Comments on: Beloved Characters: Bossk

By: Ancey

Ancey — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:50:48 +0000

That reminds me of a recent character in Transformers: a hippy Decepticon that had a total of about 5-10 lines in the entire series, in about 3 episodes, but he just had those strange little quirks, and nearly everything about him is a mystery aside from his personality, his looks, and what you see in the series.

It’s those little characters that end up just being so much better than the main ones for the fact your imagination CAN run around in little circles over ‘em.

As for the Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth, yeah, one of the creepiest creatures I’d ever seen. Pan (the Faun) is also so strange for the fact he too is a mystery: is he good or bad? That was a question that was in my mind throughout the entire film.

By: PippinTheJedi

PippinTheJedi — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:50:41 +0000

On the Pan’s Labyrinth DVD extras (backstory spoiler for those who like the unknown!) it says the Pale Man was banned to that hall by the King and that the knife’s presence kept him alive, meaning that when Ofelia took the knife, his precense vanished.

But I totally agree with the post. I know way too many Star Wars characters, partly from a 3 year period of collecting Star Wars cards (the Decipher ones…I HATE those Wizards ones).
My parents got really annoyed because if they where watching one of the movies my brother It’s special.

By: craig

craig — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:28:05 +0000

I would love Del Toro to direct THE HOBBIT, his storytelling and creature design was sheer and utter class in Pans Labyrinth 10/10!!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:06:01 +0000

Bossk = The ONLY decent Lizard man ever in a feature film.

By: C.J.

C.J. — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:48:22 +0000

Doug,

This post is most excellent. When I was young, Bossk was one of the handful of Star Wars villains I had, so he played the part in many adventures. I think he fought Lando Calrissian in Skiff guard disguise about 400 times before I finally allowed the nephews to take him home with them. Great, now I’m gonna be on Ebay for the next hour looking for a replacement to rekindle the fabled days of my youth.

Please continue these posts. They remind me of a happy time before my siblings convinced me I was an accident.

@ Lee,

The Leia in Boushh disguise was the only Leia I had until the new figures came out in 1995. I loved her as well. Good shout out.

By: AjaxLou

AjaxLou — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:48:31 +0000

Great post Doug and very insightful. Very deep.

By: Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:20:50 +0000

Yea, Bossk is awesome. Even though he had 3 seconds of screen time and no lines, Bossk is still my favourite character in the Star Wars universe. I remember having the Bossk action figure as a kid and thinking, “this is the most bad ass guy ever”

By: bigsampson

bigsampson — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:17:09 +0000

i love the stories that came out from star war…..if only they could make a good mmo of the star wars universe =) i would be stoked!

By: Darren j Seeley

Darren j Seeley — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:14:03 +0000

Would you believe I still have an extra Bossk Kenner plastic Doll w/shotgun in the original packaging/cardboard back? You better. It was an extra one, giving to me by Xmas back in 81. “We didn’t know you had that character, young Darren. We have the sales reciept. We’ll take it back…” To which I said “Get your greasy mitts off, gramma! It stays in the package!”

And where it remains, in a storage box, to this day. Unopened. Tape still holding up the gun.

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Pan’s Lab: Actually, I didn’t think there was confusion. Guests eat the fruit, monster knows they are there and catches up to guest; eats guest (s). Or so painting implies.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:44:30 +0000

Little Known Fact: Bossk was a race known as Trandoshan (or T’doshok)

Other Little Known Fact: Doug once played a Trandoshan in a repeated social gathering we once had playing the Star Wars Roleplaying Game.

Old school!!

Doug, all you ever wanted to know about Trandoshans can be found at the Star Wars Wiki (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Trandoshan)