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The Book of Boba Fett (the TV Show, Not the Book)
- Thread starter Sarcasmorator
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Lotta characters in that episode
Genuinely not the biggest fan of this episode. The stuff with Luke drags it down for me. He looked perfectly fine, but his voice was genuinely uncanny for me (apparently it was synthesized!), and I wasn't too fond of his characterization. The choice he gives Grogu at the end of the episode is genuinely stupid. Then again, his adherence to that traditionalist, dogmatic nonsense might be an intentional sort of lead-in to his fall pre-TLJ. idk
plz just give me more content of boba fett being owned, mr. favreau sir.
plz just give me more content of boba fett being owned, mr. favreau sir.
The biggest own is he isn't in his show
Everything with Cobb is… apparently everything I want from Star Wars?
I mean, I thought I was here for cool spaceship and space wizards having sword fights, but no… I guess I just really like space westerns.
I mean, I thought I was here for cool spaceship and space wizards having sword fights, but no… I guess I just really like space westerns.
Phantoon
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It's a really natural thing that Star Wars is perfect for. Bearing in mind early Star Wars is basically Kurosawa, and loads of Kurosawa got converted to iconic Westerns it works incredibly well.
I reckon we can do hard boiled detective Star Wars too, can we do that next please, messrs Favreau and Filoni?
I reckon we can do hard boiled detective Star Wars too, can we do that next please, messrs Favreau and Filoni?
I liked the finale. On balance the show really feels like Mandalorian season 2.5, though.
I think it's a testament to how lame Boba Fett is, and how awesome Mando is when even a finale where Boba Fett rides a god damned Rankor into battle can still get effortlessly upstaged by Mando just being Mando.
I am profoundly disappointed Boba kills Cad Bane. Talk about undeserved. Cad Bane was an actual badass bounty hunter who got built up over the course of several TV series and other tie ins, he was everything fanboys thought Boba Fett was. Boba hadn't earned the right to clean the dust off his coat, much less be the one to kill him.
Regulus
Sir Knightbot
The finale felt very abrupt to me. I think the show really needed to spend more time building up the idea that Boba getting rid of the Pyke Syndicate and the spice trade was good for the people of Tatooine. The flashback stuff with the Tuskens was good, but it fell apart a bit when it transitioned entirely to the present day, and it fell apart even more when they spent 2 episodes on another character's show.
This I agree with. At one point Fennec says something like "the people of Mos Espa are depending on us," and, well, are they? The Pykes blew up a business friendly to Boba but didn't really terrorize the populace in general. The stakes weren't quite established.
I'm wondering if they will have Cobb take over as local heavy so Boba can jet off and help Din some more. Boba works really well when they're paired up, but less so by himself.
I don't really care one way or another about him killing Bane, except for anyone who hasn't seen other shows not having any context for their history. And there's plenty of room in the timeline of other shows they're working on that take place before this for him to show up again.
I really couldn't care less about Cad Bane. I can understand why ppl heavily invested in the Clone Wars cartoon and similar stuff might be upset by it, but I think bringing him in as a shithead surrogate parent/mentor that was obviously abusive and a big meanie head, was a good final boss for Boba to overcome. I thought it was a nice, if obvious and heavy handed bit of symbolism where Boba could only beat him by casting aside his Bounty Hunter skills, and throwing something at Cad he'd never seen before - all the Tusken martial arts he'd learned over the course of years. It was a nice little moment in an otherwise shitty show that validated a lot of the boring stuff earlier, where Boba is finally metaphorically moving beyond his Bounty Hunter identity in order to forge something new for himself.
And yeah, there's still plenty of opportunities to see him do bad things in the future; this is just the ending of his story, doesn't mean there isn't plenty of meaningful chapters in between that we can't explore. Otherwise we all might as well just agree here and now that the upcoming Obiwan show is going to be meaningless and not worth a watch b/c we already know Obiwan dies in Episode 4.
And yeah, there's still plenty of opportunities to see him do bad things in the future; this is just the ending of his story, doesn't mean there isn't plenty of meaningful chapters in between that we can't explore. Otherwise we all might as well just agree here and now that the upcoming Obiwan show is going to be meaningless and not worth a watch b/c we already know Obiwan dies in Episode 4.
I forgot to mention that, but yeah, I also liked that the way he beats him is with the gaffi stick.
Phantoon
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Yeah, I believe Cad Bane's entire arc was he trained Jango's son to be the best bounty hunter so that when he later killed him, Bane would be the undisputed best in the galaxy, better even than Jango. So this was the perfect ending: he was better than Boba as a bounty hunter, even at 70, but Boba had become something more. His time with the Tuskens was the first time he'd ever done something that his old man hadn't first, so killing him with the gaffi stick was hugely symbolic. He'd moved on, Bane never could. It's the perfect closure to Bane's arc, and if they want to revisit Bane he's got 50-odd years of history to mine.
I think the series was hugely uneven, but overall pretty great, and that was an excellent ending.
I think the series was hugely uneven, but overall pretty great, and that was an excellent ending.
The first four episodes were miserable, and the last three were sublime. Overall not bad. This is just me hypothesizing w/o any evidence to back it up, but it really felt like the writing room for this show started out with the scenario for the finale as this thing they knew they wanted to do (BOBA FETT RIDING A RANKOR WOOOO) and then worked their way backwards trying to justify it. Which is not necessarily a bad way to write something, but definitely hard and prone to error. I think overall the Disney era of Star Wars has been an abysmal/colossal failure, but these 2.5 seasons of Mando have been shining beacons in the dark.
Genuinely cannot believe anyone saw that finale and was like "yeah, that was good." Truly, truly terrible stuff, just awful back to front.
I thought it was bad. I also skipped episodes 2-4 and only came back because I heard that the show randomly morphed into The Mandalorian. Episodes 5 and 6 were good, and then the finale was just trash. I really don't like Boba Fett, and I don't think his adventures on Tattooine made any sense or were worth a show. Again, I skipped most of it so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
don't know what to tell ya
Phantoon
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I find your lack of faith disturbing
I thought the finale, like the rest of the show, was fine. Some fun action and middling plotting/character development.
I remember when I expressed disappointment that Boba's Tusken tribe was killed offscreen and others said, well they aren't all dead! Yeah, that really paid off.
I remember when I expressed disappointment that Boba's Tusken tribe was killed offscreen and others said, well they aren't all dead! Yeah, that really paid off.
I don't think I ever said any were still alive, just that I hoped they might not all be dead, because that would have been more interesting.
Yes. Yes it was.
It was a fine show, but it really wasn’t up to the standards Mando set.
Also, Cads little heart beeper thingy was still beeping after he was stabbed, so I don’t know if he’s really dead. But that may also be because I like him and don’t want him to be dead
Also, Cads little heart beeper thingy was still beeping after he was stabbed, so I don’t know if he’s really dead. But that may also be because I like him and don’t want him to be dead
Is that THAT Ed boon?
Phantoon
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Little spins are always necessary, and if he doesn't understand that it explains a lot about Mortal Kombat