically, that's because I'm a turbo-nerd who read comics and novels and played the games where the Mandalorians actually stood a FRACTION of a chance against Jedi.
Try playing the Mygeeto map in classic Battlefront II as the Empire against another player. The heroes are Boba Fett (Empire) and Luke Skywalker (Rebels). Fett has a decent chance to kill Luke if he's controlled by CPU since all the CPU knows how to do is melee and lightsaber throw, but a human player controlling Luke who spams Force Push against Fett would win every time.
No, I like Canderous because he guts Sith warriors for the glory of Revan. He's the one Mandalorian I know of who can actually win half the time against Sith who use the Force as a weapon. Quite literally, he can fight Traviss' Mandalorians and rip them to shreds in melee, considering that the dude killed lightsaber-wielding Sith for a living under Revan's command.
