A/V The Book of Boba Fett

For me:

1. The Book of Boba Fett
2. Kenobi
3. The Mandalorian
4. Andor

 

l love all the shows, I wouldn't even want to rank them. Each of them has their own distinct bit that only works in that show (but Book of Boba Fett still feels just like a Mandalorian side quest arc that became it's own show but even then there's some distinct wacky bits in BoBF that only occur there)

 

I love the taking of the train in the Dune Sea. Those Tuskans were bombad awesome!

 

Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to add:

- Cad Bane tells Cobb Vanth: "I'd be careful where I was sticking my nose if I were you." Funny coming from a member of a species that doesn't have noses.

 

Cad Bane was one of best parta of BOBF.

 

It's great to see BOBF get some love in this thread. It gets bashed among certain elements of the fandom pretty regularly, for reasons that have never quite made sense to me, and that's a bit of a shame. The other shows are great in their own ways, but this one turned the "cool" knob to 11 and then figured out a way to turn it to 12. I'd definitely be on board for a second season, if and when the mood should strike the creators.

 

They needed a Rocker enemy, but I liked the Mods.

 

The Mods were fun. I feel like they were the sort of thing GL would approve of.

 

Not the biggest fan of the show it general. I'd loved parts of it, especially the train heist episode and didn't like others. But I've never understood the hatred of the Mods. I actually thought they were super awsome and never got the complaints they weren't Tatooine enough. I'd definetely be up for seeing more of them.

 

I dunno, I thought their colorful goofy-looking speeder bikes looked really out of place in Star Wars, and especially so on Tatooine.

 

^ I think that was the idea. The kids were trying to look like they didn't belong on Tatooine.

 

The only thing about the Mods that seems jarring is their bikes are exceptionally clean for Tatooine but I guess when they're loitering they polish a lot. But their whole vibe seems like they're trying to bring some Core systems Couruscant tech flashiness to Tatooine to make themselves distinct. Rebels with an aesthetic cause! Also they seem kind of like the kids in hot rod cars from American Graffiti

 

I like the interpretation that Luke knew the answer, knew that Grogu wasn't really in it to win it as a Jedi, and was offering the choice to give him an out and go back to Mando dad.

 

I assumed that was what they where going for but it would have been nice for the shown to acknowledge just how much time and water they spend on keeping those bikes shiny and clean.

The car/bike chase scene however felt really awkward. It felt like they were moving at a brisk walking pace.

 

Yah but I always felt that scene was intentionally dopey ala 70s Dukes of Hazzad or Blues Brothers

 

Oh there are plenty of reasons that make a lot of sense for why people bashed it. You can accept that and still enjoy it thoroughly.

Personally I don't have an issue with most of them. The Mando episodes 6 and 7 were great, characters were great and I love Tatooine. The Mods were kind of dumb and I can't say I didn't cringe but they still more or less fit the world of Star Wars.

The one thing that really annoyed me and took me out of the show though was Boba Fett's characterisation. He was portrayed as an utter moron. He's supposed to be super-competent but it was like he had the understanding of the world that a small child would have.

 

I said this somewhere before, but there's a core of a good idea with this series that they totally missed by setting up Bane as Fett's foil at the very beginning. The whole series is Fett going through a mid-life crisis, questioning what his purpose is in the greater scheme of things. Bane is what he could have been if he kept going the route of a lackey bounter hunter. But by introducing Bane late in the game, it makes Fett appear like a floundering fool through part of the first half of the series. It would have been better to see that internal identity struggle come out a lot more. The Tusken episodes didn't bring that part of the story out nearly as well as Bane-as-nemesis did.

 

I have no difficulty accepting that some fans find reasons that make sense to them to bash the show. Those reasons mostly don't make sense to me, which is something I also accept. (Why fans see the need to bash anything about Star Wars is something that escapes me, but anyway.)

As far as Fett's characterization goes, I'll just say I didn't have nearly as much of a problem with it. The entire point is that he's placed himself into a situation where he's not super-competent; his experiences with the Tuskens, his grief at losing them, and his gradual evolution into someone who cares about something more than his next payday has left him off-balance and uncertain. For the most part he's not particularly good at being a crime lord, but ends up a pretty good daimyo.

 

A lot of the flaws of the series I could overlook, but the lack of main antagonist until the final two episodes is a strange habit that Jon Favreau has picked up between this show and Mando season 3.

 

Sinre Edit: Direct Attack. No.

 

Sinre Edit: No. You both know better.

 

IMO, Bane somewhat lost his edge in TCW Season 4 and in TBB, becoming more tired and less charismatic, but in TBoBF he regained it (along with his original trenchcoat).

 

The flashing light was Bane's come pick me up and drop me off in Bacta signal, right?

 

Not gonna lie, I want a live action mini series of Cad Bane like he is in BOBF.