The Book of Boba Fett

Meh, should’ve contained about 100% more crime and criminal activity. The Mando episodes were the best thing about it. Boba was better as a mysterious, faceless bounty hunter. This basically turned him in to a likeable old fella

Meh, should’ve contained about 100% more crime and criminal activity.

I agree with this. But I also agree it was a decent final episode in terms of action. Just a few observations…

– I really wish the mod gang had all been wiped out by the ED209 things
– There was some shockingly wooden acting
– And some clunky exposition via dialogue all round
– Was there a weird cut when Boba got the better of Cad Bane?
– Why didn’t he fire one of his knee rockets instead of stabbing him with the Tusken stick?

And was it on this thread I said Boba would arrive go into battle riding the rancor at a pivotal moment?

Was ok. Nothing amazing.

Now, Mando S3. When is that out? *Tap tap tap.

I kept watching it thinking I’m too old for it. I’m in my 40’s. This seems like its made for teenagers or something, with some nostalgia thrown in for the oldies like me.

When is Better Call Saul starting??

Why didn’t he fire one of his knee rockets instead of stabbing him with the Tusken stick?

Why didn’t he use his flame thrower, why didn’t he jet pack out the way, why didn’t he fire rockets from his wrist and why didn’t the others shoot Cad? Well because they were trying to prove who was the best and it would have been unsporting.

I liked it , not as much as the 2 mandalorian series but still pretty good and my boy thought the final episode was brilliant. Only disappointment yesterday was I was hoping for a post credits obi wan trailer .

Only disappointment yesterday was I was hoping for a post credits obi wan trailer .

They’re completely different timelines, after credits scenes generally have some connection with the main show.

Revenge of the sith – 10 years – Obi wan Kenobi – 9 years – a new hope – 9 years – Mandalorian/Boba Fett

So there’s 18 odd years between Obi wan Kenobi and Mandalorian/Boba Fett.

Why didn’t he use his flame thrower, why didn’t he jet pack out the way, why didn’t he fire rockets from his wrist and why didn’t the others shoot Cad? Well because they were trying to prove who was the best and it would have been unsporting.

Yes, I was just using one example to make the point that it seemed out of character for Boba, and jarring that these ruthless bounty hunters were suddenly behaving like they were in an old-school western.

I think there’s a consensus emerging that the show was fun but flawed.

Only disappointment yesterday was I was hoping for a post credits obi wan trailer .

Something like this?

I think there’s a consensus emerging that the show was fun but flawed.

I saw it as more of an extended subplot of Mandalorian. It’s setting up other stuff that will link into Mando 3 and further down the line. What the armourer said, what Boba Fett’s emblem is and post credit scene shows how he will leave Tatooine to fulfill the prophecy. I’m connecting dots so could be wildly wrong

Agree on an enjoyable enough episode but some badly acted parts and sequences that were poor. Would have preferred the littlun not turn up but obviously he was instrumental in controlling the rancor. I suspect Boba won’t be on Tatooine for long and maybe Cobb Vanth will be the Mos Espa “leader” once he has healed/been modified.

It’s setting up other stuff that will link into Mando 3 and further down the line. What the armourer said, what Boba Fett’s emblem is and post credit scene shows how he will leave Tatooine to fulfill the prophecy. I’m connecting dots so could be wildly wrong

Yep I think both Shand and Bobs will end up returning the favour for Mando. The bit when they are strolling through town and say if not us then who and then it cuts to Vanth in the bacta tank is telling I reckon

I think there’s a consensus emerging that the show was fun but flawed.

At the risk of being cast into the Cracks of Doom by middle aged nostalgic Star Wars fans the world over, doesn’t that apply to all of it?

Overall I think that The Book of Boba Fett was a bit of a mess. It was a fun mess at times but overall the pacing and its lack of faith in its own story were quite big problems. While the finale clipped along at a fair old pace the latter of these issues was definitely evident to me. It felt telling that the final scene in the show involved only Mando and Grogu, presumably flying off towards The Mandalorian season 3, and the post credits bit featured a character who was connected to Mando but had not ever met Boba.

The weakness of the show when it comes to being its own story was also evident with Boba’s own big showdown with Cad Bane. From the point of view of someone not familiar with their history in the Clone Wars show (I personally am only vaguely aware of it) Cad Bane is a character that only shows up at the end of episode 6 and guns down a couple of people that Boba Fett doesn’t know. He then taunts Boba a little bit in episode 7 before they have a showdown towards the end of the episode. This is supposed to represent Boba’s big pay-off and victory but it pales in comparison to what Mando, the Mods, the Freetowners and others are up to. It only gains significance in the context of the wider Star Wars canon. That’s kind of rubbish.

I thought that there was a lot of fun amongst the mess of episode 7 but then again I was also able to enjoy the Rise of Skywalker for similar reasons, in that it produced lots of nice moments and moved at a decent pace, despite its plot problems. The Mando stuff continued to be pretty good, even if I am annoyed that Luke is retreading the mistakes of the Jedi when it seems out of character and is plainly a plot that has been done before.

Also for some reason I am particularly annoyed that when Boba ran off to get Checkov’s Rancor he didn’t pick up Slave I instead. A fast, heavily armed and armoured gunship whose arsenal includes shield defeating ion cannons would have been quite handy against those droids. I know that there’s little point in picking out possible plot holes like this in a show like The Book of Boba Fett, but for me that’s the one that is stuck in my mind!

I was waiting for grogu to arrive in the x-wing doing a strafing run 🤣

That’s a fair analysis ChrisL – I agree with everything you say, apart from enjoying Rise of Skywalker.

At the risk of being cast into the Cracks of Doom by middle aged nostalgic Star Wars fans the world over, doesn’t that apply to all of it?

Absolutely along with shit acting.

I really wish the mod gang had all been wiped out by the ED209 things

That would’ve redeemed the whole series. The vespeeders looked so shit and even the colours didn’t gel with the rest of the palette for the show.

I was awaiting a very slow chase involving the walking pace space Vespas and the ridicolously slow battle droids. Also was the battle droids targeting software programmed by an ex stormtrooper as they really couldn’t hit a large group of slow moving people running away from them in a straight line?

The vespeeders looked so shit and even the colours didn’t gel with the rest of the palette for the show.

Exactly, it was an appalling design decision to include them. They looked like they’d escaped from a Twilight movie. Or maybe modern Doctor Who (with matching acting standards).

I think they got their good guy kill quota earlier and in the previous episode which is why those big droids didn’t hit anything 😀

Not sure how Kryzinstan or however you spell the wookiee’s name survived, he had a ton of those Bossk like people get him on the ground and supposedly they are very strong, he then gets shot left, right and centre and walloped by the droid. Talking of Bossk, I assumed he and maybe some of other bounty hunter cohorts would turn up, maybe something for later. Speaking of which, when Cad Bane first spoke to Boba, did Boba say you got my message?

Also was the battle droids targeting software programmed by an ex stormtrooper as they really couldn’t hit a large group of slow moving people running away from them in a straight line

Also, it couldn’t even shoot through a wattle and daub wall.

If I was to sum the series up in a word, disappointment.

Fella goes from being the most badass bounty hunter in the galaxy to a likeable old fella looking for a quiet retirement as a crime lord. Didn’t really work for me.

Plus there was so much crap in the storyline, especially last night as it stuck in my memory. Freetown people and the mods (why couldn’t they all have died?) hiding behind a wall whilst a huge killer droid was 30ft away hammering the wall with its 4 guns and making the same kind of impact as if I’d thrown an apple at it? And then why, the the rancor is fighting the droid, do all the goofs hiding behind the wall just stand and look gormless. Shoot the fkng thing you idiots!

Plus the crime syndicate takeover of an entire planet seemed to revolve around about 20 pykes and the odd warlord.

They really threw the kitchen sink at the finale, eh? There was far too much squeezed in.

Would it be fair to say it was too Marvel-ish, in a bad way?

Fella goes from being the most badass bounty hunter in the galaxy to a likeable old fella looking for a quiet retirement as a crime lord

More Boba Job than Boba Fett.

I was convinced one of the crime family leaders was Johnny Knoxville but he was not in the credits.

My son used to refer to him as Bob the vet so that’s a second career for him.

– Why didn’t he fire one of his knee rockets instead of stabbing him with the Tusken stick?

Did you miss all the training with the people who helped make him a new man? One with a sense of belonging and connection to others? And one with a whole new way of fighting. It was the new Boba, the one Cad Bane didn’t know.

He also got to use his badass mad eyes wide open face when he swung the gaffi stick to prove he was still badass despite going soft.

Yep it was an awful series. A massive disappointment after The Mandalorian series. The story was a mess, the SFX worse than the A New Hope and as for those mods, just wtf? Truly truly terrible.

Not very good at all.

It mostly felt like they couldn’t be arsed to write it, so just assembled it from the rejected script bin, “we’ll get away with it because Star Wars”.

^^^that review was better than the show.

Not very good at all.

It mostly felt like they couldn’t be arsed to write it, so just assembled it from the rejected script bin, “we’ll get away with it because Star Wars”.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up!

Who would have thought that Boba Fett could have been turned into such a dull character?
Pretty disappointing season. A lot of it just wasn’t very well done – e.g. the mod scooter/speeder chase was really slow and boring. I wasn’t that annoyed by the mods themselves though. It picked up when the Mandalorian appeared, but then it just made me wonder why they had done a Boba Fett season at all?

I still miss it on a Weds eve though.

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Going against the trend here but I thought it was better than the Mando (which I also enjoyed). Boba was deeper slower moving story, where as mando was ‘this week mando shots these people”.

I enjoyed it as well… of the three parts to it, I enjoyed the “how did Fett become this man” thread as an involving slow motion sequel to the original series, the “Mando series 2.5” was an exciting further step towards what new TV Star Wars is becoming, and only the “There’s a new boss in town” stuff was a bit stilted and lacking in story lines and dialogue.

Anyone watching Raised By Wolves?? It’s a lot better than this nonsense!