‘Book Of Boba Fett’ Suggests Luke Would Not Have Survived Had He Remained On Tatooine

What Could Have Been

By Culture SlatePublished 2 years ago • 4 min read

We are four weeks into The Book of Boba Fett, and it would appear as though fans of the show are struggling to enjoy the series for what it is, a space western told by the seemingly unbreakable Jon Favreau. The new cowboys of the Disney era have had success with The Mandolorian and wish to catch lightning in a bottle again. However, reception of the series has devolved into a weekly nit-pick to help soothe the ache that the series is not firing on all cylinders. Fans who have enjoyed the success of Marvel’s What If...? are also playing their own version with the Star Wars universe with the latest involving Luke Skywalker and his home planet of Tatooine.

In chapter 2 of The Book of Boba Fett, our main character is seen going to a local watering hole during a flashback sequence to steal a bunch of speeder bikes to assist in his great train robbery. When we come into the scene about 5-10 minutes beforehand, the gang is running around the train, and acting the way gangs act by bossing people around to get what they want. A particular couple seated by themselves seems a little bothered by the whole scene. When the man speaks up, he is immediately pummeled by the gang and is about to be killed when Boba Fett enters the bar and deals with them.

That couple happened to be a couple of old friends of Luke Skywalker, Camie Marstrap, and Laze “Fixer” Loneozner. For the casual viewer, these were literal nobodies in A New Hope, and were only referenced by Luke’s uncle as “the friends” Luke was going to hang out with instead of doing his chores. In a deleted scene from A New Hope, Luke did make it to the Tosche Station (to pick up some power converters) where he ran into his friends Camie and Laze along with Biggs Darklighter. What the Book of Boba Fett has done for us is bring back some lost characters to help flesh out the world left behind from the merger with Disney and further bridge the gap between “Legends” and “canon.”

This is not the first time that these characters were referenced in the canon world. In the novelization of The Last Jedi, our old Jedi Master Luke, while in the solitude of Ahch To, thinks back to his life and whether things would have been different if he had decided to stay on Tatooine and not left with Obi-Wan. In this flashback, his old friend Camie is married to him, instead of Laze as seen in Book of Boba Fett. It seems like a happy little life he made for himself! However, given what we see with Camie and Laze on the train in Book of Boba Fett, would life have been so simple and happy for Luke?

Tatooine, more specifically Mos Eisley and Mos Espa, is filled with all walks of life, and a lot of lives that would be happy to kill you. I mean in the first movie Luke is almost killed because he looked funny at the guy with the bulbous chins. He also seems like a whiny teenager and probably would have gotten beaten up at least once or twice before he turned 30. It only took the death of his adoptive parents and his Jedi friend to smarten him up. If none of that happened, I doubt he would have changed too dramatically.

If anything, this showed us that good people are terrorized on Tatooine by bad people on a daily basis. Even if Luke tried to keep his nose clean most of the time, he probably would have grumbled under his breath at some speeder bike gang at an inopportune time, and found himself in a position where Boba Fett could not save him.

As Book of Boba Fett continues, I wonder if more bridges will be built to connect the Legends side of Star Wars. I am really hoping for an ice cream man origin story here.

Written By Scott Ogino

Source(s): ScreenRant

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