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1:20 Mother Teresa was an evil woman. She deliberately made people sick with unhygienic needles and said “there is something wonderful about the poor suffering and accepting their lot in life”. She did this while making vast amounts of money and getting positive press. Please do some research and stop glorifying this disgusting, cruel woman.
Boba's change of heart never made that much sense. Sure, they showed him with the Tuskens and learning to become part of their tribe but just because he learned to care for some people doesn't mean he's suddenly nice. The Tuskens aren't nice, they kill and enslave intruders to their land. They could have made Boba a better person who cares for his people but was still ruthless towards his enemies. If you've ever played Fallout: New Vegas, they should have made Boba like Joshua Graham, they even have similar backstories.
I don't think he's nice. He just realized that people work better in a tribe. I also think people were expecting him to be vicious & they were disappointed that he was a little passive
that did happen. He tried to be peaceful in resolving conflict in the middle of the season, but after seeing that didn’t work, he fought the pikes. His character is still developing throughout the show, instead of finishing his development after the murder of the Tuskan tribe
Even funnier, they enslaved Boba, used him for slave labour and let the children beat him for fun. They were horrible and then it made him nice??? Wot???
I love Ahsoka calling Boba's bluff in your version of the series. It just fits her character so well. In a pinch she took risks and gambles, and was reckless. Just like her master, Anakin. And in her character arc she learned to rely on those reckless impulsive gambles less, but that's still an ability she has when things are going bad.
I dislike it because Boba isn't the kind of character to make an idle threat. He'll use nearly every trick in the book but if he says "I will cut your head off if you do this" he will. He would absolutely kill the Jedi if he made that threat. Similarly he doesn't break contract though unless it's broken on him so he'd likely not make the threat in the first place, instead he'd be more interested in disabling her, ruining limbs, assuming the Force-suppression containments of the EU don't exist in DisCan. It just doesn't work from a character aspect when talking about Boba.
@@davidace7514 Again, if he was told not to in the contract he wouldn't make the threat in the first place. He instead would just take an arm off. If he was aware of Ahsoka's history, which wouldn't be that surprising as he takes researching his targets very, very seriously and Ahsoka's relationship with Anakin wouldn't be secret nor would Vader's relationship to Luke at this point, he can use that to his advantage which may create a more interesting interaction.
@Royeaux I still say they could have done anything they wanted with that movie, make her the king's scorned lover, make him rip off her innocence by tearing off her wings, make her a wood spirit guardian. Keep it all in. Just have the movie end at her entrance to the hall when the fairies are doling out their gifts.
In fairness I don't think Boba is that kind of character. In my experience he's always been more morally grey, and has been an anti-hero before, and I've never met anyone who actually hates him. I don't like the execution of his journey in The Book of Boba Fett, but I think Jon Favreau had some great initial ideas.
When we consider The Clone Wars, where he was shown as a child, we could also feel sorry what has become of him since the death of his father. Kind of like Jack Marston in Red Dead Redemption.
Same here, those that just swallow this either don't really care about movies or are such dumb consumers, and they are gladly in the minority. What needs to happen is people need to stop giving them their money, and bankrupt shitewood.
I don't really see it honestly. Boba isn't the kind to let a quarry go, ever, and he doesn't like being compared to the clones in any of the material, nor does he go back on his word or make idle threats. Almost all his interactions with Ahsoka feel pretty out of character. It's closer than Disney, but it doesn't fit. There's too many elements that run counter to Boba's core character. Boba is based on The Man with No Name from the Dollars Trilogy. He's an utter professional, entirely ruthless, and very cold and distant at all times. You can forge a friendship with him, but I just don't think it puts in enough effort over a long enough time, nor does it really keep to the character faithfully. It's a great shot for someone who clearly hasn't looked beyond the films in order to understand the character but it doesn't fit when you go a bit deeper than that.
@@pubcleI agree but it reads like a draft of a final essay, certain development would have to pass for that scenario to play out the wait it did with better dialogue. Either way, it’s still leagues above what Disney gave us
Boba would be a great supporting character, one that clashes with the heroes. Perhaps he treads the fine line between hero and villain, maybe posing as a threat to both protagonist and antagonist. That would be way more in character than what we got in this show. also I’m of the opinion that boba fett really isn’t a character to make a stand alone show about. Maybe a movie or something, but not an entire show that’s supposed to last multiple seasons. He’s simply way too ruthless and violent to make him a protagonist, not to mention he has barely any screen time in the original movies and was KILLED OFF. Yeah we all kind conveniently forgot about that little fact. So unless it was a case of “bad guy vs even badder guy”, then boba hardly works as a main character. Other than that I don’t see how his limited character traits could fuel a whole show that’s relatively dialogue heavy, at least at certain times. The dialogue is trash but the characters always seem to have something to say. He really should just stay as the “mysterious bad guy that’s ruthless” rather than whatever the hell Disney gave us. The Loki comparison couldn’t be more accurate.
This man really just wrote a better season than disney could ever give us. Just one thing bugs me: wouldn't Boba have a negative reaction to seeing Luke at the end? Because y'know, it's not like Luke and Co are the ones responsible for knocking Boba into the Sarlacc pit in the first place
@@Verenzio99 the same people who raid and enslaved people and the same people who try to enslave him yeah character development do I have to remind you he tried to escape before he saved the kid and after he saved the kid he was a free man and for some reason he didn't left and why didn't he try to leave after he saved the kid instead of going back to the Tuskan village?
One thing that I haven’t seen talked about is the fact that in the OG Boba Fett books (written for kids - which talks about Bobas earliest years without his dad) use a Black Book which has holographic lessons from his Dad which was basically a fail safe for if Jango died, and was meant to be his last lessons for growing up etc. I genuinely thought they were referencing this black book in the title of the show, I thought Boba was going to travel the galaxy finally getting revenge on people that Jango had listed in his Black Book and we could’ve seen a huge amount of the galaxy.
And best of that scenario no more effing Tatooine, but whole galaxy full of interesting locations. I swear if I see Tatooine after Kenobi, I'm done. I hate sand planets, they are course, rough, IRRITATING and they GETS everywhere
God I remember those books. I still have the collection boxed up with some other old books in my attic. That would have been a great reference. Imagine if they animated those books? It would be epic.
As good as those might have been, I'm old enough to where those aren't the OG books to me; the OG Boba Fett books for me were the Dark Horse Comics, Which...were really freaking dark. A lot of the crew that worked on those were the same people who had done the art and writing for Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, and Strontium Dog. They portayed a side of Star Wars that was grimy, greasy, toxic, and felt like something worse than the underbelly of the galaxy. It was also the perfect playground for somebody like Boba Fett to exist in, where he was still such a brutal character, but looked genuinely heroic in comparison to everyone around him.
The way they portrayed Boba Fett in that whole show felt to me like a novice D&D player who wants to play as a bad guy so they create this whole dark and edgy character but when they start playing they completly fail to commit to the role and they just do everything as a stereotypical good guy
You mean like how Boba fans for years have been pretending his is this total badass and writing their own non canon fan fiction lore as cope because they literally mentally cannot handle the stuff given to them by Lucas in the OT?
@@trollking6315 Boba Fett wasn't really much of a character at all in the OT. He was a blank slate for the most part, but he was shown to be ruthless and uncaring to anyone but himself, which is where the show totally messes up because Boba Fett was never a good guy. Not saying you can't develop him into a good guy, but he has to be in character to start off with, which he wasn't in his own show.
@@benwinchester8819 Does it matter much if it makes for an inconsistent and boring character? Sounds quite redundant for fiction to be overly realistic.
One thing I noticed about this show: Cad Bane says that Boba Fett has gone soft, yet the show never really justifies this change in character, apart from him living with Tusken Raiders, and even then, that seems like a weak reason.
That’s what I was thinking. He would at least be upset that Bossk is dead, he may even take the time to bury him as a sign of respect for being a mentor after his father was killed and/or out of respect for Bossk as a bounty Hunter as they were competing for the “top” position as most lethal/ruthless bounty hunters in the galaxy, iirc
@@Jake_Sherrell Yeah, even force users would’ve feared Bossk (not that he was a BH in the Jedi’s prime), but Trandoshians have proven they can outwit Jedi Padawans at least, and Bossk being one of the smartest/mosy cunning/skilled Trandoshian would show that whatever killed him was on par with at least a competent force user, at the very least.
@@Jake_Sherrell out of the like “top 5” it’d have to be Bossk. I’m pretty basic in the sense that I just like the fact that “strong lizard do the hunting” appeals to the primal brain just right for me😂
Your version of the Boba Fett show had me on the edge of my seat! Could add a bit more conflict between them if Boba remembers that Ahsoka was involved in him ending up in prison as a kid
The fact that the child-Boba from the Clone Wars is significantly more evil than Boba from the Book of Boba tells you everything you need to know about this series
That Boba wasn't evil tho? Just fueled with a desire for revenge and unsure of his place. And a Boba who redeems himself is not a bad idea. The Tusken idea was interesting. But as for the execution and the lead up to this redemption. Meh...
@@pharaohbubbles1547 "evil" by the standards of fiction, a bad guy, a villain. The opposite of a hero. Someone who is willing to murder and hurt others for their own gain.
You should look at what disney did to "Artimus Fowl" the story where the main charater is THE villian, but slowly over the course of several books starts to change his ways. And then disney made him a perfect gentlemen
I like how a random person on the internet can make a substantially better story than a multi-million-dollar company ever could, and actually understands the franchise more than the people who own it.
its because people like him actually care if thats a good story or not. Those multi-million-dollar companies only care about money and their family friendly image
Actually, in the jaded 70s and into the 80s (at least for those of us who didn't buy into Reagan+Wall Street's optimistic jingoism) the wisdom was that it was IMPOSSIBLE for a large company to do a good story. There's been some doubt since people like George Lucas went from scrappy low-budget filmmaker into multimedia empire builder, and some talented social media figures (musicians, actors and creators) have broken through and shot into stardom, giving us hope. But many of us old timers knew when Disney (a multi-billion dollar company), bought the Star Wars franchise, that quality would sharply decline.
You like that? You like that the people who are powerless to actually make a star wars film are the ones who understand lore and storytelling? Why? Because you dont think.
I would argue that Boba Fett does have a flaw: He’s too damn nice. If your going to be the boss of an underworld, you need to be both feared and respected. Boba had neither of those going in for him. No crime boss either feared him or respected him. It also doesn’t help that the tone of this show was all over the place. It tried to be Dances with the Wolves, The Godfather, and The Mandalorian Season 3 all at the same time.
When I think of Boba Fett, before this show, nice is the last trait I'd associate with him. It's insane how they thought this was a good direction for him.
Only 2 issues with your recreation of Boba's story: 1) Bossk is possibly a poor choice of character to use in showing Boba's lack of attachment as he was one of the only people who nurtured him after Jango's death. If it must be him, their should be context into why he no longer cares or is surprised. Either he detached himself sooner between Empire Strikes Back and now, or it can add to the message of those he cares about dying, idk. 2) I would mindlessly start shipping Ahsoka and Boba way too hard if it were depicted like this and it will bring me nothing but shame.
@@BovineIntervention You two getting mad over this shipping is hilarious who cares it’s Star Wars we’re all nerds here and as a mega nerd RUclipsr w 20k subs who ain’t ever been laughed at. Your insecurities show hella and it’s funny thanks for the laugh on stream
@@illansuu9572 I still don't recognize the prequels. GL fucked up everything interesting about the character by making him a clone of some other better bounty hunter. The OT and part of the comics and novels pre-prequel are all that counts in for me.
Honestly, Boba's character carries his story. The writers could have just done the laziest fan service, showing off episodes of him going on meaningless missions and it would've been better than what they gave us.
I think the thing that made me mad the most was that Boba Fett is one of the most ruthless and cold bounty hunters in the galaxy, infamous for backstabbing and serving the highest bidder yet they still tried to make him a good guy. He was literally raised to be a killer by his father but after spending a few months around the sand people he's a changed man. Instead of trying to replicate the formula of the Mandalorian from the later episodes which was just helping random people they could have gone for the first episode where we see him as a cold but not cruel killer. They could have even explored the darker parts of the criminal underworld but no, the main character needs to be kind and altruistic because that's the Disney way.
I appreciate how Disney wants to maintain that brand, but when it reaches the point where you're corrupting beloved characters in order to maintain it, surely altering the brand image is a far lesser evil than disrespecting the IP's legacy.
@@TheCloserLook The end fight of the season made that quite clear. If you know disney you almost knew who would win and how. As sad as it sounds we are probably out of disneys target (revenue) group by this point since a long time and thats the hardest thing to swallow for a life long Star Wars fan... So its once again: "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
@YourFriendlyNeighborhoodItalian Maybe he isn't known for backstabbing but he definitely has betrayed people. I copied this from the wiki: "However, Valance was then betrayed by Fett, who threw a thermal detonator at him and caused his body to explode. Fett then left Valance to die as he went to retrieve Solo once and for all." His code of honor doesn't have much to do with this either since he isn't backstabbing his employer.
@YourFriendlyNeighborhoodItalian Also it fundamentally doesn't make sense that staying with the Tuskens softened Boba since they're an extremely brutal and ruthless culture.
The badass anti-hero they were looking for was right there, as detailed in the character analysis, and he was already one the most popular characters of the entire franchise. Yet the writers just tossed him aside and wrote an entirely different, goody-two-shoes of a character who just also happened to be named "Boba Fett."
Conceptually I like her as a parallel to Jango's relationship with Zam, they just didn't actually do anything with it. Jango and Zam were actually close, saving each other from certain death multiple times, and Jango ends up killing her to protect himself. That's pretty compelling, way more than anything the show gives us.
Boba's persona in The Mandalorian S2 just didn't add up to how they portrayed him in TBOBF. He went from ruthlessly smashing Stormtroopers (that he didn't specifically have anything against) he went from that, to letting a bounty hunter Wookiee go, that tried to kill him mind you, and letting spoiled kids with power ranger speeders insult him, yet he picked a fight with the other Mandalorian girl basically because she insulted him (Cosca Reeves, I think) It just made no sense; sure, he seemed to have a bit more honor or shall we say decency, in his dealings with Mando and showing some kind of care for Grogu... but he didn't seem to have gone completely soft, as he was portrayed in TBOBF.
@@seriousnesstv7902 "This ain't Boba! It's a clone! The real Boba has been kidnapped!" *Basically this is what fans are still hoping the explanation is for how Luke is in the sequels lol
@@seriousnesstv7902 True. Finding the *real* Luke Skywalker could be the premise for episodes 10, 11, and 12 lol. Luke also had a clone in legends material, his name was "Luuke" (just to distinguish between the two of them lol) he was created by some other clone Jedi that went mad, (who was also employed by Thrawn, since Thrawn was the one that had that specific Jedi cloned)
22:37 I think it'd be cool instead the line "as you wish" he could instead say something like "make it 30 million." It'd show of his bounty hunter roots and give him a more intimidating presence in that moment instead of choosing to back down, he'd still be bitter he can't kill the jedi but he'll make the Hutts pay for it
There was an AMAZING book series I adored as a child that was a Boba Fett series starting shortly before Jango dies, and ends a few years down the line from that. It showed Bobas naivety turning into cold hard distrust. I really liked that series, and I wish that this show had pulled more from it.
i find it interesting that people always say that characters like boba aren't interesting enough for a story but forget that the expanded universe is a thing. Yes it has its flaws but it still feels like it has more complexity and characters in the moral grey than disney.
I'm by no means a 'good' writer... but I say the only reason one would think character isn't interesting enough for a story is simply because they don't want to do the hard work of actually delving into said character.
Boba was ruined back in 2002. If he weren’t a stupid kid that was a clone, they could have done so much more. And they wouldn’t have had to hire old ass Temuera Morrison.
I liked it. So much better than the last 3 movies that came out. Iam a star wars fan. I love it. So my opinion yea some flaws but the show was still good.
_“Millions die across the Galaxy every day. If the Force brought you here because these people were dying, what makes_ them _special?”_ _“…”_ _“The Force didn’t just call me here to aid these people…there’s something ancient hidden on this planet. Something…terrible.”_ What a fantastic concept you’ve shared. I was able to perfectly visualize all the details you described. Oh, what could have been…
I remember up until 18 years ago my vision of Fett was like that of the man with no name character usually portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the Sergio Leone movies. I almost cried when I found out that they changed his voice in The Empire Strikes Back.
Ok, even just the beginnings of your character analysis of Boba Fett, detailing the long-term emotional effects of him only loving one person as a child, and that one person being killed, are just blowing me away. Amazing stuff. Sucks even more now that Book of Boba Fett was nothing like that.
What I like about your pitch is that it takes the center of Boba’s darkness and sends him through an emotional journey that turns it on its head. I feel like Disney is terrified for any of its lead characters to have any kind of darkness.
Disney don't understand why we love Boba. He was dark, distant, cold. We never saw him without his helmet, never could tell what he was doing or what he was going to do. He was gloomy. Not a villain, but not a hero either. They've turned him into your standard hero, as all Disney characters are. Always making the right decisions, and fighting for the good side. The main reason I'm excited for the Andor series, is becuase I want to explore the darker, less friendly side of the Rebels, that Cassian mentions in Rogue One. After the BOBF, I'm starting to get concerned whether we'll even see that, or if Cassian will turn into some crazy good hero.
@@ThatSnake4720 As TCL stated, there are so much subtle things about him that made him interisting and material to write astory. Wookie Scalps, the way he moved (calm and toughtful but always combat ready), and the battle worn amour as you mentioned... Its so sad and frustrating these days to be a fan of a franchise.
Somebody get him a job at Disney writing star wars scripts. These are the stories we need, arcs, things to hook you in, twists, & stuff to work off of for future projects. Great stuff
@@fbafoundationalbuck-broken6011 Good Writing is writing that works. And when does writing work? When people enjoy the writing. I feel like its a very reductionist view to say that the commenter is certainly wrong about the quality of the presented writing. Writing is of course subjective and you may feel like this writing is "crap", but there will be people who like the version of the writing presented in the video. As well as there will be people who will enjoy the original writing.
I've been working on an outline for my own rewrite of this show, trying to build off the character that was set up in the Clone Wars show when Boba was a teenager, failed to take vengeance against Mace Windu, and then was basically raised by a series of other bounty hunters such as Bosk and Cad Bane, only to find himself alone and then fed to the Sarlacc. In my mind, he would be bitterly angry when he came out of that, but at himself more than anything. I don't think he would blame Han Solo, which has been depicted a few times in legends, nor do I think would he blame Luke, as they had very little to do with one another despite Boba being instrumental in setting up Vader's trap for Luke. So when he finds himself a slave to the Sand People, who are a tribe of isolated warriors who can be every bit as brutal and unfeeling as he is, it could set off some real soul searching for him, sure. But the way they went about it was all wrong. Firstly, I think he should have killed the other slave who tried to raise the alarm when he tried to escape. Spare the kid in a moment of rare hesitation and honor, but then have him show off his skills as a bounty hunter by taking on every tusken who comes at him, despite his poor health, until finally the best of their warriors engages, and still only barely beats him. They would then see in him a kindred spirit. They wouldn't need the whole scene of sending him off stupidly with only the kid to guard him. Also, have him never say a word to the tuskens. He's always been a man of few words, so he wouldn't waste them if he didn't have any evidence that they spoke basic. From there, have him help the tuskens take on the pikes similarly to how he did in the show, but instead of them randomly getting wiped out, have Cad Bane show up, and say that he was hired by the Pikes to get rid of Boba and his "little tribe" but out of deference to their history together, would give Boba one chance to get the tuskens to back off himself or he'd return and slaughter them all. Boba knows he has no choice. He's not a match for Bane without his armor and gear, so he gets the tuskens to back down, and departs to go recover his things. That's when he runs into Fennec Shand, who he pressures into helping him. Then on the way to recovering the Slave 1, they run into Dengar and team up with him as well. The ship was locked down and neglected, so they need to have it repaired, which will take some time (Dengar knows a good mechanic who will be discreet), so they start looking for Boba's armor in the meantime, and they do it by using their black market connections not flying to the sarlacc pit. Eventually, they track down the Jawas who sold the armor to Cobb Vanth, and after killing some of them and threatening the rest to get the armor's whereabouts, Boba heads out to Mos Pelga to retrieve it, but the Mandalorian got to it first. Fennec advises Boba on who the Mandalorian is, and what he's capable of, and they devise a plan to ambush him and get the armor back. Dengar doesn't want to entangle with the guild, so he sits that one out, but offers to hang out in Mos Espa and see what he can find out about the Pikes' operations in the meantime. From there, we skip ahead to after the end of the Mandalorian season 2, where Fennec fills in Boba on what happened with Luke. He strongly considers going after him, we even get to see a bit of his rage and hatred for the Jedi, but decides he can't betray his word to the Mando, or abandon the tuskens. Fennec asks why he cares about the tuskens, and he can't explain. He's used to being alone, even prefers it that way, but for some reason, they remind him of himself when he was younger, before he grew completely jaded. And though it's not much of an explanation, Fennec declares that if he cares about them as much as he seems to, then that is good enough for her. She'll stand by his side, even once her life debt is repaid. So from that point onward they determine that their mission is to force the Pikes off of Tattooine, and for that, they'll need not just some muscle, but an army. When they return to Tattooine, Dengar tells them about the situation, that the local crime boss, Bib Fortuna is weak, and hasn't pushed back against the Pikes at all, and that the Hutts are upset about this, particularly Jaba's cousins, the twins. So Boba goes to Nal Hutta to speak with them, offering to overthrow Bib Fortuna, in exchange for the military might to go against the Pikes. They make a counter offer, they will allow him to take control of Jaba's forces on Tattooine for his war, but he must ensure that all of Jaba's offworld assets are turned over to them. Afterwards, he can do what he likes with Jaba's Tattooine forces, but if he decides to keep them, he must pay a tribute (something small, like 2% of all profits) to them. This deal gives both sides what they want, and also it gives the Hutts deniability with the Pikes should Boba fail. But they add one more requirement that Boba take one of their own bounty hunters with him, Black Krrsantan, as well as an accounting droid to keep track of their assets and other interests. At first, Boba declines, since he and Krrsantan have bad history, but the Twins insist, and again Boba has no choice. Before they leave, Boba and Fennec decide that if the wookie gladiator is going to be on their team, they might need someone to keep an eye on him and watch their backs, so they agree privately to go recruit Bosk before returning to Tattione. Obviously, this plan doesn't sit well with Krrsantan, or with Bosk at first, but both are persuaded reluctantly. They can spend another episode or two recruiting more bounty hunters, one of the largest such teams ever formed, most of them aren't used to working with so many others, and Boba isn't the best leader, but he has conviction and purpose that he never had before, and he not only learns to make it work, but gradually finds that the responsibilities of leadership suit him. With the team assembled, they are finally ready to storm Jaba's palace, leading to the death of Bib Fortuna and Boba claiming the throne, just as we saw in the Mandalorian season 2 end credits teaser. There's a brief celebration, only for Boba to call for silence, stating that the day may be won, but the war is only just beginning. Their next target will be much harder to bring down. Cut to Cad Bane observing Boba's men from a great distance through binoculars. They are moving about Jaba's palace, making it their own, and Bane growls out some ominous comment about how Boba is way in over his head if he thinks he can play warlord. And that's season 1 of the Book of Boba Fett. The tuskens are still alive, but Bane knows Boba is up to something and the Pikes still need to be dealt with, plus the Hutts have leverage over Boba and are not known to be charitable or compassionate masters. There's still the possibility of a confrontation between Boba and Luke at some point, and it's not totally clear what kind of leader Boba will be. We've seen him act honorably toward the tuskens and other bounty hunters, but also he's been ruthless and cold blooded toward people who get in his way, or who don't matter to his schemes. This would allow the entire crime war between the Fett Enclave and the Pike Syndicate to be its own season. Hope some people find this interesting.
I mean, even Luke started off as a whiny child, who cried about everything, treated strangers disrespectfully, and whose impatience often led to people getting hurt. He grew into a respectful, thoughtful, and patient Master Jedi who used those qualities that he *learned* to save countless lives.
I’m more emotionally invested in your version of the book of boba fett than the actual show 😂 in all seriousness, your ideas and character arcs are so brilliant and carefully thought out. I even teared up at the parts w ahsoka as an avid clone wars fan.
This "flawless" character trend is honestly driving me up the wall. The thing that entices viewers/readers to engage in a character's story is their flaws mixed with a clear aim and misbelief (Abbie Emmons has a great video on what a misbelief is). A character without flaws is not going to have to struggle to chase their goals and has nothing to personally overcome and therefore is not interesting or relatable. *Edit* My interest in Star Wars has waned dramatically over the past few years. I didn't watch the Boba show, but your version sounds much more like the SW I liked as a kid and I would 100% tune in.
yeah, I've seen some of her videos. She's made some interesting stuff. But yeah, if you want to have a character arc, you want to err on them having some stupid opinion, a lie they believe, so at some point they can stop believing it and we can get some development
@@rowan_like_the_tree Yeah pretty much that he's young and naive, wants to play the part of the generic perfect hero and whines when he isn’t able to. It isn't until the climax of ESB that he realizes that his past (and future!) are a lot darker and more complicated than just him being a "knight in shining armor." Just as an aside, though, the issue with Boba isn't that he isn't complex enough. Complexity is not what determines a character's quality. The issue is that he's portrayed as a pushover who's perfectly selfless and kind and yet doesn't have enough of an arc to transition from his ruthless old self to his heroic current self.
@@rowan_like_the_tree In A New Hope, when we first meet Luke, he frequently complains about his circumstances in life. He comes off as ungrateful for the things that he has. This includes his home, his guardians, etc. After meeting with Obi-Wan, he repeatedly refuses his call to action. The rest of the film depicts Luke has a hero because it follows the standard hero's journey, but this is just the start of his character arc. In Empire, Luke is depicted as someone who is overconfident and easily gives in to their emotions. When in the cave with the Wampa, he cuts off the Wampa's arm, hinting to the audience that he has the potential to turn to the dark side. When he meets with Yoda, he comes across as being incredibly impatient. Regardless of his overconfidence, he does not believe in his abilities, and he states that pulling his X-Wing out of the swamp is "impossible." After finding out that his friends may be in danger, he absolutely refuses to listen to Yoda's advice, and is disrespectful toward his mentor. He clearly does not understand the value of the training given to him at this time. Because of this, he completely puts a halt to his training because he believes he can save his friends no matter what. His overconfidence is one of his biggest flaws, as it makes him believe he can fight Vader alone without anyone's help. The Empire is also able to succeed in setting a trap for Luke because they knew that his emotional attachments to his friends would cause him to come out of hiding. In RotJ, Luke has had time to reflect on his flaws. However, when he goes to confront the Emperor, he begins to give in to the temptation of the dark side, and is almost talked into killing his father. This shows that regardless of his recent training, Luke still lacks discipline, and the training he received was not enough. At this point in time, Luke is not strong enough to take on the Emperor by himself. Luke can only defeat the Emperor with the help of his father. So, in short, Luke is overconfident, lacks strength, and is prone to giving in to his emotions. Regardless of these flaws, however, he is still able to succeed, which is what makes him such a compelling character.
I wish you could write Disney's stories. Your version of the story felt so much more creative, and even got me emotional towards the end. Well done, Henry!
I actually didn't like the rewrite all that much. It skips a lot of nuances in Boba's character despite it being what he wanted to fix. Bossk took Boba in and helped him try for revenge against Mace Windu in the Clone Wars. Boba also served as a clone cadet training for the fight against the droid army. He should hate droids as much as Mando does, because the head honcho of the droid army got his dad killed under stupid orders. These battledroids killed hundreds of thousands of his father's clones, ones that looked just like him, trained with him, and were basically his brothers even if he never fought alongside them. What the tuskens should have taught him is to fight without technology. Boba grew from technology, a perfect clone in a technological marvel of a city with the most advanced training programs and the best treatment money could buy Jango. He has always fought with advanced weapons; tracking rockets, jetpacks, blasters, bombs, disintegrator rifles, carbonite, starships etc etc. Tuskens with nothing but Banthas and cycler slug rifles defied Jabba's control despite his criminal/mercenary might, and Boba learns how a war can be fought without technology from the other side of a conflict he once fought. He works to create a new crime Empire built with both an understanding and negotiation of the Tusken tribes and the remains of Jabba's criminal empire. He takes what people are found loyal and disposes of the rest that grew up in the power vacuum Jabba's death left. The Pikes and their shiny new battledroids bring out the worst in him and he makes an example out of them in a brutal campaign across the cities. A now united Tatooine under a new crime lord is not something the new republic patrols in the area are happy with, but Boba negotiates a truce with the new republic using what he saw in the Mandolorian and what he heard from Mando as proof that the Empire isn't defeated. Luke the only one capable of defeating the secret weapons of the Imperial remnants is off training a new jedi, and won't be around to save the NR from the new flying dark troopers immune to blaster fire and funded by imperials rich enough to pay in crates of pure beskar. He tells of hidden research stations and arms factories of the Imperials still pumping out weapons all across the galaxy, a war with him and his dealings is not something they can afford to pay attention too with them on the loose. While the New Republic is scared shitless and rushes into fighting a hasty new offensive against a perceived comeback by Imperial Remnants (which may or may not be true), he buys time until the black market arms dealers can strengthen his forces enough to negotiate from a position of power with the New Republic, gaining recognition as Daimyo of an independent Tatooine but perhaps not his out of system dealings, leaving it open for more seasons.
@@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou. They are too busy hiring their friends and friends of friends. Its one big nepotistic nightmare in Hollywood. And its so bad that regardless of your epic ideas you still wont get the job because you might have the wrong politics or even skin color or sex these days. The results are chaotic shit because the search for actual quality is utterly overwritten by the search for people " We like" And it dont matter if you can write or not. Or if you have ANY REMOTE experience. Dont matter.
@@_neon-xeon_3966 It's less that and more that private corporations suffer the same problem all autocratic systems suffer from in that eventually those at the top lose touch with reality.
This was so badass. I felt like I was reading a novel and saw everything so detailed in my head listening to this. Ahsoka facing Rex, then Vader.. holy shit just imagine seeing that on the big screen. I fuckin hate what Disney has done :/ so much wasted potential.
There is a second alternative idea; Have him fail to build the crime empire. He’s a drifter, he doesn’t stay in one place and travels around for his work. His childhood was isolated on a hidden planet surrounded by kids who would be children for 3 weeks and then turned into deadly soldiers. He doesn’t understand how society works yet when he takes over Jabba’s empire he says he wants to rule with compassion and friendship, something a universe like Tatooine just doesn’t really have. A alternative season would have him fail, his idealistic views genuinely crumbling under him in the first season, a second season learning from his mistakes and building up slightly, and then over a long long period of time we see not Boba having an arc but the people of Tatooine as Boba helps turn it from a crime ridden planet with no love to a prosperous fair society.
And let’s not forget the part where Luke friggin’ Skywalker of all people forced a child to choose between becoming a Jedi and saving his father. Are you kidding me.
I’ve become less annoyed by the decanonisastion of legends as time goes on but this pisses me off because Luke actually learned from the mistakes of the past there. Here he’s just trying to be a less entertaining Yoda and making me like his character less
@@SorowFame honestly was hoping it was a trick, like if he picked being a Jedi over saving his adopted dad then Luke would say he wasn't ready.... obviously I was extremely disappointed....
What it should have been: A Show about Boba being an actual Bounty Hunter, working for the Empire, Jabba, and other Buyers collecting Bounties and being a Badass. But nope, we have A Disneyfied [Officially a word, it’s in the dictionary] Boba Fett, Trying to Rule Tatooine… For some reason… [There are some things that I live about this show, Like How we get to know more about the Tusken raiders, and episodes 6-7, Etc.]
The worst part is that the premise of Boba trying to "rule tatooine" is actually not bad on the surface. Boba could have become a threatening crime lord similarly to what Maul was with Crimson Dawn. But no, instead we get a half-baked Boba redemption arc where he gets his butt kicked every 2.5 seconds and doesn't even properly fight until the VERY LAST EPISODE OF THE SERIES. I'm not against redemption arcs or cases of the antivillain becoming the hero. In fact, disagree with this video in that it says "Boba needs to stay jaded," and I'm not a fan of stories where morality is tossed aside as being "childlike." That's not to say Boba NEEDED a redemption arc--the story could still have been a great one if he remained a morally questionable character--but i don't think that a lack if one is neccessary, either. Again, I'm not against redemption arcs. I AM, however against poorly structured and unsatisfying redemption arcs that take away from the character. Oh yeah, and then there's Grogu's return. What the actual heck!? It completely undermines what made the finale of Mando s2 great. You can tell Disney did it just for the cash.
That Boba rewrite was great!!! One small inconsistency though: There is a part in your story where Ahsoka recognizes the temple as a sith temple rather than a jedi temple based on the brutal protections planted around the weapon. My problem with this is that to my knowledge, both sith and jedi temples are sites deeply tied to their respective side of the force and as such, would radiate strong light or dark side energies to force sensitive visitors (Please correct me if I am wrong about this). I think because of this, Ashoka would have sensed from the start that the temple she visited with Boba was a sith temple, which means you would have to replace that section with another idea that still produces suspense. For reference, I believe Yoda visits the sith temple of darth bane during the clone wars series. Perhaps looking at how that was portrayed would lend some context as to how interactions of jedi and sith temples play out. On the whole however, I believe your rewrite presents wonderful new ideas while also rectifying the problems with Boba Fett's character. I love it!
@@M1ch43l33 maybe an older generation of jedi found out bout this and did the rituals themselves. putting so much Light side of the force that it balances out the sith energy and makes it neutral
Another way to explain it could be that Ashoka herself isn't strictly connected to the Light side anymore, so her ability to sense the distinction between light and dark isn't so strong. Ashoka is a grey Jedi anyway.
@@ShadeSlayer1911 I do appreciate the dialogue that my comment sparked. I see your point concerning how Ahsoka' 'greyed' force connection between the light and dark sides could hinder her ability to sense the dark energy around the sith temple. However, I still am skeptical of her not sensing the dark energy. To my knowledge, jedi are not only limited to sensing light side energies or vice versa with sith. If that were true, we would not possess the myriad remarks of jedi unsettled by certain dark side energies. Off the top of my head, I can remember Yoda describing a clouding of jedi visions and foresight due to dark side energies (Revenge of the Sith). Another example would be a disturbed Cal Kestis (Jedi Fallen Order) that felt an increasing darkness whilst entering the Imperial Dig Site (where a dark side inquisitor awaits). My point is that regardless of Ahsoka's unique force connection between the light and dark, it may not necessarily limit her ability to sense light and dark energies that are different from her own.
It's baffling how Disney of all, falls for amateur writting mistakes such as making a character have no flaws. For me if you want to write a character, make their trait being their flaw. It defines them better, it makes them more sympathetic and it makes their character arc and journey all the more impactful when you see them coming from the other side. (Edit): I got actual goosebumps from your alternate season. I even forgot I was watching a youtube video. It's a shame how much quality is being thrown out the window for marketability.
They are so lazy in their writing because they know they don’t need to care. As long as people watch anything with the Star Wars (or any other “beloved” property owned by Disney) label slapped onto it without question, writers who can care less about writing a good story have free reign. As long as the script have the semblance of a story, corporate will pass it through since they know, no matter what, people will watch it and Disney will profit. It can be good, it can be bad, does not matter.
If you make their main trait their flaw, and then have their character arc literally just be getting rid of that flaw, that's bad writing. You are actively writing a Mary Sue if your "character development" is nothing but removing every single one of their flaws until they become perfect.
After the first two episodes I was absolutely expecting that Boba will be gathering power in order to help the Tuskens. We got two episodes with them, the Tusken chief and the black clad female Tusken felt more like characters then any other henchmen that got introduced later. We got the vision of water. I expected full on Dune-like fremen story
I think a very small change they could've made is Boba already knowing Cad Bane killed the Tuscans. Boba would have a specific reason to want to build up his forces if Cad Bane is working for the Pikes. It would also just make Cad Bane more relevant to the whole story and give a clear objective and villain the whole show.
@@jonbragg5175 imagine if everyone else in Star Wars totally dropped their lifestyle every time they almost die. The movies would probably be as bad as this show.
@@CaptainKotetsu The fact isn't just that he almost died, it's the fact on how he almost died and who was the cause of it, bounty hunting is more trouble than it's worth, If Boba didn't drop the lifestyle he was going he would've ended up like his father, dead in the sand and alone, you should be grateful Boba was even brought back from the dead, a little philosophy for you, you live by the gun you die by the gun.
@@jonbragg5175 I understand where you’re coming from, but that didn’t save the show for me. Like it or not, they completely re-tooled boba’s character because Disney can’t have a main character that’s a ruthless, Angel Eyes type bounty hunter. The Boba Fett we know and love is a myth, a legend and a nightmare in the flesh for anyone he’s after. He appears when he’s called upon and doesn’t stop until the bounty is claimed, no matter the cost or consequences. He hunts Jedi for sport and turns every head in a room just by showing up. He isn’t characterized or developed too much because he doesn’t need to be(he managed to be a fan favorite despite only having three lines in the original trilogy). Then there’s this guy, who needed mando to step in for the middle third of his own season because his story isn’t interesting enough on its own to keep everyone watching.
@@jonbragg5175 Boba’s new “good guy” persona also comes off as very ignorant. He wants to rule with respect on a planet where literally nobody is honorable or true to their word. And then I’m supposed to be surprised when literally all of the gangs betray him at the end because the pikes have more money? Any intelligent person would’ve seen that coming a light year away. Better yet, maybe just leave Tattooine and start fresh somewhere else. Why would boba want to stay on such a crappy planet if his tusken tribe is dead and everyone else is a scumbag? Doesn’t make much sense to me since the guy supposedly had a “come to Jesus” moment. And even if his character wasn’t changed, we can’t make a show about a Mandolorian who hunts for bounties because that’s already been done(mando). Anyway, these are just my opinions. I didn’t care for this show, but I also don’t want to go back and forth on this all day.
Imo the whole shtick with boba was that he is this silent warrior badass with awsome armor that kills you without giving it a second thought, the show took that all away
I loved Boba in season 2 of the Mandalorian. He was cold, calculating, and a ruthless badass once the fighting started. But he also possessed a warrior's code of honor. A great template for a lead character. What in the hell were they thinking?
I kept thinking the whole season, how did the Mandalorian writers understand his character so much better than the writers of his actual show? And they used him for a small fraction of time. It’s ridiculous.
I totally agree: he's not the same as in Mando. His sudden major character switch comes out of nowhere, and feels like it was developed off screen (ahehemem Luke Skywalker ahemehemem) which you should NEVER do. I was excited for Boba to have his own show, but after watching Book of Boba Fett, I realized that with antagonist-like characters, they are better off as side personalities in a larger story. The term "leave while you are still having fun" comes to mind: give the audience glimpses or badass moments of a certain character, but don't show their entire story. Mystery is powerful. Mando uses this, less so now, but when they wrote him with a mystery cloak (or mystery box depending on who you ask) he was incredibly cool and engaging. I like that you pointed out the Loki similarities, it reminded me of the when they gave the Winter Soldier a show of his own. Remember how cool and mysterious he was in The Winter Soldier? That was so long ago. Everyone loves a good charming and mysterious antagonist, but in reality nobody (save maybe superfans) wants to know absolutely everything about them. This give-the-antagonist-their-own-show formula will likely keep happening in a world of franchises and continuations. I just hope they keep characters like Davy Jones isolated to two movies, I'd wouldn't like to see a detailed backstory of him and Calypso as cool as it may be.
@@winkylad498 Didn't you watch the video? His time with the Raiders came way before he met Mando for the first time. The Boba he was in the Mandalorian should have been the exact same Boba as TBoBF
@@winkylad498 no it didn't. Go watch this vid back then watch mando S2 of where it fits in the timeline. His character got changed to fit this bs series, if u like it then good for u, but don't sit there and lie and act as tho it isn't contrived
Come on, the difference is, that Loki and Bucky had actual character development. That's just like saying that Doctor Strange at the end of his movie is nothing like Stephen Strange at the beginning and that ruined his character.
The second they took his helmet off I knew they didn't understand the character. He's supposed to have mystique and subtlety. That's what made him so cool to begin with. You can't overexpose him.
Boba was actually calm and collected in the Original Trilogy so I don't think his depiction in the series is that far off from what he should be. In Clone Wars he was hell-bent on killing Mace Windu but I think he got over it and leaned more into carrying on his father's legacy and became more like him - calm and collected, but also ruthless. I also don't mind that he's good now. I think he knew they wouldn't have to shoot The Child, but threatning that was a smart move if he wanted to demand something of someone in full beskar. What I'm saying is he was (roughly) the same in The Mandalorian. A couple things were different. The worst thing about BoBF's writing is he's impossibly incompetent. And not just him - people trying to kill him too. The second worst thing is that it's just the most boring side quest ever. For half the show he recruits two piggies, like 4 kids and 1 furry. That's a very weak team, and that Wookie was shown to be dumb as hell as he could've easily killed Boba. And third? That's just cringe moments like the bike chase. In fact, I don't think mods fit on Tatooine at all.
Not only did they turn Boba Fett into a generic good guy, but they made him a secondary character in his own show as soon as the Mandalorian showed up. It really felt like he was there to set up the story for Mandalorian to kick ass on screen and once that happened, they didn't know what to do with him.
A good motive for Boba could be that he’s seeking revenge on Luke Skywalker, the man who caused him to fall into the Sarlacc Pit in the first place. Then he could still be a bad person, but have a motive that makes sense.
Or what if he wanted to take revenge on the cloners instead? My man's messed up seeing his face everywhere and although he thinks he's the only one who deserves that face due to his incredible skill he's also self loathing for what he's done and in a way thinks he shouldn't have been made at all. Would give a lot of interesting complications to face internally and externally to the character, even just tracking down these cloners that must have gone into hiding to avoid being executed by both the empire & new republic for being too dangerous. Gives a great chance for physically moving through the Star Wars universe and an interesting chance for exploring the philosophy of the psychopath.
@@madmae8021 I'm sure some of the humans would have been young when it all ended, plus the Kaminions could live much longer than humans. I dunno just seemed like an interesting idea to me. Heck one of the cloners could turn out to be 130 attached to all sorts of machines just to keep them alive, making Boba's rage at this scared & pathetic old man that much more impactful. But who knows, might have been terrible. Just seems like it could have had some dramatic potential compared to "what if Boba Fett was a crime boss but nice :) ".
@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka I can see the potential though you could really do anything as I feel the cloning aspect wasn't delved into nearly enough like how these aliens can do this and why no one else does
@@madmae8021 exactly. Not only did it effect our main character but also the galaxy at large. What were the repercussions of that? Why has no one done it since or are they still doing it on the down low? Is there predudice against clones for stealing jobs AND being the face of a tyrannical empire? What happened to the professional soldiers that found themselves replaced by millions of clones? What happened to the economy that relied on those soldiers? Just seems like a really strong source of potential story telling goodness. At least far more interesting than bumming around tattooine for a bit.
I always thought it would be a fantastic idea for Boba to either interact or mention somehow his exchanges with the Clones from the army. Whether that be while they were current soldiers, or maybe retired/injured or homeless. Seeing his own face everywhere throughout the galaxy as he got older. Maybe a group of ex soldiers in a cantina all missing limbs and he buys them a round of drinks. Maybe he considers them family in a way? Or maybe he's constantly reminded of his fathers death every time he sees one. It's such low hanging fruit that they couldn't be bothered to even show or talk about.
You forgot to mention Boba's arc in the Clone Wars animation(3 episodes), his with a group of bounty hunter, and trying to take revenge of Mace Windu for killing his father, he is still a lost child with a moral compass, but with rage for what happened, It's worth watching.
Yes that episode clearly depicts he has a very visibly has a moral compass but this guy literally raised himself half the time or if he wasn’t was raised by scum and villainy.
I'm five minutes into this video and regarding what you say about boring characters: there is a reason I found Cassian Andor SO intriguing from the very first moment we saw him in Rogue One. And they did an amazing job on his show as well.
I love how you incorporated the prequels as a core attribute to the characters and their motivations as disney should have done too. The moment where ahsoka has the vision of rex and then even vader is incredibly sad in my opinion. And i like it all the more for that reason! I think it would make the scene even a little notch better if vader glitched into anakin from second to second. The evil Vader taunting ahsoka continuously mercilessly but in a split second changing to the face of anakin whom we expect to be compassionate but in his eyes there’s a fuming rage and he screams at her just like he did to her before padme‘s death. When Boba finally arrives she doesn’t see boba, but in fact Rex. And it isn’t the evil sith anakin standing there but the good, kindhearted anakin. And Rex reaches out for her hands and in that moment the music blasts the iconic force theme. I absolutely love your pitch on this story. Your writing always has twists and turns yet doesn’t suffer from that. Can’t wait for a rewrite of the kenobi series :^D
bro your boba fett story for what the show should have been was literally the best story I have ever heard in my life. You are an amazing storyteller. Disney should hire you.
A problem I had with the show from the start was that I could never see Boba settling down in one specific place. To me, characters like him and Mando have always been wanderers, just like Max Rochatansky and Clint Eastwood's "Man with no name".
As always, your storytelling ability is incredible. The only addition I think would be cool in this storyline is working in one (or multiple) other bounty hunters that the Hutts have sent after Boba. They could arrive while he is still viewing her as a bounty or after he has gotten to like her (or in-between). I think the aspect of the Hutt’s continued bounty on her specifically could lead to a bunch of great stories, or even an aspect of the next “season” of your clearly superior story 😊
Did u not see how short that second episode two was?!?! It was one battle then the attack of the droids, then poof! The episode is over!! His idea is not good enough for an entire series
I thought we were past Boba Fett when the Mandalorian came along, I thought we were finally free of the sadness of seeing such a badass character be squandered in the worst way possible, Din filled the hole in my heart left behind by Boba. They must have thought they could have a second Din in Boba, a badass character that also has a heart of gold underneath, but they forgot that doesn't really fit Boba's character, Boba is a relic from Pre-Disney Star Wars and he doens't really fit in this new Disney, but dare I say we don't need him anymore cause we have Din now. I'm convinced that if the Mandalorian wasn't so succesful they wouldn't have done this to Boba, Disney must have went: "Hey, this Madalorian character is pretty well liked, is there another star wars character with similar design, backstory and demeanor that we could make money off?"
I just discovered your channel and I’m so glad you brought up the flaws of BoBF! I thought I was the only one who was aware of this issue. Your vision of what the show could’ve been like had me agreeing the whole time and imagining it all. Especially if Boba and Ahsoka met and how he reminded her of the clones 🙌🏼 that would’ve had me balling (the clones and Rex have a special place in my heart) 😭 It would’ve brought everything full circle but tragically.
Great vid, my problems with boba is that the second he came out of the Sarlacc Pit, it felt like he was already fully developed into his new nice guy character. I just want badass character to be badass, and my childhood heroes to stay heroes, sadly people nowadays will twist that mindset to be a bad thing, to the point where it feels like we aren’t allowing to criticize Star Wars anymore.
I think it's because in recent years, we've become suspicious of people who say they're doing good. We can't trust the so called "heroes" (i.e The Boys)
The amount of money I would pay to see on screen your re-write of this show: it is a gargantuan number. Great analysis and wonderful writing, as always. I hope for the day that Disney realizes there’s still money to be made in stories that are like yours: bold, intelligent, nuanced, and expressive.
The truth is, I don't think that while he is in charge of flonio or fvrou at all, not even the same creative director worked on who was the protagonist, he only worked on episode 6 of fan service, seriously personally Disney continues to make the same mistakes but more discreetly.
It's really strange because when you watch the mandalorian season 2, you really get the feelling they understood what people wanted from a Boba Fett series and how to make the character compelling, but then they did exactly everything wrong. The book of Boba Should have been an anthology series where Crime Lord Boba confides his memoirs to a scribe droid. Episodes would have been a mixture of key flashbacks of the greatest contracts in the Bounty Hunter's life, intercut with modern day segments where Fett has to deal with a literal plethora of scum , criminal and bounty hunters in his palace scheming to take the throne and betray him. , with the lessons from the past influencing his decisions in the present.. Think game of thrones meets the mandalorian with a pinch of the sopranos in having the protagonist opening up on his exploits to someone. Would also have solved the fact Fett is a loner and most his bounties woud not have had anyone present to banter with him... Heck the show is called fricking "Book of Boba", yet there's no book...
my biggest change to your suggestion for how the season's story should be is: No flashbacks. Ever. The original movies were plays, happening in the moment, act to act. If there was something in the past, it was mentioned but not expanded upon usually. Just "this is a thing that happened".
I think that is what made the world of the Original Trilogy so compelling, since you never saw what these "clone wars" were, or any of the missions of Anakin and Obi-wan, which when combined with their presentation as just things that happened, meant they were so much more interesting and intriguing.
God yes. I hate flashbacks. In any TV show. Seems like such a cheap and lazy trick, and always throws me out of the vibe. It's like a severe missinterpretation of "show, don't tell".
Apart from yet another needless KOing of Ahsoka (seriously, she has been rendered unconscious seventeen times! How is she not brain-damaged?), your version of the series is great. The droids and collar being a cool addition. It's nothing groundbreaking or unpredictable, but it's compelling, especially what would be the core - the relationship between Boba and Ahsoka. It would be a pairing one would not expect. I found the whole 'sith temple with ancient sith weapon we have never heard of' idea a bit eye-roll-worthy, but the exacution, especially the emotional part, would have been wonderful.
In Legacy Books Bobas Mission was to heal the surviving Clone Troopers from fast aging and early death caused by the Kaminoans, he was still badass but beaten after the escape from the Sarlacc Pit, lost most of his skin, had skincancer
I liked the Stories about Bounty Hunters and Stories from Jabba's Palace (I have no idea if this is the correct English title, I just translated it word for word) version of him.
Wow, your story is so much more interesting than the one we got. Disney only has one story to tell and that story doesn't star a antihero. They are completely incapable of telling that kind of story.
My main problem with this whole thing is that what made Boba cool in the ANH and TESB was that he was just Some mysterious guy who looked cool and acted cool. By giving him a whole show for himself, it kinda ruined the mysterious cool vibe that he once had.
I've been reflecting on this show and I find myself asking the same question after TLJ; "How was this green lit?" Now I don't think TBOBF was sequel bad, it was just very sloppy. It felt like someone threw together a first draft and went straight to filming without patching up the holes. I think this show would benefited more from being more thematic and character driven by focusing more on Boba's trauma regarding his father. It's the perfect anchor point to make the audience sympathise with him and how it derailed his life into becoming this cold blooded killer for hire. The sarlacc can symbolise the weight of it holding him down. Having a touching scene where he speaks to his father (de-aged Temuera Morrison) during the psychedelic dream and he convinces him to let go of his pain. Turning it into the Mandalorian S2.5 was a bad move. It robbed him of valuable screen time that was desperately needed in this short 7 episode series. You can tell some Disney exec told them to shoehorn it in. Plus it did damage to S2 by undoing the whole arc. I mean I expected Grogu to return at some point cause he's an obvious cash cow but geez not this early. As groundbreaking as the Luke deepfake was it really should of been saved for Mando S3. I feel it's going to suffer a great deal from these decisions. You could say there was this elaborate plan forged between Bib Fortuna and some captains to kill Boba and and his Tuskens for attacking they're train. They hire Cad Bane to carry out the hit but Boba isn't there of course. He finds out about Bib's involvement, retrieves his armor and kills him taking the throne in the process. Boba builds his new crime family up with likeminded individuals and draws out the conspirators by setting a trap. It's revealed he recruited the other Tusken tribes when he was in the dune sea and they win the day through a brutal ambush. The final act would be a standoff with Cad Bane. After his employers are killed he decides to take on Boba himself one last time. It would benefit from previous material to really establish tension instead of just that unfinished TCW arc. (Real shame about that) Bane is the living embodiment of Boba's past and his final test. He'd tell him that he killed the Tuskens then they fight. After a heated duel Boba would win killing Bane and offically closing the book on his old life. Boba is now the central crime lord on Tatooine controlling Mos Espa with his crime family and the dune sea through the Tuskens. He rules fairly but ruthlessly to those who challenge him. This arc for Boba's character could not only be his redemption but also reiterate the theme of family that's so prominent in Star Wars.
I like the fact that you made this also contained to just one area on one planet. It sounds extremely contained for a Star Wars story and therefore quite refreshing
I think what bugged me the most is that Disney KNEW they messed up. The fact that Din Djarin basically hijacked the entire show in the second half is...not a good look writing wise.
This is a very good story, but I would change it up a little bit. When Boba arrives at the jungle planet, he lands at a safe, hidden spot, perhaps in a cave and sets up a camp up There. From that moment, everyday he goes on to look for the jedi. It takes months as the planet is so hard to travel, he has to always go by foot. Then, after a Day of looking for ahsoka, he return to his camp, makes himself dinner, and takes out a BOOK from Slave 1, and he notes down his foundings and intriguing things about the planet. He does this every Day for a few weeks. He primarily does this because, as you said, he has poor social skills and this is his only way of keeping himself feel less alone. As he closes the Book, we can see a marking on the bottom of it, which says J. Fett, and the J is scratched, as a way of telling us that he wants to forget about what he saw on geonosis, he wants to distance himself from the nemory of his fathers death. He then eventually finds the empty graves and fights ahsoka, but she manages to escape. He then has a vision of what his father told Him, that he can be a good person, the opposite of jango. The story then continues as in the video, but over a longer span of time. So his character doesnt completely change in a week, which i hate in shows/movies. But otherwise, great job. This could've been way better
One thing I can say about this even as it is currently presented...he doesn't have to be "good" by the end. And that could mean there will be the potential for some sort of conflict as there is nuance in being willing to do good things and also do very dark things. He might soften, but the wrong person would still get disintegrated.
I love your rewrite! It just would be even better if you included a bit of the Sarlacc trauma. Remember that for most people, he died in there, and they never looked at the Legends Universe.
not to mention, bossk. bossk only had a few seconds of initial screen time, yet he became a main character in the clone wars animated series and is a main character in the battlefront games. it supports what you said about how interesting star wars lore is and how you can make a good story for anyone in this universe.
I honestly think that Boba could easily be an interesting character, when you incorporate what we learned in the Clone Wars about him. In that show, he was bent on revenge, but he clearly had misgivings about the way it had to be done. When it came to it, he was willing to sabotage a ship full of clone troopers and cadets, but he wasn't happy about it. But at the same time, he didn't like being compared to the other clones. He distinctly said he wasn't a soldier "like them". We see Boba surrounded by ruthless bounty hunters as his role models after his father's death. These obviously formed the crux of his character; he gravitated to them and away from the clones. This is further supported in the Mandalorian where he gets testy when Bo Katan calls him out as a clone. He identifies as being a bounty hunter, he doesn't want to be identified as a clone. But at the same time, the clones all share his father's face and he has problems killing them. This is a character who is not content with who he is and is going to latch on to the one thing that makes him unique; his relationship with his father. We'll also acknowledge the ruthlessness which probably came from years of work with those cold hearted bounty hunters. But again, he held onto his identity as Jango's son. With this in mind, I think the single biggest bone head move of the series is how they handled when Boba got out of the Sarlaac Pit. The scene lasts 30 seconds or so and he's unconscious through most of it, and he doesn't really talk about it, so emotionally this moment doesn't mean that much to him, from the way it's presented. But let's consider how much Boba wants to identify with his father. That was his father's armor, the single biggest moment in his life, the thing that set him on his path. He's tailored his identity around that armor. Never mind how he has been shown to value honor in the Clone Wars, so I can buy that defeat would be shameful for this character. Surviving that horrifying Sarlaac Pit, only to have the armor stolen by Jawas before he is dead should be the worst moment of his life next to his father. It's practically losing his father a second time. So the scene should reflect how terrible of a moment that would have been for this man. It should last at least a few minutes. Boba should be fighting the Jawas and unable to stop them; he should be crawling after their tracks trying to get it back despite how bad his condition is, he should be crying for his father to forgive him or cursing the universe for doing this to him, maybe a sandstorm where he hallucinates that his father is being killed again. And then to add insult to injury, he's taken by the Tuskens, beaten, and forced to dig for water, until he's been through so much that at the end where the Tusken gives him the water, as a sign of respect, he's just grateful for it. If that scene had played as I described, where it is shown to be an emotionally damaging moment, it would have provided the necessary status quo of who Boba was before the Tuskens took him, and thus I could buy that this character has gone through a change and why being with the Tuskens changed him. He had lost what was most important to him, and after everything that happened he could find comfort in simple things, like a drink of water and a bit of respect. Given how the rest of the show played out, I don't think that it would have saved it, but it seemed like a basic scene that was left out and would have fixed a lot of the problems of Boba's character
everything you say is consistent, it's a shame that filoni and favrou are not interested in the character or know how to handle it because in the prequels and clone wars they sold you to someone who admired their father's profession and his honor but at the same time he became cold and lonely because of so many betrayals that has happened but out of nowhere in the series it shows a clumsy good-natured characterless dependent on everyone and who always loses every fight, I don't understand how there are people who believe that he had evolved if he didn't manage to do anything relevant or interesting in its plot until the end apart was heavily overshadowed.
If only Loki had been written like that one episode of House M.D. where House goes to a mental hospital. Where he doesn't actually try and get better until the final act. Where he, until the final act he _thought_ he was doing just fine.
A very fine plot idea for Boba. Genuinely awesome work. I would only change two things: 1. Ashoka should win the initial battle between them. It is upon seeing his face (after it either falls off or she removes it) that she falters, seeing the face of so many of her long dead friends right in front of her, giving Boba the chance to incapacitate her. This alteration allows for your plot to continue as it was but maintains lore accuracy by having the most seasoned Jedi in the galaxy (and, specifically, an experienced Mandalorian killer) not lose outright to an aging Boba. 2. The point of change for Boba should be initiated through the realization that Boba and Ashoka worked for the same master - Vader- and through that thread how both of them share varying amounts of disdain towards the Jedi Order. This draws out the topic of Boba’s hate for the Jedi who killed his father, but through conversation and self-reflection he realizes that it wasn’t the Jedi who killed his father, but his father’s own greed (as it was Vader’s greed that led him down his path), and by extension, his bounty hunting profession. This causes Boba to completely reacamine his past, why he’s alone, why he’ll always be alone, and why no matter how much money he makes through violence, he’ll never regain the companionship his father once gave him. In the final moment of change, Boba decides that if he is ever to not be alone, he must stop being a bounty hunter and use his talents to protect people, not hurt them. 3. A small note that’s not necessarily a change but an addition: in Ashoka’s hallucination of Vader, he should really harp on the fact that he was the only person who ever loved her, and he was the only person Ashoka ever loved (until Sabine) - arguing that Ashoka’s abandonment of him is what led him to turn to the dark path. While these are massive stretches of the truth at best, these are the internal conflicts that Ahsoka toils with, believing if she could have stayed by his side, she could have stopped him from going down the path of the Sith. This false notion should have been the struggle that set the stage for Ashoka’s own show, the fear that abandoning Sabine would lead her down a dark path as it did to her master, and her own projections of that fear onto her former padawan being the impetus that pushes Sabine even further from her.
The Closer Look, you've done it again. First with the rewrite of "Last of Us part II" and now Book of Boba Fett. I wish you the best man. I really truly hope that Disney or any big studio hires you for their story writing because you would kill it naturally
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Can you make a video essay on Batman Arkham Knight next? Compared to Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, it’s really weak in my opinion
I'm very curious about that No Way Home video. I'm excited to see what your thoughts are on the movie. Can't wait to watch it!
I was thinking that he could use the empire to show the galaxy that the Mandalorian people are back and are to be feared once again
1:20 Mother Teresa was an evil woman. She deliberately made people sick with unhygienic needles and said “there is something wonderful about the poor suffering and accepting their lot in life”. She did this while making vast amounts of money and getting positive press. Please do some research and stop glorifying this disgusting, cruel woman.
18:15 Wait Boba didn't grow up around kids his age? What about the tens of thousands of clones his age?
The closer look just genuinely makes me want to write my own story.
Cool, go for it mate!
I bet it would be better than the boring Book of Boba Fett
@@maxiluke9140 book of boring fett*
Do it!!!!!!
I’m the words of Papa Palps: “Do it”
Boba's change of heart never made that much sense. Sure, they showed him with the Tuskens and learning to become part of their tribe but just because he learned to care for some people doesn't mean he's suddenly nice. The Tuskens aren't nice, they kill and enslave intruders to their land. They could have made Boba a better person who cares for his people but was still ruthless towards his enemies. If you've ever played Fallout: New Vegas, they should have made Boba like Joshua Graham, they even have similar backstories.
And the fucked up part is that it would not have ultimately changed the plot of the season all that much, they went out of their way to do this
I don't think he's nice. He just realized that people work better in a tribe. I also think people were expecting him to be vicious & they were disappointed that he was a little passive
that did happen. He tried to be peaceful in resolving conflict in the middle of the season, but after seeing that didn’t work, he fought the pikes. His character is still developing throughout the show, instead of finishing his development after the murder of the Tuskan tribe
Even funnier, they enslaved Boba, used him for slave labour and let the children beat him for fun. They were horrible and then it made him nice??? Wot???
Well that’s exactly what he did. Nice to his people, ruthless to his enemies
I love Ahsoka calling Boba's bluff in your version of the series. It just fits her character so well. In a pinch she took risks and gambles, and was reckless. Just like her master, Anakin. And in her character arc she learned to rely on those reckless impulsive gambles less, but that's still an ability she has when things are going bad.
I dislike it because Boba isn't the kind of character to make an idle threat. He'll use nearly every trick in the book but if he says "I will cut your head off if you do this" he will. He would absolutely kill the Jedi if he made that threat. Similarly he doesn't break contract though unless it's broken on him so he'd likely not make the threat in the first place, instead he'd be more interested in disabling her, ruining limbs, assuming the Force-suppression containments of the EU don't exist in DisCan. It just doesn't work from a character aspect when talking about Boba.
Not if he was told not to from the contract@@pubcle
@@davidace7514 Again, if he was told not to in the contract he wouldn't make the threat in the first place. He instead would just take an arm off. If he was aware of Ahsoka's history, which wouldn't be that surprising as he takes researching his targets very, very seriously and Ahsoka's relationship with Anakin wouldn't be secret nor would Vader's relationship to Luke at this point, he can use that to his advantage which may create a more interesting interaction.
@@pubclevery well said. 👍
It seems like Disney never heard of the concept: "a character we like to hate"
Maleficent? But then again they screwed that up in Maleficent.
@@Edax_Royeaux i think they mean nowadays disney
@Royeaux I still say they could have done anything they wanted with that movie, make her the king's scorned lover, make him rip off her innocence by tearing off her wings, make her a wood spirit guardian. Keep it all in. Just have the movie end at her entrance to the hall when the fairies are doling out their gifts.
In fairness I don't think Boba is that kind of character. In my experience he's always been more morally grey, and has been an anti-hero before, and I've never met anyone who actually hates him. I don't like the execution of his journey in The Book of Boba Fett, but I think Jon Favreau had some great initial ideas.
When we consider The Clone Wars, where he was shown as a child, we could also feel sorry what has become of him since the death of his father.
Kind of like Jack Marston in Red Dead Redemption.
Seeing people calling disney’s bullshit out really warms my heart
Same here, those that just swallow this either don't really care about movies or are such dumb consumers, and they are gladly in the minority. What needs to happen is people need to stop giving them their money, and bankrupt shitewood.
This is the Way.
Yall will consume their shit anyways
Disney has become garbage
@@infinitesimotel problem is that you can't. for every 20 people who despise and leave disney, there's 80 or so giving them money
Mate, your version of the book of boba fett is wonderful. Deeply felt. True to character. Disney needs to take note.
I don't really see it honestly.
Boba isn't the kind to let a quarry go, ever, and he doesn't like being compared to the clones in any of the material, nor does he go back on his word or make idle threats. Almost all his interactions with Ahsoka feel pretty out of character. It's closer than Disney, but it doesn't fit. There's too many elements that run counter to Boba's core character.
Boba is based on The Man with No Name from the Dollars Trilogy. He's an utter professional, entirely ruthless, and very cold and distant at all times. You can forge a friendship with him, but I just don't think it puts in enough effort over a long enough time, nor does it really keep to the character faithfully. It's a great shot for someone who clearly hasn't looked beyond the films in order to understand the character but it doesn't fit when you go a bit deeper than that.
@@pubcleI agree but it reads like a draft of a final essay, certain development would have to pass for that scenario to play out the wait it did with better dialogue. Either way, it’s still leagues above what Disney gave us
@@pubclei mean some stuff could be added that add to him to make it make sense, its more of a draft also
Boba would be a great supporting character, one that clashes with the heroes. Perhaps he treads the fine line between hero and villain, maybe posing as a threat to both protagonist and antagonist. That would be way more in character than what we got in this show. also I’m of the opinion that boba fett really isn’t a character to make a stand alone show about. Maybe a movie or something, but not an entire show that’s supposed to last multiple seasons. He’s simply way too ruthless and violent to make him a protagonist, not to mention he has barely any screen time in the original movies and was KILLED OFF. Yeah we all kind conveniently forgot about that little fact. So unless it was a case of “bad guy vs even badder guy”, then boba hardly works as a main character. Other than that I don’t see how his limited character traits could fuel a whole show that’s relatively dialogue heavy, at least at certain times. The dialogue is trash but the characters always seem to have something to say. He really should just stay as the “mysterious bad guy that’s ruthless” rather than whatever the hell Disney gave us. The Loki comparison couldn’t be more accurate.
@@MrManatee101like Punisher in the Daredevil season 2 series.
This man really just wrote a better season than disney could ever give us.
Just one thing bugs me: wouldn't Boba have a negative reaction to seeing Luke at the end? Because y'know, it's not like Luke and Co are the ones responsible for knocking Boba into the Sarlacc pit in the first place
Yeah but Boba changed into a better man already so he would understand why
@@Verenzio99 yeah in a short amount of time without any character development at all
@@user-qi6tp1te1y his character developed when he was with the tuskens
@@Verenzio99 the same people who raid and enslaved people and the same people who try to enslave him yeah character development do I have to remind you he tried to escape before he saved the kid and after he saved the kid he was a free man and for some reason he didn't left and why didn't he try to leave after he saved the kid instead of going back to the Tuskan village?
@@user-qi6tp1te1y Because the Raiders liked him after he brought the kid back and they developed a friendly relationship. character development.
One thing that I haven’t seen talked about is the fact that in the OG Boba Fett books (written for kids - which talks about Bobas earliest years without his dad) use a Black Book which has holographic lessons from his Dad which was basically a fail safe for if Jango died, and was meant to be his last lessons for growing up etc. I genuinely thought they were referencing this black book in the title of the show, I thought Boba was going to travel the galaxy finally getting revenge on people that Jango had listed in his Black Book and we could’ve seen a huge amount of the galaxy.
Ahaha
ha....
...our childhood fantasies are being ruined before our eyes.
And best of that scenario no more effing Tatooine, but whole galaxy full of interesting locations. I swear if I see Tatooine after Kenobi, I'm done. I hate sand planets, they are course, rough, IRRITATING and they GETS everywhere
No, that idea sounds too good. Disney could never do that.
God I remember those books. I still have the collection boxed up with some other old books in my attic. That would have been a great reference. Imagine if they animated those books? It would be epic.
As good as those might have been, I'm old enough to where those aren't the OG books to me; the OG Boba Fett books for me were the Dark Horse Comics, Which...were really freaking dark. A lot of the crew that worked on those were the same people who had done the art and writing for Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, and Strontium Dog. They portayed a side of Star Wars that was grimy, greasy, toxic, and felt like something worse than the underbelly of the galaxy. It was also the perfect playground for somebody like Boba Fett to exist in, where he was still such a brutal character, but looked genuinely heroic in comparison to everyone around him.
The way they portrayed Boba Fett in that whole show felt to me like a novice D&D player who wants to play as a bad guy so they create this whole dark and edgy character but when they start playing they completly fail to commit to the role and they just do everything as a stereotypical good guy
You mean like how Boba fans for years have been pretending his is this total badass and writing their own non canon fan fiction lore as cope because they literally mentally cannot handle the stuff given to them by Lucas in the OT?
me everytime I try to start a bad guy playthrough in anykind of game
@@trollking6315 Boba Fett wasn't really much of a character at all in the OT. He was a blank slate for the most part, but he was shown to be ruthless and uncaring to anyone but himself, which is where the show totally messes up because Boba Fett was never a good guy. Not saying you can't develop him into a good guy, but he has to be in character to start off with, which he wasn't in his own show.
People change. get over it.
@@benwinchester8819 Does it matter much if it makes for an inconsistent and boring character? Sounds quite redundant for fiction to be overly realistic.
One thing I noticed about this show: Cad Bane says that Boba Fett has gone soft, yet the show never really justifies this change in character, apart from him living with Tusken Raiders, and even then, that seems like a weak reason.
u just gave the justification of him going soft and stated the show never really justifies him going soft in the same sentence...
Just Disney heroes being good because they are good
@@BenAri18
Thank you for pointing this out. I will edit my comment.
I mean the tusken raider enslaved and beat him soooooooo that's not even a reason to go soft honestly lmao
@@BenAri18 The show never actually shows why the tusken raiders made him go soft so that's not even a reason dude
Bossk and boba were actually really close, bossk kind of protected him while he grew up, we see a lot of their relationship in clone wars.
That’s what I was thinking. He would at least be upset that Bossk is dead, he may even take the time to bury him as a sign of respect for being a mentor after his father was killed and/or out of respect for Bossk as a bounty Hunter as they were competing for the “top” position as most lethal/ruthless bounty hunters in the galaxy, iirc
@@mattshelton7423 It could be quite a powerful moment in the story that really establishes the mysterious enemy in the jungle as a threat.
@@Jake_Sherrell Yeah, even force users would’ve feared Bossk (not that he was a BH in the Jedi’s prime), but Trandoshians have proven they can outwit Jedi Padawans at least, and Bossk being one of the smartest/mosy cunning/skilled Trandoshian would show that whatever killed him was on par with at least a competent force user, at the very least.
@@mattshelton7423 If you had to pick, who would you say your favorite bounty hunter is? (Besides Boba Fett)
@@Jake_Sherrell out of the like “top 5” it’d have to be Bossk. I’m pretty basic in the sense that I just like the fact that “strong lizard do the hunting” appeals to the primal brain just right for me😂
Your version of the Boba Fett show had me on the edge of my seat!
Could add a bit more conflict between them if Boba remembers that Ahsoka was involved in him ending up in prison as a kid
The fact that the child-Boba from the Clone Wars is significantly more evil than Boba from the Book of Boba tells you everything you need to know about this series
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Boba was never evil. Goes to show much you know about the character
That Boba wasn't evil tho?
Just fueled with a desire for revenge and unsure of his place.
And a Boba who redeems himself is not a bad idea. The Tusken idea was interesting. But as for the execution and the lead up to this redemption. Meh...
@@pharaohbubbles1547 Nah, he just needs to be reminded to go easy on the disintegrations... character quirk eh?
@@pharaohbubbles1547 "evil" by the standards of fiction, a bad guy, a villain. The opposite of a hero. Someone who is willing to murder and hurt others for their own gain.
You should look at what disney did to "Artimus Fowl" the story where the main charater is THE villian, but slowly over the course of several books starts to change his ways. And then disney made him a perfect gentlemen
M'fairy
How to make a book about a guy who literally kidnaps a gal for ransom of gold a wet noodle.
oh my god thanks you mentioned this. I cannot express how much I hate the Artemis Fowl adaptation with every fiber of my body
Oh he's literally the villain? I never really knew lol
@@buddermonger2000 he starts as such. I really recommend giving the books a try, they're really fun and not that long
Disney needs someone who tells them their stories are bad.
They also need someone like you that’s ACTUALLY a good story teller 🙃
You think an entire 30 minute long fight scene with no emotional set up is good storytelling?
@@cooliostarstache5474 nice bait dude
@@cooliostarstache5474Lmao
I like how a random person on the internet can make a substantially better story than a multi-million-dollar company ever could, and actually understands the franchise more than the people who own it.
Tell me about it, I was sucked in
its because people like him actually care if thats a good story or not.
Those multi-million-dollar companies only care about money and their family friendly image
You mean multi-billion dollar corporation
Actually, in the jaded 70s and into the 80s (at least for those of us who didn't buy into Reagan+Wall Street's optimistic jingoism) the wisdom was that it was IMPOSSIBLE for a large company to do a good story. There's been some doubt since people like George Lucas went from scrappy low-budget filmmaker into multimedia empire builder, and some talented social media figures (musicians, actors and creators) have broken through and shot into stardom, giving us hope. But many of us old timers knew when Disney (a multi-billion dollar company), bought the Star Wars franchise, that quality would sharply decline.
You like that? You like that the people who are powerless to actually make a star wars film are the ones who understand lore and storytelling? Why? Because you dont think.
I would argue that Boba Fett does have a flaw: He’s too damn nice.
If your going to be the boss of an underworld, you need to be both feared and respected. Boba had neither of those going in for him. No crime boss either feared him or respected him.
It also doesn’t help that the tone of this show was all over the place. It tried to be Dances with the Wolves, The Godfather, and The Mandalorian Season 3 all at the same time.
When I think of Boba Fett, before this show, nice is the last trait I'd associate with him. It's insane how they thought this was a good direction for him.
@@schmecklin377 Wait until they make Vader a nice grandpa giving out cookies in Kenobi
A writer's tip that I keep in mind is if the character flaw is that they are "too" (insert good trait here), start thinking of another character
And actually pretty stupid in thus series
@@alexanderwiles2003 also incredibly naive and ineffective. You know, the kind of guy that would die in his first year of being a bounty hunter.
Only 2 issues with your recreation of Boba's story:
1) Bossk is possibly a poor choice of character to use in showing Boba's lack of attachment as he was one of the only people who nurtured him after Jango's death. If it must be him, their should be context into why he no longer cares or is surprised. Either he detached himself sooner between Empire Strikes Back and now, or it can add to the message of those he cares about dying, idk.
2) I would mindlessly start shipping Ahsoka and Boba way too hard if it were depicted like this and it will bring me nothing but shame.
you and me both. At the end of this I wanted them to get together more badly than I am willing to admit
Cringe shippers
That shipping shit is the most cringe thing ever. This is why nerds get laughed at
@@BovineIntervention You two getting mad over this shipping is hilarious who cares it’s Star Wars we’re all nerds here and as a mega nerd RUclipsr w 20k subs who ain’t ever been laughed at. Your insecurities show hella and it’s funny thanks for the laugh on stream
@@ChrisFroemming no one is mad you're just cringe
Pairing Boba with Ahsoka is a really unique idea, I would have never thought of it. The clone connection they share is so cool.
They also briefly met in the clone wars
@@SuperDababy2 That’s cool, I assumed they would have at some point but I haven’t gotten around to watching CW yet.
No, it's not. He isn't a clone in truecanon
@@MaynardCrow in the true canon? Huh
@@illansuu9572 I still don't recognize the prequels. GL fucked up everything interesting about the character by making him a clone of some other better bounty hunter. The OT and part of the comics and novels pre-prequel are all that counts in for me.
Honestly, Boba's character carries his story. The writers could have just done the laziest fan service, showing off episodes of him going on meaningless missions and it would've been better than what they gave us.
The way you present and write your own version of the story is incredible. You're an amazing storyteller and I can feel your passion for it!
I think the thing that made me mad the most was that Boba Fett is one of the most ruthless and cold bounty hunters in the galaxy, infamous for backstabbing and serving the highest bidder yet they still tried to make him a good guy. He was literally raised to be a killer by his father but after spending a few months around the sand people he's a changed man. Instead of trying to replicate the formula of the Mandalorian from the later episodes which was just helping random people they could have gone for the first episode where we see him as a cold but not cruel killer. They could have even explored the darker parts of the criminal underworld but no, the main character needs to be kind and altruistic because that's the Disney way.
I appreciate how Disney wants to maintain that brand, but when it reaches the point where you're corrupting beloved characters in order to maintain it, surely altering the brand image is a far lesser evil than disrespecting the IP's legacy.
@@TheCloserLook The end fight of the season made that quite clear. If you know disney you almost knew who would win and how. As sad as it sounds we are probably out of disneys target (revenue) group by this point since a long time and thats the hardest thing to swallow for a life long Star Wars fan... So its once again: "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
I hate that the show conveniently forgot the SAND PEOPLE ARE SLAVERS.
@YourFriendlyNeighborhoodItalian Maybe he isn't known for backstabbing but he definitely has betrayed people. I copied this from the wiki: "However, Valance was then betrayed by Fett, who threw a thermal detonator at him and caused his body to explode. Fett then left Valance to die as he went to retrieve Solo once and for all." His code of honor doesn't have much to do with this either since he isn't backstabbing his employer.
@YourFriendlyNeighborhoodItalian Also it fundamentally doesn't make sense that staying with the Tuskens softened Boba since they're an extremely brutal and ruthless culture.
The badass anti-hero they were looking for was right there, as detailed in the character analysis, and he was already one the most popular characters of the entire franchise. Yet the writers just tossed him aside and wrote an entirely different, goody-two-shoes of a character who just also happened to be named "Boba Fett."
Disney.
Problem is that already made a good boba Fett show, but decided to call it the mandalorion
It's especially baffling because the writers of TBoBF are the same ones who fleshed out his character as a teen and young adult in The Clone Wars.
No he wasn’t lol you Star Wars fans love to complain
@@Alexis-no4yj he was not good.
I really like how the pitch disregards fennec shand entirely, as she feels unnecessary to boba’s character past getting his armor.
She does everything that boba could have done himself
Even when she gave advice, it was such obvious advice that it makes Boba look stupid for not thinking of it first.
Conceptually I like her as a parallel to Jango's relationship with Zam, they just didn't actually do anything with it. Jango and Zam were actually close, saving each other from certain death multiple times, and Jango ends up killing her to protect himself. That's pretty compelling, way more than anything the show gives us.
Boba's persona in The Mandalorian S2 just didn't add up to how they portrayed him in TBOBF. He went from ruthlessly smashing Stormtroopers (that he didn't specifically have anything against) he went from that, to letting a bounty hunter Wookiee go, that tried to kill him mind you, and letting spoiled kids with power ranger speeders insult him, yet he picked a fight with the other Mandalorian girl basically because she insulted him (Cosca Reeves, I think)
It just made no sense; sure, he seemed to have a bit more honor or shall we say decency, in his dealings with Mando and showing some kind of care for Grogu... but he didn't seem to have gone completely soft, as he was portrayed in TBOBF.
His character in The Mandalorian was so much better, it felt like actual Boba Fett, this guy was an impostor
@@seriousnesstv7902 "This ain't Boba! It's a clone! The real Boba has been kidnapped!"
*Basically this is what fans are still hoping the explanation is for how Luke is in the sequels lol
@@roger632 woah that would be nice, that being a Luke clone since that’s now canon that a Luke clone exists
@@seriousnesstv7902 True. Finding the *real* Luke Skywalker could be the premise for episodes 10, 11, and 12 lol.
Luke also had a clone in legends material, his name was "Luuke" (just to distinguish between the two of them lol) he was created by some other clone Jedi that went mad, (who was also employed by Thrawn, since Thrawn was the one that had that specific Jedi cloned)
@@seriousnesstv7902 Actual Boba Fett would just kill Mando and sell Grogu for bounty.
22:37 I think it'd be cool instead the line "as you wish" he could instead say something like "make it 30 million." It'd show of his bounty hunter roots and give him a more intimidating presence in that moment instead of choosing to back down, he'd still be bitter he can't kill the jedi but he'll make the Hutts pay for it
Nice suggestion, that would be better. Leverage how they actually came back to him, which proves they're desperate, and squeeze them for every penny.
There was an AMAZING book series I adored as a child that was a Boba Fett series starting shortly before Jango dies, and ends a few years down the line from that. It showed Bobas naivety turning into cold hard distrust. I really liked that series, and I wish that this show had pulled more from it.
I want to check that book series out-
i find it interesting that people always say that characters like boba aren't interesting enough for a story but forget that the expanded universe is a thing. Yes it has its flaws but it still feels like it has more complexity and characters in the moral grey than disney.
I'm by no means a 'good' writer... but I say the only reason one would think character isn't interesting enough for a story is simply because they don't want to do the hard work of actually delving into said character.
Boba was ruined back in 2002. If he weren’t a stupid kid that was a clone, they could have done so much more. And they wouldn’t have had to hire old ass Temuera Morrison.
I liked it. So much better than the last 3 movies that came out. Iam a star wars fan. I love it. So my opinion yea some flaws but the show was still good.
Knights of the Old Republic 2 is still one of the greatest pieces for Star Wars universe.
_“Millions die across the Galaxy every day. If the Force brought you here because these people were dying, what makes_ them _special?”_
_“…”_
_“The Force didn’t just call me here to aid these people…there’s something ancient hidden on this planet. Something…terrible.”_
What a fantastic concept you’ve shared. I was able to perfectly visualize all the details you described. Oh, what could have been…
I remember up until 18 years ago my vision of Fett was like that of the man with no name character usually portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the Sergio Leone movies. I almost cried when I found out that they changed his voice in The Empire Strikes Back.
Removing the dub of Jason Wingreen was the thing that most upset me about the DVD release. So glad I still have the THX remastered version on VHS.
@miller Really easy to find. Just type in 'Boba Fett original voice' on youtube.
Ok, even just the beginnings of your character analysis of Boba Fett, detailing the long-term emotional effects of him only loving one person as a child, and that one person being killed, are just blowing me away. Amazing stuff. Sucks even more now that Book of Boba Fett was nothing like that.
This is probably one of the most accurate reviews I have ever seen. This man nails every single thing wrong with this show.
Thanks!
What I like about your pitch is that it takes the center of Boba’s darkness and sends him through an emotional journey that turns it on its head. I feel like Disney is terrified for any of its lead characters to have any kind of darkness.
Disney don't understand why we love Boba. He was dark, distant, cold. We never saw him without his helmet, never could tell what he was doing or what he was going to do. He was gloomy. Not a villain, but not a hero either. They've turned him into your standard hero, as all Disney characters are. Always making the right decisions, and fighting for the good side. The main reason I'm excited for the Andor series, is becuase I want to explore the darker, less friendly side of the Rebels, that Cassian mentions in Rogue One. After the BOBF, I'm starting to get concerned whether we'll even see that, or if Cassian will turn into some crazy good hero.
I liked him because he had cool armor and weapons. I legitmately do no care about who's side he's on.
@@Fanatic_Foremem He barely uses his cool weapons and armour in BOBF. That's the problem. It's mainly him doing negotiations or threatening people.
@@ThatSnake4720 The armour was changed quite a bit. It looks less military like and more like a costume now.
@@flomito7511 I preferred the white underneath, and the damage on the armour. It showed how ruthless he was
@@ThatSnake4720 As TCL stated, there are so much subtle things about him that made him interisting and material to write astory. Wookie Scalps, the way he moved (calm and toughtful but always combat ready), and the battle worn amour as you mentioned... Its so sad and frustrating these days to be a fan of a franchise.
Somebody get him a job at Disney writing star wars scripts. These are the stories we need, arcs, things to hook you in, twists, & stuff to work off of for future projects.
Great stuff
IF YOU THINK THIS CRAP IS GOOD WRITING, YOU NEED TO READ MORE.
@@fbafoundationalbuck-broken6011 its miles better than anything disney is vomiting out
Disney barley give a job to people who make star wars good
@@fbafoundationalbuck-broken6011 Good Writing is writing that works. And when does writing work? When people enjoy the writing. I feel like its a very reductionist view to say that the commenter is certainly wrong about the quality of the presented writing. Writing is of course subjective and you may feel like this writing is "crap", but there will be people who like the version of the writing presented in the video. As well as there will be people who will enjoy the original writing.
They need to hire him to write the books too because they’ve screwed up Thrawn as well!
I've been working on an outline for my own rewrite of this show, trying to build off the character that was set up in the Clone Wars show when Boba was a teenager, failed to take vengeance against Mace Windu, and then was basically raised by a series of other bounty hunters such as Bosk and Cad Bane, only to find himself alone and then fed to the Sarlacc. In my mind, he would be bitterly angry when he came out of that, but at himself more than anything. I don't think he would blame Han Solo, which has been depicted a few times in legends, nor do I think would he blame Luke, as they had very little to do with one another despite Boba being instrumental in setting up Vader's trap for Luke. So when he finds himself a slave to the Sand People, who are a tribe of isolated warriors who can be every bit as brutal and unfeeling as he is, it could set off some real soul searching for him, sure. But the way they went about it was all wrong.
Firstly, I think he should have killed the other slave who tried to raise the alarm when he tried to escape. Spare the kid in a moment of rare hesitation and honor, but then have him show off his skills as a bounty hunter by taking on every tusken who comes at him, despite his poor health, until finally the best of their warriors engages, and still only barely beats him. They would then see in him a kindred spirit. They wouldn't need the whole scene of sending him off stupidly with only the kid to guard him. Also, have him never say a word to the tuskens. He's always been a man of few words, so he wouldn't waste them if he didn't have any evidence that they spoke basic. From there, have him help the tuskens take on the pikes similarly to how he did in the show, but instead of them randomly getting wiped out, have Cad Bane show up, and say that he was hired by the Pikes to get rid of Boba and his "little tribe" but out of deference to their history together, would give Boba one chance to get the tuskens to back off himself or he'd return and slaughter them all.
Boba knows he has no choice. He's not a match for Bane without his armor and gear, so he gets the tuskens to back down, and departs to go recover his things.
That's when he runs into Fennec Shand, who he pressures into helping him. Then on the way to recovering the Slave 1, they run into Dengar and team up with him as well. The ship was locked down and neglected, so they need to have it repaired, which will take some time (Dengar knows a good mechanic who will be discreet), so they start looking for Boba's armor in the meantime, and they do it by using their black market connections not flying to the sarlacc pit. Eventually, they track down the Jawas who sold the armor to Cobb Vanth, and after killing some of them and threatening the rest to get the armor's whereabouts, Boba heads out to Mos Pelga to retrieve it, but the Mandalorian got to it first. Fennec advises Boba on who the Mandalorian is, and what he's capable of, and they devise a plan to ambush him and get the armor back. Dengar doesn't want to entangle with the guild, so he sits that one out, but offers to hang out in Mos Espa and see what he can find out about the Pikes' operations in the meantime. From there, we skip ahead to after the end of the Mandalorian season 2, where Fennec fills in Boba on what happened with Luke. He strongly considers going after him, we even get to see a bit of his rage and hatred for the Jedi, but decides he can't betray his word to the Mando, or abandon the tuskens. Fennec asks why he cares about the tuskens, and he can't explain. He's used to being alone, even prefers it that way, but for some reason, they remind him of himself when he was younger, before he grew completely jaded. And though it's not much of an explanation, Fennec declares that if he cares about them as much as he seems to, then that is good enough for her. She'll stand by his side, even once her life debt is repaid.
So from that point onward they determine that their mission is to force the Pikes off of Tattooine, and for that, they'll need not just some muscle, but an army.
When they return to Tattooine, Dengar tells them about the situation, that the local crime boss, Bib Fortuna is weak, and hasn't pushed back against the Pikes at all, and that the Hutts are upset about this, particularly Jaba's cousins, the twins. So Boba goes to Nal Hutta to speak with them, offering to overthrow Bib Fortuna, in exchange for the military might to go against the Pikes. They make a counter offer, they will allow him to take control of Jaba's forces on Tattooine for his war, but he must ensure that all of Jaba's offworld assets are turned over to them. Afterwards, he can do what he likes with Jaba's Tattooine forces, but if he decides to keep them, he must pay a tribute (something small, like 2% of all profits) to them. This deal gives both sides what they want, and also it gives the Hutts deniability with the Pikes should Boba fail. But they add one more requirement that Boba take one of their own bounty hunters with him, Black Krrsantan, as well as an accounting droid to keep track of their assets and other interests. At first, Boba declines, since he and Krrsantan have bad history, but the Twins insist, and again Boba has no choice. Before they leave, Boba and Fennec decide that if the wookie gladiator is going to be on their team, they might need someone to keep an eye on him and watch their backs, so they agree privately to go recruit Bosk before returning to Tattione. Obviously, this plan doesn't sit well with Krrsantan, or with Bosk at first, but both are persuaded reluctantly.
They can spend another episode or two recruiting more bounty hunters, one of the largest such teams ever formed, most of them aren't used to working with so many others, and Boba isn't the best leader, but he has conviction and purpose that he never had before, and he not only learns to make it work, but gradually finds that the responsibilities of leadership suit him.
With the team assembled, they are finally ready to storm Jaba's palace, leading to the death of Bib Fortuna and Boba claiming the throne, just as we saw in the Mandalorian season 2 end credits teaser. There's a brief celebration, only for Boba to call for silence, stating that the day may be won, but the war is only just beginning. Their next target will be much harder to bring down.
Cut to Cad Bane observing Boba's men from a great distance through binoculars. They are moving about Jaba's palace, making it their own, and Bane growls out some ominous comment about how Boba is way in over his head if he thinks he can play warlord.
And that's season 1 of the Book of Boba Fett. The tuskens are still alive, but Bane knows Boba is up to something and the Pikes still need to be dealt with, plus the Hutts have leverage over Boba and are not known to be charitable or compassionate masters. There's still the possibility of a confrontation between Boba and Luke at some point, and it's not totally clear what kind of leader Boba will be. We've seen him act honorably toward the tuskens and other bounty hunters, but also he's been ruthless and cold blooded toward people who get in his way, or who don't matter to his schemes.
This would allow the entire crime war between the Fett Enclave and the Pike Syndicate to be its own season.
Hope some people find this interesting.
Disney seems to forget that making a flawed character is good. . . Unless that flaw is being flawless.
I mean, even Luke started off as a whiny child, who cried about everything, treated strangers disrespectfully, and whose impatience often led to people getting hurt.
He grew into a respectful, thoughtful, and patient Master Jedi who used those qualities that he *learned* to save countless lives.
I’m more emotionally invested in your version of the book of boba fett than the actual show 😂 in all seriousness, your ideas and character arcs are so brilliant and carefully thought out. I even teared up at the parts w ahsoka as an avid clone wars fan.
Bro I was let starving for more, that says a lot about his ability to create a genuine story with passion.
Boba in Mando Season 2: "Give me my armor or your kid will get shot by my sniper."
Book of Boba Fett: "A bit heavy handed don't you think?"
Brother, I've gotten more entertainment hearing your rewrite than the entire seven episodes. Absolutely incredible! This is why I adore your content.
This "flawless" character trend is honestly driving me up the wall. The thing that entices viewers/readers to engage in a character's story is their flaws mixed with a clear aim and misbelief (Abbie Emmons has a great video on what a misbelief is). A character without flaws is not going to have to struggle to chase their goals and has nothing to personally overcome and therefore is not interesting or relatable.
*Edit* My interest in Star Wars has waned dramatically over the past few years. I didn't watch the Boba show, but your version sounds much more like the SW I liked as a kid and I would 100% tune in.
yeah, I've seen some of her videos. She's made some interesting stuff.
But yeah, if you want to have a character arc, you want to err on them having some stupid opinion, a lie they believe, so at some point they can stop believing it and we can get some development
name some of lukes character flaws? he's young and naiive maybe? but he's as complex in the original trilogy as boba is here
@@rowan_like_the_tree Yeah pretty much that he's young and naive, wants to play the part of the generic perfect hero and whines when he isn’t able to. It isn't until the climax of ESB that he realizes that his past (and future!) are a lot darker and more complicated than just him being a "knight in shining armor."
Just as an aside, though, the issue with Boba isn't that he isn't complex enough. Complexity is not what determines a character's quality. The issue is that he's portrayed as a pushover who's perfectly selfless and kind and yet doesn't have enough of an arc to transition from his ruthless old self to his heroic current self.
@@rowan_like_the_tree In A New Hope, when we first meet Luke, he frequently complains about his circumstances in life. He comes off as ungrateful for the things that he has. This includes his home, his guardians, etc. After meeting with Obi-Wan, he repeatedly refuses his call to action. The rest of the film depicts Luke has a hero because it follows the standard hero's journey, but this is just the start of his character arc.
In Empire, Luke is depicted as someone who is overconfident and easily gives in to their emotions. When in the cave with the Wampa, he cuts off the Wampa's arm, hinting to the audience that he has the potential to turn to the dark side. When he meets with Yoda, he comes across as being incredibly impatient. Regardless of his overconfidence, he does not believe in his abilities, and he states that pulling his X-Wing out of the swamp is "impossible." After finding out that his friends may be in danger, he absolutely refuses to listen to Yoda's advice, and is disrespectful toward his mentor. He clearly does not understand the value of the training given to him at this time. Because of this, he completely puts a halt to his training because he believes he can save his friends no matter what. His overconfidence is one of his biggest flaws, as it makes him believe he can fight Vader alone without anyone's help. The Empire is also able to succeed in setting a trap for Luke because they knew that his emotional attachments to his friends would cause him to come out of hiding.
In RotJ, Luke has had time to reflect on his flaws. However, when he goes to confront the Emperor, he begins to give in to the temptation of the dark side, and is almost talked into killing his father. This shows that regardless of his recent training, Luke still lacks discipline, and the training he received was not enough. At this point in time, Luke is not strong enough to take on the Emperor by himself. Luke can only defeat the Emperor with the help of his father.
So, in short, Luke is overconfident, lacks strength, and is prone to giving in to his emotions. Regardless of these flaws, however, he is still able to succeed, which is what makes him such a compelling character.
@@deltakaiju7865 👏 👏 👏
I wish you could write Disney's stories. Your version of the story felt so much more creative, and even got me emotional towards the end. Well done, Henry!
This rewrite was actually amazing it’s crazy that you aren’t helping out big production studios
Because big production studios doesn't give a fuck about good stories, only money and profit
@@_neon-xeon_3966 Ironic, considering good stories are far more likely to appeal to a broader audience, regardless the color/gender of the cast.
I actually didn't like the rewrite all that much. It skips a lot of nuances in Boba's character despite it being what he wanted to fix. Bossk took Boba in and helped him try for revenge against Mace Windu in the Clone Wars. Boba also served as a clone cadet training for the fight against the droid army. He should hate droids as much as Mando does, because the head honcho of the droid army got his dad killed under stupid orders. These battledroids killed hundreds of thousands of his father's clones, ones that looked just like him, trained with him, and were basically his brothers even if he never fought alongside them.
What the tuskens should have taught him is to fight without technology. Boba grew from technology, a perfect clone in a technological marvel of a city with the most advanced training programs and the best treatment money could buy Jango. He has always fought with advanced weapons; tracking rockets, jetpacks, blasters, bombs, disintegrator rifles, carbonite, starships etc etc. Tuskens with nothing but Banthas and cycler slug rifles defied Jabba's control despite his criminal/mercenary might, and Boba learns how a war can be fought without technology from the other side of a conflict he once fought. He works to create a new crime Empire built with both an understanding and negotiation of the Tusken tribes and the remains of Jabba's criminal empire. He takes what people are found loyal and disposes of the rest that grew up in the power vacuum Jabba's death left. The Pikes and their shiny new battledroids bring out the worst in him and he makes an example out of them in a brutal campaign across the cities. A now united Tatooine under a new crime lord is not something the new republic patrols in the area are happy with, but Boba negotiates a truce with the new republic using what he saw in the Mandolorian and what he heard from Mando as proof that the Empire isn't defeated. Luke the only one capable of defeating the secret weapons of the Imperial remnants is off training a new jedi, and won't be around to save the NR from the new flying dark troopers immune to blaster fire and funded by imperials rich enough to pay in crates of pure beskar. He tells of hidden research stations and arms factories of the Imperials still pumping out weapons all across the galaxy, a war with him and his dealings is not something they can afford to pay attention too with them on the loose. While the New Republic is scared shitless and rushes into fighting a hasty new offensive against a perceived comeback by Imperial Remnants (which may or may not be true), he buys time until the black market arms dealers can strengthen his forces enough to negotiate from a position of power with the New Republic, gaining recognition as Daimyo of an independent Tatooine but perhaps not his out of system dealings, leaving it open for more seasons.
@@DoomguyIsGrinningAtYou. They are too busy hiring their friends and friends of friends. Its one big nepotistic nightmare in Hollywood. And its so bad that regardless of your epic ideas you still wont get the job because you might have the wrong politics or even skin color or sex these days.
The results are chaotic shit because the search for actual quality is utterly overwritten by the search for people " We like" And it dont matter if you can write or not. Or if you have ANY REMOTE experience. Dont matter.
@@_neon-xeon_3966 It's less that and more that private corporations suffer the same problem all autocratic systems suffer from in that eventually those at the top lose touch with reality.
This was so badass. I felt like I was reading a novel and saw everything so detailed in my head listening to this. Ahsoka facing Rex, then Vader.. holy shit just imagine seeing that on the big screen. I fuckin hate what Disney has done :/ so much wasted potential.
Cry about it
ahsoka has faced rex and vader before if u watched clone wars season 7 and rebels season 2 youd have seen it
@@scribbletv8061 slice my wrists everyday thinking about it
@@syb_png I meant on the big screen as in movie theatres
@@scribbletv8061 get a life dude. stop spending your time shitting on people who enjoy something.
There is a second alternative idea; Have him fail to build the crime empire.
He’s a drifter, he doesn’t stay in one place and travels around for his work. His childhood was isolated on a hidden planet surrounded by kids who would be children for 3 weeks and then turned into deadly soldiers. He doesn’t understand how society works yet when he takes over Jabba’s empire he says he wants to rule with compassion and friendship, something a universe like Tatooine just doesn’t really have.
A alternative season would have him fail, his idealistic views genuinely crumbling under him in the first season, a second season learning from his mistakes and building up slightly, and then over a long long period of time we see not Boba having an arc but the people of Tatooine as Boba helps turn it from a crime ridden planet with no love to a prosperous fair society.
And let’s not forget the part where Luke friggin’ Skywalker of all people forced a child to choose between becoming a Jedi and saving his father. Are you kidding me.
I’ve become less annoyed by the decanonisastion of legends as time goes on but this pisses me off because Luke actually learned from the mistakes of the past there. Here he’s just trying to be a less entertaining Yoda and making me like his character less
It all ends with Jake Skywalker and the Sequel trilogy no matter what. People tend to forget that sometime.
i don’t think you understood that scene
@@gabedavidson1616 then enlighten us on how to understand it properly
@@SorowFame honestly was hoping it was a trick, like if he picked being a Jedi over saving his adopted dad then Luke would say he wasn't ready.... obviously I was extremely disappointed....
What it should have been:
A Show about Boba being an actual Bounty Hunter, working for the Empire, Jabba, and other Buyers collecting Bounties and being a Badass.
But nope, we have A Disneyfied [Officially a word, it’s in the dictionary] Boba Fett, Trying to Rule Tatooine… For some reason…
[There are some things that I live about this show, Like How we get to know more about the Tusken raiders, and episodes 6-7, Etc.]
The worst part is that the premise of Boba trying to "rule tatooine" is actually not bad on the surface. Boba could have become a threatening crime lord similarly to what Maul was with Crimson Dawn. But no, instead we get a half-baked Boba redemption arc where he gets his butt kicked every 2.5 seconds and doesn't even properly fight until the VERY LAST EPISODE OF THE SERIES.
I'm not against redemption arcs or cases of the antivillain becoming the hero. In fact, disagree with this video in that it says "Boba needs to stay jaded," and I'm not a fan of stories where morality is tossed aside as being "childlike." That's not to say Boba NEEDED a redemption arc--the story could still have been a great one if he remained a morally questionable character--but i don't think that a lack if one is neccessary, either. Again, I'm not against redemption arcs. I AM, however against poorly structured and unsatisfying redemption arcs that take away from the character.
Oh yeah, and then there's Grogu's return. What the actual heck!? It completely undermines what made the finale of Mando s2 great. You can tell Disney did it just for the cash.
I don’t think another bounty Hunter show would’ve been good, we already had one
@@bennoble4517 Does anyone say we already had a movie about Jedi?
No we have seen that before. What would have been awesome is the sopranos in the starwars universe
That Boba rewrite was great!!! One small inconsistency though:
There is a part in your story where Ahsoka recognizes the temple as a sith temple rather than a jedi temple based on the brutal protections planted around the weapon. My problem with this is that to my knowledge, both sith and jedi temples are sites deeply tied to their respective side of the force and as such, would radiate strong light or dark side energies to force sensitive visitors (Please correct me if I am wrong about this). I think because of this, Ashoka would have sensed from the start that the temple she visited with Boba was a sith temple, which means you would have to replace that section with another idea that still produces suspense.
For reference, I believe Yoda visits the sith temple of darth bane during the clone wars series. Perhaps looking at how that was portrayed would lend some context as to how interactions of jedi and sith temples play out.
On the whole however, I believe your rewrite presents wonderful new ideas while also rectifying the problems with Boba Fett's character. I love it!
I mean you could explain that in order to keep it a secret the apprentice did some kind of ritual to hide the aura of the temple
@@M1ch43l33 maybe an older generation of jedi found out bout this and did the rituals themselves. putting so much Light side of the force that it balances out the sith energy and makes it neutral
Another way to explain it could be that Ashoka herself isn't strictly connected to the Light side anymore, so her ability to sense the distinction between light and dark isn't so strong. Ashoka is a grey Jedi anyway.
@@ShadeSlayer1911 I do appreciate the dialogue that my comment sparked. I see your point concerning how Ahsoka' 'greyed' force connection between the light and dark sides could hinder her ability to sense the dark energy around the sith temple.
However, I still am skeptical of her not sensing the dark energy. To my knowledge, jedi are not only limited to sensing light side energies or vice versa with sith. If that were true, we would not possess the myriad remarks of jedi unsettled by certain dark side energies. Off the top of my head, I can remember Yoda describing a clouding of jedi visions and foresight due to dark side energies (Revenge of the Sith). Another example would be a disturbed Cal Kestis (Jedi Fallen Order) that felt an increasing darkness whilst entering the Imperial Dig Site (where a dark side inquisitor awaits).
My point is that regardless of Ahsoka's unique force connection between the light and dark, it may not necessarily limit her ability to sense light and dark energies that are different from her own.
@@darthTwin6 eh, just my attempt at a reasonable explanation.
"Boba wants his armor so badly that he's willing to murder children in order to get it."
Anakin: [visible happiness]
Always felt more like a bluff to me but who knows.
It's baffling how Disney of all, falls for amateur writting mistakes such as making a character have no flaws.
For me if you want to write a character, make their trait being their flaw.
It defines them better,
it makes them more sympathetic
and it makes their character arc and journey all the more impactful when you see them coming from the other side.
(Edit): I got actual goosebumps from your alternate season. I even forgot I was watching a youtube video. It's a shame how much quality is being thrown out the window for marketability.
Aye and people overcoming their flaws is practically an entire season in of itself.
They are so lazy in their writing because they know they don’t need to care. As long as people watch anything with the Star Wars (or any other “beloved” property owned by Disney) label slapped onto it without question, writers who can care less about writing a good story have free reign. As long as the script have the semblance of a story, corporate will pass it through since they know, no matter what, people will watch it and Disney will profit. It can be good, it can be bad, does not matter.
If you make their main trait their flaw, and then have their character arc literally just be getting rid of that flaw, that's bad writing. You are actively writing a Mary Sue if your "character development" is nothing but removing every single one of their flaws until they become perfect.
After the first two episodes I was absolutely expecting that Boba will be gathering power in order to help the Tuskens. We got two episodes with them, the Tusken chief and the black clad female Tusken felt more like characters then any other henchmen that got introduced later. We got the vision of water. I expected full on Dune-like fremen story
I think a very small change they could've made is Boba already knowing Cad Bane killed the Tuscans. Boba would have a specific reason to want to build up his forces if Cad Bane is working for the Pikes. It would also just make Cad Bane more relevant to the whole story and give a clear objective and villain the whole show.
You know there’s a problem when the most feared and respected bounty hunter in the galaxy says:
“I’m not a bounty hunter.”
He left that life after it almost got him killed.
@@jonbragg5175 imagine if everyone else in Star Wars totally dropped their lifestyle every time they almost die. The movies would probably be as bad as this show.
@@CaptainKotetsu The fact isn't just that he almost died, it's the fact on how he almost died and who was the cause of it, bounty hunting is more trouble than it's worth, If Boba didn't drop the lifestyle he was going he would've ended up like his father, dead in the sand and alone, you should be grateful Boba was even brought back from the dead, a little philosophy for you, you live by the gun you die by the gun.
@@jonbragg5175 I understand where you’re coming from, but that didn’t save the show for me. Like it or not, they completely re-tooled boba’s character because Disney can’t have a main character that’s a ruthless, Angel Eyes type bounty hunter.
The Boba Fett we know and love is a myth, a legend and a nightmare in the flesh for anyone he’s after. He appears when he’s called upon and doesn’t stop until the bounty is claimed, no matter the cost or consequences. He hunts Jedi for sport and turns every head in a room just by showing up. He isn’t characterized or developed too much because he doesn’t need to be(he managed to be a fan favorite despite only having three lines in the original trilogy).
Then there’s this guy, who needed mando to step in for the middle third of his own season because his story isn’t interesting enough on its own to keep everyone watching.
@@jonbragg5175 Boba’s new “good guy” persona also comes off as very ignorant. He wants to rule with respect on a planet where literally nobody is honorable or true to their word. And then I’m supposed to be surprised when literally all of the gangs betray him at the end because the pikes have more money?
Any intelligent person would’ve seen that coming a light year away. Better yet, maybe just leave Tattooine and start fresh somewhere else. Why would boba want to stay on such a crappy planet if his tusken tribe is dead and everyone else is a scumbag? Doesn’t make much sense to me since the guy supposedly had a “come to Jesus” moment.
And even if his character wasn’t changed, we can’t make a show about a Mandolorian who hunts for bounties because that’s already been done(mando).
Anyway, these are just my opinions. I didn’t care for this show, but I also don’t want to go back and forth on this all day.
Imo the whole shtick with boba was that he is this silent warrior badass with awsome armor that kills you without giving it a second thought, the show took that all away
To be fair, GL did that when he made episode 2.
@@MaynardCrow fair enough that’s one of the many errors of the prequels imo, still love the prequels
I loved Boba in season 2 of the Mandalorian. He was cold, calculating, and a ruthless badass once the fighting started. But he also possessed a warrior's code of honor. A great template for a lead character. What in the hell were they thinking?
I kept thinking the whole season, how did the Mandalorian writers understand his character so much better than the writers of his actual show? And they used him for a small fraction of time. It’s ridiculous.
@@yoitwasntme I hate to be that guy, but… it was the same writers
@@gbrogo7139 You’re joking….
@@gbrogo7139 🤦🏼♀️ whyyyyyy it could have been so good. Was it the same director?
@@yoitwasntme yeah. Jon Faverau and Dave Filoni oversaw both shows
I totally agree: he's not the same as in Mando. His sudden major character switch comes out of nowhere, and feels like it was developed off screen (ahehemem Luke Skywalker ahemehemem) which you should NEVER do. I was excited for Boba to have his own show, but after watching Book of Boba Fett, I realized that with antagonist-like characters, they are better off as side personalities in a larger story. The term "leave while you are still having fun" comes to mind: give the audience glimpses or badass moments of a certain character, but don't show their entire story. Mystery is powerful. Mando uses this, less so now, but when they wrote him with a mystery cloak (or mystery box depending on who you ask) he was incredibly cool and engaging. I like that you pointed out the Loki similarities, it reminded me of the when they gave the Winter Soldier a show of his own. Remember how cool and mysterious he was in The Winter Soldier? That was so long ago. Everyone loves a good charming and mysterious antagonist, but in reality nobody (save maybe superfans) wants to know absolutely everything about them. This give-the-antagonist-their-own-show formula will likely keep happening in a world of franchises and continuations. I just hope they keep characters like Davy Jones isolated to two movies, I'd wouldn't like to see a detailed backstory of him and Calypso as cool as it may be.
Character switch came from tusken raiders
@@winkylad498 Didn't you watch the video? His time with the Raiders came way before he met Mando for the first time. The Boba he was in the Mandalorian should have been the exact same Boba as TBoBF
@@winkylad498 no it didn't. Go watch this vid back then watch mando S2 of where it fits in the timeline. His character got changed to fit this bs series, if u like it then good for u, but don't sit there and lie and act as tho it isn't contrived
Come on, the difference is, that Loki and Bucky had actual character development. That's just like saying that Doctor Strange at the end of his movie is nothing like Stephen Strange at the beginning and that ruined his character.
Your story board for the show is soooo good. This should definitely be a season 2 to the show.
The second they took his helmet off I knew they didn't understand the character. He's supposed to have mystique and subtlety. That's what made him so cool to begin with. You can't overexpose him.
Demystifying a mysterious character too quickly definitely takes away from some their appeal.
its just painfully obvious you guys havent seen any animated star wars material
Ikr, not only did they take off his helmet, but almost every scene he has a helmet on he takes it off ASAP.. it was ridiculous
That's not a problem, we already know his face. It's dumb because he takes it off in public where he can be easily shot in the head.
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this is so accurate and every starwars fan felt it, anakin at his prime had less "hero" traits then boba in this show
Boba was actually calm and collected in the Original Trilogy so I don't think his depiction in the series is that far off from what he should be.
In Clone Wars he was hell-bent on killing Mace Windu but I think he got over it and leaned more into carrying on his father's legacy and became more like him - calm and collected, but also ruthless.
I also don't mind that he's good now. I think he knew they wouldn't have to shoot The Child, but threatning that was a smart move if he wanted to demand something of someone in full beskar.
What I'm saying is he was (roughly) the same in The Mandalorian. A couple things were different.
The worst thing about BoBF's writing is he's impossibly incompetent. And not just him - people trying to kill him too.
The second worst thing is that it's just the most boring side quest ever. For half the show he recruits two piggies, like 4 kids and 1 furry. That's a very weak team, and that Wookie was shown to be dumb as hell as he could've easily killed Boba.
And third? That's just cringe moments like the bike chase. In fact, I don't think mods fit on Tatooine at all.
OT Boba Fett literally wore braided wookie scalps as decoration on his cape.
Not only did they turn Boba Fett into a generic good guy, but they made him a secondary character in his own show as soon as the Mandalorian showed up. It really felt like he was there to set up the story for Mandalorian to kick ass on screen and once that happened, they didn't know what to do with him.
A good motive for Boba could be that he’s seeking revenge on Luke Skywalker, the man who caused him to fall into the Sarlacc Pit in the first place. Then he could still be a bad person, but have a motive that makes sense.
Or what if he wanted to take revenge on the cloners instead? My man's messed up seeing his face everywhere and although he thinks he's the only one who deserves that face due to his incredible skill he's also self loathing for what he's done and in a way thinks he shouldn't have been made at all.
Would give a lot of interesting complications to face internally and externally to the character, even just tracking down these cloners that must have gone into hiding to avoid being executed by both the empire & new republic for being too dangerous.
Gives a great chance for physically moving through the Star Wars universe and an interesting chance for exploring the philosophy of the psychopath.
@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka wouldn't they all be dead at this point though? How much age overlap would they actually have?
@@madmae8021 I'm sure some of the humans would have been young when it all ended, plus the Kaminions could live much longer than humans.
I dunno just seemed like an interesting idea to me. Heck one of the cloners could turn out to be 130 attached to all sorts of machines just to keep them alive, making Boba's rage at this scared & pathetic old man that much more impactful.
But who knows, might have been terrible. Just seems like it could have had some dramatic potential compared to "what if Boba Fett was a crime boss but nice :) ".
@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka I can see the potential though you could really do anything as I feel the cloning aspect wasn't delved into nearly enough like how these aliens can do this and why no one else does
@@madmae8021 exactly. Not only did it effect our main character but also the galaxy at large. What were the repercussions of that? Why has no one done it since or are they still doing it on the down low? Is there predudice against clones for stealing jobs AND being the face of a tyrannical empire? What happened to the professional soldiers that found themselves replaced by millions of clones? What happened to the economy that relied on those soldiers?
Just seems like a really strong source of potential story telling goodness.
At least far more interesting than bumming around tattooine for a bit.
I always thought it would be a fantastic idea for Boba to either interact or mention somehow his exchanges with the Clones from the army. Whether that be while they were current soldiers, or maybe retired/injured or homeless. Seeing his own face everywhere throughout the galaxy as he got older. Maybe a group of ex soldiers in a cantina all missing limbs and he buys them a round of drinks. Maybe he considers them family in a way? Or maybe he's constantly reminded of his fathers death every time he sees one. It's such low hanging fruit that they couldn't be bothered to even show or talk about.
Can we just take a minute to appreciate this altenative Boba story.. Had me on edge after that beautiful breakdown of his character
Nice to hear you liked it, Alexander!
@@TheCloserLook Agree!! I'd have rather watched your version than the one we got.
You forgot to mention Boba's arc in the Clone Wars animation(3 episodes), his with a group of bounty hunter, and trying to take revenge of Mace Windu for killing his father, he is still a lost child with a moral compass, but with rage for what happened, It's worth watching.
most certainly!
This episode had better character development than whole book of fett
Yes that episode clearly depicts he has a very visibly has a moral compass but this guy literally raised himself half the time or if he wasn’t was raised by scum and villainy.
I'm five minutes into this video and regarding what you say about boring characters: there is a reason I found Cassian Andor SO intriguing from the very first moment we saw him in Rogue One. And they did an amazing job on his show as well.
I love how you incorporated the prequels as a core attribute to the characters and their motivations as disney should have done too.
The moment where ahsoka has the vision of rex and then even vader is incredibly sad in my opinion. And i like it all the more for that reason!
I think it would make the scene even a little notch better if vader glitched into anakin from second to second. The evil Vader taunting ahsoka continuously mercilessly but in a split second changing to the face of anakin whom we expect to be compassionate but in his eyes there’s a fuming rage and he screams at her just like he did to her before padme‘s death. When Boba finally arrives she doesn’t see boba, but in fact Rex. And it isn’t the evil sith anakin standing there but the good, kindhearted anakin. And Rex reaches out for her hands and in that moment the music blasts the iconic force theme.
I absolutely love your pitch on this story. Your writing always has twists and turns yet doesn’t suffer from that. Can’t wait for a rewrite of the kenobi series :^D
4:13 - 8:45 In all fairness, though, this only REALLY applies to Disney's live-action movies. Their ANIMATED ones have solid protagonists.
any recommendations?
@@fezii9043 Zootopia, Big Hero 6, and ANYTHING from PIXAR.
@@aliminator1310 The Lion King in particular has an amazing protag character arc imo.
Pixaaaaaaaaaar
bro i was way more enterteined during those 25 minutes than i was during the entirety of the16 episodes of boba and obiwan combined, well done man
bro your boba fett story for what the show should have been was literally the best story I have ever heard in my life. You are an amazing storyteller. Disney should hire you.
I cried at that last time I was like this in a fett story was in the bounty hunter wars trilogy
A problem I had with the show from the start was that I could never see Boba settling down in one specific place. To me, characters like him and Mando have always been wanderers, just like Max Rochatansky and Clint Eastwood's "Man with no name".
That would've been pretty good.
As always, your storytelling ability is incredible. The only addition I think would be cool in this storyline is working in one (or multiple) other bounty hunters that the Hutts have sent after Boba. They could arrive while he is still viewing her as a bounty or after he has gotten to like her (or in-between). I think the aspect of the Hutt’s continued bounty on her specifically could lead to a bunch of great stories, or even an aspect of the next “season” of your clearly superior story 😊
Why does this man not just write EVERYTHING in Hollywood? Like his ability to write stories is unmatched
I agree. He's too good for modern day Hollywood. Justice in the next life for all of us, hopefully xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Because he is a white man who also doesn't put enough woke politic stuff in his story
Did u not see how short that second episode two was?!?! It was one battle then the attack of the droids, then poof! The episode is over!! His idea is not good enough for an entire series
@@vsavatxr i respect your opinion mate but as a story it's better than what we got 🤷🏽♂️
@@previshbinda3670 Oh definitely better than the original BOBF but it’s still, imo not a big enough idea to span across an entire 6 episode season
I thought we were past Boba Fett when the Mandalorian came along, I thought we were finally free of the sadness of seeing such a badass character be squandered in the worst way possible, Din filled the hole in my heart left behind by Boba. They must have thought they could have a second Din in Boba, a badass character that also has a heart of gold underneath, but they forgot that doesn't really fit Boba's character, Boba is a relic from Pre-Disney Star Wars and he doens't really fit in this new Disney, but dare I say we don't need him anymore cause we have Din now. I'm convinced that if the Mandalorian wasn't so succesful they wouldn't have done this to Boba, Disney must have went: "Hey, this Madalorian character is pretty well liked, is there another star wars character with similar design, backstory and demeanor that we could make money off?"
I just discovered your channel and I’m so glad you brought up the flaws of BoBF! I thought I was the only one who was aware of this issue.
Your vision of what the show could’ve been like had me agreeing the whole time and imagining it all. Especially if Boba and Ahsoka met and how he reminded her of the clones 🙌🏼 that would’ve had me balling (the clones and Rex have a special place in my heart) 😭 It would’ve brought everything full circle but tragically.
Great vid, my problems with boba is that the second he came out of the Sarlacc Pit, it felt like he was already fully developed into his new nice guy character. I just want badass character to be badass, and my childhood heroes to stay heroes, sadly people nowadays will twist that mindset to be a bad thing, to the point where it feels like we aren’t allowing to criticize Star Wars anymore.
I think it's because in recent years, we've become suspicious of people who say they're doing good. We can't trust the so called "heroes" (i.e The Boys)
The amount of money I would pay to see on screen your re-write of this show: it is a gargantuan number. Great analysis and wonderful writing, as always. I hope for the day that Disney realizes there’s still money to be made in stories that are like yours: bold, intelligent, nuanced, and expressive.
The truth is, I don't think that while he is in charge of flonio or fvrou at all, not even the same creative director worked on who was the protagonist, he only worked on episode 6 of fan service, seriously personally Disney continues to make the same mistakes but more discreetly.
It's really strange because when you watch the mandalorian season 2, you really get the feelling they understood what people wanted from a Boba Fett series and how to make the character compelling, but then they did exactly everything wrong. The book of Boba Should have been an anthology series where Crime Lord Boba confides his memoirs to a scribe droid. Episodes would have been a mixture of key flashbacks of the greatest contracts in the Bounty Hunter's life, intercut with modern day segments where Fett has to deal with a literal plethora of scum , criminal and bounty hunters in his palace scheming to take the throne and betray him. , with the lessons from the past influencing his decisions in the present.. Think game of thrones meets the mandalorian with a pinch of the sopranos in having the protagonist opening up on his exploits to someone. Would also have solved the fact Fett is a loner and most his bounties woud not have had anyone present to banter with him... Heck the show is called fricking "Book of Boba", yet there's no book...
Gosh why is this just so much better??? It's just so much more streamlined, no need to overcomplicate things. Another excellent video!
my biggest change to your suggestion for how the season's story should be is: No flashbacks. Ever. The original movies were plays, happening in the moment, act to act. If there was something in the past, it was mentioned but not expanded upon usually. Just "this is a thing that happened".
I think that is what made the world of the Original Trilogy so compelling, since you never saw what these "clone wars" were, or any of the missions of Anakin and Obi-wan, which when combined with their presentation as just things that happened, meant they were so much more interesting and intriguing.
God yes. I hate flashbacks. In any TV show. Seems like such a cheap and lazy trick, and always throws me out of the vibe. It's like a severe missinterpretation of "show, don't tell".
Apart from yet another needless KOing of Ahsoka (seriously, she has been rendered unconscious seventeen times! How is she not brain-damaged?), your version of the series is great. The droids and collar being a cool addition.
It's nothing groundbreaking or unpredictable, but it's compelling, especially what would be the core - the relationship between Boba and Ahsoka. It would be a pairing one would not expect.
I found the whole 'sith temple with ancient sith weapon we have never heard of' idea a bit eye-roll-worthy, but the exacution, especially the emotional part, would have been wonderful.
In Legacy Books Bobas Mission was to heal the surviving Clone Troopers from fast aging and early death caused by the Kaminoans, he was still badass but beaten after the escape from the Sarlacc Pit, lost most of his skin, had skincancer
I liked the Stories about Bounty Hunters and Stories from Jabba's Palace (I have no idea if this is the correct English title, I just translated it word for word) version of him.
Wow, your story is so much more interesting than the one we got.
Disney only has one story to tell and that story doesn't star a antihero. They are completely incapable of telling that kind of story.
My main problem with this whole thing is that what made Boba cool in the ANH and TESB was that he was just
Some mysterious guy who looked cool and acted cool.
By giving him a whole show for himself, it kinda ruined the mysterious cool vibe that he once had.
I've been reflecting on this show and I find myself asking the same question after TLJ; "How was this green lit?" Now I don't think TBOBF was sequel bad, it was just very sloppy. It felt like someone threw together a first draft and went straight to filming without patching up the holes.
I think this show would benefited more from being more thematic and character driven by focusing more on Boba's trauma regarding his father. It's the perfect anchor point to make the audience sympathise with him and how it derailed his life into becoming this cold blooded killer for hire. The sarlacc can symbolise the weight of it holding him down. Having a touching scene where he speaks to his father (de-aged Temuera Morrison) during the psychedelic dream and he convinces him to let go of his pain.
Turning it into the Mandalorian S2.5 was a bad move. It robbed him of valuable screen time that was desperately needed in this short 7 episode series. You can tell some Disney exec told them to shoehorn it in. Plus it did damage to S2 by undoing the whole arc. I mean I expected Grogu to return at some point cause he's an obvious cash cow but geez not this early. As groundbreaking as the Luke deepfake was it really should of been saved for Mando S3. I feel it's going to suffer a great deal from these decisions.
You could say there was this elaborate plan forged between Bib Fortuna and some captains to kill Boba and and his Tuskens for attacking they're train. They hire Cad Bane to carry out the hit but Boba isn't there of course. He finds out about Bib's involvement, retrieves his armor and kills him taking the throne in the process. Boba builds his new crime family up with likeminded individuals and draws out the conspirators by setting a trap. It's revealed he recruited the other Tusken tribes when he was in the dune sea and they win the day through a brutal ambush.
The final act would be a standoff with Cad Bane. After his employers are killed he decides to take on Boba himself one last time. It would benefit from previous material to really establish tension instead of just that unfinished TCW arc. (Real shame about that) Bane is the living embodiment of Boba's past and his final test. He'd tell him that he killed the Tuskens then they fight. After a heated duel Boba would win killing Bane and offically closing the book on his old life.
Boba is now the central crime lord on Tatooine controlling Mos Espa with his crime family and the dune sea through the Tuskens. He rules fairly but ruthlessly to those who challenge him.
This arc for Boba's character could not only be his redemption but also reiterate the theme of family that's so prominent in Star Wars.
Oh man
I think the thought process behind Disney was "All we need is iconography to profit". Remember? "DUDE! PRIDE ROCK!!!"
I couldn't find anything I disagreed with. I especially like the idea of keeping the Tusken tribe alive and them fighting for Boba.
All great points.
You could have just said it was shit like the rest of new Star Wars. Just say it, you will feel better.
This is just so much neater.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that hated the way they treated boba fett.
I like the fact that you made this also contained to just one area on one planet. It sounds extremely contained for a Star Wars story and therefore quite refreshing
I think what bugged me the most is that Disney KNEW they messed up. The fact that Din Djarin basically hijacked the entire show in the second half is...not a good look writing wise.
Such a good idea to include Asokha's past with the clones and apply it her and Boba's relationship.. Genius
Disney needs more writers like Henry. He just thinks of this stuff out if the blue and it’s somehow 10x better than the actual show.
This is a very good story, but I would change it up a little bit. When Boba arrives at the jungle planet, he lands at a safe, hidden spot, perhaps in a cave and sets up a camp up There. From that moment, everyday he goes on to look for the jedi. It takes months as the planet is so hard to travel, he has to always go by foot. Then, after a Day of looking for ahsoka, he return to his camp, makes himself dinner, and takes out a BOOK from Slave 1, and he notes down his foundings and intriguing things about the planet. He does this every Day for a few weeks. He primarily does this because, as you said, he has poor social skills and this is his only way of keeping himself feel less alone. As he closes the Book, we can see a marking on the bottom of it, which says J. Fett, and the J is scratched, as a way of telling us that he wants to forget about what he saw on geonosis, he wants to distance himself from the nemory of his fathers death.
He then eventually finds the empty graves and fights ahsoka, but she manages to escape. He then has a vision of what his father told Him, that he can be a good person, the opposite of jango. The story then continues as in the video, but over a longer span of time. So his character doesnt completely change in a week, which i hate in shows/movies. But otherwise, great job. This could've been way better
One thing I can say about this even as it is currently presented...he doesn't have to be "good" by the end. And that could mean there will be the potential for some sort of conflict as there is nuance in being willing to do good things and also do very dark things. He might soften, but the wrong person would still get disintegrated.
I love your rewrite! It just would be even better if you included a bit of the Sarlacc trauma. Remember that for most people, he died in there, and they never looked at the Legends Universe.
not to mention, bossk.
bossk only had a few seconds of initial screen time, yet he became a main character in the clone wars animated series and is a main character in the battlefront games. it supports what you said about how interesting star wars lore is and how you can make a good story for anyone in this universe.
I honestly think that Boba could easily be an interesting character, when you incorporate what we learned in the Clone Wars about him. In that show, he was bent on revenge, but he clearly had misgivings about the way it had to be done. When it came to it, he was willing to sabotage a ship full of clone troopers and cadets, but he wasn't happy about it. But at the same time, he didn't like being compared to the other clones. He distinctly said he wasn't a soldier "like them". We see Boba surrounded by ruthless bounty hunters as his role models after his father's death. These obviously formed the crux of his character; he gravitated to them and away from the clones. This is further supported in the Mandalorian where he gets testy when Bo Katan calls him out as a clone.
He identifies as being a bounty hunter, he doesn't want to be identified as a clone. But at the same time, the clones all share his father's face and he has problems killing them. This is a character who is not content with who he is and is going to latch on to the one thing that makes him unique; his relationship with his father. We'll also acknowledge the ruthlessness which probably came from years of work with those cold hearted bounty hunters. But again, he held onto his identity as Jango's son.
With this in mind, I think the single biggest bone head move of the series is how they handled when Boba got out of the Sarlaac Pit. The scene lasts 30 seconds or so and he's unconscious through most of it, and he doesn't really talk about it, so emotionally this moment doesn't mean that much to him, from the way it's presented.
But let's consider how much Boba wants to identify with his father. That was his father's armor, the single biggest moment in his life, the thing that set him on his path. He's tailored his identity around that armor. Never mind how he has been shown to value honor in the Clone Wars, so I can buy that defeat would be shameful for this character. Surviving that horrifying Sarlaac Pit, only to have the armor stolen by Jawas before he is dead should be the worst moment of his life next to his father. It's practically losing his father a second time.
So the scene should reflect how terrible of a moment that would have been for this man. It should last at least a few minutes. Boba should be fighting the Jawas and unable to stop them; he should be crawling after their tracks trying to get it back despite how bad his condition is, he should be crying for his father to forgive him or cursing the universe for doing this to him, maybe a sandstorm where he hallucinates that his father is being killed again. And then to add insult to injury, he's taken by the Tuskens, beaten, and forced to dig for water, until he's been through so much that at the end where the Tusken gives him the water, as a sign of respect, he's just grateful for it.
If that scene had played as I described, where it is shown to be an emotionally damaging moment, it would have provided the necessary status quo of who Boba was before the Tuskens took him, and thus I could buy that this character has gone through a change and why being with the Tuskens changed him. He had lost what was most important to him, and after everything that happened he could find comfort in simple things, like a drink of water and a bit of respect.
Given how the rest of the show played out, I don't think that it would have saved it, but it seemed like a basic scene that was left out and would have fixed a lot of the problems of Boba's character
everything you say is consistent, it's a shame that filoni and favrou are not interested in the character or know how to handle it because in the prequels and clone wars they sold you to someone who admired their father's profession and his honor but at the same time he became cold and lonely because of so many betrayals that has happened but out of nowhere in the series it shows a clumsy good-natured characterless dependent on everyone and who always loses every fight, I don't understand how there are people who believe that he had evolved if he didn't manage to do anything relevant or interesting in its plot until the end apart was heavily overshadowed.
If only Loki had been written like that one episode of House M.D. where House goes to a mental hospital.
Where he doesn't actually try and get better until the final act. Where he, until the final act he _thought_ he was doing just fine.
A very fine plot idea for Boba. Genuinely awesome work. I would only change two things:
1. Ashoka should win the initial battle between them. It is upon seeing his face (after it either falls off or she removes it) that she falters, seeing the face of so many of her long dead friends right in front of her, giving Boba the chance to incapacitate her. This alteration allows for your plot to continue as it was but maintains lore accuracy by having the most seasoned Jedi in the galaxy (and, specifically, an experienced Mandalorian killer) not lose outright to an aging Boba.
2. The point of change for Boba should be initiated through the realization that Boba and Ashoka worked for the same master - Vader- and through that thread how both of them share varying amounts of disdain towards the Jedi Order. This draws out the topic of Boba’s hate for the Jedi who killed his father, but through conversation and self-reflection he realizes that it wasn’t the Jedi who killed his father, but his father’s own greed (as it was Vader’s greed that led him down his path), and by extension, his bounty hunting profession. This causes Boba to completely reacamine his past, why he’s alone, why he’ll always be alone, and why no matter how much money he makes through violence, he’ll never regain the companionship his father once gave him. In the final moment of change, Boba decides that if he is ever to not be alone, he must stop being a bounty hunter and use his talents to protect people, not hurt them.
3. A small note that’s not necessarily a change but an addition: in Ashoka’s hallucination of Vader, he should really harp on the fact that he was the only person who ever loved her, and he was the only person Ashoka ever loved (until Sabine) - arguing that Ashoka’s abandonment of him is what led him to turn to the dark path. While these are massive stretches of the truth at best, these are the internal conflicts that Ahsoka toils with, believing if she could have stayed by his side, she could have stopped him from going down the path of the Sith. This false notion should have been the struggle that set the stage for Ashoka’s own show, the fear that abandoning Sabine would lead her down a dark path as it did to her master, and her own projections of that fear onto her former padawan being the impetus that pushes Sabine even further from her.
These videos genuinely made me want to write my own story, great stuff
I'm glad to hear that. Go for it!
The Closer Look, you've done it again. First with the rewrite of "Last of Us part II" and now Book of Boba Fett. I wish you the best man. I really truly hope that Disney or any big studio hires you for their story writing because you would kill it naturally
The fact that a single RUclipsr wrote a better series than a team of professional writers says a lot about Disney.