Watched the first one. Fine so far? Kinda by the numbers. Hope they mix it up/make it more interesting.
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The Book of Boba Fett (the TV Show, Not the Book)
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I'm curious to see what ol' Bobby Fett is up to these days.
This is where I'm at. I have negative interest in ole Booby Feet. His harrowing yet somehow completely unimaginative origin story here for his post-Sarlac adventures bored me to tears. Which is an impressive feat when usually watching something bad on edibles at least makes the experience tolerable most of the time. The show just seemed like it desperately wanted to make Booby Feet seem super cool. Which wasn't all that convincing. Yet More Tattooine is also a big snooze. Star Wars feels like such a small and incestuous fictional universe at this point, and them going back to Tattooine over and over again just makes that feeling worse.
I'll keep watching it though b/c I disrespect myself, and also b/c it's not every day you get a show whose main characters are API, which is something that this show deserves legitimate praise for.
Anything that gets more Ming na Wen kicking fools in the noggin is a rousing success in my book.
Nice to know she’s playing basically the exact same character in a Star War as she did when she was a Marvel.
Nice to know she’s playing basically the exact same character in a Star War as she did when she was a Marvel.
Phantoon
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what
He gets his ass kicked repeatedly (including by Tusken children) and spends half the episode in a bacta tank
Also he was stuck in a sarlacc, so where else was the episode going to be set?
All I really wanted from this show was Boba Fett looking cool and then falling flat on his ass constantly and BY GOD, it delivered.
Agent Mae showing up to parkour people in the face was just to make sure I kept watching
Agent Mae showing up to parkour people in the face was just to make sure I kept watching
You know, this is a good point. I'll recalibrate what I want from it.
Phantoon
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Yeah, only baddies get to do that.
Then they get eaten by Sarlaccs ignominiously
Or lobbed into reactors by their Sith butlers
Johnny Unusual
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Take I understand:
Though I think "rule" is a bit strong.
My favourite thing is just people coming in to curry favour and make vague threats and I kind of wish the show was just that. Still, it was a pretty decent actioner and once again Robert Rodriguez is pretty good at a Star Wars and the episode is promising some fun. Also, I like the dumb pig bros and the palace's torture Maitre'D. I strongly suspect I'll be more invested in his entourage of dumb thugs than Boba himself.
Though I think "rule" is a bit strong.
My favourite thing is just people coming in to curry favour and make vague threats and I kind of wish the show was just that. Still, it was a pretty decent actioner and once again Robert Rodriguez is pretty good at a Star Wars and the episode is promising some fun. Also, I like the dumb pig bros and the palace's torture Maitre'D. I strongly suspect I'll be more invested in his entourage of dumb thugs than Boba himself.
Johnny Unusual
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I'm hoping it's more than a cameo. I didn't find him recognizable in voice, though. I'll listen harder next time.
I definitely heard Jackie Daytona in him when I started focusing on it
Phantoon
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I thought that was cool as all hell. They've fleshed the Tuskens out into something sympathetic and actually really awesome
So they've got Moss and Reynholm in Star Wars. We need Roy and Jen now
Also, Black Krrsantan! That means Doctor Aphra may be appearing!!!!
So they've got Moss and Reynholm in Star Wars. We need Roy and Jen now
Also, Black Krrsantan! That means Doctor Aphra may be appearing!!!!
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I liked this second Bookaboba a lot, especially the scenes in the pas.
Yeah when I saw him I was like is that... it is!
I thought that was Bad Chewbacca and am hoping the rest of the crew shows up too!
the shows main conceit, besides showing that Boba is not actually very good at his job, is that being stuck in a worms butt is traumatic.
Worm Butts: Not Even Once
the shows main conceit, besides showing that Boba is not actually very good at his job, is that being stuck in a worms butt is traumatic.
Worm Butts: Not Even Once
Phantoon
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I could have told you that
Well why didn’t you?
You think I wanted to learn it this way?
You think I wanted to learn it this way?
Jeanie
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They reference that in Knights of the Old Republic, which was set 4000 years before the Original Trilogy.
I am extremely pleased to see them looping in KOTOR Tusken lore (and fleshing them out even more here than in Mando), that was one of my favorite segments of that game. First time they were treated as people (and they were implied then, I thought, to be the original humans that the Rakata "uplifted" and seeded across the galaxy in their slave empire, though I think that was dropped later).
Phantoon
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I really, really liked that. And basically everything to do with their culture and how it got the information across.
Allegedly the two humans being menaced by the Nikto swoop gang were called Camie and Fixer. And that was bloody Tosche Station
Delicious deep cuts everywhere
Dances with Banthas
Phantoon
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It could equally be aboriginal.
I like the way that the Tuskens' behaviour throughout the 6 films retrospectively make a lot of sense. And the use of Sand People looks more dubious
Yeah, we were actually realizing later that while the train-shooting-Bantha thing is an extremely obvious American West allusion, a lot of other things, including very specifically the Tusken's combat sticks and the dance around the fire, are very directly inspired by Maori culture, of which of course the show's lead is a member.