The Book of Boba Fett Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

I think it has strong points. But I don’t deny it’s mediocrities.

IMO it’s better than the sequel trilogy. Maybe my expectations are just very low.

Yeah, we don’t need ninjas but the bikers were welcome.

What about the Wookie ‘gladiator’? He looked creepy. That scene was good IMO but would Hutts really just get about so openly? Wouldn’t it be easy to blast them?

I actually prefer the present than the flashbacks, not that the present is great.

I don’t care for the flashbacks because I find that to be even more absurd than the present. I can’t see why Boba would play Last of the Mohicans with such a brutal culture. When he first encountered them they enslaved him and beat him. If anything he has Stockholm Syndrome.

I can accept he has a ‘no torture’ rule but anything short of that should be on. Probably we’ll discover that his newfound humanity is due to his time with the Sandpeople. But that’s probably going to be inconsistent because they seem to have little problem with torture and every other crime against life.

Disney just wants to have it both ways. They want a story concerned with the seedy (and popular) side of the Star Wars lore but want it to be sanitised. They won’t even allow an anti-hero. The main guy has to be morally unambiguous. This isn’t Boba Fett. It’s Brian Fett. No, Bryan Fett.

Apparently the Wookiee is from the comics. Some type of bounty hunter that everyone seems to love from his portrayal there.

As ReyKahuka said above, I’d like to see him be Boba Fett and start stomping on some throats again. That’s who he is. I’m fine with him not wanting to tangle with any remaining Hutt’s just yet, but that mayor at least deserved it.

LOL ‘D+‘. That should be their mark on their report card.

I watched the first two episodes last night. It's ok. Better than I thought it would be. The show does some things right, but most of that is when the camera is focused on a character other than the protagonist (I had the same issue with Solo). Although it's nice that Morrison is getting work again. I'm really liking Ming-Na Wen in Star Wars too.

I don't get Boba not using his jetpack against the parkour ninja guys. The writers should have given us a reason why he can't use it (like it gets damaged by blaster fire or a heavy net gets thrown over him or something...give us something to say that Boba weighed his options) because the audience is immediately thinking, "Why doesn't he fly?", when they put him in that situation. The "ninjas" themselves were...ok I guess. Their face coverings reminded me a little bit of Sam Wesell's from Attack of the Clones. While the biker gang hanging out at the Tosche Station aren't a new idea having been in Shadows of the Empire first, I really liked seeing something similar in live action.

Boba being honorable doesn't work for me. He's a cold-hearted killer. Let him be that. Otherwise this is just a copy of The Mandalorian with the honorable killer with a heart of gold act. The one thing they do get right with the character is Boba is a "survivor" in a sense that he'll do whatever is necessary to get by - including befriending barbaric creatures like the Tusken Raiders. Considering how much we've seen of the raiders already, the writers have done well at adding new information about how they live and their customs. 

I love the variety of aliens used in the show so far from Niktos to Trandoshas - this series in particular seems to really love the Twi'leks for whatever reason haha. I didn't know Ithorians ("hammerheads") talk out of the side of their mouths, so that was interesting. Robert Rodriguez did a decent job voicing the character.



The scene with the Hutts was fun, but didn't really build to anything in particular...? They came all that way to Boba. Why not act then? It leads me to wonder if maybe they're bluffing on how much power they have now that their cousin, Jabba, is dead and unable to enforce his will. Time will tell. I do wish they had used puppet versions for the Hutts like Jabba in Return of the Jedi. There was just something special about that grotesque oversized Episode 6 puppet.

I really don't like the jumps back-and-forth between the past and present. There's a trend in movies and TV shows to do that more in telling a story and it just irritates me. Tell the story in order! Other than telling the PT after the OT, George Lucas was very good at telling one continuous story instead of jumping around. I like that better.

I liked the third episode best, probably because it was set mostly in the prime timeline with only one short flashback.

It's definitely not as good as The Mandalorian, but I'll finish the season for sure.

If they're smart, this will be a limited series and they won't try to drag it out. Morrison is already playing a character 20 years younger than himself, and he can only pull that off for so long....

Hopefully they don't make the fatal mistake of answering questions in future comics like they did with the DT.