Mini Series The Book of Boba Fett 1.03 - Chapter 3 - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

I don't think that's the case at all. I think everyone here knows SW has fun silly stuff in it. But to say that we shouldn't expect to ever take these stories seriously, is misguided. Lucas placed a lot of heart, and logical world-building, into his silly galaxy. That's what makes it tick. Without that foundation, the silly stuff would just be puppets and dumb costumes. It would have been forgettable. And people wouldn't have been talking about SW any longer than 1977.

 

I’m hating this show. Is this seriously Boba Fett? It sure doesn’t look like it to me. I’m going to need something dark and badass to convince me this is Boba. He can start by killing his Vespa gangsters cause they suck.

Come on Filioni you can do so much better than this drivel.

 

People change after major life altering experiences.

 

I kind of disagree with this last sentence, in the sense that Disney SW goes well further than just respecting the family friendly boundaries, to the point that they seem scared to even show any vague sign of moral ambiguity in their main characters. So there is no need to arrive to the point of scaring families away, they could just, you know, write Boba's character in such a way that him being a crime boss is remotely plausible.

 

Just finished watching. Man oh man that was not great. What the hell was up with that cyberpunk gang that drove around on the brightly colored Vespas? They looked straight out of an 80's B-movie. And what was the point of that chase scene with the cyberpunks and the mayors toadie? The whole thing could've been avoided if the show remembered a couple of minutes earlier that Boba can fly! And oh boy the fridged the entire Tusken tribe as many people here predicted.

I still enjoyed on a base level but it was definitely a step down from the other two episodes.

 

Nah the holiday special was for adults

 

Agreed. I suppose what I meant to say is...just make it more complicated and don't worry if an 8-year old won't understand every bit of nuance. That kid will love it anyway because cool aliens and armor and other fun stuff.

This was the boundary of Star Wars in the beginning. Which was important when all you could choose from were a few movies. The whole family had to enjoy them.

With streaming TV, there will be so many different Star Wars shows (and hopefully films...) to choose from, that it would be perfectly appropriate for Lucasfilm to experiment with content that reached beyond the "family" audience, and into the more decidedly adult space. They shouldn't just reject the opportunity to make prestige TV in the GFFA because of an artificial "age" boundary set during a very different time. The GFFA is no less interesting a world than Westeros, so why not explore something much more complex? The galaxy's the limit...

 

This show is embarrassing. It’s the ST, but as a season of tv. Just a meandering mess with no real direction. It really feels like they said “we’re making a boba Fett show, who cares about knowing what we’re doing, it can be literal slop and people will watch it anyways.” I was so high on episode 2, but both episode 1 and 3 were just painful to me, and what I liked about 2 was just wiped away. The present day storyline is atrocious too. I have no investment in it at all, it really feels like throwing random crap at the wall, and it makes Boba and Fennec pretty poor characters. They both just seem incredibly stupid, and at this point it’s way to late for an about face for me. I’m out.

 

I disagree i think GFFA is honestly a far more limiting place at the end of the day, and I think people who think it can be more nuanced and complex are fooling themselves. I think Star Wars has a limit and that limit is at best Revenge of the Sith. Star Wars isn't prestige TV it's popcorn at the end of the day, that's why people live it.

I think some folk just need to except this already....They are never gonna get what they expect or want.

Acylote gonna be interesting to watch then.

 

Watched this episode twice now. I liked it much more on the second viewing.

There is a lot of comedy in this episode. The action becomes cartoonish at times. The tone felt different from last week. I could enjoy the humor more on the rewatch and go with the flow. It’s also odd that the tone is more slapstick when this episode also has the most heavy moment yet of the series with the massacre of the Sandpeople. They can’t catch a break.

The cyber punks felt more at home in Star Wars on the second viewing - even with their TMNT Neutrino style speeder bikes. The car chase was pretty hokey as action scenes goes, but I find David Pasquesi’s portrayal of the shifty Majordomo so delightfully hilarious, I couldn’t help but love the absurdity of it all with him trying to sneak off in the landspeeder equivalent of a 70s Lincoln. It was funny.

The fight with the Wookie was fine and does more to establish the character for the future. The new Rancor was funny and endearing. The episode was very much Star Wars in the style of Robert Rodriguez. As that it’s a success and does exactly what it sets out to do while also moving the larger story forward.

Also interesting that I had an idea where the flashback story was going before this episode but not the present day. Now I don’t know where the flashback goes next, but do for the present.

 

Lol - the whole Star Wars thingy is built on bad parenting.

 

Okay, so this is definitely a mixed bag.

Boba's characterization of the present is fine to me. The problem is anything that takes place in the present continues to be boring, snail-like build-up. It's a learning curve to go from Bounty Hunter to the crime lord. Boba is capable of ruthlessness. I feel like his awkwardness is intentional and well played. His wait-and-see guile suits Boba like he is able to see ahead and see the long game. Maybe his characterization here is too close to his brother, the clone hero that is Rex. Fennic balances that out by being brasher and perhaps more cunning than he is.

The fight in the bacta tank room vs Black Krrsantan was well choreographed and raises the stakes in the present. Made Boba's decision to hire the biker gang to seem more insightful. Like he realizes he needs more muscle and more followers. He just wasn't expecting something this hardcore this soon. And if there is going to be a war. Boba is going to have to get more followers quicker. It seems he should have kept Krrsantan prisoner. But he seems to be assuming the Hutts are not the villains. I think he's right. The foreshadowing for that is in the flashbacks where the deep stuff and cool action was until this episode.

Speaking of that, I did find it premature to put the Tuskin Raiders on a permanent bus. Particularly since the flashbacks are the best part. I would like more young Boba on Kamino, please. But I do think that's going to build into the present. I was surprised given how in The Bad Batch, Cid underlined on no uncertain terms you don't mess around with the Pikes. That they are in a position where they are paying other syndicates protection money. How the mighty have fallen. Then by the end of the episode realized they are probably going to be the villains. They seem just as powerful and scary as made out to be. I think it's going to turn out the Pykes are responsible for sending the Biker Gang to wipe out the Tuskin Raider tribe. There is more coming that's going to establish how ruthless they are. The Pyke Syndicate is who the Hutts don't want to mess with. Maybe even Crimson Dawn will be involved somehow. Did Maul about wipe them out and take over in TCW? So it does seem like the flashbacks will still build into the modern era. It's that cycle. We're in the revenge stage.

Yeah, the colorful biker gang is out of place. It's like dropping Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress characters into Attack on Titan. They are going to look just as out of place when they inevitably crash Cid's Parlor in The Bad Batch. Calling it now. Too many parallels rolling now as well. I wonder how Echo will feel about humans wanting to be more machine the human. The racer kids look vaguely like something out of Resistance.

Why didn't the powers that be just do something like give Latts Razzi a live-action debut and build on cool characters established with a connection to Boba? it's kind of silly Boba just walked up and hired them. It makes sense like Boba has some sort of strategy in the ol' noggin. There is no development, no establishment of a relationship, no chemistry. They just become cool muscle and vehicles for a cool chase scene. Obviously they are decent in a fight. Imagine if Boba and/ or Fennic had just jumped on a couple of speeders and taken for the Major dude down on their own? That would have been badass though maybe arguably repetitive with the last episode.

BTW, loved the reference to Witches of Dathomir riding Rancors. Not decided on if this one is a 7 or an 8 yet.

 

You have some incredibly low standards. Star Wars TV has produced infinitely better content over decades than this.

 

Oh yea that was a great call back

 

So you want him to be the same two dimensional character he was before?

 

Again people he was barely a character before

 

Standards are the eye of the beholder there is no objectivity to it.

Unless your like a academic snob who think they know what good filmmaking is and what not and all that jazz that means nothing at the end of the day.

I series of him standing still would be amazing clearly that is the true essence of Boba Fett.

 

This episode wasn't the best. I really don't like the use of melee weapons which I really didn't like in the ST as well. Boba Fett's new crew... Don't know what to think. The things I liked the best was actually the inclusion of a pit droid and the rickshaw droid. Oh, and the rancor of course. 6/10.

 

In the previous episode, the Hutts, flanked by a snarling Black Krrsantan, told Boba to "sleep lightly."

In this episode, a snarling Black Krrsantan attacks him while he's sleeping.

But he didn't expect it...

 

I think Andor will be tense, as its classification as a spy thriller would suggest, but I can't imagine any of the content will be above and beyond what we've seen before in respect to envelop pushing.

And I don't think that "dark and complex" are out of place in children's or family entertainment. You can absolutely handle things with complexity, nuance, and depth, as well as dealing with troubling subject matter or dark themes, without pushing things over the top into "cover little Timmy's eyes" territory. Harry Potter does that exceptionally well, as does the Original Trilogy. I mean, the original film has Owen and Beru's burnt bodies, a dismembered bloody arm, implied torture, and a blown up planet... and it was still very nearly rated G. Fox had to advocate for the PG rating.

 

I watched a second time and enjoyed it more this time. I think the initial shock of the Tusken Raiders fate kind of soured me on the episode a bit. But as others pointed out the Warrior wasn’t among them. So Boba could very well still have the Tusken Raiders as a power base. It’s still been five years so a lot of time for things to change.

 

Flame broiled Owen and Aunt Beru will always haunt my childhood. In the best way.

 

I chalk this up to the awkward inexperience like Boba doesn't entirely know what he's doing. He was definitely threatened and this was foreshadowed. However, just like Boba didn't think someone could just refuse to pay him tribute. He also didn't seem to think someone would just go into the palace and try to attack him. I do think Boba has some sort of long game in mind though. Maybe it'll turn out this is all part of his plan.

 

If he is going to run a damn crime family YES!