The Book Of Boba Fett

Yeah they looked like punks riding what were clearly meant to be Vespas. They were meant to be lost souls, or rebels, yet I've never thought of Mods as being particularly lost or rebellious.

They'd have worked better as straight-up punks or rockers ie. a proper biker gang riding "space choppers", but there's already the evil biker gang who ride "space choppers", so they went with Vespas instead, yet left the characters as punks... Not particularly well thought through.

I mean, Mods themselves (IRL) absolutely thought of themselves as lost souls or rebels, and society certainly regarded them as such. Just not the shouting, brick-throwing sort - but troublemakers, and against the establishment, absolutely. They were also politically and socially aligned more with progressive culture (at the time) than rockers, who tended, despite their more outwardly rebellious nature, to be more conservative, values-wise.

So that seems a little unfair on RL Mods.

I don't agree that they're really "punks" at all, character-wise here (there's a slight hint of it appearance-wise). There's no ill-directed rage, no messy-ness, there's no mohawks or similar "crazy hair". They're mostly neat, well-groomed, wearing well-made or at least tailored-looking closely-fitting clothes that you might see on Coruscant. The most punk thing there is the lead girl's jacket, but for example the white kid in the grey (seen in S3 a lot) is wearing basically a suit and tie, and looks like a nice boy with nice hair, and only weird storm-trooper armour-plate worn outside his sweater-vest looks at all rough.

(Apparently Disney+ has some kind of anti-screenshot protection lol or I'd have added some).

I think there's been a bit of a collision between trying to make them look Mod-ish, but in a Star Wars way (like the white kid I mentioned) and trying to make them into "cyberpunks" (the Hot Topic side of things). I do agree that they should have picked a lane though.

So Mando cameo confirmed, cool.
4 was the best episode by far. Would watch again.

Agree on four being the best episode so far. It hadn’t occurred to me until he was having the conversation but its taken three and half episodes before he even gave us any motivation for why he’s doing any of this.

I liked the Jim Henson bantha and puppet chef droids. Very original trilogy.

I've tried to like it but it's well...shit. His way of playing the part seems so stilted it just puts me off.

I think if this had been two maybe three feature length (60-80min) specials it would have helped the pacing a lot. Instead we barely make any progress in any individual episode then wait a week for very little to happen again.

They could even have timed it as Christmas day, New Years and one in between as an ‘event’

Agree with this. I think what's helped in my case was I watched the first three episodes at the same time, so it felt okay. I did think that had I needed to wait a week between episodes then I might have thought bugger all happened in each.

When Disney bought Star Wars they declared all of the Expanded Universe books non-canon "Legends". Only Disney approved new books are considered Canon or close to it now. Hence lots of things being very different to the various book series.

Finally caught up. So, instead of a cute baby Yoda, we now have a cute Rancor and a cute Bantha?

He is. I'm kind of impressed with how they've managed to make him seem quite expressive, moreso than even Chewie, especially in the face, and I appreciated that even cash money and Jennifer Beals trying to cheer him up didn't stop him ripping that dude's arm off. Gotta keep it real, Wookie-style.

I don’t think its ever mentioned but the Trandoshans enslaved the Wookies, right?

But no casual would know that so he’s just a bitter old drunk tearing limbs out of spite. Which still works for him as a character to be fair.

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Been really disappointed in this so far. I probably see it through because, but yeah… kinda just wished Bobba had died in the sarlaac pit and we were done with it. Star Wars as always veered in quality, when it’s good it’s amazing but when it’s bad it’s really bad.

My personal feeling is that star wars is best when it doesn't explain stuff too much. The OT was great at just throwing in references to 'the clone wars' but leaving it for your imagination to fill in the rest.
Even OT Boba Fett, they didn't really explain anything other than he had a gruff voice and he was prone to disintegrating people, then they let your imagination fill in that he was this cool badass bounty hunter.

The prequels suffered from trying to explain all that stuff, which could never be as good as your imagination. I think this was pretty widely accepted after the prequels... but now the prequel generation are grown up, and everything has to be a MCU style content factory, so they have to go back and fill in all those bits in the name of producing more SW content for the 'franchise'.

Filoni is apparently mildly capable at that, but it's still usually gonna be a bit underwhelming or unnecessary.
Hence the best recent SW stuff being the stuff where they've mostly just gone off and done something new and unrelated, with a fresh vision (Mando S1, TLJ, Rogue One (though I know that was kinda filling in the blanks, but it felt like its own thing).
Maybe Obi-Wan won't be terrible.