The Book Of Boba Fett (December 2021)

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

SW has been feminized.

 

[ebor]

It's unfortunate.

I wonder who was handled more poorly -- Boba Fett or Prof Hulk?

JAWS, any comment?

Well I am waiting for the X-rated Natasha/Hulk and Fennec/Boba on Porn-hub...

just to see who is 'handled' better or worse

 

[Ramatuelle]

SW has been feminized.

Dont be blaming this s*** on women!! I ASSURE you we didht want to see Mos Vespa either. Not even a little bit.
Most of the kickass bits we've seen so far were helmed by a woman.

I literally cannot believe Rodriquez put his name on this. After Fetts Mando appearances, never before have I felt so sucker-punched by entertainment.

Well, maybe once before. When we found out TOPHER GRACE was cast as Eddie freakin' Brock. Maybe.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Well I am waiting for the X-rated Natasha/Hulk and Fennec/Boba on Porn-hub...

just to see who is 'handled' better or worse

I'm shocked they haven't given Boba a romantic intrest. Fennec is right there, similar in age, and they live together already. That'd be more interesting to me than his dreams.

 

[ebor]

I'm shocked they haven't given Boba a romantic intrest. Fennec is right there, similar in age, and they live together already. That'd be more interesting to me than his WET- dreams.

Fixed...

 

[Wor-Gar]

I'm shocked they haven't given Boba a romantic intrest. Fennec is right there, similar in age, and they live together already. That'd be more interesting to me than his dreams.

Fennec: Hey, I'm right heeeeere!!!

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Fixed...

He's got that fine piece of Asian ass in a tight little outfit, meanwhile the SOB is dreaming about a little Tusken boy.

 

[ebor]

He's got that fine piece of Asian ass in a tight little outfit, meanwhile the SOB is dreaming about a little Tusken boy.

...isn't the baby Rancor male too?...hmmm I see a new pattern developing

the 2 Gamorean Guards...they seem almost...too loyal

 

[Mondragon]

For one brief shining moment (Mando) i felt like Disney was interested in giving us some - just some - quasi-adult content. There woukd be some cute in there too, true but we would be addressing adults in an adult context.

That'll likely be Tony Gilroy's Andor, with Stephen Schiff (see The Americans)
A straight Rebel Spy Thriller, as the lead loses his identity and humanity.

Obi-Wan team will likley turn him into another caricature of himself, and get into exploring Vader's "feelings" with subtlety of a cartoon mallet. (Disney can't help themselves).

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

...isn't the baby Rancor male too?...hmmm I see a new pattern developing

the 2 Gamorean Guards...they seem almost...too loyal

Boba - "I want to ride it." "I've ridden beast 10 times its size."

 

[The Buffinator]

Boba - "I want to ride it." "I've ridden beast 10 times its size."

Does he know that spaceships aren’t alive?

 

[Wor-Gar]

...isn't the baby Rancor male too?...hmmm I see a new pattern developing

 

[Khev]

I do not post in threads very often because I stay out of Star Wars discourse now and just enjoy what I enjoy from it. Mandalorian has kept my interest in new content after Rise of Skywalker pretty much stole all excitement I had for SW. Mandalorian is respectful to the lore, the fans, and created intriguing new characters and story I want to follow.
Boba Fetts return was something I was so nervous for and frankly did not want. I have a large Fett collection and he has been my favorite toy since age 5. I feared they would make him too much “the ultimate extreme bad guy who has a quip for any situation” or make him twirl his gun a lot to show how truly cool he is.
Fetts return I thought was handled great for the most part (besides his helmet removal once he got his “face” back) I was excited for this series. If memory serves, I cannot recall being this blindsided by the terrible quality of writing and directing in a long time. This show is shockingly bad. The second episode I thought was a step up quality wise but the quality overall, along with the baffling handling of this iconic character is insulting. I thought the creators of Mandalorian understood Fetts character and would give us a show I looked forward to weekly. Now instead of excitement, this feels like a weekly punch to the back of the head.
I won’t go into specifics because you have all covered them so well, I just wanted to thank you all for letting me know I’m not crazy or alone in feeling like I am living in bizarro world, witnessing a weekly toilet bowl swirly to my lifelong love of Boba Fett.

I might be inclined to feel the same way if this show had somehow come out years ago with Jeremy Bulloch in the suit and Wingreen's voice. But this Fett is so very far removed from lean and sinister badass that saw 40 years ago that it's easy for me to see it as its own separate thing. ROTJ was a definite let down but the real damage began in AOTC IMO. That was the moment that I realized that the character that I loved from the OT was gone forever and never coming back.

Din Djarin was at least a close enough approximation and Tython Boba was at least Fett being a badass again even if he still didn't feel like a true continuation of OT Boba due to the differences in voice and physique. I've said it before but I basically just see him as more of a Batman or James Bond type character now. He's been portrayed so differently so many times across various media that the character, and especially his OT self, can't really be "ruined" by any new incarnation. At least not for me. I think most would agree that TDKR was more damaging to Christian Bale's Batman than say B&R or Josstice League because TDKR was actually Bale himself. BOBF is *not* Bulloch/Wingreen so I'm just enjoying it as its own separate thing.

I remember JAWS actually enjoying Josstice League because even though it was "bad" it reminded him of a Saturday Morning Cartoon. That's exactly what BOBF is for me. I could easily picture this show opening with a corny 80's theme song. Sure it's all super lame compared to theatrical ESB or even his recent appearances in Mando Season 2 but as a super campy live-action "Saturday Morning Cartoon" I'm finding it to be *extremely* entertaining.

But that said yeah, I get the hate, lol.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

This ridiculous show doesn't ruin OT Boba Fett, if anything it just makes him cooler. It's just really disappointing that 40 years after the fact we had a shot at getting an awesome show about the most mysterious and feared bounty hunter in the galaxy and Lucasfilm takes the opportunity to humiliate yet another legacy character.

 

[DakRen]

Just watched three episodes of Peacemaker back-to-back to get the taste of this show outta my mouth. Not going back LOL

Agreed, what a huge tonal difference and actual real stakes and consequences. The story is so much easier to follow and coherent.

 

[Sachiel]

Boba and the Vespa kids show up in Mando season 3.

Oh it's gonna happen. They can't stay away from Tatooine.

 

[DakRen]

Dick's Last Resort style restaurant where the cyborg millennial waitstaff makes annoying remarks and disrespects you while you dine and brings your food out on scooters.

Sophie Thatcher is gen z not millennial. She was born in 2000 and the cut off was 1996. The youngest millennial is 26 lol. Everyone’s gonna be calling annoying teens millennials even when real millennials are in their 40s smh.

 

[ZE_501]

Agreed, what a huge tonal difference and actual real stakes and consequences. The story is so much easier to follow and coherent.

It's not really comparable in tone and style to any Star Wars media, but it's solid genre entertainment that looks like someone actually cared.

 

[cerealkeller]

I might be inclined to feel the same way if this show had somehow come out years ago with Jeremy Bulloch in the suit and Wingreen's voice. But this Fett is so very far removed from lean and sinister badass that saw 40 years ago that it's easy for me to see it as its own separate thing. ROTJ was a definite let down but the real damage began in AOTC IMO. That was the moment that I realized that the character that I loved from the OT was gone forever and never coming back.

Din Djarin was at least a close enough approximation and Tython Boba was at least Fett being a badass again even if he still didn't feel like a true continuation of OT Boba due to the differences in voice and physique. I've said it before but I basically just see him as more of a Batman or James Bond type character now. He's been portrayed so differently so many times across various media that the character, and especially his OT self, can't really be "ruined" by any new incarnation. At least now for me. I think most would agree that TDKR was more damaging to Christian Bale's Batman than say B&R or Josstice League because TDKR was actually Bale himself. BOBF is *not* Bulloch/Wingreen so I'm just enjoying it as its own separate thing.

I remember JAWS actually enjoying Josstice League because even though it was "bad" it reminded him of a Saturday Morning Cartoon. That's exactly what BOBF is for me. I could easily picture this show opening with a corny 80's theme song. Sure it's all super lame compared to theatrical ESB or even his recent appearances in Mando Season 2 but as a super campy live-action "Saturday Morning Cartoon" I finding it to be *extremely* entertaining.

But that said yeah, I get the hate, lol.

I was willing to accept Morrison as a continuation of the Boba Fett from the OT because of the 5 year gap between Jedi and Mandalorian. How he got out of the Sarlaac, what happened to him during that time and losing his armor I was picturing a tortured 5 years which made his appearance acceptable. The scars on his head and imagination of his journey the past 5 years somehow made Morrison Boba Fett to me. The mystery of his past (even his journey between AOTC and Empire I could justify in my head because of the years between them) has always been a draw to his character. Even the way his one stab at humor “I think they would recognize my face” felt right for the man of few words.
The Book of Boba Fett has Morrison walking around like a dullard, not knowing the customs of Tatooine, how the job of a crime boss would work, or asking 8D8 the power structure of the crime syndicates until well after he has failed several times in his new role. He’s an idiot. He would be Fredo Corleone taking over the family business. This is not Boba Fett. This is Fredo Fett.

 

[DakRen]

It's not really comparable in tone and style to any Star Wars media, but it's solid genre entertainment that looks like someone actually cared.

It’s not afraid to let loose and have fun too, the first time I watched the intro I was very worried this was going to be terrible. After watching the first three episodes the intro is just perfect.