The Book Of Boba Fett (December 2021)

[Bart]

SPOILERS BELOW

That episode was worse than the first one. They just assassinated the character in one line. He isn’t Boba Fett, he is a damn Disney Tusken Prince now. It’s over for me. Major failure. Have no interest in Bob Fatt. I’m gonna rant now because this episode pissed me off. I apologize in advance.

SPOILERS BELOW LAST CHANCE!

So it is Shand who sends the assassin to the rancor. Boba is the “good cop” apparently.

He politely asks to see the mayor. Boba Fett. FREAKING BOBA FETT. Doesn’t storm in, he waits in line. Disney Prince!

Still has yet to shoot the annoying twi’lek.

And the line that killed it all “im not a bounty hunter.” Boba Fett. Not a bounty hunter. HAHA. Disney sure does love ruining iconic characters. Just like Luke, “im not a jedi anymore.”

“I am not a fool” line was hilarious for all the wrong reasons. He is a damn moronic fool. The very next scene is Boba acting being a fool not knowing why he should go to the cantina and not knowing that two freaking Hutts landed on his planet! ULTIMATE FOOL!!! You can not make this stuff up! Still no logic!

He gets threatened by these Hutts. They have one wookie protecting him. Fett has himself, shand, and two Gammys. They threaten him. And he lets them leave? He could have just shot them and had a nice wookie fur for his throne, but nope! RESPECTZ ME! Oh and the scene gets worse since he needs permission to kill Hutts! Boba Fett needs permission!

Boba is stil with the Tuskens. Still has yet to be explained why. He wanted to escape the moment he could, but nope, now he is a Tusken Activist! He feels sorry for them. He helps them. For literally no damn reason. It would make sense if they were guarding his palace, but they aren’t! This entire thing is stupid.

Boba says he will take the train and be back my morning. I was excited. Here is the Boba I know. Gonna take an armored train with a musket and stick. Nope! He beats up some drunks and steals a couple speeders.

Boba Fett trains Tuskens to ride a bike, erghh speeder bike.

Awful CGI

Big train scene comes and Boba Fett gets his *** kicked by the first guy he fights. Meanwhile of course the female Tusken is the badass and goes through everyone, force really is female still.

******* Tuskens waste a bunch of precious water. Like little kids at a fire hydrant.

A ******* lizard crawled up his nose so he can get a stick.

He makes a stick and dances with Tuskens for the last 10 minutes.

Mostly filler, bad action.

I can’t even believe this is what I watched.

Boba Fett: “I am not a bounty hunter. I am Boba… Tusken. Boba Tusken”

 

[greygoose]

52 minutes I believe, longer than last episode for sure

That's better.

 

[greygoose]

You mean to say that the posts made here over the next week are going to be a lot less entertaining?

 

[Bart]

That's better.

You would have thought, but for me it was only more time to ruin Boba Fett.

 

[Bart]

 

[xXJ0kerXx1]

Im just saying, I prefer hour long episodes over 30 minutes but I thought the lore building in this episode was good. Much better of an episode than the pilot

 

[chrisstbh]

Something about recaps at the beginning of an episode just rubs the wrong way, always has and I’m not sure why

 

[darth dennis]

I actually really enjoyed Episode 2. I think they’re creating backstory to why we aren’t seeing ESB Boba Fett in modern day. He’s been changed by the perspectives gained from surviving the Sarlacc and his time with the Tuskens. I’ve never even been a huge fan of Tusken Raiders but really liked this tribe feel and the train sequence was well done IMO. I guess at the end of the day you can either embrace where this new character is going or be upset that we aren’t getting the silent mysterious Fett from the OT. After this second episode I’m going to embrace this and see where it goes. Also, nice timing on releasing that two pack HT!

 

[choombaz]

Spoiler

The good: slightly better writing, definitely better directing (RR is a hack), generally better action, love the wookie, the more tribal aspects of the Tuskens. The episode was generally better and much more compelling in its development of the character. The bad: The digital look is awful, I kept fiddling with my brightness to get it to look more like a film and not some Disney Channel teen special. The CG is very average at times, not enough Fennec and finally they are still resorting to some of the cheapest cheap low gags ever. I mean c’mon the swoop bike going backwards? Please.

 

[Otomofan]

Perhaps he learned the true meaning of friendship while living with the Tuskens, and now he wants to go out and share that with the rest of the galaxy.

It's a curse of mine, this "always being right" thing.

Where's our photoshop wizard?

I expect to see a beautiful poster made up for this episode that shows what it was: Boba Fett in Dances With Wolves.

But what will his Tusken name be? "Digs for pumpkins?" "Rides on Speeder Bike?"

He certainly didn't do any dancing with Massiffs, but I'd like to think that little warrior dance at the end was inspired by Temuera's Maori roots.

Now I'm gonna have to go back and rewatch the episode he got his armor back and see if he casually discarded that gaffi stick. Cause now we know that it would certainly have some special meaning to him. Maybe this is a way to justify him still wearing the black turtleneck under his armor.

I couldn't tell the Tuskens apart at all. I couldn't tell who was the chief, who was teaching him to fight, which ones were women, which ones got killed in the train attacks. I guess I'm just a racist cause they all look the same to me.

But if this follows the plot of "Dances With Wolves" or "The Last Samurai" any closer, we're gonna see Boba making sweet, sensual love to one of those Tusken women, whatever the hell they look like under those masks. Ugh. And he really should start speaking in their grunts, too.

The tripping sequence should have been weirder. More David Lynch-like.

As for the "modern" story, it's still not good at all. Just the same as the first one...them just walking in the ******* desert heat back and forth to the same three locations. At least his helmet was on most of the time.

The Hutts were awful, Episode One level bad CGI. I have always loathed CGI Jabba scenes...nothing is ever gonna compare to that amazing puppet they built for ROTJ, but sadly it decayed shortly after production and it was ridiculously expensive and nothing like it will ever be built again.

The Mayor's aide sucks. Hope someone shoots him.

And why do I get the feeling Fennec is gonna end up being the surprise villain in the last episode?


Anyway....I actually liked this episode, but only for the Dances with Wolves part. And even then, I don't think it has a lot of replay value.

 

[chrisstbh]

Much better episode, but I still want to see him do something in the present, instead of just flashbacks

 

[Otomofan]

Maybe "Dances With Tuskens" is simplest, cause after all, he did dance with Tuskens.

Jye....I'm waiting for your masterpiece here!

 

[TheeWanderer]

This episode was bloody brilliant. Can't wait for some of you to still pretend you somehow "know" Boba Fett and cry about how this is horrible.

 

[Bart]

This episode was bloody brilliant. Can't wait for some of you to still pretend you somehow "know" Boba Fett and cry about how this is horrible.

Oh but you know Boba? That is great! I have a few questions then.

Please explain the motivations of Boba Fett. Why does he try to escape capture in one scene, then voluntarily returns the next? Why does he give up being a Bounty Hunter, after mentioning to the Rodian his ship and wanting to escape, to becoming a Tusken Activist in the span of a few dozen minutes? Why is this character, who is an established Bounty Hunter in multiple pieces of canon media, from movies to TV to novels to comics, for dozens of hours, give up his known life in mere minutes?

Why can he fight off dozens of Stormtroopers in Mando but struggle against one measly little runt on the train?

Why is Boba doing any of this with the Tusken’s if it wasn’t some long con to have them work for him? Where are they in the present?

Why is a man, that was hired by Darth Vader, acting oh so kind? Dancing, making sticks, teaching Tusken’s how to ride a speeder, waiting in line for the Mayor, letting Hutts threaten him, and he does nothing about it?

Why is Boba Fett so vicious in Mando, but a wimp in his own show?

Why does Boba say “I am not a fool” despite firing a rocket point blank into shielded enemies, not using his jet pack when surrounded by shielded enemies, willingly hands his helmet away, and then in the very next scene of the line doesn’t even know two Hutts landed on his planet to take control from him?

Why is Boba a Tusken Activist?

How is a lizard crawling up his nose so he can get his stick, that, from what I remember, he never uses again once he gets his armor back, “bloody brilliant” to you?

 

[darth dennis]

Oh but you know Boba? That is great! I have a few questions then.

Please explain the motivations of Boba Fett. Why does he try to escape capture in one scene, then voluntarily returns the next? Why does he give up being a Bounty Hunter, after mentioning to the Rodian his ship and wanting to escape, to becoming a Tusken Activist in the span of a few dozen minutes? Why is this character, who is an established Bounty Hunter in multiple pieces of canon media, from movies to TV to novels to comics, for dozens of hours, give up his known life in mere minutes?

Why can he fight off dozens of Stormtroopers in Mando but struggle against one measly little runt on the train?

Why is Boba doing any of this with the Tusken’s if it wasn’t some long con to have them work for him? Where are they in the present?

Why is a man, that was hired by Darth Vader, acting oh so kind? Dancing, making sticks, teaching Tusken’s how to ride a speeder, waiting in line for the Mayor, letting Hutts threaten him, and he does nothing about it?

Why is Boba Fett so vicious in Mando, but a wimp in his own show?

Why does Boba say “I am not a fool” despite firing a rocket point blank into shielded enemies, not using his jet pack when surrounded by shielded enemies, willingly hands his helmet away, and then in the very next scene of the line doesn’t even know two Hutts landed on his planet to take control from him?

Why is Boba a Tusken Activist?

How is a lizard crawling up his nose so he can get his stick, that, from what I remember, he never uses again once he gets his armor back, “bloody brilliant” to you?

I have to agree that present day Boba seems "off" from the one we got in Mando. I think for me it's got a lot to do with the helmet on/helmet off thing. In Mando, once he got his armor back and repainted it, he's wearing it. He's wearing it piloting Slave 1, he's wearing it during his stand-off with Koska and Bo. The scenes in Ep 2 of BoBF where his helmet is on, he's much more of a baddy than when the helmet comes off. Temura is a cool, likeable guy and that comes through in his helmet off acting. I still think Ep 2 was a big leap forward and I can get on board with his redemptive arch with the Tuskens as even Vader was eventually redeemed and saw the error of his ways. What's odd about it is he's a bit too back and forth with his redemption and being a crime lord. I agree 100% that we need to see the tribe of Tuskens come to his aid in present day in a big way to have the payoff of the time spent these first two episodes on flashbacks. I don't think it was just to show how he got his nifty nomad gear and skill with a gaffi... Fett is my favorite fictional character by a mile, and while I've got some issues with this so far, I'm still fine with a different version of him than the silent, mysterious villain we grew up with.

 

[TheeWanderer]

Oh but you know Boba? That is great! I have a few questions then.

Please explain the motivations of Boba Fett. Why does he try to escape capture in one scene, then voluntarily returns the next? Why does he give up being a Bounty Hunter, after mentioning to the Rodian his ship and wanting to escape, to becoming a Tusken Activist in the span of a few dozen minutes? Why is this character, who is an established Bounty Hunter in multiple pieces of canon media, from movies to TV to novels to comics, for dozens of hours, give up his known life in mere minutes?

Why can he fight off dozens of Stormtroopers in Mando but struggle against one measly little runt on the train?

Why is Boba doing any of this with the Tusken’s if it wasn’t some long con to have them work for him? Where are they in the present?

Why is a man, that was hired by Darth Vader, acting oh so kind? Dancing, making sticks, teaching Tusken’s how to ride a speeder, waiting in line for the Mayor, letting Hutts threaten him, and he does nothing about it?

Why is Boba Fett so vicious in Mando, but a wimp in his own show?

Why does Boba say “I am not a fool” despite firing a rocket point blank into shielded enemies, not using his jet pack when surrounded by shielded enemies, willingly hands his helmet away, and then in the very next scene of the line doesn’t even know two Hutts landed on his planet to take control from him?

Why is Boba a Tusken Activist?

How is a lizard crawling up his nose so he can get his stick, that, from what I remember, he never uses again once he gets his armor back, “bloody brilliant” to you?

Not once did I say I "know Boba Fett". That's kind of one of the whole ******* points of this show, mate. People like you have built up your own headcanon of who he is, when in reality you watched a handful of minutes of him in the OT where he barely talked and like you said, was working for Darth Vader. No **** he's not gonna be acting relaxed. Watch this episode again, and if you still are that confused-- you might just wanna stay away completely then.

 

[chrisstbh]

Nice little cameo at Tosche Station with Camie and Fixer/Laze

 

[xXJ0kerXx1]

Nice little cameo at Tosche Station with Camie and Fixer/Laze

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Apologies for the ignorance, who are these characters? I kinda thought they were random citizens in tattoine until you mentioned their names

 

[Bart]

Not once did I say I "know Boba Fett". That's kind of one of the whole ******* points of this show, mate. People like you have built up your own headcanon of who he is, when in reality you watched a handful of minutes of him in the OT where he barely talked and like you said, was working for Darth Vader. No **** he's not gonna be acting relaxed. Watch this episode again, and if you still are that confused-- you might just wanna stay away completely then.

It seems you are the confused one mate. I never mentioned anything from my headcanon. I mentioned canon aspects from BoBF itself to Mando to the OT. It seems you have no answers to those questions. I don’t need to watch the show again, I understand that it continues to be nothing more than more and more questions and no answers.

 

[ZE_501]

I can't remember whether it was in this thread or another where I said Star Wars in general is full of lazy writing, so the real crime is when it's not fun to watch, since you're not going to get a tight script the majority of the time.

This episode was more fun to watch in the latter half. That being said:

Spoiler

• Morrison's Fett talks too much and he's too matter-of-fact. Even in the helmet he's failing to convey menace, and instead of the vaguely mechanically filtered, hollow voice we heard in the OT this is a more realistic but less atmospheric muffled voice. His rage-acting is a bit one-note and I'm not sure if that's because he's at a limit for the action role or if it's the directors. His body language also fails to convey grace or menace.

• The aliens continue to be more Star Trek than Star Wars for the most part. This was also a thing from the first episode of The Mandalorian onwards.

• The entire Tusken sequence was PURE FILONI and I grow tired of his 2-dimensional stereotypical treatment of indigenous, low-tech cultures. He's really got a thing for the 'noble savage' trope and it's pure colonial-romanticized trash. And suddenly this tribe is noble? They took slaves, confining and abusing them but at least they're not killing, okay.

• Boba Fett's motivations are all over the place. He has a ship and a life but he's just gonna hang out with the raiders that enslaved him and join their tribe? Maybe he has nothing else going on but it's a very thin premise.

• The Hutt's were underwhelming and their stand-off lacked dramatic weight. I don't mind that they 'need permission' to kill Hutts in the sense that you would expect consequences for taking out beings with deep and powerful networks; the idea that there are rules of engagement is fine with me. The CG execution of said Hutts was poor, IMO.

• The fight choreography continues to be slow for the most part and lack stakes. I keep expecting to hear the Star Trek TOS fight theme.

• Overall I feel like I'm watching a live action Clone Wars episode and I never was a fan of that cartoon, despite giving it a chance.

• There is no scope, mystery or grand spectacle here, which is what I come to Star Wars for. At its best, The Mandalorian was able to convey these things. So far they're failing badly.

• "I'll see if I can get you a seat at the bar Mr. Fett" --- who the actual f**k writes this garbage? It's like he walked into The Keg in downtown Toronto during a busy lunch rush and the hostess is annoyed the VIP doesn't have a reservation but she'll make it work.