The Book Of Boba Fett (December 2021)

[matticus]

Windu is the one character that perplexes me how they haven't brought him back. SLJ is getting up there in years so it's not like he's going to be around forever. Meanwhile he wants to do it, his story could easily be continued as it was never much explored, and he's a black OC that everyone would watch and they could ride the diversity train on. It's a no brainer but somehow they'd rather do nonsense like "The Acolyte" or this low-budget ****a Fatt show than give us a grisly Mace show about him going on a revenge mission. I'd watch that ASAP, but it seems Disney is a bunch of hacks that don't want the fans' money.

I honestly don't think after all these years he'd be that mad at Anakin. Windu was a hardass but he wasn't corrupted. I think he'd realise years later that he pushed Anakin to extremes. Really, him becoming a hypocrite in the end and going for the kill, while fighting Anakin throughout the whole saga based on "muh code", was what really pushed Ani to fall in with Palpatine at that crucial moment. Had Mace been less of an angry hothead, and tried to get hormonal autist Ani under his wing, it wouldn't have gone down like it did.

Really, there's meat left in the Windu story and you can take it in multiple directions after ROTS, but apparently literally nobody is interested in it. Not a single comic, book, nothing. It boggles my mind.

Lucasfilm is a bunch of clowns who don't know anything about SW. I would love to gather them into a room and destroy them with SW logic. KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD!

I feel like a natural progression for Windu would be what Saw Gerrera is doing.

 

[Victοr]

Lucasfilm is a bunch of clowns who don't know anything about SW. I would love to gather them into a room and destroy them with SW logic. KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD!

I feel like a natural progression for Windu would be what Saw Gerrera is doing.

They're just making bland ******** for the general audiences (which they underestimate as well) and are looking to cut as many corners as possible to increase the profit. Peak soulless corporatism.

I don't know, I don't see Mace as much of a guerilla fighter. Dark Mace I see as Jedi Punisher. A lone wolf being the Empire's boogeyman.

 

[matticus]

They're just making bland ******** for the general audiences (which they underestimate as well) and are looking to cut as many corners as possible to increase the profit. Peak soulless corporatism.

I don't know, I don't see Mace as much of a guerilla fighter. Dark Mace I see as Jedi Punisher. A lone wolf being the Empire's boogeyman.

He was a Jedi Master, so in charge of others. He knows he is outnumbered and needs to have a network of people to coordinate attacks. I could see him clawing his way back underground on Coruscant and making an attempt on the Emperor. He is not a ***** like Yoda running to Dagobah.

 

[Victοr]

He was a Jedi Master, so in charge of others. He knows he is outnumbered and needs to have a network of people to coordinate attacks. I could see him clawing his way back underground on Coruscant and making an attempt on the Emperor. He is not a ***** like Yoda running to Dagobah.

Sure, he could do it skill-wise. I just don't know if he'd bother at that point. A small intelligence network maybe. But I'd much rather see him be a one-man-army who infiltrates places, unleashes Hell, and then disappears.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Mace is dead. Let it go.

 

[Victοr]

Mace is dead. Let it go.

 

[matticus]

Sure, he could do it skill-wise. I just don't know if he'd bother at that point. A small intelligence network maybe. But I'd much rather see him be a one-man-army that infiltrates places, unleashes Hell, and then disappears.

I could see that. Uses friends for recon and info, but doesn't want to risk his friends like the clown Jedis who got mowed in 3 seconds and Anakin who got turned and betrayed him.

And he gets to say:

"I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHER ******* CLONES ON THIS MOTHER ******* TEMPLE!"

 

[Victοr]

I could see that. Uses friends for recon and info, but doesn't want to risk his friends like the clown Jedis who got mowed in 3 seconds and Anakin who got turned and betrayed him.

And he gets to say:

"I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHER ******* CLONES ON THIS MOTHER ******* TEMPLE!"

That's more or less how I see it. Just a weary, down to business Windu going to town. If they won't let us have the Punisher, then we might as well get Space Magic Swordsman Punisher.

 

[ajp4mgs]

"way more popular than he should have been..." "a character that was kind of underserved...."

It's like he didn't get OT BF - at all. So BOBF totally makes sense now.

And it's not even like Rodriguez is too young to remember the OT era first-hand either. The nuanced character of BF as seen in the OT - yes, the character (as opposed to the empty, unappealing vessel Rodriguez apparently saw) - just totally went over his head.

I'm surprised no one saw this HR interview before. It really is the smoking gun - or the grassy knoll of OT BF's assassination. And due to Mando, I'd really like to believe there's just the one shooter.

I agree with you that the Rodriguez quote was oblivious and misguided, but if you're trying to assign a lone shooter to the assassination of OT Fett, implicating Rodriguez would require believing in the equivalent of a magic bullet.

The first episode of Mando last season ended with Boba in Tusken robes, with a Tusken rifle and a gaffi stick. How likely is it that the Tusken backstory we're watching in BoBF hadn't already been outlined by that point? And it's that backstory which is taking up the bulk of the first two episodes and defining the Fett characterization (both in the flashbacks and the present-day iteration).

And as for that present-day part of the BoBF story, that was also set up in the episode which introduced Fennec Shand and implied Fett found her shot. So, a lot of the framework for that dynamic was in place before BoBF went into production.

Incidently, the same Fennec character was then used in Bad Batch, apparently interacting with Boba Fett's clone "sister." So if all roads end up leading back to Clone Wars Fett history more so than reflecting his original OT characterization, maybe you won't need a Zapruder film to identify the true lone gunman. There's no way I can know for sure, but that's how I'm seeing the trail of breadcrumbs.

 

[chrisstbh]

Mace is dead. Let it go.

Nobody that’s been injured and fallen down a pit or great height has ever died in Star Wars; Maul, Palpatine, Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Ben solo…

 

[Wor-Gar]

Falls can't hurt me... only losing the will to live.

 

[Khev]

I agree with you that the Rodriguez quote was oblivious and misguided, but if you're trying to assign a lone shooter to the assassination of OT Fett, implicating Rodriguez would require believing in the equivalent of a magic bullet.

The first episode of Mando last season ended with Boba in Tusken robes, with a Tusken rifle and a gaffi stick. How likely is it that the Tusken backstory we're watching in BoBF hadn't already been outlined by that point? And it's that backstory which is taking up the bulk of the first two episodes and defining the Fett characterization (both in the flashbacks and the present-day iteration).

And as for that present-day part of the BoBF story, that was also set up in the episode which introduced Fennec Shand and implied Fett found her shot. So, a lot of the framework for that dynamic was in place before BoBF went into production.

Incidently, the same Fennec character was then used in Bad Batch, apparently interacting with Boba Fett's clone "sister." So if all roads end up leading back to Clone Wars Fett history more so than reflecting his original OT characterization, maybe you won't need a Zapruder film to identify the true lone gunman. There's no way I can know for sure, but that's how I'm seeing the trail of breadcrumbs.

Plus it was Filoni who directed the Season 1 episode that showed Fett's boots coming into frame, then Favreau stripped him of his gear and gave it to Cobb, then according to Rodriguez he was brought in as a last minute replacement for whoever was originally supposed to direct "The Tragedy." Then RR made Fett's assault on the Stormies this huge slaughter that wasn't in the script that he choreographed himself so who knows what that episode would have been like had he not come aboard.

Still though, it's hard not to be immensely disappointed with RR regardless. Unless he comes out and publicly states that he had to fight Favreau to prevent BOBF from somehow being even *more* terrible then I've got to imagine that he shares a good deal of responsibility in at least the final result of Episode 1.

 

[jye4ever]

Mando 1 was spectacular.

After Mando 2 turned out to be even better than 1 I figured BOBF was a no brainer to be as great as Mando or maybe even better.

This one hurts.

 

[ironwez20]

I'd watch that. Or you could take it in another direction. He's a Dark Jedi Wandering Knight of sorts. He goes around and picks fights and wrecks **** all over. Kinda like a Space Jedi Punisher. Then he gets roped up into some Inquisitor plot and you could make it about him going to assassinate Palpatine. You could set it later and tie it in with Luke and his New Jedi Order, with Mace seething at Anakin's progeny and having to keep himself in check or something. I like Mace because he's kinda Greyish like Qui-Gon, but instead of leaning more towards a "kinder" style like him, he's more of a hardass. That makes him a unique Jedi and gives him a nice power dynamic.

Really, there are places to go and it's a mystery why literally nobody has done anything with it. The dude got his hand cut off and fell off a building, that's like an average Tuesday for a Jedi. Mace, Starkiller, Mara, all of them are characters I want to see return/be added to the canon.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; Star Wars is about the Jedi & the Sith; the Force in general. That's what makes the setting unique. That's what I want to see more of. Generic space rangers and bounty hunters I can find in every single piece of Sci-Fi media. Mace, Kenobi, Ahsoka, those characters should've been at the forefront. **** it, I'll take more Ezra and Kal. And canonise Kyle Katarn already. I want more Jedi/Sith Mystic Lore, not generic space bull.

Yup. Tired of the rebels fighting the storm troopers and the resistance or whatever. Give me the Jedi abs Sith Lord that we barely explain outside shows and books.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I think focusing on Jedi and Sith is when Star Wars becomes too stilted. Soap-operatic. It is wonderful background stuff... but shouldn't be the forefront. Because its so vague as a religion, it can't be spotlighted or you do a disservice to the mysticism.

Its called Star Wars... and I think the stories work best in times of war. Rogue One helps prove that.

ANH had the right balance. Ben and Vader's mysticism was background story; intriguing but better left unexplained.

Otherwise, you get... midichlorians.

 

[matticus]

I think focusing on Jedi and Sith is when Star Wars becomes too stilted. Soap-operatic. It is wonderful background stuff... but shouldn't be the forefront. Because its so vague as a religion, it can't be spotlighted or you do a disservice to the mysticism.

Its called Star Wars... and I think the stories work best in times of war. Rogue One helps prove that.

ANH had the right balance. Ben and Vader's mysticism was background story; intriguing but better left unexplained.

Otherwise, you get... midichlorians.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I think focusing on Jedi and Sith is when Star Wars becomes too stilted. Soap-operatic. It is wonderful background stuff... but shouldn't be the forefront. Because its so vague as a religion, it can't be spotlighted or you do a disservice to the mysticism.

Its called Star Wars... and I think the stories work best in times of war. Rogue One helps prove that.

ANH had the right balance. Ben and Vader's mysticism was background story; intriguing but better left unexplained.

Otherwise, you get... midichlorians.

I never cared for the space battles.

I like the Jedi and Sith stuff, but then again, I like superheroes, so that's probably why.

 

[ironwez20]

I think focusing on Jedi and Sith is when Star Wars becomes too stilted. Soap-operatic. It is wonderful background stuff... but shouldn't be the forefront. Because its so vague as a religion, it can't be spotlighted or you do a disservice to the mysticism.

Its called Star Wars... and I think the stories work best in times of war. Rogue One helps prove that.

ANH had the right balance. Ben and Vader's mysticism was background story; intriguing but better left unexplained.

Otherwise, you get... midichlorians.

Star Wars doesn’t have to be the same thing over and over . We can have a war between jedi and sith. People don’t understand that the jedi stuff is very deep and has lots of lore compared to the usual stuff. I find space wizards with conflicting beliefs way more interesting than dudes flying in space planes shooting at eachother . Idk just me.

 

[jye4ever]

Well we are well on our way to stories about Tusken divorce court.

 

[ajp4mgs]

Austin is only a three hour drive to Dallas...

Wait a minute... Fett's rangefinder is on the wrong side. I think that might be a doctored photo!

Conspiracies are so insidious.