Mini Series Official "The Book of Boba Fett" Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

Famuyiwa has been attached to the Children of Blood and Bone film that Lucasfilm is producing.

 

Holy crap, how did I not know this?! That's amazing.

 

That's a lot of quotation marks.

 

Traviss’s issues was that she wanted to change the context around her characters - that she wanted the universe around her more amoral characters to be friendlier to them and their amoral perspective rather than have their amoral perspectives standout in a more moral universe.

If Boba is a Conan the Conqueror type anti-hero in a Galaxy where actual heroes are allowed to outshone him there, and where villains being genuinely vile is acknowledged as something that should be opposed, then he’s fine. If the story around him tries to make his more amoral choices compeleltu acceptable, and partakes in needless “equivalence” between the other heroes and the villains, that’s a problem.

Travis’s was fine for her first book, and a few after that. It only became a problem when she started trying to argue that the Sith and Jedi were the evectively the same so she could make the Mandalorians’ grey morality more acceptable… and started treating the Mandos as inherently superior combatants from some insecurity over how the Magic Space Wizards tied a morality-fueled magic to their martial superiority.

 

The most interesting thing about the Disney-era, when it comes to the Mandos, is how Filoni and Favreau have been embracing a “combine all these elements as different facets of a single but by no mean rigidly homogenous culture” approach.

Because for a while there, it kept feeling like every creator who had *a* cool idea for the Mandos would disregard the previous guys’/gals’ additions and even at time disparage them; the old Marvel Mandos like Fenn Shysa were disregarded by Traviss until she could entirely redo them to suit her tastes, then Lucas ignored both for TCW.

This is also when Boba Fett started having a kind of volleyball approach to his origins - “He’s an ex-Mandalorian Protector!” “No, he’s a stormtrooper deserter!” “No, he’s a former Journeyman Protector from Concord Dawn!” “No, that was his grandfather because he’s a clone! And the other adopted grandfather was also actually a Mandalorian *and* a Journeyman Protector!” “Sure, but they were descended from Mandalorian farmers anyways, and also rustic nomads rock and cities suck!” “No, you’re all wrong! Jango wasn’t even a Mandalorian!” Etc.

Lucas’s New Mandalorian episodes of TCW even featured a Mandalorian language that was entirely different from the Traviss designed one.

Rebels was the first show to try combining two-three types of Mandos in one iteration: combining the Traviss language with the backstory and some factions from TCW, and referencing the Marvel Mandos, all while introducing the Clans and Houses. Now, with The Mandalorian, more elements of both Traviss’s type are present, and smartly packaged as fundamentalists, and it’s explicit that different Mandos have different standards for cultural identity. And Boba himself now seems to be slipping into a strong “amalgamated” origin.

I’m still hopeful we eventually see some Mandos who are very like Boba, and are basically apolitical secularists who use the armor, maybe use the alphabet, but nothing else, and who can then be definitively labeled the Mandalorian Mercs type of culture.

 

Looks more like one of those assassin looking guys in red.