The Book Of Boba Fett (December 2021)

[matticus]

Is it just me or does every other science fiction tv show insist on a train episode? And they always for some reason look cheap.

I guess ships aren't available. Nor a speeder for Fennec and her prisoner lol

Maybe it is the fast motion of a train that makes it look blurry. I'm sure there is an engineering term for it.

 

[nexus]

I thought this was a better episode (plus I called the Hutts, although not the fact that there would be twins—unfortunately CGI, which looked as bad as feared). The "Dances With Tusken" was somewhat derivative, but worked for where they are trying to go with it. For a moment I was worried they were going to have the Tusken remove their head wraps. I NEVER want too see what a Tusken raider looks like under the wraps or a Jawa looks like under the robes. It's bad enough Boba has his helmet off every other scene.

 

[ZE_501]

I can't believe the continued assertions that there's no evidence Boba Fett was supposed to be some legendary badass.

[...snip...]

Yours is yet another grounded and sensible post regarding character and stylistic continuity ... all of which seem to get dismissed, warped or swept under the rug. I give up.

 

[choombaz]

Surely everyone noticed …

 

[Mondragon]

Is it just me or does every other science fiction tv show insist on a train episode? And they always for some reason look cheap.

Star Wars has been referencing Westerns since day 1, the iron horse is a given.

 

[Mondragon]

Surely everyone noticed …

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Yeah, at the Gaffi forge, do you have a screen grab of the shot.

 

[ajp4mgs]

So, for those who are onboard with Fett's characterization and story arc, how are you guys reconciling the fact that he got his hands on a speeder and decided to return to the Tusken village rather than go retrieve Slave I?

Is this supposed to be Fett experiencing Stockholm Syndrome? I'm being totally serious with that question. I saw a guy who broke free from his bindings in the first episode and made a run for it (stupidly). Then he returns to the village with the kid, and I'm thinking maybe he knows he can't get away from them without transport. But then he gets a transport in this second episode... and still goes back. What's the logic/reasoning there?

 

[choombaz]

Yeah, do you have a screen grab of the shot.

 

[matticus]

So, for those who are onboard with Fett's characterization and story arc, how are you guys reconciling the fact that he got his hands on a speeder and decided to return to the Tusken village rather than go retrieve Slave I?

Is this supposed to be Fett experiencing Stockholm Syndrome? I'm being totally serious with that question. I saw a guy who broke free from his bindings in the first episode and made a run for it (stupidly). Then he returns to the village with the kid, and I'm thinking maybe he knows he can't get away from them without transport. But then he gets a transport in this second episode... and still goes back. What's the logic/reasoning there?

There is no logic to this show. Clearly a Disney OT character is different than what most people seem to perceive them as.

 

[Kebron]

I can't believe the continued assertions that there's no evidence Boba Fett was supposed to be some legendary badass.

First of all, there's his genetic predisposition. In official canon, he's an unaltered clone of the man who was hand-picked by Dooku to be the *genetic template for an entire clone army.* Boba Fett was literally born to be a proficient warrior. It's not like he's some sort of LeBron James Jr. who may or may not have inherited enough of his father's genetics to be equally great; he's an exact ******* copy! He essentially *is* his "father."

Second of all, unless you're willing to believe that Darth Vader (right-hand man to the Emperor) used Craigslist to find bounty hunters in ESB, you can safely assume that he was trying to get the best available. And Vader was specifically aware of Fett's reputation versus any of the others.

Lastly, there's a reason why Fett was portrayed as a top-notch badass bounty hunter in tons of EU content: because any writer with common sense could've pieced together enough context to understand that being a bounty hunter in the SW galaxy is the epitome of survival of the fittest. It's sometimes literally a cutthroat business where you don't survive the competition for bounties, and altercations with quarries, unless you can handle yourself exceptionally well in combat. Whether it was the Holiday Special, or ESB, or the EU stories, this character was meant to have a role in the universe more meaningful than just "average" bounty hunter.

When you watch Jango Fett go toe-to-toe with a Jedi (Kenobi), you're basically watching Boba Fett. He's an exact genetic replica, and raised by the warrior himself. Jango was supposed to be the greatest bounty hunter of his era; Boba was supposed to be the greatest of his era. Period.

If you claim there was no evidence for him being a badass, and clinging to the absence of explicit onscreen examples. you're just not paying attention to the intent with the character. He was designed aesthetically and conceptually to be the SW version of Eastwood's "man with no name," and then was given a backstory to show that being an elite warrior was not only his genetic predisposition, but his intended destiny.

You can be genetic predisposition for something but if you lack the training you are not going to be very good at it.

Vader called in Bounty Hunter's it's logically assumed he went after those that were reported to be the best. Plenty of examples of people having a reputation for one thing or another and it turns out to not completely be true. Besides that it's only assumed by the audience he is some epic level fighter. He might of just been great tracker with a keen strategic mind who lures his bounty into a trap instead of engaging in a fight, the point is we never saw him in action. Everything surrounding him is mostly assumed head canon.

He was barely raised by Jango. He was a kid when Jango died. Also as seen in the Clone Wars TV show, clones all develope different skills and abilities. Jango had training, experience along with that genetic disposition. Boba has the genetic disposition, some sort of training (we don't know how much or in what), and a totally different life experience then Jango.

I don't claim there is no evidence, their is factually no evidence in the movies or shows until Mando, which is set after his experience with the Tuskens.

 

[Mondragon]

So, for those who are onboard with Fett's characterization and story arc, how are you guys reconciling the fact that he got his hands on a speeder and decided to return to the Tusken village rather than go retrieve Slave I?

Cause to defeat the Harkonnen he's going to need desert power, and the Fremen are desert power.

Wait, what?

 

[The Buffinator]

I thought this was a better episode (plus I called the Hutts, although not the fact that there would be twins—unfortunately CGI, which looked as bad as feared). The "Dances With Tusken" was somewhat derivative, but worked for where they are trying to go with it. For a moment I was worried they were going to have the Tusken remove their head wraps. I NEVER want too see what a Tusken raider looks like under the wraps or a Jawa looks like under the robes. It's bad enough Boba has his helmet off every other scene.

Yeah, I feared we might have another Enfys Nest type situation there for a second. Glad it didn't play out that way, but then again the show's not over. The female Tusken warrior did leap into action when she saw Boba in trouble on the train, so while unlikely I suppose it's possible the two end up in a relationship and we see her underneath the headgear...

 

[The Buffinator]

Cause to defeat the Harkonnen he's going to need desert power, and the Fremen are desert power.

Wait, what?

....for Boba is the Kwisatz Haderach!

 

[Kebron]

So, for those who are onboard with Fett's characterization and story arc, how are you guys reconciling the fact that he got his hands on a speeder and decided to return to the Tusken village rather than go retrieve Slave I?

Is this supposed to be Fett experiencing Stockholm Syndrome? I'm being totally serious with that question. I saw a guy who broke free from his bindings in the first episode and made a run for it (stupidly). Then he returns to the village with the kid, and I'm thinking maybe he knows he can't get away from them without transport. But then he gets a transport in this second episode... and still goes back. What's the logic/reasoning there?

He's found something that isn't a cut throat backstabbing world he's known his whole life?

He still doesn't know exactly where on the planet he is so it makes sense to sit tight till he does?

He's still licking his wounds after the humiliation he got from Blind Han Solo.

He's got a plan we haven't seen revealed yet?

Those are just a few off the top of my head.

 

[Mondragon]

....for Boba is the Kwisatz Haderach!

May his Gaffistick chip and shatter

 

[choombaz]

Star Wars has been referencing Westerns since day 1, the iron horse is a given.

Yeah i know but it’s indicatively lazy of this show, it reminded me of (but not really like) the train episode in Firefly. Solo had a train as well.

 

[Asta]

Yeah, at the Gaffi forge, do you have a screen grab of the shot.

 

[Mondragon]

The female Tusken warrior did leap into action when she saw Boba in trouble on the train, so while unlikely I suppose it's possible the two end up in a relationship and we see her underneath the headgear...

It's obliviously Fennec (desert fox), under cover tracking spice.
That's why he later saves her after Toro Calican killed her

 

[ajp4mgs]

You can be genetic predisposition for something but if you lack the training you are not going to be very good at it.

Vader called in Bounty Hunter's it's logically assumed he went after those that were reported to be the best. Plenty of examples of people having a reputation for one thing or another and it turns out to not completely be true. Besides that it's only assumed by the audience he is some epic level fighter. He might of just been great tracker with a keen strategic mind who lures his bounty into a trap instead of engaging in a fight, the point is we never saw him in action. Everything surrounding him is mostly assumed head canon.

He was barely raised by Jango. He was a kid when Jango died. Also as seen in the Clone Wars TV show, clones all develope different skills and abilities. Jango had training, experience along with that genetic disposition. Boba has the genetic disposition, some sort of training (we don't know how much or in what), and a totally different life experience then Jango.

I don't claim there is no evidence, their is factually no evidence in the movies or shows until Mando, which is set after his experience with the Tuskens.

Boba Fett wasn't patterned after Eastwood's Blondie because he was meant to be a "great tracker with a keen strategic mind who lures his bounty into a trap instead of engaging in a fight."

Vader wouldn't be saying "no disintegrations" because Boba Fett was known for tracking quarry and strategically luring them into disintegration traps.

Even his aggressive (albeit incredibly annoying) attitude as a kid in AOTC should show you that Jango wasn't raising him to be a Peace Corps volunteer.

All the evidence you need that Boba Fett could handle himself with enough proficiency to be recognized as fearsome and the best in the game is in the movies, even as brief as his total screentime was. If you want to believe he was created and intended to be anything other than a badass, you're certainly free to do so, but I think that would fly in the face of common sense.

 

[greygoose]

This is not how I imagined a Boba Fett series to be like.

Is the real Fett going to show up in his series...