Boba Fett; Uncle Owen & Aunt Beru.....

I would actually doubt it. However, I think the rumors of:

Spoiler: RUMOR

"Incindiary Stormtroopers" wielding flamethrowers

is a direct nod/explanation to the scene you speak of.

 

first of all, I would be shocked if Vader wasn't aware of the best bounty hunter in the galaxy before we see him in ESB.

Secondly. The current scene makes no sense. Obi-Wan talking about the precision of blast marks by Imperial Storm Troopers is absurd when we're looking at to charred and smoking skeletal corpses.

What did they do? Shoot every inch of them?

This is a case where retconning (or honestly, just explaining it canonically) will totally work if you show that it's Boba Fett that incinerated them. It explains why he's on Tatooine at the exact same time and it explains why Vader would make the reference specifically towards him. (especially when you consider the backstory between the Lars and Skywalker families).

 

Well, Boba Fett was on Tatooine. In the SE's he's at the meeting with Jabba and Solo. Does he have time to hunt down the Lars and then make the meeting? Probably not.

 

Interesting theory! I can't beleive I've never heard it or thought of it before. I doubt Vader would have ordered this brother to be killed by a bounty hunter. Maybe he was just looking for looking for Obi-wan, Luke, or some other jedi on Vader's dime. Fett took matters into his own hands when Owen deffended his homestead, and then fett disentigrated them. Then he just went over to Mos Eisley to hang with Jabba and continue his search.

Side note: Boba Fett's presence on Tatooine was established well before the Special Editions. He was in Mos Eisley in the old NES Star Wars video game.

 

Occam's Razor, folks...

The detachment of stormtroopers sent down to Tatooine to retrieve the droids had already found and destroyed the sandcrawler full of Jawas that had sold Threepio and Artoo to Owen Lars. Luke made the logical connection to what happened next, and I see no reason why it would need to be retconned any differently. The stormtroopers traced the droids to the Jawas, then traced them to the farm, and KERBLOOIE!!

I like Boba Fett as much as the next fella, but it's way too much of a leap to suggest that the stormtroopers called in the support of a bounty hunter to take out an all but unarmed moisture farm for them.

 

No need to recon?! Have you not seen Star Wars? Retconning is all Lucasfilm does! I'm fully expecting Ep. 7 to get retconned hard in a few years (when Ep. 8 comes out)

 

Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise!

 

Because if the OT said it it must be gospel.

Right Kibs?

I truly can't wait to see your opinion on the 7 when it comes out. I bet I already know.

 

Well, sure! I trust the wise Ben Kenobi to know a thing or two about stormtroopers.

My point was that there were already stormtroopers down there wrecking stuff, they found the sandcrawler and that must have "led them back...home!" like Luke said.

Hey I am pretty optimistic about these movies - they can't be as bad as the Prequels. And they are being written by actual Star Wars fans that like grew up with the Original Trilogy, and extremely talented writers at that. I bet J.J. Abrams will do a super awesome job.

(Probably not a perfect job though. I dream of a mostly good Sequel Trilogy that has few enough bad things about it that an Adywan-style edit can turn it into a perfect Star Wars movie capable of being compared to the Original Trilogy)

 

Oh? Because Kenobi was in exile for nearly 20 years. In fact, he should only know about the abilities of Clone Troopers, not Storm Troopers.

Unless you'd like to continue ignoring anything the PT has to say for the canon.

 

I'm sure Obi-wan has had a few adventures involving the Empire during his exile.

 

Yes, I would! The fact is, the Prequels were just made by different people. People who didn't understand (or care about) the subtle nuances of the Original Trilogy, the intentions of the original artists. John Mollo, Ralph McQuarrie, and Colin Cantwell are just a few (my favourite <3) of the many extremely important artists who made Star Wars good. You can easily see this cause the only good parts of the Prequels was the music and sound design - done by John Williams and Ben Burtt, the artists on the Original Trilogy. Additionally, Return of the Jedi had a noticeable degradation in the internal consistancy of its costuming, and (after I looked it up) it just so happened that costumer John Mollo only worked on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back!

I think it is only fair that you consider only the original work made by the original people, when discussing the artistic intentions of those people.

 

What always bugs me is that Fett was like the epitome of independent badassery and then Lucas decided to make him the lackey of a crime lord on a distant planet. In ROTJ I kind of thought Fett stayed on because the Hutt had a mission or two for him, but with the addition in ANH:SE... shame, but an early example of Lucas disregarding his own creation.