Why Boba Fett is an Icon and Captain Phasma is a Joke (It's all about the writing)
nn Solan
You managed to nail most of the reasons Boba Fett is an icon in your video, but you did miss a couple. When Luke is sneaking through the corridors of Cloud City, Artoo comes up behind him and beeps. Boba not only hears, but correctly interprets this sound, doubling back and taking Luke by surprise by ambushing him! Undoubtedly knowing Vader wants Luke alive (even Lando knows this), he takes only a couple of potshots at him, but those are enough to keep Luke pinned in the corridor for a time, unable to follow Fett.
The other big point: Right before Han accidentally hit Boba's jet-pack, the latter was drawing a bead on Luke with his wrist lasers, having missed one shot from being shaken. If you look back at that scene, you'll see Luke was fully engaged deflecting the blaster bolts of everyone on the skimmer craft he was on; he wouldn't have been able to twist his light saber to block a blast from Fett's direction. So he was about to kill Skywalker when disaster struck.
I understand why most fans are disappointed by how Fett's end came about, but I always saw it somewhat differently than they did. To me, it was an illustration of how the heroes were actually unable to defeat Fett themselves! He would have killed Skywalker and finished off the others . . . if not for pure, dumb luck (or perhaps the will of the Force). You simply can't foresee or prepare against that kind of ill fortune, another illustration of the old adage that, "It's better to be lucky than good" (or rather the best, in Boba Fett's case).
Last point, Han's idea to escape the Star Destroyer "Avenger" really was pretty clever, so much so that even Leia admitted, "You have your moments. Not many, but you do have them." To then realize immediately thereafter that, smart as Han was, Boba Fett was smarter still, certainly makes you respect him.
