Mini Series The Book of Boba Fett 1.02 - Chapter 2 - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

No one’s ever really digested.

 

Those share many of the same tropes, but good point.

 

Tell that to the Stormtrooper!

 

The tropes don't bother me too much but sometimes it feels like they are too on the nose. There's no need to "pay homage" every 5 seconds.

 

LOL!!! Somehow, he wasn't digested. We could do this all day

 

You’re forgetting about Andor, which is characterized as a galactic spy thriller. Based on the concept art and set leaks we’ve seen (and on Rogue One itself) I think the Andor show will involve a good number of urban planet environments and politics, and I imagine very few “Westernisms.”

 

Still a great meme

 

Luke! I am your dinner!

 

These character posters are sick.

This show is orange.

 

Like clockwork - Left for dead on the sands of Tatooine.

 

I would say it's more of literally relearning what exactly made Star Wars so great in the first place, rather than capitalizing on nostalgia. It is evident that their approach to ST just simply didn't work in the long run. All that goodwill created by TFA was squandered once TLJ ended up showing there was no overarching story plan from the story, and it became evident the ST was more interested in replicating scenes from the past rather than making something that feels like George Lucas would have made back in the 70s/80s with the creator's own spin on the matter.

The PT era would involve political thrillers and those require a more complex script and the best writers to make it work. I'll make this prediction. The Book of Boba Fett is a testing ground for Star Wars political thrillers since it involves Boba Fett actually trying to rule Tatooine in game of carrot and stick rather than just Mando going around galaxy doing bounty hunting and protecting the baby.

 

I think it's more of capitalizing on Lucas's nostalgia and putting their own spin on the genres he grew up with. They didn't take direct inspirations from Lucas's own work, they went to the place where got his inspirations. These methods are timeless, malleable and applicable. One can trace the success of Tolkien's Middle-Earth to the old legends and myths in Europe, from Beowulf to the Norse Myths. And the Elder Scrolls series clearly took some inspirations from The Lord of the Rings, but they also focus on the very myth sources that Tolkien looked at rather than copying everything from Tolkien.

You can even do it with classics like A Fistful of Dollars which took direct inspiration from the film Yojimbo, which in turn was based on a novel Red Harvest. It's not something to be seen as a cynical cash grab. It's just how stories are passed down from generation to generation, each with its own unique spin. ST's problem was simply that it took inspirations from ANH... and tried to make into a sequel to ANH, which is honestly how Hollywood would try to make fast, lackluster sequels for DTV. No time to think of new scenarios, just repeat the same plot and no one will notice. There's a reason why Ghostbusters Afterlife's greatest scenes are the ones that explore the world and characters in new perspectives and directions (especially in the emotional category regarding the family's relations to the old Ghostbusters) while the weakest scenes are ones that veer too closely to the original film that feels like it was copying-and-pasting scenes from that movie.

 

There are so many story ideas they could run with, but since we're dealing with a Western (or Eastern) in the GFFA, I'd say they're going to keep things simple. Favreau and Filoni have an overarching plan in mind, I'm sure of it. They know where all these threads will lead to, and it will be awesome to bear witness to the greatness.

 

I think you accidentally attributed something you said to me.

 

Yeah I know, sorry about that. The quote somehow got messed up, not sure how that happened.

 

Somehow I’m also listed in that quote tower, even though I didn’t write any of that. No biggie, but something definitely got screwed up. Oh well.

 

Yeah I tried to trim the quote tower down a bit to avoid 20 people getting notifications about it but it didn't work as intended.

Like I said I don't mean nostalgia in a sense of its just evil Disney cash grabbing and pandering to fans. It is a very deliberate and legitimate creative choice paying homage to some of Lucas key influences for the OT and I also think that we will get a wonderful story out of it. I just think that Star Wars can be more than those Western/Samurai references as key inspirations wouldn't have been my first choice and with the number of projects I do hope and also think that we will get something different.

 

You know, this is the first time I’m learning this. My idiocy can be epic at times.

 

Oh $(*#)@! I also did not know this lol

Game changer.