Running Book of Boba Fett Thread

It's OK. The biggest problem I see is that Boba Fett just isn't all that. He's not particularly handsome, big, intimidating, ferocious, menacing.... he's not larger than life. He's just a guy. Sometimes, the time jump is a bit confusing. Not often, but occasionally.

 

He was better in small doses. Despite an end that seemed to be played for laughs, having Han Solo accidentally knock him into the Sarlaac pit, he was still somehow seen as this badass character. He actually lived up to that in The Mandalorian, but that hasn't been the case in his own series.

 

Get ready for an unexpected treat.

 

That was a fun episode, a lot more fun than those that preceded it.

 

Last episode was great. Of course, it was an episode of a much better series.

I think it’s gotten much better since the first episode. Like it don’t love it. The decision to make Boba “nice” is definitely a script choice. Not sure it completely works because the actor is kind of wooden, going back to the prequel movies.

Some of the dialog, especially lines give to Ming-Na Wen, is a bit stiff too. (And wow, she looks as great as she did 25 years ago on ER).

I still can’t get past the early scene when he escaped the Sarlaac. You have to nail that scene and the special effects were at the level of a high school stage production.

It’ll be interesting to see how it weaves into the expanding Star Wars TV universe.

I have super high hopes for “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”Really hope it delivers.

 

I suppose one angle they'll probably play at some point is that out in the galaxy some 40-50 years earlier, there we're supposed to be hundreds if not thousands of genetically identical clones to Boba Fett.
Now as I understand it, most of those clones (although not Boba himself) were designed with accelerated aging so they could go from test tube to battle ready warriors within 10 years, so many might have died from early aging, and many others were killed in the general warfare of the ensuing years, which explained why the imperial army of the Original Trilogy era was not made up o legions of identical Jango Fett replicas, but you'd think of all those thousands of clones turned out of the Geonosis factories, there'd be a few of them still around to surprisingly drop in on their biological brother.

 

I liked last week’s episode of The Mandalorian, although I did not need to know that Jawas are furry.

Unfortunately, it made me wonder if they ran out of plot points for The Book of Boba Fett and needed a one-week filler. Granted, this particular story may have been the plan all along once they’d filled in Boba Fett’s recent back story.

It seems more and more like this series came from the mindset, if not the mind, of George Lucas. Good idea, not executed as well as we’d hoped.

New episode Wednesday is written by Jon Favreau (who wrote last week’s episode) and Dave Filoni.

By the way, y’all may remember Boba Fett’s major domo droid from a particular scene in Return Of The Jedi.

 

Holy shit. Couldn’t sleep. Was up so just decided to watch the new Boba Fett when it dropped at 3 am EST.

Won’t spoil. But damn. Made me feel like a little kid in 1983. And they upped their CGI game.

Looking forward to other reactions.

 

Holy shit is right. I only had time to watch part of it this morning, but this series was in need of a holy shit episode. I'll reserve full judgment until I've finished it, but it may have a similar problem to the last one.

Edit: I just finished and they did have one more two more holy shit moments in an episode packed with fun moments.

 

One helluva ending with “the choice.”

That episode hit a lot of high notes.

 

Seems like they're trying to jump-start "The Book of Boba Fett" by making it about, well, everybody but Boba Fett.

 

I've caught up on the show in the past two weeks. The past two episodes kind of highlight how much cooler everyone else is than Boba Fett, though, haha. I think his transformation from bounty hunter to wise old man -is- interesting, but it definitely plays like something that could have been a B-character arc in "Mando," vs. its own separate show. I realize Disney prefers to do separate shows, and maybe the pandemic makes it easier to do shorter runs of more shows, but I think they could have just done all of these Boba episodes as part of like a 10 to 16 episode "Mando" season three.