The Book Of Boba Fett

Is there only one episode left? They still have to establish Boba’s motives, set up his criminal empire, ride the rancor, avenge the Tuskens, guest appearance of Chewie, Ezra, Han, Hondo, Obi Wan, Thrawn and Vader. Plus, just for the merchandising, Baby Jabba. I cannot wait.

I am really looking forward to Chekhov's Rancor in the final episode.

Pay attention that was pages back !!

Seems that this series was setup to finish with the ultimate fan service of fan service.

Chances of it being pretty much the entire surviving cast of both seasons of the Mandalorian - minus Cara Dun Fuckedhercareer - with the Jedis and Darth Maul, Han, Chewie and Space Khaleesi.

Just throw the whole fucking lot in. Maybe thin out the asshole contingent online through aneurysms of disgust. With luck.

If it's any consolation I am sans wedding ring just now after losing my third one a few months back. Can't seem to keep the things on my finger.

I had a friend whose wedding ring used to fall off with alarming regularity if he went into a pub or nightclub.

Oddly he's now divorced.

It's an interesting point, and well-explained, and thank you for mentioning the prequel era, because it is an obvious comparison, but I don't it has to be as bleak as you're suggesting. I've seen this discussed elsewhere.

I think what you're looking at is part of why Filoni is ensuring he has characters like Mando, Bo-Katan, Ahsoka, likely Ezra (and Thrawn), and so on waiting in the wings.

Re: your two specific points of "No Jedi but Luke" and "New Republic destroyed", I've seen this discussed quite a bit.

1) "No Jedi but Luke". I'm not a super-expert here compared to people I know, but I am (imho) reliably assured that we do not in fact know Luke is the "only" Jedi, just maybe the only Jedi Master. We have no idea if he trained a handful of students, dozens, or hundreds in the 24 years between this episode of BoBF and Ben Solo burning down the place. There are likely a lot of people trained by Luke out there.

On top of that, Ahsoka, Ezra, and others may well be training people, and Ezra (IIRC), is an actual Jedi, and a powerful one. And Ahsoka is only not a Jedi in that she rejects that identity and follows (slightly) different beliefs. So it's likely there are plenty of "Jedi-like" and even actual-Jedi force-users wandering around between the OT and the ST, and surviving the ST.

Also you remember the out-of-nowhere Force Dyad thing? Well, that can be used very effectively to suggest the Force is effectively keeping other Force-users out of the Reylo story, because the Force is leading to this specific confrontation with Palps, so it actually makes it easier to explain why other Force-users were not involved. Entirely accidental I'm sure but there we are.

2) "The New Republic is destroyed" - Is it though? All the evidence we have is that it really wasn't. Hosnian Prime was destroyed, and I have no doubt the Republic fell apart and lost a lot of its fleet, but that doesn't seem likely to be permanent, and it's kind of immaterial to the 24 years in-between trilogies. If you go after the ST, you could do tons of interesting stuff with trying to reintegrate the New Republic which may well have splintered.



Are we though, are they building that? I mean, I think the characters Filoni is focusing on are ones who aren't going to impact the story of the ST or the run up to it a great deal, who are outside that story - the Mandalorians for example. We have no reason to believe from the ST that they were any more destroyed than previous or whatever*. So we can have pretty interesting stories in-between.

They can absolutely introduce new characters, and those characters can absolutely "stick around", they just need to not interact heavily/directly with the ST characters. But they can interact less directly, or even directly in a distanced way. Like in TRoS, they were still introducing new characters (Keri Russell's for example).

I don't doubt we'll see a detailed canon story of what actually went down that lead to Luke losing it, for example, and I strongly suspect we'll see more "breakout" characters like Ahsoka emerge over time, because Filoni is good at that. I think what we've seen shows Filoni is strongly aware of the challenges and prepared to meet them. And the huge fleet at the end of the ST that emerges to destroy the bullshit Sith Star Destroyers suggests the Republic still has some fight left in it.

That's it. The choice is just an illusion. We already know what happens with Grogu. The Jedi are just an order of knights anyway, just becausee there aren't many of them around any more doesn't mean that there are no longer any force users in the galaxy.

The originals said it was an ancient religion too, when the massacre of all the Jedi was only 30 years or less before. I just assumed communication across planets was shit (apart from the inconsistent writing being the real cause).

The originals didn’t cause anyone else to have heard of them, other than maybe Luke and that was quite a small group.

The sequels had bigger issues than that anyway. They can easily write around it, given they have a whole galaxy and any timeline they want.

The sequels are weird because it feels to me that (very generally) every Star Wars fan likes the original trilogy; the prequels divide opinion obviously but you tend to get those who hate all three films or those who like them all. But with the sequels, people seem to find it difficult to defend them as a whole because the quality of the three films is widely variable. There's usually one of the three films that people hate, whereas the other two trilogies are a lot more stable in quality.

Classic trilogy: yay!
Prequel trilogy: yay or nay!
Sequel trilogy: erm, yay and nay? A little bit? At various times? I'm not sticking my neck out, you form your own opinion.

Obviously a very loose generalisation!

I liked all three films in the sequel trilogy as big cinematic experiences but narratively they felt disjointed and as part of Star Wars as a whole I felt all five new films felt quite detached from the previous entries.

Which is odd because I completely buy Mandalorian and BOBF as taking place in the continuity of the originals and prequels.

I think the problem all five new films have is how reliant they are on spectacle over characterisation.

It ocurrs to me that, given Dante and Randalls' fondness for Star Wars, when Clerks 3 is released I wouldn't be surprised if there was some joke about how Becca looks and sounds an awful lot like Ahsoka Tano.

Agreed. Force Awakens makes it very bleak. Rise of Skywalker shits on all the sacrifice and effort the characters me in the original trilogy and rendered it all pointless (Palpatine is infinite and can just rebuild, na nah!)