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The Book of Boba Fett

D'wards said:
Would they be brave enough to reset the timeline on eps 7-9?

Marvel do it all the time

Or would Grogu somehow survive? Or not?
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if they’re ever to reset/ reboot anything, surely the primary candidate would be the godawful prequel trilogy. Unfortunately I fear that ship has already sailed. My friends with children born this millennium tell me their kids actually think the prequels are pretty rad :(
 
Supine said:
I’d be pissed off if…

I was boba fett and got written out if my own show after four episodes :D
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Admittedly it almost feels as if they did a mid-season audience review and decided to radically change the latter part of the season. But in any case it also feels as if all these numerous forthcoming SW series might have been written in with plenty of crossovers, so I wouldn’t discount any character showing up in other SW series m, timeline allowing.
 
The creators of the British Sign Language should just throw it all in the bin and watch episode 3 because he's telling people the bible by throwing some sand on the floor.

So concise!*


*Also really annoying to watch,
 
Just watched the finale. Perfectly satisfying if not as mind blowing as the finale of Mandalorian S2. But that’s not a bad thing in my book.

You certainly see a lot of stuff coming. For instance you just know that as every one of the goodie characters is laying on the ground and about to be slaughtered, someone is going to emerge from around the corner and save the day.

Sometimes such predictability is annoying and a drag, but sometimes it’s just what the doctor ordered even if clichéd as fuck. This is one of those occasions when I was more than happy for the latter to be the case, and to predict the eventual happy outcomes for all the goodies involved. Including even the fucking rancor, or a badass assassin Wookiee we’d seen barely ten minutes of prior, and half of it as a baddie for good measure.

I shouldn’t have any emotional attachment to the fate of either, but somehow I did. Always a reliable measure of how good a show or film is imo. I struggle to think of many minor characters (and several main ones) from the SW sequel and prequel trilogies I could have given a shit about whether they lived or died. With this and Mando I’ve found myself rooting for even legacy antagonists such as the likes of the Sand People and beastly creatures. Having said that, I wouldn’t have shed any tears if the fucking mods had been disintegrated.

Best moment for me was the X-wing landing at whatsherface’s garage, followed by the slow reveal of Grogu :)

One bit of speculation going forward: I sensed a bit of disagreement-based tension between Boba Fett and Fennec, and I wonder if the latter’s massacring of all tribal leaders was sanctioned by Fett, or the beginning of Fennec going rogue.
 
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On reflection that was probably my second least favourite episode of the series, possibly the least favourite the more I think on it.

Those battle droids were proper crap at shooting - worse even than stormtroopers - and there was an incredible amount of plot armour (that wall the lesser characters hid behind for about ten minutes for example must have been constructed from discarded AT-AT hulls). The betrayal of the Mos Espa gangs was also something that could have been predicted from the moment the first trailer was released, so why it came as a surprise to Boba is unknown. Also what is the point of him running a criminal empire that doesn't do any crimes?

Worst of all though was the way the episode seemed to end up as a long fight between humans vs non-humans - both morally (mostly friendly or loyal humans from Freedomtown or the mods vs mostly disloyal or enemy non-humans from the Mos Espa gangs, Bane, the Syndicate, the Mayor and his aide etc) and in the actual fighting, where humans mostly shot straight and lived and non-humans mostly didn't, and didn't. Yes there were three exceptions but two of them (Grogu and Krrsantan) were main characters and the third (the Weequay barman) was almost a meme.

This has been a bit of a failing of the series as a whole, where non-human residents of Tatooine (first the Sand People and then the Gamorreans) saved Boba, helped him, stood by him and then were killed off without ever really having much or any kind of plot development (or interest expressed in themselves as themselves rather than as how they helped Boba) except to die in ways that demonstrated their stupidity. Did we even find out the names of those two guards, even though they were in six of the seven episodes? I am even struggling to think of one human bad guy in the entire series (the Mandalorian who fights Din for the darksaber maybe? Luke?).

I appreciate they might have wanted to try and portray a post-Imperial society where there still was problems between humans and non-humans but that honestly left me a bit cold. Even the original three films, made in supposedly less enlightened times than these, didn't end up as humans vs aliens (of course it was the human-centric side who were the bad guys) and yet somehow this did. Sorry if this sounds a bit Pseuds Corner.
 
agricola said:
On reflection that was probably my second least favourite episode of the series, possibly the least favourite the more I think on it.

Those battle droids were proper crap at shooting - worse even than stormtroopers - and there was an incredible amount of plot armour (that wall the lesser characters hid behind for about ten minutes for example must have been constructed from discarded AT-AT hulls). The betrayal of the Mos Espa gangs was also something that could have been predicted from the moment the first trailer was released, so why it came as a surprise to Boba is unknown. Also what is the point of him running a criminal empire that doesn't do any crimes?

Worst of all though was the way the episode seemed to end up as a long fight between humans vs non-humans - both morally (mostly friendly or loyal humans from Freedomtown or the mods vs mostly disloyal or enemy non-humans from the Mos Espa gangs, Bane, the Syndicate, the Mayor and his aide etc) and in the actual fighting, where humans mostly shot straight and lived and non-humans mostly didn't, and didn't. Yes there were three exceptions but two of them (Grogu and Krrsantan) were main characters and the third (the Weequay barman) was almost a meme.

This has been a bit of a failing of the series as a whole, where non-human residents of Tatooine (first the Sand People and then the Gamorreans) saved Boba, helped him, stood by him and then were killed off without ever really having much or any kind of plot development (or interest expressed in themselves as themselves rather than as how they helped Boba) except to die in ways that demonstrated their stupidity. Did we even find out the names of those two guards, even though they were in six of the seven episodes? I am even struggling to think of one human bad guy in the entire series (the Mandalorian who fights Din for the darksaber maybe? Luke?).

I appreciate they might have wanted to try and portray a post-Imperial society where there still was problems between humans and non-humans but that honestly left me a bit cold. Even the original three films, made in supposedly less enlightened times than these, didn't end up as humans vs aliens (of course it was the human-centric side who were the bad guys) and yet somehow this did. Sorry if this sounds a bit Pseuds Corner.
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Regarding the battle droids, I did find them a major problem and reminded me of yet another reason why I hated the prequel trilogy so much.

Battle droids as revealed in the prequel films, never mind in today’s episode, are basically far more deadly and difficult to defeat than a hundred stormtroopers put together. So why were they nowhere to be seen during the original trilogy? Let’s see some fucking Ewoks try to defeat them during the battle of Endor with their rocks and sticks…

The battle droids in this episode became the main boss villains to be defeated, and that was a major problem for me. Unfortunately there have been several nods to the prequel trilogy we could have done without. It’s almost as if the hand of Lucas was still controlling affairs in the background and trying to validate his pisspoor prequel trilogy by inserting themes and characters into this series.
 
:thumbs: to soon to spoil it
could possible of happened because its the first real star wars property that dragged me in with all the easter eggs

will have to rewatch mando s1 & 2 because i must of missed loads
 
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Santino said:
Stop complaining about the prequels, you nerds.


Very entertaining. I loved all the Godfather and Western homages, and the King Kong.
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I liked it too, but going forward would certainly welcome a departure from the extra-heavy Western influence that has permeated Boba Fett. We want more space stuff!
 
T & P said:
I liked it too, but going forward would certainly welcome a departure from the extra-heavy Western influence that has permeated Boba Fett. We want more space stuff!
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hate to tell you but star wars has always been heavily influenced by westerns ?
 
T & P said:
At least one assumption I am happy to make from this episode regarding Grogu is that he will not be one of the Jedi students massacred by Kylo Ren, as seen in The Last Jedi flashback.
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but then surely he is going to be some rogue force user, which im up for, but not sure where it fits in with the whole jedi\sith thing
 
ruffneck23 said:
That is a fair comment, but tbh I've enjoyed visiting Tatooine for the last couple of years, but more space stuff please.
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Me too actually, in particular the flashback parts involving the Sand People. Far more enjoyable than the present day timeline in this series in fact.
 
Ax^ said:
he was critically injuryed and needs something replaced like fennec
same dude gave her the lovely metal parts
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Thank you! I knew I had seen him before (not the bloke in the bacta tank, got that) but couldn't remember where from. This could be interesting.
 
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Ax^ said:
hate to tell you but star wars has always been heavyly influenced by westerns ?
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Yes, but wouldn’t you agree it kind of got a bit OTT in this series? One thing is subtle undertones, and another a de facto recreation of a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western shootout scene, as some of episode 6 and 7 scenes felt. I was half expecting to see space tumbleweed rolling across at some point in today’s episode…

Fair enough so far but time to return to space going forward imo.
 
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Ax^ said:
so like a new hope ?
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Not necessarily. The antihero WWII vibe of Rogue One or Mandalorian, taking place in multiple places, doing away with the stereotypical white knight vs evil narrative, and keeping legacy characters to a minimum would do me just fine.
 
hey seeming as your a star wars fan

be grateful you got mando and the book after the main continuity has appeared to end

us trekkies got

 
There's about 10 minutes of A New Hope that's like a Western. The rest is Tolkien, Second World War and Samurai films.
 
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