How Boba Fett's "Flashbacks" May Not Be An Accurate Account Of His Story
Warning! The following contains spoilers for 'The Book of Boba Fett'
Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett finally answers the question that has been looming over fans ever since Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2 Chapter 14, The Tragedy aired. That question being, how did Boba Fett survive the sarlacc pit? Since his reappearance, fans have had their theories and speculations while others turned to the comics, but now, especially for those who only follow the movies and streaming series, that question has finally been answered. But now a new question presents itself after The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 4, The Gathering Storm, has aired. In this episode we see Boba Fett returning to the sarlacc pit in search of his armor, but the audience already knows that the armor was taken by Jawas when he first emerged from the pit in Chapter 1. This may prove how Boba Fett’s “flashbacks” may not be an accurate account of his story.
So far in the story of The Book of Boba Fett, each episode has been mostly flashbacks. They start all the way back when Boba first emerged from the sarlacc pit and proceed all the way to when he regains his father’s ship from Jabba’s Palace. Not many would have guessed that one of the first things Boba Fett would do was to return to the sarlacc pit. Boba Fett clearly has no memory of the Jawas stealing his father’s armor off of him before the Tusken Raiders eventually showed up. Not that most people would blame him for having a fuzzy memory. After all, it would take several days of healing in the bacta tank before his outside wounds would completely heal. Not to mention that the Jawas did give Boba Fett a decent hit on the head when he tried to stop them. But the real question is, if that memory was lost to Boba, then could there be others?
There was no denying Boba Fett’s poor state when he was first taken by the Tusken Raiders. Apart from his wounds, he was severely dehydrated and was left out in Tatooine’s two suns. It’s possible that, in this time, his memory might not hold up. But it is unlikely that Boba’s memory would conjure up everything that happened with the Tusken Raiders. Boba Fett’s memories of the Tusken Raiders weren’t bad. In fact, he appeared to feel more at home with them than he ever did with the clones from the Clone Wars. Little was known about the Tusken people besides from the interactions between both Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope and Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. Both times the Tusken Raiders were shown as nothing more than savage people living in the desert, but Boba Fett shines a whole new light on them. In his flashbacks he shows the Tusken Raiders as people just trying to survive on a harsh planet and the dangers they face on a daily basis. He shows the Tusken Raiders having their own customs and traditions all while they slowly accept Boba Fett as one of their own.
It’s unlikely that his memories of this time would be too far off from the truth, at least for now. But with every new episode it shows us a little more into what is going through Boba Fett’s head. Boba forgetting that the Jawas stole his armor may be nothing more than a fuzzy memory after escaping death. But the sarlacc pit is feared for a reason. If its victims don’t die from being slowly digested, then they would from the toxic fumes inside its stomach. Could the fumes be affecting his memory? Or was Boba Fett forgetting who stole his armor just the outcome of escaping the sarlacc pit? Let us know your theories.
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Source(s): CBR, Wookieepedia