The Book Of Boba Fett

I don’t mind his acting. Its that the plot basically hasn’t advanced and we’re already half-way through the series.

I feel you really wanted something you were absolutely never going to get (the second thing), and are acting like the first thing is unintentional. You know who is writing and showrunning this, right? It's Filoni and Favreau just like the Mandalorian. They've done a bunch of work together, and expecting Filoni particularly to suddenly "go dark" is just weird. It's like expecting James Gunn to do some sort of really serious movie or the like.

The first point is clearly intentional. He is pretty inept. He's not a borderline-superhero like The Mandalorian. There's no possibility we're intended to think Fett is some kind of super-badass. Anyone who wanted that is going to be disappointed. It's fine to dislike it, as an artistic choice but it's a definite and intentional choice to show Fett as out of his depth, naive, ineffectual as a crimelord and so on.


I loved both of those, personally, but especially the Vespa gang, because they're really part of the whole Star Wars style, not just the OT style. Particularly the space-vespas screamed "prequel style" to me, and honestly? I love it. The prequels had a lot wrong with them but style wasn't part of it. The shield ninjas were delightfully odd, and only their parkour got a bit old.


I think that's my main issue with the show, and it's been an issue with a lot of Filoni shows, honestly.

Still I'm enjoying this as a bit of Star Wars nonsense that doesn't take itself too seriously or require everyone to be a hypercompetent superbadass, nor, laughably, to be "really dark".

I enjoyed this week's quite a bit, it's incredibly daft but I certainly wasn't expecting Mods with mods on Vespa speederbikes. The not that speedy chase scene was clearly done for laughs with all the cliches popping up.

Finally Fett has realised he needs more than a few droids, a couple of Gamorreans and Fennec Shand to be a crimelord.

This show keeps this trajectory going, by episode seven it’s going to be spectacular

Gonna dig out my Rancor toy for the kid. She wants a pet one.

/plans on checking to see if sale price goes up

That Fett Vs Krrsantan fight was like two WWE jobbers slugging it out in slow motion.

I think the shows just badly written rather than trying to protray Fett out of his depth. It all just plods along with no real direction and random fan service dropped in here and there. The only decent part of show has now been deleted off screen.

Presumably wookie was trying to take him alive, otherwise he could have just shot through the bacta tank glass?

Also, if water is such an expensive commodity, why it it stored in fragile tanks on stilts that can be tipped over?

The problem with that opinion is that it's nonsensical because it's written by the same exact people as the Mandalorian, Rebels, Clone Wars, etc. And it's not taking a different approach or anything to those - it's still an action-adventure serial. So how would that be? Writers don't just suddenly "become bad" in that way.

So the only rational conclusion is that it's intended to be this way - and it's not a surprising conclusion either. Fett has been joked about as being inept for decades. So really they're just giving us what we wanted, y'know? Maybe that's a Monkey's Paw thing, but I cannot buy this idea "Somehow, Filoni and Favreau suddenly became inept writers". Again, by all means criticise the artistic direction they've taken, but claiming they're just suddenly incapable? Just seems silly.


Yeah, and there's a reason Visions is explicitly non-canon, and none of that was particularly dark either (despite sort of implying it might be) - I suspect the darkest we'll see in SW until a new generation takes over at Disney is probably going to be Andor (btw the trailers for that have the funniest damn art for the title, it looks like something from 2001 videogame, and not a high-budget one) and/or (npi) Rogue One. This like most Filoni stuff, is canon, so Disney have a different attitude to it.



I mean, I think that may well be what happens. Fett essentially has to either shape up, or give up. I don't think he entirely knows why he wants to be Daimyo himself. This is not unusual for Filoni or Favreau stuff either. In S1 of Rebels people spend ages working out their own motivations, and there are some slow-ass episodes before they do. Likewise Mandalorian to some extend, particularly re: taking care of BY (though I think they got that under control a bit faster).

It's possible the show will just blunder around, but even if it does, I would assume that was intentional blundering, based on previous work. That doesn't mean you have to like it, of course. But I did enjoy this dumb episode (and it was dumb) where not very much happened.

I think I’m going to go ahead and say this is bad. The Cute Rancor is going to be the new Baby Yoda. The bizarrely clean kids on popsicle dodgem cars chasing Mr Who Cares was laughable. The way the story is presented with flashbacks is a terrible choice. It’s impossible to care about what he’s doing in the present because there’s no explanation of why he’s suddenly even interested in being crime boss.

Mandalorian no doubt stole the potential thunder of a Boba Fett show by being a great Bounty Hunter show. Making out Fett to be some kind of Noble Scamp instead of a ruthless badass villain is a mistake. I’m finding the effects a mixture of impressive and terrible. And he should just keep his helmet on all the time DESPITE it being done already in Mandalorian. Every scene where he takes the helmet off goes from “I’m listening” to “Oh, right, this actually sucks.”

I can’t blame Temuera Morrison, who I’ve met and thought was very nice, and who will always be a legend for his work in New Zealand movies. I could never blame a working actor for taking high profile work and I hope he does well from it. Basically, this is George Lucas’ fault for retrofitting Fett with this shit in his I’m Special editions and the awful prequel trilogy, and I guess Favrea for getting it so wrong with the writing here.

Maybe the story is actually good, but it needed to be presented chronologically to give Fett a proper arc and explain why he suddenly wants to rule Tatooine. The b bit with the Tuskens being killed off was totally predictable and presumably this will lead to him going on a vengeance spree as he discovers who was ultimately responsible. Which the story is ALSO doing in the present as he investigates who is really trying to kill him again.

It’s just… kind of shit. How fucking hard is it to kill someone in a tank of water when you’ve snuck up on them? Rubbish.

/waits for Howard the FUCK to show up on Disney+

There’s going to be a reason why this story of Boba Fett was told.

Filoni is getting to do sequels to his animated shows but in live action and with access to legacy characters and plots.

I mean, does anyone think all the shows coming out this year - five live action, two animated - are all separate stories that all just so happen to share the same cast of characters and time periods that Filoni spent the last few decades writing, often with George Lucas?

Not sure if Disney had twigged that Lucas got his money and is now getting to help tell the stories as well

Yeah that definitely felt off. They didn't move convincingly at all and you really felt the the wheels/mechanism underneath. Plus the whole chase felt like it was conducted at about 20mph.

I think the show's direction showed up at the end of the episode getting off the star cruiser.

Episode 3 did blindside me a bit with the Tuskens getting wiped out, I'd assumed that they'd end up being an ally of Crimelord Fett later on but that's obviously right out now.

Well I mean the sequels were directionless as well. I'd say the prequels actually had a better story..