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@turma8eac

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree Wonderful video

@darriusbethea2373

2 жыл бұрын

I think Boba could’ve been a better character but I think no offense to Robert Rodriguez he was simply wrong pick to be in charge of show, poor writing and general I guess fear of showing us a morally grey character because Boba from the little we knew prior to show is a brutal man didn’t really have that high of a moral compass and was raised in the criminal underworld yet he acted more saintly than a Jedi at times.

@mr.safensound4238

2 жыл бұрын

Your favourite episode 2 would possibly have worked had it been someone other than 'Boba Fett' being taught how to fight, and someone other than the savage mindless 'Tuskens' doing good the respectful 'tribal bonding'. Lore and world building actually matters. Fett was previously established as probably the best Bounty Hunter in the entire galaxy, yet it's clearly not that version of him that's ever really shown to us. We're instead expected to believe this badass, and now 'middle-aged veteran' mercenary has decided he needed to develop some new 'stick fighting' techniques? And commit his undying loyalty to a group that had cruelly enslaved him and left him to suffer and die in the desert heat? As for the Tuskens, Lucas had clearly never intended them to be anything other than savage raiders, the 'orcs and goblins' of Tatooine's wild landscape. There were of course countless other intelligent alien species that may have been 'misunderstood' and could have bonded with him, but that's just not the 'Disney' style. What was previously taught as 'bad' needs to be revised and reinterpreted as 'good' or just 'possibly misunderstood'. What was previously shown as 'good' must be shown to be 'flawed'. All of which renders the established lore and mesages as also flawed if not completely meaningless.

@shantoreywilkins651

2 жыл бұрын

🆗️🎁

@korrblank1361

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think I was disappointed, I knew it was gonna suck before it came out.

The biggest problem of the show is that it is trying to say that Boba is changing into this better person, BUT they don't show what he was changing from. Multiple characters claim that Boba before was some cold blooded murderer, but we never got to see that. We never get to see what Boba was like before falling into the Sarlacc Pit. Heck, even before he was fully adopted into the Tuskens, Boba still acted like his new developed persona by trying to save the Greedo alien and the Tusken kid and dog.

@TonyAurum

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY, I feel like if they could have showed some of Boba's various attrocities with those flashbacks. Maybe he gets a random flash back when he interacts with someone or he sees someone that reminds him of someone he had to kill, or even show him getting revenge for the deaths of the tusken raiders and going too far.

@AlekTrev006

2 жыл бұрын

And another point building on that, is how Boba is literally MINUTES away from trying to convince the fellow-Slave Rodian to “come with me to Anchorhead ! I can get us transport off-world !”…. yet moments later when the sand beast attacks them, and Boba ends up strangling it with the chains… he THAT INSTANT… appears to 100% change his entire motivation and mentality… and decides to go BACK with Tusken kid to his (at that point) Slave masters ?? It was baffling when you thought about in greater detail, a few days later. Watching it originally was cool and you get caught up in the scenes and such… but upon deeper consideration, it really makes no sense 😕…

@rambler6519

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. All this deep analysis and the simply point is the writers are guilty of saying but not showing. The trailers and sneak peak showed Boba is a bad ass. The actual show had a different idea. At worst, this show was guilty of bait and switch.

@travisgames6608

2 жыл бұрын

Same. They just speed track all of his new character development just to show us why he is so soft.

@travisgames6608

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlekTrev006 agreed

Truth of the matter is, they should have just front-loaded the entire Tusken plot, then brought things up to the present. The flashbacks got tiresome, at best, cause it kept making me feel like I was being yanked out of the story, and it got really aggravating. When they used flashbacks in Mando, they used them sparingly, giving context to his hatred for droids, and why he became a Mandalorian. Here, it felt more like they didn't really want to make the modern day stuff, and weren't really putting in the time on that section. The Tuskens weren't accepting, though. I mean, they literally started off enslaving him, staked him out in the desert sun, let their children beat him with sticks while they watched, and forced him into manual labor while also depriving him of water. That is not any version of acceptance, and they only reason they DID accept him, ultimately, was on his ability to kill, saving one of the children beating him in the process. I *hated* the mods. They are so insanely out of place, and raise a lot of really bad questions, on top of not really being useful for much of anything. It wouldn't have been hard to do it right, for instance, dropping the power rangers-eque swoops, and focusing on building them as characters that we want to see more of, rather than just sweep it under the rug as an "homage". They're basically a bunch of caricatures, and never advance past that. We're literally more invested in the citizens of Mos Pelgo than we are the mods, who are a legitimate part of Mos Espa. I also don't get why neither the Pyke Syndicate, nor the Hutts, try to buy Fett off. Like, think about it, they know he was a bounty hunter, so he has worked for money in the past, and had a massive reputation for honoring his word. I'm not saying the offer has to work, but having them not just immediately jump to murder would have added layers that just didn't get used. Just follow this track: The Hutts and the Pykes both try to get Fett on their side, while making surgical strikes against one another. The Hutts have BK hunting down Pykes, with Bane going after Hutt people, in a conflict that threatens to rip apart the city, until Fett makes the decision that he's done with them both, and that he'll stand alone as Daimyo of Mos Espa, hiring on Mando to start evening out the sides. Also, I cannot stress enough how shit Luke being pro "no attachments" was. Like, I get it with Asohka, she was there for the fall of Anakin, she's allowed to be a bit on the paranoid side about it. Luke, though, absolutely proved both Obi-Wan and Yoda wrong about needing to kill Vader, and instead, pursued peace, and leaned into his attachment to his father to bring Anakin back to the Light. He rejected no attachments twice, both in ESB and RotJ, even after Vader made him Forcibly left-handed. I would've been far happier had Asohka and Luke had arguments about that point, rather than her just being totally cool, and Luke making a fuck up he already had proof was wrong in the first place.

I thought the whole thing was clumsy and poorly written. The Sand People didn't "rescue" Boba, they captured, tortured and enslaved him.

@camembertcheese7092

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a mess, the whole story. We are given no reason why he would come to like the sand people or why that whole experience changed him. Or did it? Instead of being an assassin for hire he comes away from his “spiritual transformation” wanting to be.. a crime lord. Just not tooo mean of a crime lord. A medium-mean crime lord. A crime lord people like and respect. It’s like a movie about greedy immoral Wall Street banker who gets lost in the jungle and then beat up and briefly imprisoned by a tribe. He escapes and returns to become… a greedy executive. And then wanders around trying to do that for the last half of the show. Honestly if you wrote this story and turned it in your teacher would give you an F

@Vulcan-is8tw

2 жыл бұрын

@@camembertcheese7092 Agreed, this “essay” does a terrible job at analysis, you can easily tell it’s full of bias

@TheBombasticFatRat

Жыл бұрын

They had to have him talking about how its the natives land

@texel76

Жыл бұрын

He was going to die if it wasn't for the Tuskens, so yes they saved his life, even when they didn't have good intentions at first

@reecey1504

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they didn’t, because they came to respect him. Why is that so hard to believe in a fictional setting.

I feel like no matter what you say the actual character has been destroyed through awful writing. The difference between the strong merciless Boba at the end of the Mandalorian to the Boba who gets bullied left and right by everyone is horrendous

@travisgames6608

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr🤣🤣.

@JerichoLeon

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@larniieplayz6285

2 жыл бұрын

He can still be saved

@ryuusaki7309

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed I disagree with this video

@JerichoLeon

2 жыл бұрын

I think the only way to redeem this character is by having him leave his Daimyo position and turn him into a Punisher style vigilante who guns down spice dealers and spice runners without remorse. Remember that scene in Ch 4 when he gunned down those bikers with Slave 1? That look on his face... that gave me hope that there was still a hint of classic Boba left.

This is a really great analysis! I am very disappointed that LucasFilm green lit this show last year before actually writing the entire thing, as though we never learned our lesson from the Sequel Trilogy

@FilmSpeak

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they're definitely a shoot first ask questions later kind of studio.

@DoctorCyan

2 жыл бұрын

@@FilmSpeak If there’s any franchise where that is most punishing… Great channel, by the way, criminally underrated

@jaredpeardon4225

2 жыл бұрын

Taking Han shot first to the literal max haha

@larniieplayz6285

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaredpeardon4225 don’t get it

@shadowaussien7743

2 жыл бұрын

It should have gotten 14 episodes not 7, Robert Rodrigues didn't give enough thought, Lucas films rushed it the time spent should have taken the same amount of preparation that Obi-wan got since it was announced 2015

Also something that really bothered me about bringing Grogu back into the show and reuniting with Mando is it undoes the big emotional finale of Mando season 2. The whole reason Grogu was sent away was because he'll always be in danger around Mando and should be with his own kind yet they decided "nah we need grogu back to keep selling toys". It also turns the arrival of Luke in season into a complete fan service delivery instead of Luke serving as the necessary story choice to protect Grogu. I kinda just feel like the creators of Mando did a big uturn in their story direction, yet for some reason decided to shoehorn it into another characters show just so they don't have to do it in Mando S3. I loved the book of boba fett when it was on Boba Fett but I started to feel that disjointed feeling the the sequel trilogy gave me when they kept pulling away to other characters. I also want to add that as much as Robert Rodriguez is a respected director he's never in my book been a visionary of filmmaking and this show actually glaringly shows his weaknesses as a director, its not only his fault but they really needed someone like Taika Watiti to give it some identity.

@simon_ltr_wck

2 жыл бұрын

It also makes it super confusing for the Mandalorian viewers that aren't interested in the Book of Boba Fett, because season 2 ended with Mando returning Grogu to it's own kind and saying goodbye to his unlikely companion, and season 3 will begin with the pair together as if nothing ever happened.

@AlekTrev006

2 жыл бұрын

@@simon_ltr_wck A great point, Simon ! If someone only watched Mando-2, then immediately proceeded to Mando-3… they will be baffled , without having seen Boba 😅 too…

@PartStupid

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlekTrev006 - This is assuming there wont be a recap... which there will be.

@AlekTrev006

2 жыл бұрын

@@PartStupid agreed - they’d be Crazy to NOT have a recap… though it’s still jarring to an audience to have gone from (potentially) the Finale of Season-2 to start of Season-3 and simply be told / shown that all this stuff happened in between and now they are together again. I guess the possibility exists that Mando will take him back to Luke for yet more training ? - but I dunno if Luke would allow that, if Grogu already made his big Choice ?

@theshipper5797

2 жыл бұрын

Well remember, to be a jedi, one must be without emotional attachment, something they've made very clear. Given the time Grogu spent, two seasons with a man who is essentially his dad? That's not something you can just ignore and forget. So Luke was giving Grogu the option, which the old jedi didn't do. They just went, grabbed kids, and trained them before they could form a strong attachment with their own parents. So really, while I get why it might be annoying, when you think about it, it does make sense in universe

The show felt like a hodgepodge of rushed rewrites/reshoots, incomplete ideas, corporate interference, last-minute changes, etc... It’s really unfortunate because the show had such potential.

I feel the main problem here was when this show was set. It should have been set just before Empire strikes back so we got the bounty hunter we all love. That way we could also explore more about how it was living under the Empire. But Disney now a days just wants to make everything in to the MCU and have the big team up battles. I feel that is a massive disservice for the fans. We have the mando show where boba could have been a stand in charter when they wanted with out giving him a show in the same time period.

@AStageForTheKingdom

2 жыл бұрын

I agree completely! There's so much potential for a dark Star Wars bounty hunter show about the seedy underworld of the galaxy. Something more in line with the Daredevil series on Netflix in terms of being dark, gritty, lots of shadowy entities, very violent at times, lines of good and evil being blurred, etc.

@lycanmark

2 жыл бұрын

@@AStageForTheKingdom big true. This sounds amazing and I am sure most star wars fans would love to watch that. I also hate that they force you to watch this to keep up with mando show. They do this all the time in the MCU and that is why I started to hate it now.

@evan6338

2 жыл бұрын

I guess that might be a good time to set it, if you were mostly interested in filling in the timeline. I don't think it's necessary, nor do I really care for the handful of lines of dialogue Boba has in the movie. Really not sure who this bounty hunter we all know and love is. We've had the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, and loads of animated and illustrated stories set during and before the empire. I personally find the post-empire / post-RotJ stories to be a richer ground for storytelling, especially the Mandalorian's first season. I won't bother holding water for the sequel trilogy (except Last Jedi) here though.

@robertanderson4921

Жыл бұрын

I think the problem was the show's refusal to let Boba Fett be bad... At least by Mando we can see that he's not evil and he has a code, but he should still be a rough and tumble badass. I think it's wild that he became a "crime boss" who refuses to commit crimes. They could have had him refuse to traffic spice, but still send bounty hunters out to fight for cash and whatnot.

The problem with the bikers is that it clashes with the aspect of the character that people most identified with him before the show: hyper competence and ruthlessness. He has no reason to believe these bikers are good for anything, thats why it seems unmotivated. Sure he may identify with them due to his past but most of the viewers won't have seen the Clone Wars what they are seeing a supposedly cool, calculating ex-bounter hunter recruit delinquent children who have shown him nothing

@scienceofnoises

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't help that the bikers themselves as characters stick out like a sore thumb like they're from another property entirely.

The biggest issue isn't that Boba can't be a good MC, it's that he has been shown to be a good MC by the Bounty Hunter Wars novels and all they had to do is adapt that and they'd have been set.

You know when Cad Bane said “Boba Fett is a cold blooded killer”. It keeps reminding me of that one scene from Raya. you know the one: where Namaari says you’re as just as to blame for Sisu’s death as I am. Both lines contradict what has happened Case in point: both lines make me mad because I do not believe a single sentence of it

@scoobiusmaximus9508

Жыл бұрын

I've never seen Raya, but I basically had the same reaction. Cad Bane had to remind the audience that Boba was a cold blooded killer because otherwise no one would have guessed that he was supposed to be one based on the show itself.

For real,the make up and practical effects teams should win an award for the amazing their work on this show. The wookie, the gradual disappearance of Fett's scars, Cad Bane and those awesome eyes, and lots of other great work in the bar. They worked their asses off populating these worlds with wild and familiar alien fauna and towns where 95% of its citizens require some kind of prosthetic.

I would also add the fact that the reunion of mando and grogu just diminish the meaning of the mandalorian season 2. I love chapter 5 as it own thing, but i think that would have been a really good take on the mandalorian season 3, the journey of mando and grogu living apart.

The Book of Boba Fett feels like Lucasfilm further more trying to take the MCU build up route after Mandalorian Season 2 by turning Boba Fett into Season 2.5 with all of the MCU issues. From slowly building up the conflict in an episode format that’s single digits (Falcon Winter Soldier) to a rushed ending (WandaVision) to building up a potential storyline and squandering it (Ralph Bohner and Boba Fett with the Tusken Raiders) to building up an antagonist till the very end of the season (Cad Bane and Wilson Fisk) AND failing to create a threatening and compelling mob boss (Boba Fett and Wilson Fisk). Not to add in missing character beats that should work for Boba Fett such as Boba flashback to his time as a kid when thinking of the mod bike gang or Boba Fett calming down the Rancor to symbolize his emotional bond with it or a Cad Bane final fight that has the full emotional punch to it from being properly set up. It’s frustrating to see these issues coming up in Star Wars too. Cuz with all of these recent series there’s things to love mixed in with things not to love. Just hope that Deborah Chow can create an epic miniseries in Kenobi!

@FilmSpeak

2 жыл бұрын

I am VERY excited for Kenobi...but very nervous. I'm really hoping it doesn't run into the same issue but now we're hearing that Mark Hamill as Luke will be in the Kenobi series and I'm getting concerned it'll also be overcrowded. Just seems unnecessary.

@jonasdiaz8615

2 жыл бұрын

@@FilmSpeak Honestly have no idea how to react to Mark Hamill in Kenobi properly. Imma hope he stays in the last episode but with their use of Luke here in Season 2.5, I dunno. I’ll wait for the trailer and your first thoughts on Letterboxd tbh cuz it can go either way now.

@FilmSpeak

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonasdiaz8615 I'm just so over Luke showing up in every Star Wars property under the sun. I get he's one of the core characters of Star Wars, but damn...let other characters get a turn. Share the oxygen! lol

@jonasdiaz8615

2 жыл бұрын

@@FilmSpeak Just like Tatooine, it makes sense to have it there but we’ve seen the sand so many times complaining about it will make us sound like Anakin!

@veevendetta3448

2 жыл бұрын

Hello there. High Ground!

The show was written for Cob Vanth. "This is my town, these are my people". Helps new tusken allies stop the spice train. Stops water thefts and spice deals.

I kind of had the opposite experience you did watching the show. I wasn't really impressed with episodes 1-4. I thought Boba Fett's situation was interesting, but they didn't handle it well. Breaking it up between flashbacks and the present day -- and then focusing so much on the flashbacks -- didn't work for me at all. Neither did changing who the villain was supposed to be week to week. They should've nailed the villain down more. It made the present day stuff very frustrating, because it never really came together until Episode 7. I enjoyed most of the Luke/Grogu stuff, mainly because it showed Luke being a teacher, which we didn't really get in the sequel trilogy. And I thought it was a nice reversal of the Luke/Yoda relationship. But they really bungled the scene with the light saber and the armor. They made Luke an imbecile. Here's a guy who saved his friends, redeemed his father, and took down the freakin' Emperor (at least for a while) *because* of his attachments, and they're going to have Luke act like attachments are a way to the Dark Side‽ No. #NotMyLuke

Great analysis. Unlike many, I thought first four episodes did a solid job exploring Fett and giving him a meaningful character arc, so I agree completely. Just like you, I could not care less about him before the show. Temuera was fantastic and his crazy eyes during actions scenes were chilling. Unfortunately, those two random fanservice episodes really broke the show. Because of this, finale felt like a lot of solid payoffs without any proper build-up. Like, look at Boba riding Rancor. Rancor was a perfect mirror to Boba. A big terrifying creature who is only seen as a killing machine, but is capable of so much more. Boba riding him is him reconciling two sides of him, right? But we don't even see him learning to ride it, which would have been important. He just does. Same with Cad Bane, same with Grogu coming back. It is all just a rushed mess. I loved Mandalorian because it wasn't afraid to take its time. This show completely forgot about that halfway through. The viewership numbers are so insanely high. Hopefully, it will lead them to make a better season 2 or they will double down on fanservice and ruin the show.

@FilmSpeak

2 жыл бұрын

Man you and I are on the EXACT same page here. Thank you! Great point about the Rancor too! They could’ve done something there but alas…failed to.

@shonenbag6478

2 жыл бұрын

It's fascinating, because I find that many casual fans who don't care about things like story structure really loathed the first 4 and loved the fan service episodes. I'm sometimes wondering if it's too much to ask for a show that has good fan service and good writing. Like, why do the two seem like they need to be diametrically opposed all the time? EDIT: I just realised the answer to my plea is The Clone Wars.

@AlekTrev006

2 жыл бұрын

@@FilmSpeak Enjoyable review, FilmSpeak ! One baffling thing for me was how Boba apparently jetpacked all the way back to the Palace, from Mos Espa (mid battle)… a distance of apparently 85-miles per the Lore ?! .. then instead of taking Mando’s fighter or Slave-1 with its Starfighter-scale lasers and missiles to fight the assault Droids.. he takes the RANCOR… and then I guess..rides it the entire 85-miles BACK to Mos Espa… all the while his allies are somehow surviving the Droid attack ? 😯 One of my buddies actually tried to use the old Star Wars RPG stats for the Rancor and came up with an “all-out” run speed of appx 30 mph (quite good considering humans are like 6-7 mph max, iirc). But even if we allow that, it would suggest that Boba rode that thing a stunning 2.85 hours (nearly 3) - all the way back to the city, after hopping on it at Jabba’s old Palace ?! Did the Writers not realize how goofy that all seems, considering the supposedly raging battle the other heroes were enduring that whole time ? 🤦‍♂️

@Dylan-kv1ee

2 жыл бұрын

Before i started watching it i read some reviews that said it sucked etc etc. The first few eps in i thought “wtf are they smoking, i’m loving it” then after ep 4 i knew where the opinions came from

@larniieplayz6285

2 жыл бұрын

I’m going to guess grogu returning was executive meddling

If his reasoning for taking the mod kids in was because he saw a reflection of himself in them, that should have been explained in some dialogue between him and Fennec for those of us who haven't watched clone wars. Even if there is a legit reason for it, peoples dislike of him hiring them on is perfectly valid because they don't have this background context that you do.

@gerunkwon2598

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t that ruin the subtlety?

@dunno-19

2 жыл бұрын

trust me, that wouldn't be able to be "explained in some dialogue" well without being overly plain and laid out. Boba's not the kind of person to just tell fennec about that, it would massacre his character. I do get it tho, but I think it's such a small matter that it's fine being left, subtle nods to his past are good.

@joshholland90

2 жыл бұрын

@@gerunkwon2598 it was just one suggestion of many rather than typing out a list. But no, I don’t think it would. Also, there’s zero subtlety for people who aren’t familiar with clone wars. Just confusion over a seemingly very stupid (in a long line of others) decision from Boba.

@emmaesta9444

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who hasnt kept up to date with Clone Wars and only watched (MAYBE) up to season 2, i wish that they made some reference to him in the TV show. Hell, my bf has watched all of it and he was still baffled at how easily he accepted the gang. Some people might need a refresher, even if they have seen the Clone Wars show. I also think that saying theyre referencing the TV show is giving them wayy too much props. With how disjointed and sloppy the writing can be, what are the chances that they sat and watched the Clone Wars and saw that he was a bit of a rebel and thought "ah yes, i need to make this a key part of who Boba is and is willing to accept in Present Day". They very well couldve but i just find it unlikely, yknow? And to not really point to his youth is.. an odd choice as new, casual fans really wont get it

@viscountrainbows6452

2 жыл бұрын

The dialogue, ideally could be one of the side characters asking him "Why did you hire these punk kids? They suck!" And Boba can have a short think on it and say "I don't know, but I have faith..." or something along those lines. A duct tape fix but it's something.

They showed that flashback of him watching Jango leave I was excited...thought we'd get flashbacks of things we didn't really see through the prequels and original trilogy...nope ...just Tuskan Raiders...I also heard that Tamura supposedly said he felt Boba talked to much...I feel like he did because that was mid season then all of the sudden Mando Rebirth Recoded 2.5 happened. Almost like an ok fuck you then.

This video encapsulates my thoughts and frustrations perfectly, so thank you for making it. It's a real shame that fan service is overshadowing good and original ideas, whether its new characters, new takes on characters and new stories, for example for me Mandalorian season was the most refreshing piece of Star Wars content I had seen and it got tainted, not neccesarily ruined, for me in season 2. And despite not caring for Boba, this new interesting take on him actually made me care. But this did get ruined and I feel that this vision wasn't saw through till the end of it's potential due to fan service. Worst part is that the fans eat this up, so there is no way for the creators to change this approach which is really infurianting. But I'm glad someone else wasn't blind sighted by meaningless fan service.

Dude you nailed it... this is exactly how I feel bout whole series.... I love seeing luke/grogu but we missed out so much

@FilmSpeak

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you man! Really appreciate that.

I said it before, and I’ll say it again. Episode 6 made me an emotional wreck. Luke training Grogu and speaking with Ahsoka was truly one of the best moments in Star Wars to me. That being said, you’re completely right. Episodes 5-6 are essentially the season 3 premiere of Mandalorian. And, Grogu going back with Din undermines season 2’s ending. At least imo. Good analysis.

I still think covid screwed up production on this show because it's hard to believe this show had the same writer as the mandalorian. I'm also convinced that Boba serves best as a side character.

I really wish Luke and Boba would’ve met again, that would’ve been SO interesting!

@SagaciousNihilist

2 жыл бұрын

nah, they would have ruined it. The only way Boba and Luke should meet should be behind the barrel of Bobas Blaster. But this pussified Boba would actually forgive luke for essentially trying to kill him, the real Boba would seek revenge. Both Luke, Han and Boba have been destroyed by Disney, the Luke in this show isn't the real Luke, he's Jake Skywalker the Nihilist bitter Luke from the Last Jedi, Even if they hadn't ruined Boba and not continued to Ruin Luke, These hacks dont have the talent to make a fulfilling interaction between both characters.

@darthmalgus9267

Жыл бұрын

@@SagaciousNihilist While I agree that they would have utterly ruined that interaction, I wouldnt necessarily say that "the real Boba Fett" would have sought out revenge. I think that we (at least from what is in the movies, im not counting his representation in the comics, as I havent read them, so forgive me if he is characterized that way in said comics) could just as easily expect Boba to not take Luke trying to kill him all that personally, as he might see it in professional "it was just business, nothing personal" kinda way.

@hardhitter5099

Жыл бұрын

@@SagaciousNihilist lol everything you said is the honest, straight forward harsh truth/reality of it… the No Bs answer some people may not want to hear but know deep down it’s true lol I like it. Very well said. It is annoying how they have ruined it. I would’ve been better off if they kept to the movie that he died in the sarlaac pit and not made this series so they don’t ruin him.. I have to say I was very excited to see the book of boba fett and thought I’d love the content from it because he’s a bad ass character but after watching it didn’t really do much for me

I mean you can try to defend the biker gang all you want but when you introduce characters with 0 development the audience is generally gonna have a bad reaction. No issue with how they look, they just could’ve been so much more. I feel the story just has a lot to cram in with only 7 episodes and after all 7 I feel like I saw nothing progress in the Star Wars universe other than the death of cad bane.

@Lazypackmule

2 жыл бұрын

How they look is absolutely an issue, though I can easily buy that their style would fit into the universe, but making them perfectly groomed and clean and their bikes look like they are always fresh off the lot doesn't make any sense for a bunch of poor kids on tattooine without even so much as a garage to their name, and also makes every scene with them look wrong, like characters ripped from a random YA novel adaptation are riding a bunch of action figures puppeted around with green screen

I’m sure your 46 min are on point, but really it’s not too complicated: too many insecure producers unwilling or unable to step up to the plate to write a story; all they did default Boba in a direction and start piling on member berries… it’s frustrating because Favreau KNOWS THIS ERROR and speaks about it through his character Carl Casper in his movie “Chef”, which is famously about the artistic process amid commercial success: “The signature app, intended to impress the country club brunch crowd, is the caviar egg. A shirred egg topped with a dollop of caviar is an excuse for the chef to overcharge us for his *insecurity and lack of imagination* ”

@zoricgames

2 жыл бұрын

I think Star Wars has way too many cooks in the kitchen right now.

@hellfish2309

2 жыл бұрын

@@zoricgames a line kitchen needs a few cooks, but there’s no Gordon curating the menu and keeping the storytelling tight and focused

This whole series reminds me a lot of the prequels. A very good story under the surface. The idea was there and could have been incredible, but the execution just didn’t manage to pull it off.

@100Creed

2 жыл бұрын

Dafuq? Prequels where fire

@starwrs3468

2 жыл бұрын

@@100Creed oh I absolutely love the prequels don’t get me wrong. But I can’t lie and say they’re cinematic masterpieces.

@06diogoleitao41

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you, and I think that if the prequels had a good execution of the story and plot they would be better than the original, for me

I don't agree at all, Temuera Morrison just didn't resonate with me at all, from an acting standpoint. He's an OK actor, but there was just nothing going on there on an emotional level. The show was a disjointed mess, which probably didn't help the guy.

@drlee2

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he was easily one of the weakest parts of the show.

Bryce's work made me so happy and sad at the same time. She blew the rest of the show out of the water and what makes me sad is it wasn't even a Boba episode. I look forward to where she goes in the future. She has worked with a bunch of cool directors and it's really cool to see her use what she learned.

they absolutely wasted cad bane, and im insulted they brought him back to murder him with under 5 minutes of screentime, also black kraasantan shouldve gotten more time too

I like the idea of the Mod squad. Teen outcasts modifying themselves, especially in the after math of the war makes sense. My only problem is their bikes. Because they look like the most lazily designed vehicle in a series filled with incredible designs. Why couldn’t they be like moded up speeders, which each one being different. Maybe ones made for speed, the other for attacking. And it would fit with the rebel without a cause look. That’s what teens in the post war era did, they made bikes to their desire, it would make sense.

@audriannagonzalez7503

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s because they are supposed to be a heavy-handed representation of the greasers of the 1950’s-1960’s that were a result of the end of World War 2 and the slow change of ideals.

@dylantennant6594

2 жыл бұрын

Consider these two facts One: You have a bunch of imperial and rebel tech lying around that can be scanvenged, repurposed and sold for cheap. Not exactly that hard to find (this was even the case after ww2). 2. Even in the real world, water is expensive. No joke, in many parts of the U.S, alcohol (which for intensive purposes is a luxury as it has no need) is cheaper then water (both bottled and tap). It’s a matter of fact that people who control the resources often controls the buyers with prices. So the water monger making water to expensive is far from out of the ordinary.

@leonrussell9607

2 жыл бұрын

@@audriannagonzalez7503 they're not based on greasers but rather the English mods, hence the vespas

All I would want is somebody to rewrite what the Book of Boba Fett should've been like and exploring those themes you mentioned. It's feels like history is repeating itself..again

Thank you for this perfect analysis!! Especially the last episode infuriated me. The action looked so cheap and non-Star Wars. Power Rangers is the right analogy.

I just think that the live action movies and now these 'TV Shows' should STAND ALONE, and not depend on doing the 'homework' of watching associated cartoons to understand character motivations etc... This show IMPLIES that there is some long history between Boba and that 'blue guy', but not having watched the CARTOONS, the entire relationship was COMPLETELY lost on me.

I swear the only reason Grogu and Din reunited so soon was so that way there’s a reason to actually watch this show

@zoricgames

2 жыл бұрын

Some executive mandating they don't mess with the only fully successful thing Disney Star Wars has produced. Return to status quo by Mando season 3 because those baby yoda toys sell

@rexthewolf3149

2 жыл бұрын

@@zoricgames “only successful thing” Rebels rouge one. And the books for the most part.

Me and my wife enjoyed the heck out of the first two episodes and really enjoyed the Mando stuff until the finale when we realized how not worth it those episodes actually were. Fan service that sabotaged not only this show but also the Mandolorian.

It's the weakest of the 3 live action seasons so far but I liked Book of Boba but you are 100% correct on Cad Bane, honestly they could of had the episode of Mando adventures... but they REALLY REALLY needed to bring in Cad Bane earlier. He was THE perfect villain for a Boba Fett show. The Angel Eyes (as Cad was always inspired by but he could of REALLY gotten to play it here) to Boba's Man with No Name. As he did in Clone Wars and Bad Batch before he stole pretty much every scene. He's Boba's dark mirror, hell he's the worst parts of not just Boba but of who Jango was his entire life and Boba still clearly idolizes Jango to some extent. the conflict writes itself. But unless you've watched literally unfinished scenes from an arc of Clone Wars that was never finished the viewer has no context to it and thus no context to what's essentially the emotional crux of the final confrontation between the two greatest Bounty Hunters of their era. Bane should of been brought in by like episode 2 or 3 in both the present and in Flashbacks. His role would essentially be the same. He's the Pykes enforcer but he'd still clearly be the big bad because really the Pyke leader is just some dude and the Mayor barely does anything they don't really have the presence for it.... and nether has the charisma Bane has. It sucks cause the final confrontation (aside from Cad monologing too much) makes great thematic sense. Boba's moved on from the selfish bounty hunter life... so with the tools of that trade Bane has him utterly on the ropes but he still pulls out the win and ends him not though his guns or all the crazy tricks in his armor but through the tool and what he learned from his Tusken tribe. It's a perfect pure selfishness vs the importance of, of tribe moment but it could of had so much more impact had Cad Bane just... been there most of the series. Basically I liked a lot of what they did with this series but bringing in Cad so late was a huge mistake and a good 60% of it's issues could of been resolved by just.. having him present from the start. Book of Boba's biggest issue was the lack of a clear big bad and foil to it's protagonist and Cad Bane pretty much instantly fixed that but he did it too late.

@AStageForTheKingdom

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with that. They also needed to raise the stakes. Having Cad brutally gun down the inhabitants of Mos Pelgo in one of the first episodes would have have been perfect. Think "Once Upon A Time In The West". It would have made for a heck of an opening to see Boba recovering from the Sarlac in Mos Pelgo, when the Marshal refuses to let the spice pass through, and Cad Bane responds. by gunning down him and every other inhabitant of Mos Pelgo and burning the town to the ground. Boba barely survives, badly burned, and still damaged by the Sarlac. He is captured by Tuskens, but goes through that whole arc, finds the Tuskens gunned down by Bane, and then Boba goes on the warpath to take down Bane and the Pyke syndicate. Would have been epic and would have explained everything.

The only thing I don't like about the mod squad is that their tech looks waaaaaay too fancy for Tatooine. Theres no tarnishing of the metal that would make sense for tech on the planet. I feel like they should've looked more like scrappers. Like all their tech was literally made of whatever they could scrounge up.

Yo, I'm gonna be real, this destroys the sand people. The line you said "the more accepting tuskins" should have been a huge red flag. These are the same people that tortured Shmi Skywalker to death for, seemingly, their own entertainment. The people that randomly attacked Luke and were very clearly kidnapping him until old Ben got involved. The creatures in book of boba are not the Tuskin Raiders. This is a group that are dressed and sound like the raiders, but are completely different with different beliefs and practices.

6:26 Jango didn't leave the Mandalorian lifestyle, he's just the only one of his creed left. Jango was the last surviving "True Mandalorian" Super-Commando, a group who was opposed to both the Death Watch's zealotry and wanton destruction, and the New Mandalorian's erasure of their warrior ways. They lived by the letter of the Supercommando Codex, and Jango trained Boba by it while he could.

@Mark-px8jt

Жыл бұрын

jango, Mando ,lando?

Very good analysis here. I thought the first four episodes were fine. They of course had their issues, but I think everything in Star Wars does to a point. And then Mando showed up. I thought episode 5 was fantastic as a Mandalorian episode, but putting it in BoBF was definitely not the right move. Also I really didnt like Grogu reuniting with Mando. Anyone who doesnt watch this show before Mandalorian S3 will be so confused to see them together again. I think it was a narrative step back that could hurt the Filoni/Faverau connected shows going forward. But, overall great video once again!! :)

As much as ep5/6 of this show (that is Mando season 2,5) are pretty good in themselves, the 2 problems are pretty major: 1) He yoinked the show halfway through for no reason 2) So what is the season 3 of Mando about now? We are back to the starting point. Grogu and Din were seperated by season2 end and they will be together by season3 start... that leaves no room for new plot to start.

I’m 13 minutes into this and I disagree with everything you’ve said. I’m sorry, I just don’t think any of the stuff you think works actually does. I’m okay with them doing something different with him. However, the first thing we see him do in the teaser for this show was Fett straight up killing a Guy in cold blood so he could be a crime boss. And several times through the series he references himself as a crime boss … yet for some reason he doesn’t want drugs dealt in his city? How does he intend to finance this criminal enterprise? Murder and extortion is fine, if they don’t pay the bills the way drugs do. It’s like Al Capone saying “we’re not selling booze no more.” No, considerably less works in this in my opinion.

This show was so convoluted and uneven, I suspect there were many rewrites and reshoots. The beginning is strong, and there’s something to like in every episode but it doesn’t hold together as a series. I would have liked Boba and Fennec to have a couple of bonding moments as I felt their chemistry wasn’t earned. I guess you could argue Boba saving and healing Fennec was such a moment but I wanted more between them, not just “we have similar goals so let’s continue working together.”

Though i loved seeing Live-action Bane, the show wasted far too much time developing Mando to even bother explaining the relationship between Boba and Bane. It needed flashbacks because, realistically, not every star wars fan has seen the clone wars. My house mate was so confused on who bane was and just saw him as another bad guy, not really understanding the weight of his appearance

@hardhitter5099

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY! I never watched it much but a couple episodes of cad bane so when I saw him in this I was like oh dang I remember that guy from the clone wars shows. I thought he looked well done and was a good character but I definitely agree there should be more backstory and flashbacks on him and boba because i would’ve been very confused if I didn’t watch those clone wars episodes when I was younger.

Great video! I agree completely, one thing that made mando such an interesting character and great TV show was its isolated nature. It was a perfect balance of being still in the same universe we know but not a giant fan service as you point out here.

I actually got hyped up at the end of episode 4, cause I thought Din was just coming in to lend a helping hand the way Boba did in the Mandalorian. Then I spent the entire 5th episode waiting to get back to the main story, before realizing around episode 6 that this show was the Mandalorian season 2.5 now I feel like the episode, and by proxy the show, could've been much better if they'd cut back to Boba after Din says he has something he needs to do, save the Mando episode for the new Mando season and focus on Boba for the 5th episode with Din off doing his thing, then Din comes into the show in episode 6 without hijacking it

I’ve never really cared about Boba Fett as a character. I never found him interesting in ESB, AOTC or CW. Star Wars is so fixated on giving is characters & stories from eras that we’ve already seen because of nostalgia. Mando season 1 worked so well because it was a new character exploring an environment we hadn’t seen. Though season 2 is great, if relies far too heavily on nostalgia to keep us interested: Bo Katan, Luke Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano etc. This is why i want a show set in the high republic era, but because of the risks taken with the sequels, Lucasfilm is too afraid to try something new.

My problem with the mods isn't their design or their flashiness, it's the the way they showed us that flashy personality, the camera zoom ins, the slow motion bringing the action to a screeching halt, the cringe dialog, the pointless 360 spin to shoot an enemy when in a life and death situation. When Fennec saves them from the ambush and she's in a hurry to go to her next task and they give us that awkward thank you dialog I literally said out loud "what the fuck, no one cares, move on"... the Mods felt like that one player in a D&D game that always interrupts the DM's narrative to impose themselves with a cool one liner. It felt like that mod chick has some sort of deal with the director where she needed to always have a line of dialog with a close up in every scene she was in.

@socialjihad5724

2 жыл бұрын

The "Thank you" dialogue was payoff for a setup that was never made....I think this is literally the second piece of dialogue (out of 2 total) Fennec ever said to the mods

Also my favorite part of the final battle is when Boba tells Din that he'll probably die if he stays and Din says this is the way.

It's cool seeing Cad Bane in live action, but now I have even further questions, like why wasn't he ever around when Darth Vader ordered the bounty on Han Solo?

Great analysis video! And I'm surprised I haven't found your channel yet, looking forward to watching more of your content

As an Apache native dude I loved the sand people in the old flicks, felt like they were nomadic desert savages lol What I loved even more was the nice little caviat in The Book of Boba where we see the "human" side of the sand people and their culture along with their honor system. Warriors seen as uncivilized. With a vulgar biker type gang wiping out his new friend's settlement, it felt like subversive subtle commentary on native american plight. It was refreshing, not having it shoved down my throat or hammered over the head with woke-ness and still adds social commentary to read between the lines. Props John Fav, props

me: slightly enjoys something filmspeak: The HUGE problem with Your Opinions ft Valid Arguments that make you feel bad for liking it in the first place.

@FilmSpeak

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha no! Never feel bad about liking something! Glad the video made good arguments but if you enjoyed the show man, I’m happy for ya.

Thank you for this video. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw everyone else react to episode 6 like it was god's gift to star wars

The themes and ideas were there but the execution was poor. I love the Din/Grogu story arc so I was pissed they shoehorned their individual journeys into this series when they could have taken their time and explored them properly in Mando S3. The moment of their reunion should have been as big as their separation in S2- not haphazardly thrown into the middle of a chase scene. Ugh. I’m still mad they deprived the audience of what should have been an emotional climax.

The beskar spear scene didn't even make any sense tho. She literally built him beskar mini-missicles lmfao. Also she has beskar hammers which she used in combat against Stormtroopers.

Well done! You've given me a new perspective on the show. I may watch it again. Great video!

@FilmSpeak

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Never was a huge Boba Fett fan, so I really didn´t care about this show. What I care about is the over reliance on fan favourite characters. Why bring back Ahsoka, Luke, Bo Katan, Cad Bane, etc. ? I guess they are important for the "larger story" they are trying to tell with these live action shows but when they´ve first announced the Mandalorian, I was hoping it would be "The Bounty Hunter, The Show". Episodic vignettes that would take the Mandalorian across the entire galaxy and show the viewers how life works in post Empire era. We get very little of this and the over reliance on the fan favourite characters makes the universe feels so small. I am very tired of Disney´s Star Wars.

One, the Sequel Trilogy was an unorganized mess. As much as I enjoyed "The Mandalorian", I was frustrated when the series broke away from the narrative for three episodes to introduce new characters (two of them for the second season) in Season One. During its second season, I got tired of every episode being about Din Djarin completing some task for information on the Jedi . . . for the first five episodes. And I'm one of the few who didn't care for Luke Skywalker's appearance in the Season Two finale. Grogu leaving with Luke proved to be a waste of time in the end. As for "The Book of Boba Fett" - some of the flashbacks were too long in the first two episodes and Episode Four. And breaking away from Boba's arc to air two episodes about Din Djarin (and later, Grogu) was a big mistake. Din and Grogu's reunion could have played out in Season Three of "The Mandalorian". After being in possession of Lucasfilm for nearly a decade, Disney Studios still does NOT know how to handle a serialized narrative - for movies and television.

Huge Boba Fett fan here, litteraly my favorite SW character, I've been reading comic books, watching clone wars and othere expaned SW media with him since my childhood. And this show was my most anticipated series probalby since ever! I loved what they did with Boba here because they escaped the vision probably many fans had about him, this ruthless, mysterious faceless armored dude with clint eastwood vibe. They replaced his mysteriousness, with something that you can build a character on! this tribal vibe, and this death and "reborn" motif really sat with me well, because they told me something new about this character this is exactly what I wanted after reading or watching countless of media where he is basically the same character. We need progress in characters if we want development in story, character cannot stay the same, they must evolve , just like we do, we are not some stainless steel figures, we change with years. And As you... I was so dissapponited with episodes 5 and 6, these two really ruined direction and course this series was going for, or at least tried to... this kind of fan service is really getting on my nerves. at least the Soundtrack was amazing throughout! Goransson and Shirley did an amazing job Hopefully we can get a second season, maybe with diffrent creative team, that focuses primarily on Boba and his story and relations with other characters.

I love my family too. I sometimes sit under the stars with a good wine and think back when they kidnapped, tortured and abused me while starving me to death. Ahhh, good times...good times. Why do want to visit Stockholm now? 😲🤔

Excellent remarks about a poorly written show. I feel for the actors and crew members who performed their jobs well; I feel also for young viewers who don’t see how poorly constructed this show was. I hope they do in time.

Cad Bane was so well executed, but I agree that his screen time was all too limited and his arc was underplayed. Maybe Cad Bane (in his prime) will be one of the major baddies in Kenobi?

@Mark-px8jt

Жыл бұрын

I loved cad bane

This show was very disappointing on all fronts, short of the Mando's appearance. Holy Moly Robert Rodriguez is truly a hack director. Ron Howard's kid made him look like an amateur.

@handles_are_a_bit_rubbish

2 жыл бұрын

I think that Rodriguez just stopped trying after he "made it", and by this point he's practically a by-word for cheaply produced action schlock.

@rafaellozanolopez1399

2 жыл бұрын

You should check his filmography before calling him a hack, he's no Stanley Kubrick but the dude knows his westerns and grindhouse flicks. The whole series feel rushed, and that's on Lucasfilms and or Favrou.

@Doomer253

2 жыл бұрын

@@rafaellozanolopez1399 Let's be honest. El Mariachi and Desperado were his only good films. After that dude stop caring about improving as a director or ran out of ideas, or both.

My major gripe with the biker gang is how theyre supposedly poor yet ALL own brand new, flashy motorbikes. They can be fun colors but make them look dingy, beat up, scratched, rusty in places. Dont say "we're out of jobs, we're poor enough to have to steal water to survive" and yet have these flashy, brand new motorbikes. You can even do what they did with Bobas helmet. Cleaned up and well cared for yet still shows wear and tear. Show their cyberpunk parts malfunctioning bc they cant get the sand out of it, they dont have the money to oil them up, show rust in their parts. Show me that theyre poor enough to steal water, show me their suffering not just "hey we're super poor lol" "lol want to get a job with me then?". Have them comment on how glad they are that they can afford to get their mechanical parts moving again, finally not having to hear the squeaks of metal joints or have them get stuck in a spot. Their involvement felt super rushed and underdeveloped. They had cool ideas but.. it just felt so out of place. I couldnt even give you the name of a single one of them, they were so underdeveloped. You could take them out, replace them with the piglins, and the story would remain almost exactly the same

I recon that the mods could've been brought back, but let go of the scooters. The scooters were absolutely horrendous.

The biker gang doesn’t work with the setting. On Coruscant, they’d make sense, but Tatooine is a desert planet. They should be dirty, dusty. This was a misplaced bit of eye candy. Perhaps, if they’d been given any kind of characterization, maybe a discussion of their biker culture (the shiny bikes could explain the stolen water, and the local disdain for them), but this just didn’t happen.

The problem with Mods is not their appearance or Boba hiring them, it’s that they are not fleshed out beyond superficial stuff. I don’t think those Klatunian butchers were slaves, more likely just employees. So he just reasoned with them for a safe passage. Also it’s funny to imagine that their boss was actually nice to them and provided social security and stuff so now Mando really shattered their income. Great review btw, I agree with the main thought and many points.

I think its like a lot of shows these days, you loved it, and then there's an episode where the decisions written are juat so illogical, in order to get to the next character episode.

I knew I enjoyed the Book of Boba Fett’s first four episodes, even though the action scenes were dumb, a lot of dialogue choices were confusing, and each one was formulaic, with lots of talking and then action, rinse and repeat. The Mandalorian episodes were better than those episodes on that level, but I felt the initial writing and themes for Boba Fett’s episodes were very interesting, so I liked it despite its flaws.

Finally I have found someone else who finds Rodriguez' episode in Mando season 2 terrible!! Everybody seems to love it, but I think it looks like a fan film.

@camembertcheese7092

2 жыл бұрын

It’s the worst

Great analysis, probably the best there is on KZread, only criticism I have is the point of contention with the mod squad, one reason most like Star Wars is the fantastical aspect of the world/s ,technology, cultures, alien places and people, pushing Its science fiction magic to the enth degree it’s like nothing we’ve seen in real life, only in dreams. The mod squad is too close to home in regards to their pedestrian scooter transport and punk rocker aesthetic. Where in Sci Fi the sky is literally not the limit, and by cribbing real life aspects cheapens the whole exotic feel of Star Wars! I realise the western cowboy aesthetic is also utilised but somehow feels more authentic to the world building a la Firefly. It just works. Just my two cents.

If you think about it, this is more of a clone wars show than a boba show 1. Because basically the whole cast in clone wars is in this and 2. boba is a clone and is in a war

I really thought with Grogu's Order 66 flashback that they were planting the seeds that Grogu would be afraid of the clones (a la Kanan Jarrus and Rex), and then create some sort of tension if he ever saw Boba without his helmet... idk its a loose thought but it would have been interesting to see and give that flashback more weight seeing as Grogu goes to Tatooine anyway... but he STILL hasn't met Boba so pffhshs

I haven't been a massive fan of this show because it seems like the writers have only put in a quarter of the effort to bring a character like Boba to life. But as you said, he's a supporting character which makes it difficult for him to suddenly be a lead character of his own show. Overall it has some enjoyment to it but I haven't felt invested in it that much. Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. I think it has a lot of neat thematic substance to it that flows very well from one movie to the next, and evolves as the series goes on.

The one way you make the ahsoka Luke thing work is that they come to tattooine to help Din and Boba. Both of them know Boba personally and Din could tell them about who he is now and this lays the ground for their choice to arrive and help defeat the pikes and make peace with Fett. The damn scene writes itself. Oh no what do we do about these big droidekas?? You hear the lightsabers activate and characters look up to see Ahsoka, Grogu and Luke use the force to lift the droid into the air and drop droid poppers underneath it. Then a moment after they win for him to apologize to both of them about what happened between them in the past.

I loved all of the Mando and Luke portions just as much as I loved boba part…you make a lot of great points that makes me enjoy the show more. I say just enjoy it , they’re trying.

@grampagohan3385

2 жыл бұрын

That last sentence is some of the dumbest shit you could say in relation to anything

@oponamikwe5011

Жыл бұрын

bro. im amazed at how people hate the shows when i could not get enough. Maybe its because i hate breaking badd " the best series " my ass. Any how, lesson is humans are similar but verrrry different .. These views gutted me but ill survive. f@ck em

Great video essay. You’re too smart for this show (I hope I’m in the same camp). I like how you articulate the deep issues and themes that SHOULD run through the series and achieve a satisfying resolution, but don’t. Fan service is one thing (I loved Luke’s decimation of the dark troopers in Mando) but it could have been provided in a more narratively coherent way.

Great analysis. Very well-stated. The background hum through a big chunk of chapter 1 was pretty unbearable so I had to skip ahead.

So goddamn well said! I honestly think Filoni and Favreau need to make some sort of "Adventure of the Week" series to play around with different characters and have their fun little cameos, without having to worry about a greater story and character arc. Just get that out of their system.

@chasehedges6775

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

What's the outro music?

Excellent breakdown. I disagreed w/some observations BUT as someone who was kinda “meh” about the series as a whole, your analysis of Boba’s motivations made perfect sense! Great job!

Yea no matter what you're saying the character is ruined. The horrible writing they've done to try and make what is CANNONICALLY the most feared and badass bounty hunter the galaxy has ever seen,into some high morals good guy. That isn't who Boba Fett is and shouldn't ever be,for fucks sake he became THE crime lord on tatooine...to stop the crime? This isn't Boba Fett,it's some washed up dumbed down version of the galaxies greatest bounty hunter cause the writers suddenly wanna make him into something he's never been.

What Disney needs to do is hire youtubers like Star Wars Theory and others to help guide the story of these characters.

I really enjoyed watching this and can agree with a lot of what you said. The book of boba really left me disappointed, and wondering what we could of got instead. I wanted to ask you how you're able to pick out these little details throughout the show and analyse it so well, as I find myself having these feelings and thoughts but never being able to articulate them. Is it something you've always been good at or is it something that can be learnt?

We need a Cad Bane show

I dont understand his motivation beeing the boss, he had one friend, no support, just decided to be in charge and alienated all factions, how he will stay boss with his gang of plotarmour idk. It feel cheap, hurried and dependent on spectacle.

A good break down of the issue though an episode by episode basis. The only issues i thought not really touched on was the flash backs with the sand people i really felt that should have been front loaded. As for the biker gang the overall look pf the gangs as people i could get behind but the bikes...not on tatooine which has had so much exploration since star wars began (seriously there are other planets) i might even have gotten behind a sort of part bright colour like a block of metal to brighten it up but not a whole super smooth chasis/body kit. Other than that you did a good job defending the biker gang and just really showed that although the seeds were there, they did not have enough on screen devolpment on screen to get that accross. And not enough on screen devolpment really seems to be the big issues with book of boba fett. I can see the story in my head that was under the surface. we get boba captured by sand people, though skills earns respect and learns another way never really seen by him after a life or death experince...this can change a person. We can see him try to be nicer to people rule a different way but then something is happening, a rival faction big player is making the moves and they have hired an unkown foe. Boba learns a little way into it that it is cad bane, we have some skimishes objective based so they do not need a fianl battle moment. This then forces boba to accept his past and confront it in classic western style face off eventually. This would have shown the reason for the change we would have seen boba looking like a bad ass and this is somethign the show missed a lot the grudge match between cad bane and boba would have been a great framing for that. Sadley it is not what we got.

I loved that it delved into the lore of the Sand People. I thought it was cool that they did a bit of lore on the Rancors as well. I never knew about the connection they have to their handler, and the whole imprinting on the first person they see. It definitely made me feel like I understood the Handler/Rancor relationship better from the Return of the Jedi. PS: It was especially amazing to see the Tuskan lore on screen though. I had heard about the lizard up the nose thing to go on a Journey to get the branch for your weapon, but I never, ever thought I'd see it on screen. I was honestly completely enthralled by this section of the storyline.

Mando season 1 is some of the best Star Wars content ever and instead of learning that it’s ok to have different things, Disney are milking it and making it massively interconnected to a frustrating degree because since they have the MCU, that’s the only way they can think of evolving

I feel like the show would work better if there'd been a series focused on or featuring him set between TCW and the OT, I loved the tusken flashbacks and thought they were gonna bring them back in the finale instead of mando. The mando episodes were great, but they ruined the show.

It’s interesting because Robert Rodriguez shot my favorite Mandalorian episode, so I was super hyped for him to lead BoBF. While I’m glad it’s out and I have not even close to regrets in watching it, it sure was one…convoluted disappointment.

I couldn't disagree with your analysis more. The descendant of Cassus Fett, albeit a perfect replication through cloning, would threaten a portion of Huttspace at minimal if not replacing it as Fettspace. The right hand of the first Mandalore. They could have given us epic Star Wars, instead we got a queef.

What's next? "The Book of Babu Frik?"

I was so excited for this show after episode 2 but it never got better than that

Amazing point and I am not against trying something new so long as it doesn’t actively spit or disrespect on things that are well established I like the direction for boba but the way it was executed as so sloppy and felt like the creatives making the show just didn’t care or have the budget to tell the story well and that become way too apparent in the mando show which actively Whether intentional or not made boba look bad compared to mando they could’ve still made him a lot of what he was to where they wanna take him and your point of the mod gang was good my counter is boba could’ve easily told fennec that they remind him of him self when he was that young and that’ll all he really wanted was a place to belong which is why he recruited him and done there is a good clear cut reason no need for you to tie in the clone wars or to squint your eyes on why he brought them in my point is mod gang hate is dumb but the at simple line boba said both and good reason to have them and even builds on boba character boom a two for one but the show creatives didn’t bother and now here we are. bobas development besides tusken stuff was grossly miss handled and making him kinda soft and weak a means to drive the half baked story the show was pushing while sacrificing his already established character was something I can’t over look the boba in mando season 2 and the boba in bobf are 2 completely different characters which doesn’t make sense

If you’re a poor writer you have to reduce the main character to raise the secondary characters, if you’re a good writer you raise the secondary characters to meet the level of the main character, what they did in this show (except the 2 episodes of Mandalorian), was reduced Boba to a secondary character in his own namesake show. In order to have us care about poorly written side characters like the mod dorks. Overall it’s wicked Disney-fied, they need to stop with this whole, “we are the world”, happy chappy BS.

The entire book of Boba Fett was pointless to me. The only way to salvage anything from it, in my opinion is since this is just after Jedi, he now has the opportunity to perhaps have a son (a real son) and pass on his armor; then we could have a Boba Fett character, raised with different ideals in the current timeline. (Different actor of course).