Why Vader does not let Boba shoot Chewy???

[Jamesfett]

I love everything about the ESB Carbo scene and I love that Vader does not let Boba Fett shoot Chewy when he starts chucking Stormies off the edge but I always wondered why Vader did it.

Thoughts??? Is it ever explained in the novels? I read the OT novels numerous decades ago but I don't remember anything about it..

 

[Ron]

The reasons I always figured about that were...

1. He doesn't want Leia or Han accidentally shot.
2. He could use Chewie's life later on as a bargaining chip to coerce Leia to work against the Rebellion and that's more valuable than a couple of stormies.
3. Firing blasters inside the chamber might have been dangerous.
4. He wants everyone alive including Chewie to draw Luke out.

It's a cool character moment for Fett that he's side stepping Vader's authority by taking matters into his own hands and Vader ain't havin' it.

 

[ZeroSum]

Because Vader's a nice guy.

 

[Jamesfett]

Because Vader's a nice guy.

When the prequels were announced I had hoped Vader had some history with Chewy to explain it. Of course him having built C-3PO (really dumb, he should have built R2D2) maybe he was worried Fett would hit his Gold buddy.

 

[ZeroSum]

Maybe singed Wookiee hair smells really bad, even for Vader?

 

[George]

As long as we're at it,here's another mindbender for you:
during the final assault on the Deathstar , Red Six (Porkins) gets hit; over the intercom you can Red Three say:"Eject! Pull out!".I couldn't believe my ears.Use the ejection seat? In space?

 

[David3]

Could be the whole cockpit ejects like the escape module of an F-111

 

[AJK001]

My first reaction to the eject call was WTF but as I thought more about it I also figured maybe the whole cockpit ejects. I have come to realize in the many years since it first came out that since they were replicating dogfights from WWII they probably didn't even think about it and had it in for the dramatics of it.

 

[CadetTK2386]

Didn't some of the original screen tests for the Rebel Pilots in ANH have Breath Masks, kind of like modern pilots, and that is what the grey hose from the chest box was originally intended for? I swear i saw it mentioned, with a shot from the costume screen test photoshoots, with e mask in a thread on here, but for he life of me can't find it now. If my memory isn't failing me, that could be another explanation for the "Eject," that the pilots would have been able to be sealed in their flight suits and survive a limited amount of time in Space, until the masks got dropped for ease of seeing the actors faces and the line was left in.

 

[division 6]

 

[HanSolo2187]

The reasons I always figured about that were...

1. He doesn't want Leia or Han accidentally shot.
2. He could use Chewie's life later on as a bargaining chip to coerce Leia to work against the Rebellion and that's more valuable than a couple of stormies.
3. Firing blasters inside the chamber might have been dangerous.
4. He wants everyone alive including Chewie to draw Luke out.

It's a cool character moment for Fett that he's side stepping Vader's authority by taking matters into his own hands and Vader ain't havin' it.

Good question, but I think it centers around #4. Vader is only there for Luke and is obsessed with finding him. Killing Chewie (or possibly Leia) in that situation would be felt by Luke and throw off Vader's plan to draw him into his trap (possibly).

 

[Psab keel]

The main reason is likely Vader didn't want to lose bargaining chips, ie needed hostages to draw Luke out as everyone has said.

I'd always assumed a firefight in such close quarters would have been messy was another reason.

Plus Vader is in charge there, not Fett, so it very well could have been a means to put the bounty hunter in his place when dealing with a Sith lord.

 

[Usagi Pilgrim]

I know it's not officially Canon anymore, if it ever was, but here's a page from Star Wars Tales #6...

After this, Vader instructs the Imperial Officers to leave 3PO there for the Wookie.

 

[edge10]

So the movie can happen.

 

[Psab keel]

Pitch meetings rockkkk!!

 

[Strikerkc]

As long as we're at it,here's another mindbender for you:
during the final assault on the Deathstar , Red Six (Porkins) gets hit; over the intercom you can Red Three say:"Eject! Pull out!".I couldn't believe my ears.Use the ejection seat? In space?

So, it's EU stuff, but pilots could eject. Imperial pilots had no internal life support in their craft, so their suits were always sealed.

Rebel pilots, or other pilots without sealed environment suits, had VERY small field generators in their gear (likely part of what's in the chest plate) that would seal around all or a portion of the pilot (potentially just the exposed head and neck areas, and the rest of the jump suit sealed to itself) to provide a survivable atmosphere when they ejected (the same way the field generators on a starship docking bay worked). The same tech would keep air filtered and heat generated to keep the pilot alive. They had to be picked up before their system ran out of power though, and I want to say that for that reason, they weren't kept very warm, to save on energy. so it was a survivable process, but not an enjoyable one.

 

[George]

Awesome & eyeopener.Thanks!

 

[division 6]

Found this a while back.

 

[Laspector]

Yeah, isn't it weird that in all this Star Wars space movie stuff we never saw a space suit?

 

[CT1138]

Because he remembered that time Chewbacca saved his former padawan, Ahsoka, from Trandoshan slavers. And slavers give Vader an even shorter fuse than failing admirals.

Maybe singed Wookiee hair smells really bad, even for Vader?

A smell not even a self contained filtration system can filter.