Worst part of the entire series and possibly all of Disney SW. The level of cringe was worse than Rose or anything else in my eye (see what I did there lol). I just don’t understand why they felt that needed to be included. These dumb cyborg kids intentionally mutilate/upgrade their bodies so it’s not like his missing eye is painful or sensitive to him. It’s like Boba didn’t even pay attention to his briefing and just assumed it was accident related. Even so why would Boba even care if he offended one of his paid lackeys? Then to top it off he asks Fennec of all people if she approves. She also works under him! Who cares he has far far more pressing issues at hand like the warring syndicates all vying for his territory. Ridiculous episode.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.
Well, aren't all men truly babies? And can only function when a strong women gives them advice and guides/leads them through life?? Without a strong women, we're all just a bunch of blabbering idiots. Even the feared Boba Fett apparently.Does he change Baby Fett's bacta diaper?
So I've been looking at the show all wrong?
If you just surrender to Fennec as the hard-edge in control bad-*** lead of the show, and Fett as the babbling Baby Yoda of the series. She's just letting him play (new friends, new toys, new pets) and indulging in his inane baby antics and ramblings, while protecting him?
It all makes more sense that way, and reads allot easier.
Whoa that’s old school but I get it. TPM was my first SW film in theaters and I remember imagining that Anakin was like Luke in the sense he wanted to save his friends and confront the Emperor. Instead of laying down his life like Luke when he realizes he’s outmatched or can’t strike the Sith down in anger, he ultimately chooses self preservation and bows before Palpatine. Then he spends an entire movie as Vader the enforcer and his duel with Kenobi would be more heart breaking because Anakin is more Vader now despite his original intentions to save the Jedi and galaxy.
******* exactly. He's not the same character and they're ignoring the fact, seemingly hoping we won't notice while they forge onwards with this new vision of him. Just, WTF.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.
He may be likeable there seems to be a pause with raised eyebrows every time Boba speaks sans helmet, and I keep wondering if Boba 1)knows where he is; or 2)spends so much time in the aquarium he has swimmer's ear and needs some drops from the local drugstore. E.g. maybe he can't really hear what anyone is saying and needs a minute to think about it.
I watched the third episode yesterday and wanted to share my thoughts, but then I just couldn't be bothered...
However...
I'll say this: it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. If I completely erase the OT from my mind, then I can understand this Boba Fett. The way the character is written and is portrayed is pretty consistent from episode to episode, and he's not an unlikeable character. The bad news is that the character has pretty much zero to do with the one we knew from the OT, so...
The Mod Squad, however, is utter and complete garbage. Every scene they were in was ruined. Which ruined about 70% of the episode. And I'm guessing they will be heavily featured in the next episodes, so we really have a lot of fun to look forward to. Ugh.
Please do not disparage The Apple Dumpling Gang this way...
I feel like you and I need to hug. This is a great post and recap of the build up and ultimate let down of the show. Fett is my favorite too and I'm holding out hope that something positive comes out of this series...but I'm not holding my breath!I've given this show three weeks... I just don't think I can do it anymore.
A bit of background... I am a fanatical Boba Fett fan and have been since I was 6 and my older brother gave me his Kenner Boba and a 12" Fett missing an arm and a leg (still have them). I was hooked on the mystery and "Man With No Name" aura of the character. In the early to mid-ninties, I was obsessed with the comics, the novels, anything Fett. I dreamed of the day I could see him in action on the screen again.
Then Attack of the Clones happened. I was disappointed with Lucas' choice to make Boba a clone (something that would come back to haunt the franchise 20 years later it seems). The whole franchise kind of lost its lustre after the PT and I walked away.
Fast forward to The Mandalorian. The show had me hooked. It was everything I wanted to see Boba doing and more. I love the show, warts and all. Din Djarin (sans Grogu) is what I envisioned Fett to be all those years. Cue Season Two and the long awaited reappearance of the original Mandalorian! The episode wasn't great from a plot or directing point of view (we'll get back to this), but Boba was back! I actually enjoy his look in this, I can certainly find commonality in the dad bod. But we're back to pigeonholing him as a clone of an actor that is now way older than the character and it kind of shows. But it was okay! I liked the updated look, I like his code of honor, I loved seeing Slave I in action, life is great!
Book of Boba Fett is teased in the finale and I'm over the moon. A year of waiting for something I've been hoping for since I was a child is coming true, I just have to wait a year!
December 29th, first episode. What. The. Hell. That was bad. The plot was bad and rushed, the dialogue was poor, the scenes and action were poorly shot.
We finally received an answer that we have been waiting to see for over 30 years and it's just kinda glossed over. We see him emerge somehow from the Sarlaac by... digging out 20 feet from the maw? What? The digestive juices are so strong that his armor is badly damaged, the paint has been stripped, the visor has melted but uhh... his flightsuit us basically fine save for being bleached and a couple holes in it. This dude has been partially digested, he's dying of dehydration and yet somehow 24 hours later he's conscious, not in absolute agony and not only tries to make an escape but spars with Tusken Raiders...
Bad writing. Bad directing. Bad action. Bad plot. It has Robert Rodriguez's fingerprints all over it. Who in their right mind thought that the guy who created Spy Kids and Machete was fit to direct a Star Wars episode, let alone an entire series. Wha..What...
I write off the first episode as just setting the pace (poorly). Second episode comes out a week later and it's markedly better than the first. Granted, it's still not great but it begins to set up a large picture featuring not only the Hutts and Pike Syndicate, but a really bad *** character in Black Krrsantan. The continuing Saga of Dances With Tuskens is still mind numbingly bad, especially with the Boba of Arabia plot, but the current setting seems much better...
... and then it all went in the trash the next episode. The threat of the Hutts? Gone! Oh, but here's a plot device in the visage of a Rancor which is now apparently a big dog? Black Krrsantan? Defeated! By a bunch of intergalactic teenage Mods who simultaneously are poor and yet have fancy space vespas which look like something out of Spy Kids more than Star Wars. Boba Fett's Swiss Knife armor that can easily punch through a blast door, catch a Land Speeder doing what? 20 miles an hour? All useless. This supposed warrior gets beat to hell by the Wookiee, shows no actual prowess and has to be rescued by rejects from Cowboy Beebop. Oh, but now we get to look forward to him riding a friggin Rancor
I'm sorry for the rant. I just... I've been looking forward to this moment for so long but instead of feeling excited, I feel like I got punched in the gut. It's bad. It's really bad.
The thing that kills me is that they have so much old source material to pull from, both the EU novels and Dark Horse comics that they pick and choose to use and a LOT of it features Boba Fett himself and yet... they give us this. They could have easily and successfully grabbed source from something like Twin Engines of Destruction but this is what we get... Jesus Christ.
Feels bad, man... feels bad.
Is that my baby I see in the back
Yeah, you had a great post awhile back recognizing the absolute disconnect not only from his OT self but rather the *the most recent prior scene* of his which was him walking into Jabba's palace and wordlessly blowing away a welcoming Bib Fortuna in cold blood. The complete 180 is just hilariously bizarre.
My own childhood and interest in the character so closely mirrors this, right down to playing with the original Large Size Kenner figure in 1979. The only thing I would add was also pouring over the awesome drawings of Fett and Slave I in Joe Johnston's ESB sketchbook for hours on end.I've given this show three weeks... I just don't think I can do it anymore.
A bit of background... I am a fanatical Boba Fett fan and have been since I was 6 and my older brother gave me his Kenner Boba and a 12" Fett missing an arm and a leg (still have them). I was hooked on the mystery and "Man With No Name" aura of the character. In the early to mid-ninties, I was obsessed with the comics, the novels, anything Fett. I dreamed of the day I could see him in action on the screen again.
Then Attack of the Clones happened. I was disappointed with Lucas' choice to make Boba a clone (something that would come back to haunt the franchise 20 years later it seems). The whole franchise kind of lost its lustre after the PT and I walked away.
Fast forward to The Mandalorian. The show had me hooked. It was everything I wanted to see Boba doing and more. I love the show, warts and all. Din Djarin (sans Grogu) is what I envisioned Fett to be all those years. Cue Season Two and the long awaited reappearance of the original Mandalorian! The episode wasn't great from a plot or directing point of view (we'll get back to this), but Boba was back! I actually enjoy his look in this, I can certainly find commonality in the dad bod. But we're back to pigeonholing him as a clone of an actor that is now way older than the character and it kind of shows. But it was okay! I liked the updated look, I like his code of honor, I loved seeing Slave I in action, life is great!
Book of Boba Fett is teased in the finale and I'm over the moon. A year of waiting for something I've been hoping for since I was a child is coming true, I just have to wait a year!
December 29th, first episode. What. The. Hell. That was bad. The plot was bad and rushed, the dialogue was poor, the scenes and action were poorly shot.
We finally received an answer that we have been waiting to see for over 30 years and it's just kinda glossed over. We see him emerge somehow from the Sarlaac by... digging out 20 feet from the maw? What? The digestive juices are so strong that his armor is badly damaged, the paint has been stripped, the visor has melted but uhh... his flightsuit us basically fine save for being bleached and a couple holes in it. This dude has been partially digested, he's dying of dehydration and yet somehow 24 hours later he's conscious, not in absolute agony and not only tries to make an escape but spars with Tusken Raiders...
Bad writing. Bad directing. Bad action. Bad plot. It has Robert Rodriguez's fingerprints all over it. Who in their right mind thought that the guy who created Spy Kids and Machete was fit to direct a Star Wars episode, let alone an entire series. Wha..What...
I write off the first episode as just setting the pace (poorly). Second episode comes out a week later and it's markedly better than the first. Granted, it's still not great but it begins to set up a large picture featuring not only the Hutts and Pike Syndicate, but a really bad *** character in Black Krrsantan. The continuing Saga of Dances With Tuskens is still mind numbingly bad, especially with the Boba of Arabia plot, but the current setting seems much better...
... and then it all went in the trash the next episode. The threat of the Hutts? Gone! Oh, but here's a plot device in the visage of a Rancor which is now apparently a big dog? Black Krrsantan? Defeated! By a bunch of intergalactic teenage Mods who simultaneously are poor and yet have fancy space vespas which look like something out of Spy Kids more than Star Wars. Boba Fett's Swiss Knife armor that can easily punch through a blast door, catch a Land Speeder doing what? 20 miles an hour? All useless. This supposed warrior gets beat to hell by the Wookiee, shows no actual prowess and has to be rescued by rejects from Cowboy Beebop. Oh, but now we get to look forward to him riding a friggin Rancor
I'm sorry for the rant. I just... I've been looking forward to this moment for so long but instead of feeling excited, I feel like I got punched in the gut. It's bad. It's really bad.
The thing that kills me is that they have so much old source material to pull from, both the EU novels and Dark Horse comics that they pick and choose to use and a LOT of it features Boba Fett himself and yet... they give us this. They could have easily and successfully grabbed source from something like Twin Engines of Destruction but this is what we get... Jesus Christ.
