The Book Of Boba Fett (December 2021)

[Prime Clone]

Side note: Love your sig Khev, but wouldn't you prefer an animated one?

 

[Wor-Gar]

That's so Alita... Khev will love it.

 

[ZE_501]

Side note: Love your sig Khev, but wouldn't you prefer an animated one?

Exposed joints. Pass.

 

[Wor-Gar]

While TROS (and the sequel trilogy as a whole) were a quick, stabbing wound, this show is like the knive's still in, being slowly twisted.

 

[matticus]

Side note: Love your sig Khev, but wouldn't you prefer an animated one?

 

[Prime Clone]

And just when we thought we'd run out of unflattering comparisons...

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I miss your Jack.

 

[Khev]

Side note: Love your sig Khev, but wouldn't you prefer an animated one?

Yes that's even better but with as often as I post I think a repeating animation would be overkill, lol.

 

[The Buffinator]

*Manuevers floating Death Laser Platform over Kathleen's house*

Filoni and Favreau, you are next

I still cant believe this sh**. I just cannot. I just cant wait till we see Bo-Katan having MIL problems onscreen, either. You KNOW its gonna be some next level STUPID S*** like that. Perhaps in the "Kenobi" series we can have Kenobi beginning his trans journey. I just cannot with all this y'all I never dreamed such stupidity was possible. Even TLJ did not warn me sufficiently.

Lady Kenobi...

Nah, he’ll probably just hang up a shingle at his place out beyond the Dune Sea and become a midwife. Obi-Gyn Kenobi.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I miss your Jack.

Me too.

 

[matticus]

And to think I was going to sign up for Disney+ for this.

Even Marvel is striking out on D+. Maybe Moon Knight. Andor will end up being the best of the SW shows this year. Who knows if Mando S3 will be this year.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Cancel your Disney+

 

[matticus]

Cancel your Disney+

Haven't had it since early last year. Definitely worth it at the time, seeing Mando S1 and S2 all in one go.

 

[Prime Clone]

I knew quantity would trump quality for both SW and Marvel, I just didn't think it would happen so soon.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I knew quantity would trump quality for both SW and Marvel, I just didn't think it would happen so soon.

Marvel is doing well tho, even if I'm not a huge fan.

 

[JAWS]

I gave the show a shot.

I forgave its flaws.

I was willing to separate my love for the bad ***, cool OT Fett and just try and watch this show for what it was.

And then that 1980's teen biker game came.

Then came that chase scene. Possibly the worst action scene I have ever witnessed.

**** this show.

 

[matticus]

I gave the show a shot.

I forgave its flaws.

I was willing to separate my love for the bad ***, cool OT Fett and just try and watch this show for what it was.

And then that 1980's teen biker game came.

Then came that chase scene. Possibly the worst action scene I have ever witnessed.

**** this show.

With every new SW eff up:

 

[JAWS]

There was a video of a Knights of Ren Disney+ show that made it onto YT last night. It looks fake to me, but interesting that another D+ show rumor is making the rounds.

Looks preposterous. DarthKostos should love it -- evil Space Wizard doing impossible things.

I would rather watch that content then what we are getting right now.

Through three episodes, I'm trying to understand the purpose of this show by looking for common themes. A prevailing one seems to be that things you knew from the OT aren't what they seemed to be. Rancors aren't vicious monsters; they're docile unless provoked or trained to be violent. Tuskens aren't savages; they're cultural victims of a changing world and technologically-driven outsiders. Boba Fett wasn't a ruthless and willing gun-for-hire; he was struggling to find himself and his place in the world without his clone father.

Why? Why do any of this rebranding? None of it helps make any of those more compelling than they were in the OT.

If the argument with Fett is that you couldn't make a compelling 7-episode series (totaling about 4 hours) about a mysterious badass with equally ambiguous morality, then Sergio Leone should rise from the grave to slap these guys in the face and remind them what Fett was inspired by. They turned "The Man With No Name" into "The Man With No Balls" and I'm struggling to understand why.

What's with all the softening of OT context? It can't be as simple as Disneyfication, since Favreau and Rodriguez wouldn't need this specific gig to get the same kind of paycheck. It's just baffling to me. I'm hoping the last four episodes will make the purpose clearer. If not, then what a bizarre waste.

Yep

No matter how tolerable or entertaining this show might be if you allow yourself to ignore the OT, that shouldn't even need to be a consideration. This series is an extension of the setups which preceded it, and there's nothing so far which couldn't have been accomplished the same (better, actually) without recontextualizing the OT.

If they wanted Fett to assimilate into a culture of unfairly-perceived savages in order to discover their nobility and motivate his new perspective on life, then *create* a new culture of neglected underground Tatooine natives rather rather than rebranding Tuskens. Each time Lucas revisited Tatooine, he kept adding new species to the territory. Could one of those also have been native to Tatooine, like Jawas and Tuskens? Why not? Shows you how much room there is to play with, given how relatively little we've actually seen of *an entire planet* on screen.

And if they wanted Boba Fett to have a life change, then establish a clear delineation between his OT persona and his new ongoing persona. It's that simple! Acknowledge the OT Fett by making it clear that who he *was* is dramatically different than who he now *is* post-Sarlacc. Instead, the OT Fett traits and context, which had been abundantly obvious for decades, are ignored as if it's essentially the same guy.

It's downright laughable to think of a guy wearing Wookiee-scalp trophies and disintegrating targets being a mostly kindhearted, but conflicted man who does things like apologize for an unintentional "keep an eye out" pun.

and yep

 

[loki2371]

Forget this **** and go watch Peacemaker on HBOMax. 1st 3 episodes were fun and entertaining. Looking forward more to the rest of the season of that show than this. Never in a million years would I have ever thought I'd say that!!

And I didn't even like the movie much. But Cena as Peacemaker was the best part of the movie. Finally a role he's actually fit for and good in.

 

[DakRen]

True, but the Cloud Riders were already borrowed for Solo. LFL is nothing if not derivative.

This whole series borrowers heavily from Solo down to the train and speeder chase.