The Book of Boba Fett (Disney+) • Page 17

This episode didn’t do a ton for me. Wasn’t bad, but absolutely not the best hour of Star Wars that some seem to be hyping it to be.

 

Should have called this show something else and severely truncated Boba Fett's involvement.

 

Was saying the same thing to a friend earlier. They should've just made it a battle for Tatooine limited series, dedicating a couple episodes to Boba, Fennec, Din, and maybe Krrsantan or Cobb Vanth. Then have it culminate in the battle. Just feels like they spent too much time on Boba at this point.

 

I just don’t like his design.

 

Given that one blaster shot seems to kill fully armoured storm troopers all the time, you'd think a zero armour Cobb would die from one shot. But also plot armour.

 

Crossing my fingers on that plot armor. Cobb is too cool of a character to die from a blaster.

 

My fucking god

 

The fact that I’m seeing this wild shit on a random Wednesday night in January, not in a theater after being hyped up for months, is really messing with me haha.

 

That was dope. I loved everything about that.

 

That was really good, but was so out of place in Book of Boba Fett. The last two weeks should have been cut together and made into a special and not been part of a completely unrelated show. Also it was really jarring seeing Luke & Ahsoka interact so nonchalantly for the first time we’ve seen them together. I trust Filoni to give us that first meeting at some point, but this felt a little muted for the significance.

 

Yea I was really underwhelmed by the Luke and Ahsoka interactions.

 

Talking through it more, this should have been treated like a comic book event. Call it Battle for Tatooine, condense the Boba flashback stuff and have it be more focused on the event and not a single character. Opens it up for other characters to take the main stage at times (Fennec, Krsanten, Bane) and limits expectations that Boba would be an actual character with development and personality.

 

It’s really not good.

 

I really don’t understand Luke in this episode. What’s with all the “attachment” is bad coming from a dude who went way the hell out of his way for his friends in the OT and turned out just fine?

Pretty underwhelming overall honestly - everything felt super cheap and corny in a sorta bad way with the training.

 

Basically

 

This. I was in awe for literally 40 straight minutes. I don't know what year it is anymore. Impeccable job on re-creating young Luke. Bravo!

 

I think the difference is that Luke went out of his way to help his friends because they were in situations in which they could die and they were all on a team to stop the Emporer, where as Mando just misses having Grogu to care for which would get in the way of his training.

 

Yeeeeeah plus him rushing off to his friends put at risk their only hope on defeating the empire. Just because it worked out doesn’t mean it couldn’t have not worked out too, or that there wasn’t a lesson learned in the process.

 

man lost a whole ass hand

 

It looked better but something about the voice really bothered me. Kept taking me out of it.

It kind of hit me during this episode that the show flows very much like a comic book. Just when it starts to pick up, it ends and you gotta wait for the next issue. Not a whole lot going on. Oh and the next issue features random characters and team ups.

 

From watching the making of season 2 finale of The Mandalorian, the voice is 100% a computer. They’re using some weird technology that gets it pretty close but not perfect. Eventually though it may sound perfect.

 

I feel like Cobb survived because they made a point to show him shoot the deputy several times as if to say yep he’s dead for sure. And Cobb got one.

When Fennec was going over the plan with everyone in the room I was like who the hell are these random people. I forgot the spy kids existed.

 

Yeah I was explaining that to my wife. In a sense, it’s sounds too perfect. There’s almost no variance in the tones.

 

That’s it. Too perfect. It’s going to be crazy when they have everyone back for a show or movie, but none of the actors are there. It’s just their likeness which I know Disney owns. I’m pretty sure Adam Drive made it so they don’t own his likeness though. That’s why you don’t see him without his mask on the rides and such.

 

Good ep. Luke's voice sounded pretty stiff though, which was distracting. I haven't seen Clone Wars, but I've seen pictures of Cad Bane. I thought he looked and sounded pretty cool in this.