TV Discussion The Future of Star Wars on TV

Temuera said at his panel that he’s on the shelf for now but hoping to get a call one day.

 

I hope Tem gets back after The Mandalorian and Grogu movie in other Mandalorian movie or future seasons and shows.

 

Loved his turn at celebrations with baby boba ...Great guy

 

Met him at one of the celebrations years ago it was at my hotel. He happened to stay at the same one. Nice chill dude later that day I got him to sign a poster for me

 

That's incredibly frustrating. The man wants to work but they're not using him. I seem to remember a while back Tem saying he had been waiting for a call for Mando S3 that never came. I know he had brief cameos in "Kenobi" and "Ahsoka" but if I were in charge at DLF I'd be using Tem left, right and center. The man is Boba Fett for Pete's sake, one of the most iconic characters in the GFFA, as well as the live action Clones and he's not getting any younger. I was certainly no fan of TBoBF but I'd love for them to do a season 2 to correct course and give us a bad-ass Boba Fett story that's more accurate to the character. I was hoping he would feature in TM&G although I heard he's not because of the poor reception of TBoBF, which unfortunately makes me doubt we will ever get an S2 for TBoBF. Hopefully he will get to be in Filoni's film, and perhaps some more clone trooper parts in Ahsoka S2 if they do more flashbacks.

 

Reading the glowing reviews for Andor season 2 makes me feel sad it's not hot a cinematic release or a freely accessible TV broadcast
So many people will not watch it cos of having to pay for a streaming service. The revolution is televised but not how it would have been years ago

 

I won't be surprised when all the hype dies down that Andor season 2 won't be as good as Andor season 1. Bookmark my post...

 

In a nutshell that is why Tem isn't being called back. I love the Book of Boba Fett I've watch it several times, but that is the simple facts. I knew when Robert Rodriguez was in charge that it would be a hit or miss and I was right. Rodriguez had help with the Mando episode where Boba Fett goes nuts on the stormies, but he was in total control with the book of boba fett. Filoni and Fav where occupied with other SW projects. James Cameron helped Rodriguez a whole lot with Alita: Battle Angel. but Sin City: Dame to Kill for was an awful mess ala Robert Rodriguez. Frank Miller's iconic Sin City graphic novel ruined by Robert Rodriguez... to be fair the first Sin City was really good... hit and miss director.

 

This is interesting related fact. On Easter Saturday a doctor who episode called Lux was released..it's come out that it had the lowest audience figures of any doctor who episode ever... despite a lot of their YouTubers and myself reviewing it as one of the best ever . This is relatable as another long running sci fi saga that has had massive woke fan battle culture wars issues
Audience figures are no indicator of quality. Never has been

 

Which is ridiculous because it's not the fault of the character but the people who handled him. The character of Boba Fett has a strong appeal among fans so it's incredibly stupid on DLF's part to sideline him because he had one bad outing.

 

He would be in Mandalorian season 4 that can happen after the movie. I think Boba Fett will come back again.

 

That last bit is very much true, though I think comparison of audience numbers to the past has become rather tricky, as viewing-behaviour has shifted in times of streaming. The old means of counting viewership worked fine when there was nothing but tv around and you more or less had to watch an episode when it happened. Nowadays you are not bound to catching it when it comes out, and streaming adds a whole other dimension on top of it.

If you look at the ratings of the big US-networks, their biggest shows are basically half to 1/3 of the size they used to be even 15 years ago, yet I doubt that there are actually less people watching tv-shows. They just watch them in different ways, or watch on different platforms.

 

Well temuera said Boba was meant to be in series 4 of The Mandalorian. But then series 4 become the new movie instead. Presumably losing several episodic concepts in doing so.

I suspect Rodriguez didn’t have as much control as you may think. jon favreau co-wrote every episode and Rodriguez still had to run everything past Favreau. Meaning that what we got was likely more Favreau. This idea that Rodriguez could alter the show in such a way to replace Favreau just doesn’t make sense. Favreau was also shown on set fairly often to the point there really is no way to tell when he wasn’t around.

in terms of whether we ain’t getting more because of the reception. I dont believe that for one moment. My belief is that The Book of Boba became a replacement show when they couldn’t make The Mandalorian series 3 when they wanted too. Which is why Favreau wrote the episodes of TBOB. Even though he mostly sticks to writing The Mandalorian. Which is also why no TBOB Series 2. Because Favreau is not interested in doing a series 2. Which I put down to his own favouritism for The Mandalorian.

 

I agree with most of what you mentioned, but my take is that Fav originally wanted a Boba Fett series but could not at the time because a BF film was in the works, so Fav created another Mandalorian of his own. With the continued success of Mando, Fav has left BF behind since it didn't hit well with the fans. Mando season 3 didn't do well with the fans as well ( I've watched season 3 several times so I have no issues with Mando season 3), for that reason we're getting a Mando film. I remember when casual fans were so into Mando, now they don't watch it at all, hopefully M&G film will revitalize the general audience's love for Mando and Grogu. We are hardcore fans that love this stuff some casuals don't even know there is a M&G film in the works.
Anywho, I've been visiting this site since the 90s, (Does anyone know when TheForce.net was established? I remember when the internet super highway was conceived, this website had a Hoth theme with Tauntauns and Wampas on the main page...) I was on this forum for all the TPM spoilers, but I lost my account and signed up again for TFA spoilers so I consider myself a life long fan.

 

but Disney definitely cares about audience viewership don't they? If the numbers are low they would be hesitant to do that type of show again.

 

Well if not doing well with fans was an issue The Mandalorian would have stopped after series 3. Instead we got a film which is obviously bigger and has a higher expectation behind it.

They could very easy do the same with Boba Fett, but that requires them to put the work in. And since Favreau took double duty writing TBOB and The Mandalorian. Which TBOB was described as a kinda The Mandalorian spin off anyway and not its own thing. It’s not likely that Favreau would carry on putting that much effort into 2 shows when he can just stick to one project.

Unlike Skeleton Crew or Ahsoka, TBOB is very much a Favreau project. I think it was a very rushed production to meet a deadline but it was still his project,

 

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I'm inclined to say that S4 will happen eventually. Jon mentioned at Celebration Anaheim that Ahsoka informed his writing for the season. Even after the film was announced, Deadline reported that S4 was still in development.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The_Mandalorian_Season_Four

I think his hiatus is tem-porary.

 

Thank you so much!

 

Ahsoka season 2 appears will be the most important show that tells the big picture like the movies and will go from the show to movie

 

I don't know how likely that is. If the film does well, why would they then go back to TV? They would just make another movie right?. And if it doesn't do well, would they then go back to TV anyway? The Mandalorian Series 3 didn't do all that well in itself.

I could believe Favreau would be up for either a series 4 or another movie, and might be where he is very open to shifting to one or the other. But a lot of factors would have to come into play at this point to go back to TV.

 

I hate to say it, but Morrison’s acting just didn’t cut it for me in BoBF. Too one note and without depth. Though I don’t blame him, as Rodriguez is just a godawful director. A massive mistake to give him a show.

 

I agree. Morrison's acting was pretty weak in the show, but I don't think the writing or direction helped him at all.

 

Yeah, I thought if they had to have 1 guy to represent all clones ever, they should have found someone with more compelling presence. He just didn't do anything for me. And he was worse when there were a dozen of him on screen all at once.

 

Lost co-creator Carlton Cuse is developing a new live action SW show according to Jeff Sneider.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/star-wars-series-lost-carlton-cuse-1236374079/