The Book Of Boba Fett (December 2021)

[Mondragon]

Good ep. Although while Fennec takes on the entire palace guard, Boba Fett essentially takes on the droid equivalent of ...

 

[xXJ0kerXx1]

i think no one has asked this but who's cooking their food? they had an amazing looking feast last episode? are the droids repaired and slaving away in the kitchen?

 

[greygoose]

I think if they'd made him more like the ruthless Boba we expected when he's first captured by the Tuskens and the show played out linearly so that we saw the gradual change it would have been a lot better received. This episode explained his motivations a lot better than any of the other episodes. He's getting old, he almost died working for Jabba and he realised that line of work is going to get him killed and for what? He found something of a family in the Tuskens since Jango (do the other bounty hunter's in TCW count as family?) and they were taken away too. He wants his life to go in a different direction and I'm starting to be ok with that. The execution is awful though.

Weekly episodes don't help the bad execution either. Weekly episodes worked well for Mando because each episode had a start and end point. The Fett series feels like one big story chopped into 30 minute segments.

 

[Asta]

Given this has already been done, I can see why they chose to go in another direction for Book of Boba. I think most of the negativity is down to poor execution from the team making the show.

Did Boba forget that he crawled out of the Sarlacc in his armour, or was it the writers who forgot?

 

[greygoose]

Did Boba forget that he crawled out of the Sarlacc in his armour, or was it the writers who forgot?

Hurts my head trying to figure out how to answer this.

 

[Asta]

I wonder if this line was an in joke?

 

[Mondragon]

The sarlaac acid must have eaten into Fett's brain(and caused permanent damage). How was he with it enough to dig through the sand like a gopher(impossible) yet he seems to have no idea or recollection that he made it out with his armor on his body. At what point does Fennec realize that this guy belongs in a retirement community,

He (along with the audience), are all trying to forget that the once badass Boba Fett, was knocked out and robbed by a couple of Jawas.

Again (despite some fan hold outs insisting that Tatooine only has one look) with Garsa's Casino and the Mod culture Mos Espa is established as becoming more commercial affluent than Mos Eisley ever was, they even joked abt it last ep.

All said the further hints of recruiting Krrsantan and "...credits can buy muscle ...if you know where to look" ending with the Mando's theme playing, was very exciting.

Looking forward to his new "Family" assembled for the finally.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

I think if they'd made him more like the ruthless Boba we expected when he's first captured by the Tuskens and the show played out linearly so that we saw the gradual change it would have been a lot better received. This episode explained his motivations a lot better than any of the other episodes. He's getting old, he almost died working for Jabba and he realised that line of work is going to get him killed and for what? He found something of a family in the Tuskens since Jango (do the other bounty hunter's in TCW count as family?) and they were taken away too. He wants his life to go in a different direction and I'm starting to be ok with that. The execution is awful though.

He has probably already *almost* been killed like 100 times in his life though. Is it possible that the Sarlaac pit incident would be the one that really tears it? I suppose it's possible. But it feels like a really flimsy excuse to change Fett into something Disney wants. The formerly proficient individualist Fett now the incompetent buffoon who constantly requires someone else(mostly Fennec) is pure Lucasfilm bull****.

 

[Dave_W]

After several decades of bounty hunting, to be taken out by a blind guy and almost digested...I'd start to rethink my career choices as well. People have their 'post-ROTJ Boba Fett' show in Mando. I'd rather they'd have done a Fett show between TCW and ESB, but then we'd know how it all ends anyway.

 

[Asta]

I thought the Mods (the name kind of makes sense as they are a not so subtle nod to mods and rockers but also because they like to modify themselves with mechanical implants) in this episode looked a bit more cyber-punkesque than budget burton catalogue models this time.

I just got to that part in the episode. I can't believe Fennec actually called them "Mods" !

The scooters, the mirrors, even a parka, and they really are Mods. It sort of breaks the fourth wall.


Best bits so far are Boba blowing away the Hells Angels, which was satisfying to see.

As was seeing more of Jabba's palace.

 

[Khev]

Okay this episode definitely had some of the usual issues but overall I liked it and I freaking *loved* the scene where he overtakes the swoop gang in Slave I.

Reminded me of this:

 

[Asta]

Thought I recognised the casino dealer droid (complete with green dealer's visor ):

Based on Star Tours' R-3X:

 

[Otomofan]

I guess it's a step up after episode 3, but how could it not have been?

Sure it was "neat" to see the Anakin One shooting at the space bikers....but we didn't LEARN a single thing in the entire series so far that wasn't summed up either visually (Boba's using a gaffi stick...he must have spent time with Tusken Raiders) or straight up TOLD TO US in a few quick lines of dialogue ("Boba found me dead in the desert and fixed me up, so I've joined him.") in one episode of Mandalorian.

Other than approximately 15 minutes of Boba Fett sleeping in a bacta tank, which absolutely nobody ever wanted to see, this show hasn't given us a damn thing.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Fennec basically did absolutely everything for ***** Fett once again. The most "impressive" thing he did was scare a robotic rabbit into committing suicide.

It's like a moronic Saturday morning cartoon with Fett trying to intimidate the Easter bunny...

Boba Fett?

 

[Asta]

This was a good scene:

A Wookiee dealing with obnoxious fellow customers in the fabled manner...

I didn't think they'd go there. Glad to see there's still some bite (or rip) in this series.


Some of the other customers look like they stepped out of the original Total Recall...

 

[a-dev]

Fennec basically did absolutely everything for ***** Fett once again. The most "impressive" thing he did was scare a robotic rabbit into committing suicide.

Haven't seen it yet but

 

[Mondragon]

Again (despite some fan hold outs insisting that Tatooine only has one look) with Garsa's Casino and the Mod culture Mos Espa is established as becoming more commercial affluent than Mos Eisley ever was, they even joked abt it last ep.

All said the further hints of recruiting Krrsantan and "...credits can buy muscle ...if you know where to look" ending with the Mando's theme playing, was very exciting.

Looking forward to his new "Family" assembled for the finally.

Also as I thought it might, the show now definitely looks to be going for full seven samurai / magnificent seven for the final showdown. Three recruited so far (Boba, Fennec and BK) with Mando a lock for number 4 leaving 3 potential spaces left to fill (hoping for some ESB bounty hunters, Bossk and Dengar). Maybe Cobb Vanth can come back for the final space. Would be a fun homage to genres that Star Wars already leans so heavily on.

If they are up against the pikes with the rumoured Crimson Dawn influence it would be really fun if Cad Bane and Qi'ra were leading them.

This episode finally gave the show a bit of a plot line and I am now excited rather than anxious about the next episode.

Yep, the Pikes are essentially Calvera and his gang, with the framing back story near filled out.
Mag 7 will be Fett (outrageously riding Rancor), Fennec, Loyal Gamoreans, soon to be Krrsantan..(which is what everyone wants)

...Mando and a couple of Mods. Mando might suggest Cob Vanth, as the dusty one horse town sheriff, would love to see him back (to see how he reinvents himself after losing the armor)
Looking forward to it.

 

[Asta]

Morrison's a Kiwi, but when he says "Mate" to Black Krrsantan at this point...

...there's a noise like a didgeridoo on the soundtrack.

 

[matticus]

Who flys a ship sideways and backwards? I mean GTFO with that lazy, ******* writing. There is a thing called gravity on a planet, maybe you've heard of it. Those thrusters on the front must've been invisible. Favreau couldn't have written something so stupid.

This is canon too in that a seismic charge destroys a whole asteroid field, yet you can drop it in a sarlacc RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU and sustain zero damage to the ship.

 

[greygoose]

Morrison's a Kiwi, but when he says "Mate" to Black Krrsantan at this point...

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...there's a noise like a didgeridoo on the soundtrack.

Too funny.