How is Boba Fett alive?

pasta_paul

In Return of the Jedi , Boba Fett falls into the Sarlacc pit and we hear an audible belch from the pit. However, Boba makes an appearance in The Mandalorian season 2, and it's revealed that the next season will be about him and set at some point after the events of RotJ. So how is he alive if he was eaten by the Sarlacc?

Originally asked by sanpaco on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

As I remember, C3PO translated something which Jabba said as meaning that people fed to the sarlacc would be slowly digested over a thousand years. So Jabba claimed that victims of the sarlacc would take many centuries to be digested. And I think the implication was that they would somehow be alive and in pain for those many centuries. I don't know whether Jabba was telling the truth, but as far as I remember the sarlacc didn't bite Boba Fett but simply swallowed him whole. So Boba Fett was still alive and conscious when he entered the throat of the sarlacc, and might not have been killed or knocked unconscious when he stopped falling into the sarlacc. If Boba Fett was alive and conscious...

Full answer by M. A. Golding: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/112148 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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