I liked when Boba didn't use his ship in the final battle. Instead we spent a whole episode watching him get it, just to search a Sarlacc pit for his armour??? What? Did the showrunners/writers just forget that he escaped the Sarlacc pit with his armour...
I loved when bunch of homeless dudes decided to throw themselves on a Wookiee instead of shooting him,and when bunch of other dudes tried to shoot him they only managed to hit his armor that covers 5% of his body,peak entertainment.
I love how Boba Fetts conclusion at the end of the show was literally “maybe I’m not cut out for being the leader” WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THE WHOLE SHOW THEN???
What was the point of The Mando S2 of The Mando - the whole reason is to find Luke (a Jedi, his kind) and give him grogu to train then immediately leave Luke and go back.
Disney decided Grogu was too much a cash cow to risk folks losing interest in buying toys because they don't see him as much. The decided to hijack two episodes of Boba's show to prime the pump for Mando S3 and tell all the moms Grogu's back. The problem is intelligent people are going to expect Grogu to get older at a certain point...which leads to the Baby Groot to Teen Groot major merchandising/interest problem/falloff.
@@kendrickallen7952 keep in mind that Grogu ages much slower than other species. He’s 50 years of age but only physically and mentally like 4 years old.
@@bigoj7917 True, but convenient excuse when they could have just time jumped before S3 to grow up the kid a little. Stories about babysitting are limited as hell and we all know it. However, it was obvious the Grogu based stories had the most weight outside the one where he was left behind and visit Bo Katan, which was an amazing episode. I was hoping to get more than that in S3 and maybe try to bring Grogu back in S4. Ruined.
To give you something to consume to keep your subscription. This portrayal of Boba Fett is the worst and the whole "let's just Marvel Avengers it" really dilutes the characters.
I legitimately thought Boba Fett was pretending to be weak and like a pacifist in order to draw out his enemies and potential usurpers, but then they reveal that he’s genuinely surprised that the other crime lords betrayed him. What do you think is going to happen in a power vacuum? I also thought exploring his backstory with the Tusken tribe would extend throughout the series and help explain his changes in character, but nope, they were slaughtered so quickly that General Custer would be jealous. All of the pieces were there and it just seems like they didn’t really know what to do with them.
@BatRoulette that's pretty much what I expected. And also have Boba Fett kill the traitor captains. Actually one of them defied him already in his own palace and he spared him. This was a classic scene where you kill the defecting captain either immediately or on his way back. And then the others will respect you. I mean he didn't like being feared, fair, but he liked being respected and this guy didn't respect him. And these were crimelords,anyway. The Mods, screw the silly vespas and the slow chase scene. And make their modification useful. It didn't really help eventually.
@@famousbowl9926 assume you're not American. He was an 1870s American military leader during the Indian Wars. He was killed with his men when they bit off more than they could chew.
There was such a missed opportunity to make an amazing story here! I hate it, Cad Bane was a perfect antagonist for Boba Fett and instead of building him throughout the series they just wanted the shock value of him appearing at the end of the series. Why not show us young Boba and Cad Bane? Who was a father figure to Boba after Jango died. Then when they meet at the end, two aging badasses who took wildly different paths, it would mean a lot more. Also they coulda just saved Mandos reunion with Baby Yoda until season 3🤦🏻♂️
Thing is.. Boba is only like forty one :P Yet they write him like an aging man ready for retirement because they cast a 60 year old... It's so weird. But yea.. Boba should have gotten an actual crew of significant size and then gone around town to assassinate any competition.. Eventually one of these other crime lords hires Cad Bane and we get a bit of back and forth there.
Was coming in here to write the same! Cad Bane is such a good mirror to hold up to Bobba to demostrate how much he's changed and who he ISN'T anymore. Not to mention just a fantastic character. The storytelling in this series was laboured and ineffective to the point where nothing was earned so everything feels meh. For instance, I have no idea why Fennec Shand stayed with Bobba. She just says, ok I'll stick around. They have no chemistry and have had no exchange whatsoever. Just putting in Cad Bane from episode 2 would have told us so much more about everyone in a natural an plausible way.
Man imagine if instead of being about the tuskens the flashbacks being about young boba learning bounty hunting from cad bane and seeing various jobs where we could see why boba wants to get away from that and being the one in charge
Seems like they set themselves up really well having Boba just walk into Jabba's palace and killed Bib off handedly to take the throne. I was imagining this being The Sopranos in space, Boba just killing anyone and everyone he has to and not giving it a second thought, anything to gain power and hold onto it. He should have essentially been a villain, just surrounded by less likable villains for him to kill in cold blood.
@@mikehurt3290 I kinda like the show anyway for what it is. The tusken stuff was amazing imo, it was doubly cool because Temuera Morrisson is himself a native New Zealander who brought in his expertise with his traditional combat styles
Only the first Mariachi was any good. He didn't write From Dusk Till Dawn, he may have directed it, but it wasn't his brainchild, and Sin City, by Rodriguez's own admission, is a deliberate attempt to copy the original comic as closely as possible. It's basically an official Frank Miller fan film. I love the movie, but it's not like he had anything to do with the story, characters, tone or aesthetic. That's all Frank Miller. All Rodriguez did was set it in motion. It's not like it was an adaptation like most comic book movies, where someone like Raimi or Nolan would put their own spin on iconic characters and settings, it was just the comic in motion. Essentially a glorified flip book. Of your examples, only the Mariachi movies are completely and objectively his, and of them, the first one is a favorite of mine, probably his best movie, but the latter two are just mediocre action schlock. Completely lacking the sincerity and emotional weight of the original that made it so good. Hit and miss is a very fair way of describing Robert Rodriguez' artistic merit.
Thought it was OK. Really got better when it became The Mandalorian. My main gripe was with Luke and Asoka. Why is Luke going with the no attachment part of the Jedi and why is Asoka encouraging it. Asoka rejected the Jedi cause of their bullshit and Yoda never said anything about no attachments. The most Yoda said was don't go help your friends, but that was more like "Luke, this is obviously a trap Vader set for you. If you go now, with incomplete training, you and your friends might be screwed anyways." After the prequals, Clone Wars series, and the Last Jedi, I thought we moved passed the whole "Jedi are infallible."
@@SuperCrazyfin yeah that's what I thought. He's forcing himself to teach the way that Jedi were taught and he really struggles with that because he's not actually believing what he's teaching
“Well I think they should’ve stopped shooting the shie-“ “They should’ve stopped shooting the Book of Biba Fett.” “That’s really rude.” 😂 I love this channel so much.
This needed to deal with the dark nooks and cranies of the SW universe. You can't make Boba a nice guy after all these years. You have the Mandalorian for that.
For me it’s not so much that he’s a nice guy, it’s that he’s just soooo bland. Like they’ve gotten rid of his previous ‘negative’ character traits, but they’ve not replaced them with anything. It’s doesn’t help that Morrison is so wooden in the role. It’s striking just how much more compelling Pedro Pascal is, despite the fact that he’s wearing a mask
@@captaintoyota3171 it effectively changes the character. He could have gained perspective after his time with the Tuskens, but his core would've remained that of a no nonsense killer. Mando already is softer because of Grogu and even him seems tougher than Boba.
My main issue with the show is that how he’s portrayed in The Mandalorian is very different from how he’s portrayed in BoBF. In Mando we see him absolutely DESTROY Stormtroopers both in and out of armour and then in the final post credit scene he mercilessly guns down an unarmed Bib Fortuna and claims his still warm throne. Boba was ruthless but honourable in Mando while in BoBF he’s a good guy. He’s a just, calm(is somewhat passive) and benevolent leader. This makes it really nice and easy to root for him but I was expecting more of an anti-hero from what we saw in Mando and instead we got Fennec in that role (Who sometimes seemed more in charge and knew what to do than Boba) (p.s. rewatching the post credits scene in Mando after watching BoBF, it is actually quite jarring how different he is in his actions compared to BoBF)
Honestly his passiveness and pure incompetence in the role of crime lord made me start rooting against him. Kinda hoped Boba would die and Fennec would take the mantle because Boba sucks now.
I love Jon Faverau an insane amount, especially with the work he’s done bringing Star Wars back from the brink of death with the Mandalorian but he may be a bit too involved in other projects. The actor who plays Boba thought the character was being too nice and he talked too much in exposition and tried to give Fennec those lines. He told the script supervisor who then called Jon who was filming Spider-Man and Jon called Boba and told him to say the lines. I just think Faverau was off-base on this one, probably because his attention was so divided.
I was fully expecting a Fennec Shand heel turn in the last episode, especially after she queried Fett’s decision to shut down the drug trade. But I guess that would have been too interesting for this boring ass show….
Mason is right. Boba Fett should be an enigmatic character that just shows up from time to time just to make Mando look like an amateur. He was badass because he was mysterious. This show gives us too much and none of it really works. They should have never explained how he got out of the Sarlaac pit (there is no answer to that question that could be satisfying so your better off leaving it to the viewers imagination). To the point where it becomes a running joke. And I'd even be ok with him never showing his face or talking much.
Ironically Boba looked just as incompetent as in Return of the Jedi, Fennec seemed like the highly skilled bounty hunter and ruthless crime lord, while Boba had to be rescued by the Power Rangers.
@@One.Zero.One101 The way I describe it is, that the show seems written by an AI. If you've seen that Batman story written by an AI, it's sort of like that, character pop in out of nowhere and stuff just happens.
And didn’t even do a good job at displaying said mysteriousness, I completely agree with Boba Fett not having a show. That was what made his character so great.
@@tenji8084 exactly. i get the “tribes are good” element, but what makes him love town so much. To me, the better story would be where Boba builds a bounty hunting team based on trust and mutual benefit and takes them on a grand heist or something. That’s “tribe.” Valuing tribe doesn’t mean “collect street urchins and be king of town.” Especially not when you learn that lesson from nomads.
@@D.A.D.D.Y. Yeah, exactly! Something exciting and high stakes. Not a fight over a town that stopped being interesting the minute Anakin Skywalker left.
The thing is Grogu can still be in the mando show even if they arent together. Show Grogu training with Luke, then maybe they get back together toward the end.
Absolutely, something like every episode opens with a quick 3-5 min scene of grogu and lukes side of things, then the last scene is season 3 is them training as a familiar voice says "hey" from behind them or something. Literally anything other than JUST pushing Grogu merch lol
@@reecehatton8469 You wouldn't be the first. Some of the fan movies/shorts are better than what Hollywood has produced recently. No money in it though, unfortunately
I agree with the grogu coming back already piece. Like Thor 3- Thor loses an eye, his hammer, and gains non-hammer lightning. The next movie he gets an eye, a hammer, and forgets he can do non-hammer lightning
Mason's idea of how this show should've gone, being a Boba Fett x Cobb Vanth trying to run the town but butting heads due to different methods would've been so much more interesting and fit where the writers wanted to take Boba. Boba could've continued how he was portrayed in Mando S2, being ruthless but somewhat honorable in his actions - you keep the whole Tusken Raider stuff (arguably the most captivating part of the series, aside from the Mando/Luke/Ahsoka stuff), but build it to them eventually disagreeing and perhaps have Fett and Vanth even fighting at one point. It literally would work in the flashbacks too - you start their rivalry by Fett tracking down his armour back when Vanth was wearing it around. You can keep the whole spice trade stuff, except like Mason said, make Cad Bane to be the one to slaughter the Tusken village (which creates tension and turmoil, incentivizing Fett to take down Bane), which causes a team-up between Vanth and Fett - both their crews taking on Bane and his army, a Tatooine civil war of sorts - how epic would that be? Vanth's near-death can stay the same, but with him out of the picture at the end of the series leaves Boba alone to run the city whilst Vanth recovers - pretty much what was hinted at when Boba literally murders Bib Fortuna and literally takes the throne forcefully at Jabba's palace after Mando S2, all wraps up nicely. We end the series on Boba as now the rightful ruler of Tatooine, what he originally set out to be. All the Mando stuff you save for S3, as Mason said you let him and Grogu reunite perhaps midway/end of the next season. Boom.
Never seen this or mandalorian, just commenting that I thought the Tim Oliphant cop character was called cop vance Can't say I'm not slightly underwhelmed
He wasn't calling out Boba for that at all you have failed to understand the scene. Cad is trying to convince these townsfolk not to trust Boba. Bad isn't saying they should trust him either, he is just trying to undermine Boba and make sure the townsfolk don't come to his aid.
Was pretty crazy though when he introduced the new character “disbelieving hostile guy”. Felt real emotions when the manager forgave him for being hostile. 10/10
It kinda killed me that when the robots with shields came out, they didn’t try using an explosive charge and letting the robots roll over it before detonating them while it was inside their shields. Hell the gungans figured this out! Also the episode of mando building his new ship reminded me of a fast and furious movie. Just spewing car jargon back and forth to eachother, but it was even funnier because it’s literally all just made up ship and engine parts. Hilarious
And when I say it killed me, I was shouting, asking why they aren’t using charges!? My girlfriend who knows nothing of Star Wars and watches only for baby yoda, was convinced I was losing my mind haha
1) The Mods - you guys look like you need a job. Okay, that was kind of rushed. 2) Krssantan- you look like you need a job. Damn, okay, guess he’s on the team too? 3) Luke saves the galaxy because of his love for his father and his friends. Ahsoka leaves the Jedi Order because of its shitty rules and ineptitude. They never had a connection to her. Then Luke and Ahsoka just go with the no connection no love no nothing bullshit Jedi Code? So that means when Luke trains Ben Solo, he refused to let Han or Leia see their kid? GOD DAMN YOU, Luke.
I like to imagine Luke looking at a group photo of all the Jedi who would die in the purge and being like "This failed spectacularly before... Well, let's try the same exact thing again"
I think honestly those two episodes of the Mandalorian cutting in really hamstrung this show, some more focus on Boba and Fennec and the reintroduction of the Tuskens could have really helped make that finale feel more impactful
Agreed. I felt that it was such a great build up...and then , as good as the Mando episodes were, I felt entirely betrayed as if they had pulled the rug out from underneath a great character and great story to tell the audience "GOTCHA, THIS WAS JUST ALL A CONTINUAITION OF THE MANDALORIAN." Then to the stick the knife in deeper, ending the entire series run on a scene with Mando and Grogu. If I was Temura Morrison, I'd be pissed. Kind of the same betrayal some Trek fans felt at the finale of ENTERPRISE, where they said the entire series was just a holodeck recreation inside an old episode of TNG.
The show was a mess. What was the point of those Kamino flashback in the first 3 episodes when we never got any revelation? Also, how did Boba know that Cobb Vanth had his armor in Mandalorian S2E6? That was never adressed in this series.
I'd assume that him showing up at the end of S2E1 meant that he was trailing Cobb and Din throughout that episode but didn't get involved until it was a fight that he thought he could win.
Never thought Id see a day where everyone knows what a Mandalorian is... and Boba Fett would be the second coolest Bounty Hunter. Next thing we know, everyone will love Dengar
How can a bounty hunter be cool at all when we've never seen him bounty hunt in almost 40 years? Literally, all we've ever seen him do is work as a GoPuff driver, delivering a frozen body between the Empire and a Hutt, and then die. That's it. R2D2 literally could have done anything we've seen Fett ever do in that profession. Except you can't kill R2D2. He's like the freaking Michael Meyers of Star Wars and almost as much of a sociopath, but I digress. And I don't want to hear about Legends fan fiction Fett; I wrote a novel where PeeWee Herman kicks Walker, Texas Ranger's ass but it's not going to be referenced in a movie... Or won't it?
Why didn't Boba use Fennec's little droid thing to look into the Sarlacc Pit for his armor? Why did he have to fly the ship face down over the giant monster? That was silly.
It's got some of the same issues the D+ series have, in that they're part of a larger narrative, which sometimes is detrimental to the series standing on it's own. It just affected BoBF more than the MCU/MCM.
It was alright but they really had no clue how to direct action scenes or make the danger feel real. Not only does it have the world's dumbest stick fight but it also has the worlds least exciting chase scene with bikes, the most stormtrooper mooks in star wars and somehow the worst bounty hunters in Star Wars. Hell Djin forgot cover exists in that finally.
Yea the overall writing was pretty bad, but the action scenes did them no favors.. I was never under the impression that they bad guys posed an actual threat or that our heroes were in any real danger. They went so far as to have the big tank droids just miss almost every single shot they took... shots taken at completely exposed targets mind you.. they just couldn't hit anything.. Only thing they hit was the rancor in melee, and that didn't seem to do much.
@@Alex-ve1og he doesn't have too, the man wears a helmet all the time, there is really no need for him to do his own stunts. Which is why it's mind boggling the action scenes are that bad.
I'm sad we didn't get to hear Bane choke out "You _DO_ have armor..." while laying on the ground, right before Boba stabs him. And then perhaps a "Maclunkey" before he dies.
Once Mando showed up, I came to realize that this show was just setting up a hub world for future projects. That being said I still enjoyed the show. Certainly not perfect but fun to watch. I loved the stuff with the Tusken Raiders the most.
When the first trailer for the show was released, I thought this would be some kind of Soprano-esque drama in the Star Wars universe with Boba Fett in a Tony Soprano like role. Instead I saw a mod gang riding on Vespa Speeders. The show isn't bad, but I expected something totally different.
@@attentionbajoranworkers4408 I said that I thought this would be some kind of Soprano-esque drama, not that it actually is that. This show obviously isn't as good as The Sopranos.
The only thing I could think of when they were fighting the droids in the finale is how there was an entire episode of clone wars about how to take out droids with shields. I was internally shouting at them to just roll a detonator
and the fact they had a line about it! it was literally mentioned that their stuff had too much velocity to go thru the shields! why even bother mentioning it
I was thinking the same thing. My fiancée was so confused because I was watching it on my phone with headphones and I kept saying "Roll a couple of droid poppers!"
Yeah, doesn't work like that. The massive shields on scorpantaks prevents it- that slow roll of a grenade ONLY works on droidekas because of how much less powerful and massive their shielding is. Mando/Black K tried to move through it and no dice until it was sufficiently weakend.
@@naus6081 That wasn't exactly clear tbh. Like someone above said, why would they even mention that low velocity objects could pass through the shield and not actually use that?
This made the fight scenes in Iron Fist look brilliant, and the dialogue in Inhumans oscar-worthy. I thought it was hilariously bad starting with that first fight in the first episode, and even up till the last few minutes of the final episode I was still being shocked by it being bad in so many different ways. The "vespa gang" looked and acted like extras from old-school Doctor Who, pacing was all over the place, plot decisions were just so odd, even the Djarin episodes felt off (though it was good to see what he was up to). If you had a gun to my head and said we needed to watch this or the Holiday Special it wouldn't even take a second to decide. I think my favorite was when the 2 gamorreans had to fight some people in the finale then out of nowhere it turns out they're standing over a cliff. Why were they next to that cliff? You don't know! The show wanted to off them so bam, there's a cliff to throw them off of, and who cares if it didn't make an ounce of sense.
Yeee the "elite assassins" was the first big sign of trouble for me.. If you'd told me they were just random goons hired by a local crime boss.. maybe... just maybe I could have bought it.. but an elite mysterious assassin guild.. and they show up with stun sticks and act like power rangers villains?
I am pretty surprised nobody's pointing out that temuera morisson didn't like where jon favreau and Dave filoni were taking the characters. He was constantly outspoken about this and he was courageous enough to come out and criticise this publicly.
Temuera went full "Jake Soydrinker" on Filoni?? I'm impressed r/prequelmemes haven't threatened to kill him. How dare that Kiwi insult God Emperor Dave Filoni!!!!!
I was literally about to say that. Temura Morrison literally shat on this show. So I did the woman that plays fennec shand she hated how her character was just exposition I heard. And I love both their characters they could do a lot with each of them as partners.
It's beyond disappointing to me that it turned into the Mandalorian Season 2.5. And a lot of people don't seem to care because it's Mando and Grogu and they love them. I compare it to Hawkeye, where everyone wanted Spider-Man to show up at the end. Imagine if a fan favourite character FINALLY after all these years is getting recognition and then for an entire episode they just brought in Spider-Man and did a whole episode about him. Narratively - it doesn't make sense. And for a fan favourite character who has a documentary on Disney Plus and has been around for over 40 years. It's disappointing.
I think people were only happy that it turned into Mandalorian S2.5 because the show was garbage on it's own merits. Boba sucked ass in his own series. And the only interesting part of the series (the Tuskens) was ended after the 4th episode. All the show did was regress Boba from where he was at the end of the Mandalorian season 2. Personally, I blame Robert Rodriguez for most of the problems in the show. His direction was fucking terrible and stood in stark contrast to BDH's directing in the Mando episodes. The "mods" were 100% his creation and obviously the worst characters in the show. That low speed scooter chase through Mos Espa was the worst thing I've ever seen in a Star Wars movie. I hope Boba gets a chance at redemption with a different director some day. But they need some time to let people forget how awful his show was.
Also since fans would have to wait TWO FUCKING YEARS until Mandalorian season 3 they would be complaining non-stop about having to wait so long. Complaining about not seeing Grogu for years. Complaining that Mando never even made a tiny cameo in this show. At the end of the day you are going to fucking complain no matter what. Had the show not had Mando/Luke/Grogu at all then you would piss and moan that Mandalorian season 3 took TWO YEARS to premier With Mando/Luke/Grogu getting the better part of two episodes you piss and moan that Boba Fett did not get enough screen time You see what I mean? Nothing will make people happy. Suicide is honestly the best option. OR go make your own fucking Star Wars shows and we can go and criticize those lol. After being handed 3 dumpster fire trilogy movies these new shows are incredible. Put everything in perspective and stop fucking whining.
@@Wodz30 You are whining WAY more than anyone else I’ve seen in this comment section. Plenty of people are patient, and not everyone has to convince themselves this show was amazing. I’ve been genuinely baffled by the amount of “it has explosions and Rancors, what more could you want?” comments, like we’re talking about a Fast and Furious movie. Having standards is fine, and The Book of Boba Fett didn’t meet some people’s.
@@Wodz30 After the Mandalorian episode I didn't want to see Grogu or Luke. It should've been saved for Season 3 like James and Mason said. Give them a break. Was episode 6 an amazing and incredible piece of Star Wars content? Yes. But thats then 2 out of 7 episodes not about Boba Fett. At least he showed up this time. But I had 0 expectations of Mando showing up. Let alone Luke and Grogu. Not sure anyone went into this thinking that.
I think Mando checking his weapons on the commercial flight was to show that he desperately needs a new ship bc of how inconvenient life is for a mando/hunter without one.
Bryce dallas Howard's episode was by far the best Episode. I absolutely LOVE her world building of Star Wars!! Also Boba was PLENTY fleshed out in the eu and was exactly how youd imagine. The writers actually gave a shit writing their stories.
Why didnt he have anyone to hire? He knows Bossk, Dengar, Zuckuss, and several more people personally. He worked with the Empire and the Hutts, hes got to have some connections.
This kind of boggles my mind. Everyone in the series is connected to Boba Fett. Are people really so simple that the title of the show is what makes them dislike it rather than the content?
I was higher on BOBF than most people. Don’t think it was as good as Mando, but it’s on the same lines as The Bad Batch for me. I really enjoyed certain parts but was let down in some parts
I can’t believe they would waste such a great character like Boba-fett. The way he stood around and did nothing in the original trilogy before dying to a blind man. Truly a waste.
But that's why it was kind of a waste. He was a tabula rasa of a character. You could have made something, anything. What's the point of the AOTC flashbacks? I thought that was a set-up to show that Boba had daddy issues and low self-esteem since he was beaten by a blind man. I feel Filoni and Favreau were scared to give him any form of character. Maybe because fans went full ISIS after Jake Soydrinker in TLJ? Boba being reborn as a Tusken was cool! But why does he wanna be a gangster? What did change from the end of Mando 2? It regressed if anything.
Boba clearly had a recognizable set of characteristics from his brief appearances in the OT that run counter to this trainwreck of a show. He is intelligent (able to track the Millenium Falcon through the trash release when no one else could), highly mercenary (focused solely on the money), ruthless (no disintegrations), and stoic. Here, he is a highly forgiving and pacifistic humanitarian concerned about water prices looking to rule with respect, with a level of naivete that is completely out of line with previous characterizations. The only explanation for this massive shift in character has been "He learned to be nice from the Tuskens", AKA the group of raiders that enslaved Boba and countless other innocent people and beat them for sport. If anything, spending time with the Tuskens should have made him more ruthless, not less.
@@ironcladnomad5639 While I disagree with the fan notion that "not what I wanted = wasted potential", for this show I agree. Say what you will about the sequels, for example, at least there's some artistic discussion to be had. Book Of Boba and his characterisation? Absolutely nothing.
Felt like there was a season's worth of content missing from this show. Where Fett and Shand decide to take Jabba's Palace, build up a crew of friends, form shaky alliances that pay off in the short-term but require devil's bargains, and then finally they shoot Bib Fortuna at the end. In the meantime Fett realizes the people of Mos Espa are suffering, and he vows to help them. Instead we get some potato-looking guy sitting in a chair and expecting tribute from people who don't respect him.
I enjoyed BoBF, but I think Mason's idea was much better. Give him a little more depth, but keep the mystery. You've actually convinced me they've ruined a great opportunity. 😩
I've been following Matt Berry's career for about 20 years now and to see him now been talked about on one of the few RUclips Movie chanels that I watch is really cool. Everybody needs more Matt Berry in their life.
This show really needed to give me a reason to care about Mos Espa. Usually a show or a movie that has a story about someone protecting a community will devote some screentime to letting us get to know some innocent everyman civilians and make the overall town feel like it's actually in need of a savior. But the only new people that we really got to know in Mos Espa were all cutthroats to some degree, willing to betray or kill people. So not only did Boba Fett's turn to heroism feel kind of out of left field to me, but the issue was compounded by the choice of community that he felt needed "protecting." Really, Fett? _These_ people? It got to the point where I thought for a split second that the show pulled a legitimately genius twist in the moment when it was revealed that the other crime families weren't going to remain neutral and we saw their enforcers in the streets pulling guns and knives out from barrels and boxes. For a moment I thought that the series was going to reveal the plot twist that Mos Espa really _is_ just filled with killers and thugs, and they don't care for Boba Fett coming in and trying to put a stop to it all; literally the whole city is against our heroes. But no.
This series definitely felt they were half way through production and lost all confidence in it and pivoted at the end to include a load of Mando stuff. Or the inverse happened where it was always gonna be a mix but then marketing panicked and focused all on Boba
I personally believe it was quite the delight to finally witness Boba and Fett share the screen together for an epic action adventure in Jon Favreau's: The Book Of Boba Fett
7:45 I mean this is a very easy plot hole to cover up. Boba was dehydrated, probably had brain damage from a lack of oxygen, and then got hit on the head. Not really unreasonable that he'd forget where the armor is.
The only real explanation for that is that he took the armour off when he was in the sarlac or he took it off after and it was thrown in there for absolutely no reason. Either way there wasnt a reason for him to search it
I’m reminded of the video where James says “cad bane” and mason says “I’m picturing a cowboy hat, don’t correct me” while not knowing what cad looks like
They successfully made a show called “The Mandalorian” that was not about Boba Fett. I would have said this was impossible. Then they decided they needed to bring in Boba Fett… why?
@@superjlk_9538 Tbf how can u do Boba Fest right? Replicate his best moments in the original trilogy like that time he stood around or fell into the Sarlac pit?
@@sreddi83 I’m sick of people using this argument lol there are books and comics they could’ve pulled from for inspiration. I know not everyone has read these but they could have pulled some ideas from them and show them to the mainstream audience.
a minor thing i love about the book of boba fett is that it establishes the jawas as a kind to strip everything from anyone apart from his shoes and long johns. you can be robbed of everything but the shoes with spikes on is where the line is drawn
I honestly believe this was originally Mandolorin season 3, but the main actor couldn’t make it to a full season and became they promised a show to Disney by a certain time they just rushed a story about Boba. A lot of things like the Hutts feel rushed and unplanned, plus the Mando episodes look so much nicer and make much more sense.
Wasn't the Sarlacc dead at the of RotJ? It was dead when Boba climbed out of it. Why was it alive again when he returned to look for his armor (that he should've known wasn't in there)?
The mod speeders didn’t bother me because they looked like hot rods, Star Wars has had 50’s/60’s inspired looks before, such as Dexter’s Diner. The real issue was that they seemed really out of place on Tatooine, but I think they would have worked really well in like the Coruscant Underworld looking areas.
To make it even stranger they have british accents where as people from Tatooine and other poorer worlds have almost always shown to have american accents... They pretty much scream "we migrated here from a big city planet" in their design, and yet somehow they are poor tatooine youths.
The idea you guys proposed, about Boba coming in every so often and either fucking things up for Mando or showing him up, would have been a much better use of the character than "I will rule with respect! Oh no, no one's respecting me! In fact, they're shooting at me!"
There were times watching this series where I genuinely thought they were fucking with us. As if the whole thing was some meta criticism on modern audience’s over-reliance of established pop culture franchises. Like “yeah, we know you’ll watch an unnecessary extended sequence of Mando boarding a commercial flight - because it’s Star Wars and you’re our bitch”
Book of Boba Fett masterfully transformed Boba Fett from a faceless, enigmatic, cold-hearted bounty-hunter, who works alone, and will do anything for cold, hard cash, into a fat, bald, middle-aged New Zealander, who desperately wants the approval of every stranger he meets, and is motivated by the power of friendship. Having a series to remove the mystery from Boba Fett, and create a back-story for him was SUCH a great idea!!! Next, I want to see a re-release of 1979's 'Alien', where the monster is ONLY ever shown in full lighting, so we can really appreciate it's design and scariness!! And maybe a re-cut of Blade Runner, where they add an opening text, explaining how Deckard's an andriod, right from the start, to remove all that annoying mystery and ambiguity!!
While I enjoyed the Book of Boba Fett nominially, I feel they should have done a "Tales of Tatooine" where we got cut ins on things happening on the planet with a through line of Boba Fett and Shan working to become Daimio. This would let us get more insight into the Mods, Cobb Vanth, the Pike Syndicate, and other things. It would have felt more cohesive and would have given a great more flexibility. As mentioned in the video, the finale could have been a "Magnificent Seven" situation where all the main characters we've seen through the season come together to push the spice runners off Mos Espa and Freetown (maybe even Tatooine). It would have been excellent as Boba Fett, Shan, and Mando are standing alone only to have the Mods show up to provide a calvary, Cobb Vanth coming with his battalion of Freetowners, and maybe some Tuskans come to take their wergild for the continued violation of the Dune Sea by the Pikes. Last comment: Definite waste of Matt Barry. He could easily have been a night club singer at the Twi'lek casino. It would have allowed him to really flex his comedic chops.
I would like to see Mushishi but with old Luke instead of Ginko. Just feels like what an old Jedi should be doing. If you are a screenwriter and happen across this comment please pitch this for me. Thanks.
Luke was testing Grogu, but not the way it appeared. He left Yoda on Dagobah to help his friends, and it was the right decision, because it was motivated by love. He could sense darkness in Grogu, and you'll notice he offers him a weapon vs armor ("A Jedi uses the force for knowledge and defense, never attack"), he displayed his power with those frogs, and when he described the Jedi training, he emphasized the POWER he would get from the training, not the wisdom or peace. He was seeing if Grogu would choose love or power.
I would love for this to be true but I honestly feel like that's too 'real star wars' and beyond what writers think fans want. Also if they misunderstand the character of boba this bad I don't hold much hope for luke skywalker particularly after people reacted so badly to the (imo amazing) arc he had in TLJ
@@1TheResurrectionists I am also worried that my take is a cope, tbh. I am just really hoping I'm right, because they were constantly referencing the scenes on Dagobah from ESB, and it just feels like it HAS to be deliberate.
Slave 1 would have decimated Mos Espa. The Rancor was the less messy option, not to mention the townsfolk seeing Boba riding it into battle is a show of power, earning their respect as he chose to fight at street level.
The show was fine. Not good, not bad, just fine. But the thing that genuinely annoys me is reuniting Mando and Grogu. That should have been saved for Season 3 of The Mandalorian. One of the biggest things people complain about in television is when a show has a big cliffhanger in its season finale, but then immediately resolves it in the first episode of the next season. This show just took it to another level I never would have thought possible and literally resolved a season finale cliffhanger is a different show before the next season is even out. What the hell were they thinking? Imagine if you’re someone 10 years from now watching Star Wars for the first time. You’ve just finished all the movies and decide to start some of the tv shows. “Hey, The Mandalorian, this looks interesting.” So you watch through the first two seasons and “Wow, Luke came and took Grogu. This is crazy. I wonder what’s going to happen for these characters.” So you move right along to season 3 and suddenly... what? Mando and Grogu are just back together? That is a problem. A show should stand on its own as one consistent, continuous narrative. You shouldn’t have to go and watch and entire season of a spin-off show (that in the future you may not even realize you need to watch) so that you can get the plot of the actual show you’re trying to watch.
That's kind of on par for Star Wars. Imagine if you knew nothing about Star Wars and started watching from Episode I: The Phantom Menace and once you get to Empire and Vader tells Luke that he was his father. That would be a lame reveal.
@@timbuckjr9081 Not the same thing. The episodic Star Wars movies are all part of the same film series. The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett are not. A more apt example would be if you were expected to know information from Rogue One in order to understand The Last Jedi. You can go through all nine Star Wars movies and find that the whole plot that series is within them. Now the plot of The Mandalorian is partially found in an entirely separate series. You can no longer just watch The Mandalorian on its own and not miss crucial plot points for that series.
It felt so spineless of them to go back to the status quo with Grogu and Mando back together after one episode. Why am I supposed to care about him letting Grogu go in the S2 finale now when they're back together immediately and in a different show I wasn't super excited for? Was it so scary for Disney to maybe go 3 or 4 episodes with them separated? Could have had a Mando storyline that brings him back to Grogu and Luke while showing a few scenes of them training during the time they're apart.
I always thought Baby G-gu was always going to choose the way of mandalor for two reasons. 1. Every time he is shown his past or gains a deeper force connect, his trauma re appears. 2. Luke’s first student in cannon is Leia and Han arriving to drop off their first born.. little Ben solo. THAT wlllould of been a dope post credit scene
I really felt the line you guys said @ 25:00 Where despite all the criticisms I have with the show. I really did enjoy my time with it and thought it was fun. I just wish they focused more on BOBA FETT. Which is like crazy thats a critique to have but still. I kinda hope the show gets a season 2 so they can iron out its problems, have Boba and Shand go offworld and have him expand his underworld empire on places like Coruscant.
Certain times when Luke is speaking from the side angle hips lips aren't even moving, looked really strange like they couldn't make the mouth match the words or he had no expression.
Richard Ayoade was also in an emotionless robot. I think that's the point. Take super funny people and stick them in these roles. I kind of like it. The inclusion of two mando episodes at the end was super weird. I enjoyed them, but wanted more Boba Fett. The power ranger mobility scooters were so weird, though. They just didn't fit the universe and the "teenagers" on them looked middle aged. Even the prequel pod racers, which were meant to be souped-up showy hot rods paled in comparison to these.
I liked the part where Boba used his ship to search the Sarlacc pit for his armour that in his old age, forgot he already had when he escaped the Sarlacc pit... And the part where he didn't use his very powerful ship to easily destroy his enemies in the final confrontation.
To be fair you can excuse him forgetting about his armour as delirious/trauma related, considering he'd just been buried within a Sarlaac's stomach and no doubt got some serious acid burns/injuries to deal with
For what is ACTUALLY Canon with Boba Fett has been very limited until this. We created our own idea of him from the expanded universe. This fixed that. I'm all for change- however, I feel like his uniform using a black under suit was to slim up Temuera. Understandable. But I honestly feel like I would have enjoyed this more of he had kept the gray. I'm saddened by this lol I should be okay with the black.
The one thing that really kept bothering me other than the extreme lack of stakes was that Boba Fett seemed so... Idk Goofy and slow Like he lost a bunch of brain cells
@@shawnh9111 it’s a very mid show, it’s rather slow and takes to long to get to the actual events that matter in the story. The first episode feels like a speeding train but by the time u reach the third episode it feels like that train just hit a wall. That’s my opinion anyways
@@shawnh9111 what was the theme or story arch of Bad Batch? Omega becomes and friends with Hunter and Cross hair is alienated, ava then we get to go to Camino (so?) to show what happened to it, which I don't really remember being a question many people asked. That's not worthy of over eight hours of a Star Wars narrative. The original trilogy was told in under 7.5 hours. It told little to no meaningful story and served no purpose.
I appreciate the Mods’ aesthetic because to me they feel like a nod towards the sequel trilogy ship and droid designs. I see them and I think Maz Kanata’s place with all the colors and crazy blending of designs.
It reminded me of the "privateer" short films made by semi-talented fan-peeps. Slow, stilted, lacking pacing, needing an editor and trimming down in areas and forty more pages in others. Oh, and it is so Star Trek TNG, full of board meetings and debriefings, but with very little dynamism. Like, fark, the Pikes coulda bombed them from the clifftops.
I liked when him and mando used their jet packs just to kinda stand around in the most open, exposed area in the middle of a gunfight.
I was thinking the same, really underwhelming firefight
When everybody on their side got behind the speeder I was like that is just terrible strategy.
I liked when Boba didn't use his ship in the final battle. Instead we spent a whole episode watching him get it, just to search a Sarlacc pit for his armour??? What? Did the showrunners/writers just forget that he escaped the Sarlacc pit with his armour...
I loved when bunch of homeless dudes decided to throw themselves on a Wookiee instead of shooting him,and when bunch of other dudes tried to shoot him they only managed to hit his armor that covers 5% of his body,peak entertainment.
You would do it too if you were covered in plot armor.
I love how Boba Fetts conclusion at the end of the show was literally “maybe I’m not cut out for being the leader” WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THE WHOLE SHOW THEN???
What was the point of The Mando S2 of The Mando - the whole reason is to find Luke (a Jedi, his kind) and give him grogu to train then immediately leave Luke and go back.
Disney decided Grogu was too much a cash cow to risk folks losing interest in buying toys because they don't see him as much. The decided to hijack two episodes of Boba's show to prime the pump for Mando S3 and tell all the moms Grogu's back.
The problem is intelligent people are going to expect Grogu to get older at a certain point...which leads to the Baby Groot to Teen Groot major merchandising/interest problem/falloff.
@@kendrickallen7952 keep in mind that Grogu ages much slower than other species. He’s 50 years of age but only physically and mentally like 4 years old.
@@bigoj7917 True, but convenient excuse when they could have just time jumped before S3 to grow up the kid a little. Stories about babysitting are limited as hell and we all know it. However, it was obvious the Grogu based stories had the most weight outside the one where he was left behind and visit Bo Katan, which was an amazing episode.
I was hoping to get more than that in S3 and maybe try to bring Grogu back in S4. Ruined.
To give you something to consume to keep your subscription. This portrayal of Boba Fett is the worst and the whole "let's just Marvel Avengers it" really dilutes the characters.
I legitimately thought Boba Fett was pretending to be weak and like a pacifist in order to draw out his enemies and potential usurpers, but then they reveal that he’s genuinely surprised that the other crime lords betrayed him. What do you think is going to happen in a power vacuum? I also thought exploring his backstory with the Tusken tribe would extend throughout the series and help explain his changes in character, but nope, they were slaughtered so quickly that General Custer would be jealous. All of the pieces were there and it just seems like they didn’t really know what to do with them.
Yeah slow start, showed promise, when I heard the line, you are now fully healed, aww shit now he's gonna be a badass, but nope
i clicked like when you mentioned General Custer. (though historically its spelled Custard)
@BatRoulette that's pretty much what I expected. And also have Boba Fett kill the traitor captains. Actually one of them defied him already in his own palace and he spared him. This was a classic scene where you kill the defecting captain either immediately or on his way back. And then the others will respect you. I mean he didn't like being feared, fair, but he liked being respected and this guy didn't respect him. And these were crimelords,anyway. The Mods, screw the silly vespas and the slow chase scene. And make their modification useful. It didn't really help eventually.
Whos general custer?
@@famousbowl9926 assume you're not American. He was an 1870s American military leader during the Indian Wars. He was killed with his men when they bit off more than they could chew.
For a series called "Book of Boba Fett" I never saw him reading once.
Or perhaps writing
It doesn't even answer the old question of 'is everyone illiterate in Star Wars?'
@@mikeclarke3990 boba wrote on the tablet that he gave to the mayors servant dude in the final
It's right next to the Book of Shadows.
Book of Boba Fett? more like Book of Bobs Fatt
There was such a missed opportunity to make an amazing story here! I hate it, Cad Bane was a perfect antagonist for Boba Fett and instead of building him throughout the series they just wanted the shock value of him appearing at the end of the series. Why not show us young Boba and Cad Bane? Who was a father figure to Boba after Jango died. Then when they meet at the end, two aging badasses who took wildly different paths, it would mean a lot more. Also they coulda just saved Mandos reunion with Baby Yoda until season 3🤦🏻♂️
Thing is.. Boba is only like forty one :P Yet they write him like an aging man ready for retirement because they cast a 60 year old... It's so weird.
But yea.. Boba should have gotten an actual crew of significant size and then gone around town to assassinate any competition.. Eventually one of these other crime lords hires Cad Bane and we get a bit of back and forth there.
@@MaMastoast you can ignore continuity errors to some extent if the story is good enough
@@creedbratton4064You mean like robo Luke having Yoda's lightsaber even though it got melted down in Disney's own continuity.
Was coming in here to write the same! Cad Bane is such a good mirror to hold up to Bobba to demostrate how much he's changed and who he ISN'T anymore. Not to mention just a fantastic character. The storytelling in this series was laboured and ineffective to the point where nothing was earned so everything feels meh. For instance, I have no idea why Fennec Shand stayed with Bobba. She just says, ok I'll stick around. They have no chemistry and have had no exchange whatsoever.
Just putting in Cad Bane from episode 2 would have told us so much more about everyone in a natural an plausible way.
Man imagine if instead of being about the tuskens the flashbacks being about young boba learning bounty hunting from cad bane and seeing various jobs where we could see why boba wants to get away from that and being the one in charge
Seems like they set themselves up really well having Boba just walk into Jabba's palace and killed Bib off handedly to take the throne. I was imagining this being The Sopranos in space, Boba just killing anyone and everyone he has to and not giving it a second thought, anything to gain power and hold onto it. He should have essentially been a villain, just surrounded by less likable villains for him to kill in cold blood.
I feel the cold hand of disney passing through the scripts like a shadow
Yeah, instead of him being Tony Soprano in space he was Joey Tribbiani
@@Andrew-xo6hl and some millenials on mopeds 😂
@@TheSleepiestPlurals exactly that sounds a lot better but no way they would make a main character of the show a bad killer killing a bunch of people
@@mikehurt3290 I kinda like the show anyway for what it is. The tusken stuff was amazing imo, it was doubly cool because Temuera Morrisson is himself a native New Zealander who brought in his expertise with his traditional combat styles
Personally I think Boba Fett was the 4th most interesting side character in The Book of Boba Fett.
Ngl I liked the wookie the most. Dude tanks like 9 shots and rips a dudes arms off
7th in my book, after Fennec, BK, Cobb, Cad, Mando & Luke. Grogu was the only one less interesting than Boba
Boba Fett was a boring character as written.
@@One.Zero.One101 I am a crime lord, give me tribute, but don’t do any crime ok?
Darth Maul was a WAAAY better crime lord in Clone Wars. Because Maul was actually a crime lord, lol.
The finale starts to make a lot more sense when you realize it was directed by the same person who did Spy Kids
Those movies were never good, you can't change my mind.
@@diegomedina9637 Not exactly the hottest of takes.
I don't get why Robert Rodriguez is so well liked, his movies are super hit or miss
@@Alex-ve1og He has made some great movies: the Mariachi trilogy, From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City.
Only the first Mariachi was any good. He didn't write From Dusk Till Dawn, he may have directed it, but it wasn't his brainchild, and Sin City, by Rodriguez's own admission, is a deliberate attempt to copy the original comic as closely as possible. It's basically an official Frank Miller fan film. I love the movie, but it's not like he had anything to do with the story, characters, tone or aesthetic. That's all Frank Miller. All Rodriguez did was set it in motion. It's not like it was an adaptation like most comic book movies, where someone like Raimi or Nolan would put their own spin on iconic characters and settings, it was just the comic in motion. Essentially a glorified flip book.
Of your examples, only the Mariachi movies are completely and objectively his, and of them, the first one is a favorite of mine, probably his best movie, but the latter two are just mediocre action schlock. Completely lacking the sincerity and emotional weight of the original that made it so good.
Hit and miss is a very fair way of describing Robert Rodriguez' artistic merit.
I love how these guys spend most of the first three minutes talking about Matt Berry.
I was pretty excited to hear Matt Berry, and then he didnt do anything.
well, they're not wrong. How could they waste Laszlo like that???
@@goth_fraggle Hey, I understand, I'm not a fan of Matt Berry myself, but even I was confused.
oh a gun I wonder if it's loaded
@@goth_fraggle who’s Laszlo? That’s Jackie Daytona!
“How’d you escape the sarlac pit, Boba?”
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“Sea turtles, mate.”
Thought it was OK. Really got better when it became The Mandalorian. My main gripe was with Luke and Asoka. Why is Luke going with the no attachment part of the Jedi and why is Asoka encouraging it. Asoka rejected the Jedi cause of their bullshit and Yoda never said anything about no attachments. The most Yoda said was don't go help your friends, but that was more like "Luke, this is obviously a trap Vader set for you. If you go now, with incomplete training, you and your friends might be screwed anyways." After the prequals, Clone Wars series, and the Last Jedi, I thought we moved passed the whole "Jedi are infallible."
This is pre-TLJ so Luke making these decisions and that possibly leading to Ren could be the way theyre taking it.
@@SuperCrazyfin yeah that's what I thought. He's forcing himself to teach the way that Jedi were taught and he really struggles with that because he's not actually believing what he's teaching
@@SuperCrazyfin possible. Doesnt exlpain why Asoka is encouraging it though.
It’s really telling that the biggest defenders of this show say it’s ‘ok’. Talk about damning with faint praise…
I mean Luke seemed to have learned from that and gave Grogu a choice
“Well I think they should’ve stopped shooting the shie-“
“They should’ve stopped shooting the Book of Biba Fett.”
“That’s really rude.”
😂 I love this channel so much.
This needed to deal with the dark nooks and cranies of the SW universe. You can't make Boba a nice guy after all these years. You have the Mandalorian for that.
Yeah maybe i think dave and john wanted to show boba changed after the tuskens took him in
For me it’s not so much that he’s a nice guy, it’s that he’s just soooo bland. Like they’ve gotten rid of his previous ‘negative’ character traits, but they’ve not replaced them with anything. It’s doesn’t help that Morrison is so wooden in the role. It’s striking just how much more compelling Pedro Pascal is, despite the fact that he’s wearing a mask
@@philcorrigan5641 the fuck are his character traits? He had a jetpack and fell in a hole
@@captaintoyota3171 it effectively changes the character. He could have gained perspective after his time with the Tuskens, but his core would've remained that of a no nonsense killer. Mando already is softer because of Grogu and even him seems tougher than Boba.
No. Cap
My main issue with the show is that how he’s portrayed in The Mandalorian is very different from how he’s portrayed in BoBF. In Mando we see him absolutely DESTROY Stormtroopers both in and out of armour and then in the final post credit scene he mercilessly guns down an unarmed Bib Fortuna and claims his still warm throne. Boba was ruthless but honourable in Mando while in BoBF he’s a good guy. He’s a just, calm(is somewhat passive) and benevolent leader. This makes it really nice and easy to root for him but I was expecting more of an anti-hero from what we saw in Mando and instead we got Fennec in that role (Who sometimes seemed more in charge and knew what to do than Boba)
(p.s. rewatching the post credits scene in Mando after watching BoBF, it is actually quite jarring how different he is in his actions compared to BoBF)
Honestly with the way they chose to play this I have no idea why Fennec Shand isn’t the leader? Boba straight up sucks in this show
Honestly his passiveness and pure incompetence in the role of crime lord made me start rooting against him. Kinda hoped Boba would die and Fennec would take the mantle because Boba sucks now.
He treats everyone so merifully but for some reason he just really hates Bib Fortuna, because he kept his ship in the garage or something...
I agree there were definitely a lot of inconsistencies with his character
I love Jon Faverau an insane amount, especially with the work he’s done bringing Star Wars back from the brink of death with the Mandalorian but he may be a bit too involved in other projects. The actor who plays Boba thought the character was being too nice and he talked too much in exposition and tried to give Fennec those lines. He told the script supervisor who then called Jon who was filming Spider-Man and Jon called Boba and told him to say the lines. I just think Faverau was off-base on this one, probably because his attention was so divided.
She seemed to want to be more of a crime boss than he did.
I was fully expecting a Fennec Shand heel turn in the last episode, especially after she queried Fett’s decision to shut down the drug trade. But I guess that would have been too interesting for this boring ass show….
@@philcorrigan5641 bro it seemed so predictable but welcomed & they really just said nope
The fact we don’t know what the crime world really is in Star Wars undercut the entire motivation of the sho
Behind every Great Man there's a cyborg ninja lady.
If she was the leader they'd have less problems 100%
Mason is right. Boba Fett should be an enigmatic character that just shows up from time to time just to make Mando look like an amateur. He was badass because he was mysterious. This show gives us too much and none of it really works. They should have never explained how he got out of the Sarlaac pit (there is no answer to that question that could be satisfying so your better off leaving it to the viewers imagination). To the point where it becomes a running joke. And I'd even be ok with him never showing his face or talking much.
He had his helmet off way too much. Dude is a softie
@Don they did give him a show with no characterization, AND they managed to make him no longer bad ass
@@darthhull85 tbf they acknowledged he was a softie in the finale
@diggy dub eh that seems a bit extreme
@Don same
Ironically Boba looked just as incompetent as in Return of the Jedi, Fennec seemed like the highly skilled bounty hunter and ruthless crime lord, while Boba had to be rescued by the Power Rangers.
I'd go with Planeteers over Power Rangers
They're fuckin vespas lmfao!!! Why vespas???? Of all the cool ass speeder designs we've seen in star wars, they chose to go with fuckin vespas
@@One.Zero.One101 Totally in character in return of the jedi
@@One.Zero.One101 The way I describe it is, that the show seems written by an AI. If you've seen that Batman story written by an AI, it's sort of like that, character pop in out of nowhere and stuff just happens.
I disagree. In Return of the Jedi he was just a joke. Here, its easy to see why Boba is not on his A-game after what he's been through.
never should have given a character whose main appeal is being mysterious a show that explains his mysteriousness. 🤦♂
And didn’t even do a good job at displaying said mysteriousness, I completely agree with Boba Fett not having a show. That was what made his character so great.
@@tenji8084 exactly. i get the “tribes are good” element, but what makes him love town so much. To me, the better story would be where Boba builds a bounty hunting team based on trust and mutual benefit and takes them on a grand heist or something. That’s “tribe.” Valuing tribe doesn’t mean “collect street urchins and be king of town.” Especially not when you learn that lesson from nomads.
@@Korgano yeah some kind of Mass Effect 2 suicide heist would have been amazing
@@D.A.D.D.Y. Yeah, exactly! Something exciting and high stakes. Not a fight over a town that stopped being interesting the minute Anakin Skywalker left.
The thing is Grogu can still be in the mando show even if they arent together. Show Grogu training with Luke, then maybe they get back together toward the end.
Absolutely, something like every episode opens with a quick 3-5 min scene of grogu and lukes side of things, then the last scene is season 3 is them training as a familiar voice says "hey" from behind them or something. Literally anything other than JUST pushing Grogu merch lol
would be nice to show parallels too, like din struggling on a job with something and then we see grogu getting taught something similar by luke
@@333dae so... you guys just wanna go write our own show? Lmao
@@reecehatton8469 You wouldn't be the first. Some of the fan movies/shorts are better than what Hollywood has produced recently. No money in it though, unfortunately
It shouldnt even be called "The Mandalorian" anymore, it should just be a show about Boba Fett, Din Djarin, Grogu, and Bo Katan
I agree with the grogu coming back already piece. Like Thor 3- Thor loses an eye, his hammer, and gains non-hammer lightning. The next movie he gets an eye, a hammer, and forgets he can do non-hammer lightning
Who's Thor?
Mason's idea of how this show should've gone, being a Boba Fett x Cobb Vanth trying to run the town but butting heads due to different methods would've been so much more interesting and fit where the writers wanted to take Boba.
Boba could've continued how he was portrayed in Mando S2, being ruthless but somewhat honorable in his actions - you keep the whole Tusken Raider stuff (arguably the most captivating part of the series, aside from the Mando/Luke/Ahsoka stuff), but build it to them eventually disagreeing and perhaps have Fett and Vanth even fighting at one point. It literally would work in the flashbacks too - you start their rivalry by Fett tracking down his armour back when Vanth was wearing it around.
You can keep the whole spice trade stuff, except like Mason said, make Cad Bane to be the one to slaughter the Tusken village (which creates tension and turmoil, incentivizing Fett to take down Bane), which causes a team-up between Vanth and Fett - both their crews taking on Bane and his army, a Tatooine civil war of sorts - how epic would that be?
Vanth's near-death can stay the same, but with him out of the picture at the end of the series leaves Boba alone to run the city whilst Vanth recovers - pretty much what was hinted at when Boba literally murders Bib Fortuna and literally takes the throne forcefully at Jabba's palace after Mando S2, all wraps up nicely. We end the series on Boba as now the rightful ruler of Tatooine, what he originally set out to be.
All the Mando stuff you save for S3, as Mason said you let him and Grogu reunite perhaps midway/end of the next season. Boom.
Never seen this or mandalorian, just commenting that I thought the Tim Oliphant cop character was called cop vance
Can't say I'm not slightly underwhelmed
Cad Bane calling out Boba for working with the empire is absolutely hilarious considering he worked directly for Palpatine during the clone wars.
It’s more that he’s criticising Boba for the ideological 180 out of no where
He wasn't criticizing Boba for it, he was trying to get Cob Vanth to rethink working with him.
To be fair he worked for the separatists.
He wasn't calling out Boba for that at all you have failed to understand the scene. Cad is trying to convince these townsfolk not to trust Boba. Bad isn't saying they should trust him either, he is just trying to undermine Boba and make sure the townsfolk don't come to his aid.
I'm very surprised that Mason didn't bring back his famous character "Guy Who Doesn't Know Anything About Star Wars" for this discussion.
I think canonically that character died falling down a flight of stairs
Was pretty crazy though when he introduced the new character “disbelieving hostile guy”. Felt real emotions when the manager forgave him for being hostile. 10/10
It kinda killed me that when the robots with shields came out, they didn’t try using an explosive charge and letting the robots roll over it before detonating them while it was inside their shields. Hell the gungans figured this out!
Also the episode of mando building his new ship reminded me of a fast and furious movie. Just spewing car jargon back and forth to eachother, but it was even funnier because it’s literally all just made up ship and engine parts. Hilarious
And when I say it killed me, I was shouting, asking why they aren’t using charges!? My girlfriend who knows nothing of Star Wars and watches only for baby yoda, was convinced I was losing my mind haha
1) The Mods - you guys look like you need a job. Okay, that was kind of rushed.
2) Krssantan- you look like you need a job. Damn, okay, guess he’s on the team too?
3) Luke saves the galaxy because of his love for his father and his friends. Ahsoka leaves the Jedi Order because of its shitty rules and ineptitude. They never had a connection to her. Then Luke and Ahsoka just go with the no connection no love no nothing bullshit Jedi Code? So that means when Luke trains Ben Solo, he refused to let Han or Leia see their kid? GOD DAMN YOU, Luke.
I like to imagine Luke looking at a group photo of all the Jedi who would die in the purge and being like "This failed spectacularly before... Well, let's try the same exact thing again"
I think honestly those two episodes of the Mandalorian cutting in really hamstrung this show, some more focus on Boba and Fennec and the reintroduction of the Tuskens could have really helped make that finale feel more impactful
Agreed. I felt that it was such a great build up...and then , as good as the Mando episodes were, I felt entirely betrayed as if they had pulled the rug out from underneath a great character and great story to tell the audience "GOTCHA, THIS WAS JUST ALL A CONTINUAITION OF THE MANDALORIAN." Then to the stick the knife in deeper, ending the entire series run on a scene with Mando and Grogu. If I was Temura Morrison, I'd be pissed. Kind of the same betrayal some Trek fans felt at the finale of ENTERPRISE, where they said the entire series was just a holodeck recreation inside an old episode of TNG.
They should have revealed that one or more of the Tuskens had survived. That Tusken warrior showing up again to save the day would have been awesome.
The show was a mess. What was the point of those Kamino flashback in the first 3 episodes when we never got any revelation? Also, how did Boba know that Cobb Vanth had his armor in Mandalorian S2E6? That was never adressed in this series.
I'd assume that him showing up at the end of S2E1 meant that he was trailing Cobb and Din throughout that episode but didn't get involved until it was a fight that he thought he could win.
He cast Locate Object as he wandered around Tatooine in a grid search pattern until the spell returned an arcane ping.
24:23 James saying ‘they were nice’ about the pig guards is the sweetest thing I’ve heard in ages
Never thought Id see a day where everyone knows what a Mandalorian is... and Boba Fett would be the second coolest Bounty Hunter.
Next thing we know, everyone will love Dengar
But.. everyone does love Dengar.
How can a bounty hunter be cool at all when we've never seen him bounty hunt in almost 40 years? Literally, all we've ever seen him do is work as a GoPuff driver, delivering a frozen body between the Empire and a Hutt, and then die. That's it. R2D2 literally could have done anything we've seen Fett ever do in that profession. Except you can't kill R2D2. He's like the freaking Michael Meyers of Star Wars and almost as much of a sociopath, but I digress.
And I don't want to hear about Legends fan fiction Fett; I wrote a novel where PeeWee Herman kicks Walker, Texas Ranger's ass but it's not going to be referenced in a movie... Or won't it?
"Dengar's speciality? Disintegration devices! Need something disintegrated, get me integrated that's Dengar's motto!"
@@f1jones544 “we haven’t seen him! No i dont wanna hear about legends lalalala” bruh can you not read or what?
Boba Fett was never a Mandalorian.
Why didn't Boba use Fennec's little droid thing to look into the Sarlacc Pit for his armor? Why did he have to fly the ship face down over the giant monster? That was silly.
It's got some of the same issues the D+ series have, in that they're part of a larger narrative, which sometimes is detrimental to the series standing on it's own. It just affected BoBF more than the MCU/MCM.
They didn't even give Boba Fett the last scene in his own show. It was just the Mando akd Grogu show.
To be fair Mando is a way better character than this version of Boba.
Which sucks because I like him in Clone Wars.
@@Simon-yp7rv Mando is pretty much what people had built up Fett to be in their heads over the years.
It was alright but they really had no clue how to direct action scenes or make the danger feel real.
Not only does it have the world's dumbest stick fight but it also has the worlds least exciting chase scene with bikes, the most stormtrooper mooks in star wars and somehow the worst bounty hunters in Star Wars. Hell Djin forgot cover exists in that finally.
Yea the overall writing was pretty bad, but the action scenes did them no favors.. I was never under the impression that they bad guys posed an actual threat or that our heroes were in any real danger.
They went so far as to have the big tank droids just miss almost every single shot they took... shots taken at completely exposed targets mind you.. they just couldn't hit anything..
Only thing they hit was the rancor in melee, and that didn't seem to do much.
The fights were terrible, Morrison is just too old to pull off what Pedro Pascal does
@@Alex-ve1og he doesn't have too, the man wears a helmet all the time, there is really no need for him to do his own stunts. Which is why it's mind boggling the action scenes are that bad.
My only issue with this video is you mention the "but I have armour" line, and not Cad Bane's response of "Let's find out". No??? He does have armour.
I'm sad we didn't get to hear Bane choke out "You _DO_ have armor..." while laying on the ground, right before Boba stabs him. And then perhaps a "Maclunkey" before he dies.
If the best parts of your boba fett show don't have Boba Fett on screen then something's up.
Once Mando showed up, I came to realize that this show was just setting up a hub world for future projects. That being said I still enjoyed the show. Certainly not perfect but fun to watch. I loved the stuff with the Tusken Raiders the most.
When the first trailer for the show was released, I thought this would be some kind of Soprano-esque drama in the Star Wars universe with Boba Fett in a Tony Soprano like role. Instead I saw a mod gang riding on Vespa Speeders.
The show isn't bad, but I expected something totally different.
They looked more like mobility scooters to me than vespas, which made that terrible chase scene all the more embarrassing
But wait they. Modded their bodies AND dressed like Mods. They must have taken the week off after coming up with that.
"were from alcoholics anonymous"
"what's your name?"
"well, were anonymous"
bruh disney can't write dialogue like the sopranos gtfoh!
@@attentionbajoranworkers4408 I said that I thought this would be some kind of Soprano-esque drama, not that it actually is that. This show obviously isn't as good as The Sopranos.
@@God_Is_An_Atheist The 2 minute Sopranos Super Bowl ad this year was better than this entire season.
The only thing I could think of when they were fighting the droids in the finale is how there was an entire episode of clone wars about how to take out droids with shields. I was internally shouting at them to just roll a detonator
and the fact they had a line about it!
it was literally mentioned that their stuff had too much velocity to go thru the shields!
why even bother mentioning it
I was thinking the same thing. My fiancée was so confused because I was watching it on my phone with headphones and I kept saying "Roll a couple of droid poppers!"
Yeah, doesn't work like that. The massive shields on scorpantaks prevents it- that slow roll of a grenade ONLY works on droidekas because of how much less powerful and massive their shielding is. Mando/Black K tried to move through it and no dice until it was sufficiently weakend.
@@naus6081 That wasn't exactly clear tbh. Like someone above said, why would they even mention that low velocity objects could pass through the shield and not actually use that?
No boba Fett had to shoot at it mindlessly with no effect for 5 minutes first.
This made the fight scenes in Iron Fist look brilliant, and the dialogue in Inhumans oscar-worthy. I thought it was hilariously bad starting with that first fight in the first episode, and even up till the last few minutes of the final episode I was still being shocked by it being bad in so many different ways. The "vespa gang" looked and acted like extras from old-school Doctor Who, pacing was all over the place, plot decisions were just so odd, even the Djarin episodes felt off (though it was good to see what he was up to). If you had a gun to my head and said we needed to watch this or the Holiday Special it wouldn't even take a second to decide. I think my favorite was when the 2 gamorreans had to fight some people in the finale then out of nowhere it turns out they're standing over a cliff. Why were they next to that cliff? You don't know! The show wanted to off them so bam, there's a cliff to throw them off of, and who cares if it didn't make an ounce of sense.
Yeee the "elite assassins" was the first big sign of trouble for me.. If you'd told me they were just random goons hired by a local crime boss.. maybe... just maybe I could have bought it.. but an elite mysterious assassin guild.. and they show up with stun sticks and act like power rangers villains?
"it makes the fight scenes in iron fist look brilliant" is the most damning criticism I've ever heard and I whole heartedly agree.
I am pretty surprised nobody's pointing out that temuera morisson didn't like where jon favreau and Dave filoni were taking the characters. He was constantly outspoken about this and he was courageous enough to come out and criticise this publicly.
Temuera went full "Jake Soydrinker" on Filoni?? I'm impressed r/prequelmemes haven't threatened to kill him. How dare that Kiwi insult God Emperor Dave Filoni!!!!!
What did he say?
“constantly outspoken” he mentioned like twice (between over a dozen interviews) that he thought that boba should be a bit quieter.
I was literally about to say that. Temura Morrison literally shat on this show. So I did the woman that plays fennec shand she hated how her character was just exposition I heard. And I love both their characters they could do a lot with each of them as partners.
Filonis always been a hack
I hated that the way Boba killed Cad Bane was that Cad Bane was doing a bad guy plot speech. He had Boba in the ground with his gun in his face.
It's beyond disappointing to me that it turned into the Mandalorian Season 2.5. And a lot of people don't seem to care because it's Mando and Grogu and they love them.
I compare it to Hawkeye, where everyone wanted Spider-Man to show up at the end. Imagine if a fan favourite character FINALLY after all these years is getting recognition and then for an entire episode they just brought in Spider-Man and did a whole episode about him. Narratively - it doesn't make sense. And for a fan favourite character who has a documentary on Disney Plus and has been around for over 40 years. It's disappointing.
I think people were only happy that it turned into Mandalorian S2.5 because the show was garbage on it's own merits. Boba sucked ass in his own series. And the only interesting part of the series (the Tuskens) was ended after the 4th episode.
All the show did was regress Boba from where he was at the end of the Mandalorian season 2.
Personally, I blame Robert Rodriguez for most of the problems in the show. His direction was fucking terrible and stood in stark contrast to BDH's directing in the Mando episodes. The "mods" were 100% his creation and obviously the worst characters in the show. That low speed scooter chase through Mos Espa was the worst thing I've ever seen in a Star Wars movie.
I hope Boba gets a chance at redemption with a different director some day. But they need some time to let people forget how awful his show was.
Also since fans would have to wait TWO FUCKING YEARS until Mandalorian season 3 they would be complaining non-stop about having to wait so long. Complaining about not seeing Grogu for years. Complaining that Mando never even made a tiny cameo in this show. At the end of the day you are going to fucking complain no matter what.
Had the show not had Mando/Luke/Grogu at all then you would piss and moan that Mandalorian season 3 took TWO YEARS to premier
With Mando/Luke/Grogu getting the better part of two episodes you piss and moan that Boba Fett did not get enough screen time
You see what I mean? Nothing will make people happy. Suicide is honestly the best option. OR go make your own fucking Star Wars shows and we can go and criticize those lol. After being handed 3 dumpster fire trilogy movies these new shows are incredible. Put everything in perspective and stop fucking whining.
@@Wodz30 You are whining WAY more than anyone else I’ve seen in this comment section. Plenty of people are patient, and not everyone has to convince themselves this show was amazing. I’ve been genuinely baffled by the amount of “it has explosions and Rancors, what more could you want?” comments, like we’re talking about a Fast and Furious movie. Having standards is fine, and The Book of Boba Fett didn’t meet some people’s.
@@Wodz30 After the Mandalorian episode I didn't want to see Grogu or Luke. It should've been saved for Season 3 like James and Mason said. Give them a break.
Was episode 6 an amazing and incredible piece of Star Wars content? Yes. But thats then 2 out of 7 episodes not about Boba Fett. At least he showed up this time.
But I had 0 expectations of Mando showing up. Let alone Luke and Grogu. Not sure anyone went into this thinking that.
@@Wodz30 conversely, have you considered that you’ll unnecessarily venerate anything with Jon Favreau’s name in the credits?
I think Mando checking his weapons on the commercial flight was to show that he desperately needs a new ship bc of how inconvenient life is for a mando/hunter without one.
Bryce dallas Howard's episode was by far the best Episode. I absolutely LOVE her world building of Star Wars!!
Also Boba was PLENTY fleshed out in the eu and was exactly how youd imagine. The writers actually gave a shit writing their stories.
Makes RR's world building look small by comparison
Boba Fett is like the epitome of “hired help” and he had no idea how to hire help 😂
Why didnt he have anyone to hire?
He knows Bossk, Dengar, Zuckuss, and several more people personally.
He worked with the Empire and the Hutts, hes got to have some connections.
I think, like, if the show was called The Mandalorian: The Book of Boba Fett everything could have been avoided.
This kind of boggles my mind. Everyone in the series is connected to Boba Fett. Are people really so simple that the title of the show is what makes them dislike it rather than the content?
@@FerociousPaul yes, it seems like that
The Book of Everyone But Boba Fett
All of the problems would still persist.
No it would still be a bad show (except for episode 5)
I was higher on BOBF than most people. Don’t think it was as good as Mando, but it’s on the same lines as The Bad Batch for me. I really enjoyed certain parts but was let down in some parts
I can’t believe they would waste such a great character like Boba-fett. The way he stood around and did nothing in the original trilogy before dying to a blind man. Truly a waste.
The trilogy would be nothing without such classic lines as “As you wish” and “Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold”. A truly profound character.
But that's why it was kind of a waste. He was a tabula rasa of a character. You could have made something, anything. What's the point of the AOTC flashbacks? I thought that was a set-up to show that Boba had daddy issues and low self-esteem since he was beaten by a blind man. I feel Filoni and Favreau were scared to give him any form of character. Maybe because fans went full ISIS after Jake Soydrinker in TLJ? Boba being reborn as a Tusken was cool! But why does he wanna be a gangster? What did change from the end of Mando 2? It regressed if anything.
Exactly what Bongo said: there was immense potential that was ultimately squandered. A running trend with Disney Star Wars, I'd like to point out.
Boba clearly had a recognizable set of characteristics from his brief appearances in the OT that run counter to this trainwreck of a show. He is intelligent (able to track the Millenium Falcon through the trash release when no one else could), highly mercenary (focused solely on the money), ruthless (no disintegrations), and stoic.
Here, he is a highly forgiving and pacifistic humanitarian concerned about water prices looking to rule with respect, with a level of naivete that is completely out of line with previous characterizations.
The only explanation for this massive shift in character has been "He learned to be nice from the Tuskens", AKA the group of raiders that enslaved Boba and countless other innocent people and beat them for sport. If anything, spending time with the Tuskens should have made him more ruthless, not less.
@@ironcladnomad5639 While I disagree with the fan notion that "not what I wanted = wasted potential", for this show I agree. Say what you will about the sequels, for example, at least there's some artistic discussion to be had. Book Of Boba and his characterisation? Absolutely nothing.
mason over here just casually dropping quadrophenia, like a boss
“A big wet bin with a beak’. Best Sarlaac description ever 😂
Boba Fett in this show was like trying to play a 100 percent charisma run but you fail on the charisma checks so you have to fight anyway.
And a relevant profile pic
Felt like there was a season's worth of content missing from this show. Where Fett and Shand decide to take Jabba's Palace, build up a crew of friends, form shaky alliances that pay off in the short-term but require devil's bargains, and then finally they shoot Bib Fortuna at the end. In the meantime Fett realizes the people of Mos Espa are suffering, and he vows to help them. Instead we get some potato-looking guy sitting in a chair and expecting tribute from people who don't respect him.
I enjoyed BoBF, but I think Mason's idea was much better. Give him a little more depth, but keep the mystery. You've actually convinced me they've ruined a great opportunity. 😩
I've been following Matt Berry's career for about 20 years now and to see him now been talked about on one of the few RUclips Movie chanels that I watch is really cool. Everybody needs more Matt Berry in their life.
This show really needed to give me a reason to care about Mos Espa. Usually a show or a movie that has a story about someone protecting a community will devote some screentime to letting us get to know some innocent everyman civilians and make the overall town feel like it's actually in need of a savior. But the only new people that we really got to know in Mos Espa were all cutthroats to some degree, willing to betray or kill people. So not only did Boba Fett's turn to heroism feel kind of out of left field to me, but the issue was compounded by the choice of community that he felt needed "protecting." Really, Fett? _These_ people? It got to the point where I thought for a split second that the show pulled a legitimately genius twist in the moment when it was revealed that the other crime families weren't going to remain neutral and we saw their enforcers in the streets pulling guns and knives out from barrels and boxes. For a moment I thought that the series was going to reveal the plot twist that Mos Espa really _is_ just filled with killers and thugs, and they don't care for Boba Fett coming in and trying to put a stop to it all; literally the whole city is against our heroes. But no.
This series definitely felt they were half way through production and lost all confidence in it and pivoted at the end to include a load of Mando stuff. Or the inverse happened where it was always gonna be a mix but then marketing panicked and focused all on Boba
I personally believe it was quite the delight to finally witness Boba and Fett share the screen together for an epic action adventure in Jon Favreau's: The Book Of Boba Fett
An all new all modern rendition of the classic novel, the adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Glad you noticed the Lee Van Cleef homage too! Always liked him in High Noon.
7:45 I mean this is a very easy plot hole to cover up. Boba was dehydrated, probably had brain damage from a lack of oxygen, and then got hit on the head. Not really unreasonable that he'd forget where the armor is.
The only real explanation for that is that he took the armour off when he was in the sarlac or he took it off after and it was thrown in there for absolutely no reason. Either way there wasnt a reason for him to search it
Irreversible brain damage is about the only explanation for any of his actions. And I'm talking everything we've ever seen this guy do in movie canon.
I’m reminded of the video where James says “cad bane” and mason says “I’m picturing a cowboy hat, don’t correct me” while not knowing what cad looks like
They successfully made a show called “The Mandalorian” that was not about Boba Fett. I would have said this was impossible. Then they decided they needed to bring in Boba Fett… why?
because Disney is desperate to milk idiot fans with fan service just like any other studio nowadays...
And then they didn’t even do Boba Fett right
@@superjlk_9538 Tbf how can u do Boba Fest right? Replicate his best moments in the original trilogy like that time he stood around or fell into the Sarlac pit?
@@sreddi83 I’m sick of people using this argument lol there are books and comics they could’ve pulled from for inspiration. I know not everyone has read these but they could have pulled some ideas from them and show them to the mainstream audience.
@@sreddi83 They did do Boba right in Mando S2. Which is what makes this show so dumbfounding. Complete 180 from the trajectory they had.
a minor thing i love about the book of boba fett is that it establishes the jawas as a kind to strip everything from anyone apart from his shoes and long johns. you can be robbed of everything but the shoes with spikes on is where the line is drawn
I honestly believe this was originally Mandolorin season 3, but the main actor couldn’t make it to a full season and became they promised a show to Disney by a certain time they just rushed a story about Boba. A lot of things like the Hutts feel rushed and unplanned, plus the Mando episodes look so much nicer and make much more sense.
Wasn't the Sarlacc dead at the of RotJ?
It was dead when Boba climbed out of it. Why was it alive again when he returned to look for his armor (that he should've known wasn't in there)?
The mod speeders didn’t bother me because they looked like hot rods, Star Wars has had 50’s/60’s inspired looks before, such as Dexter’s Diner. The real issue was that they seemed really out of place on Tatooine, but I think they would have worked really well in like the Coruscant Underworld looking areas.
To make it even stranger they have british accents where as people from Tatooine and other poorer worlds have almost always shown to have american accents...
They pretty much scream "we migrated here from a big city planet" in their design, and yet somehow they are poor tatooine youths.
The idea you guys proposed, about Boba coming in every so often and either fucking things up for Mando or showing him up, would have been a much better use of the character than "I will rule with respect! Oh no, no one's respecting me! In fact, they're shooting at me!"
There were times watching this series where I genuinely thought they were fucking with us.
As if the whole thing was some meta criticism on modern audience’s over-reliance of established pop culture franchises.
Like “yeah, we know you’ll watch an unnecessary extended sequence of Mando boarding a commercial flight - because it’s Star Wars and you’re our bitch”
A bad joke, right?
Big wet bin with a beak is my new favourite phrase
Yes. Completely. If anything, it made the character less cool and way less interesting
"just a guy who likes a town"
Book of Boba Fett masterfully transformed Boba Fett from a faceless, enigmatic, cold-hearted bounty-hunter, who works alone, and will do anything for cold, hard cash, into a fat, bald, middle-aged New Zealander, who desperately wants the approval of every stranger he meets, and is motivated by the power of friendship. Having a series to remove the mystery from Boba Fett, and create a back-story for him was SUCH a great idea!!! Next, I want to see a re-release of 1979's 'Alien', where the monster is ONLY ever shown in full lighting, so we can really appreciate it's design and scariness!! And maybe a re-cut of Blade Runner, where they add an opening text, explaining how Deckard's an andriod, right from the start, to remove all that annoying mystery and ambiguity!!
It was Lucas-esque in its ability to completely ruin something that used to be good
I think Mando looks a lot like Jango on purpose. Makes Boba feel like they're connected more.
Book of Boba? More like book of crap character development and motives
While I enjoyed the Book of Boba Fett nominially, I feel they should have done a "Tales of Tatooine" where we got cut ins on things happening on the planet with a through line of Boba Fett and Shan working to become Daimio. This would let us get more insight into the Mods, Cobb Vanth, the Pike Syndicate, and other things. It would have felt more cohesive and would have given a great more flexibility.
As mentioned in the video, the finale could have been a "Magnificent Seven" situation where all the main characters we've seen through the season come together to push the spice runners off Mos Espa and Freetown (maybe even Tatooine). It would have been excellent as Boba Fett, Shan, and Mando are standing alone only to have the Mods show up to provide a calvary, Cobb Vanth coming with his battalion of Freetowners, and maybe some Tuskans come to take their wergild for the continued violation of the Dune Sea by the Pikes.
Last comment: Definite waste of Matt Barry. He could easily have been a night club singer at the Twi'lek casino. It would have allowed him to really flex his comedic chops.
Clean 👌
Like some kind of tatooine rhapsody
This why I fucking love you two. I would have never know a new series of Toast of London was out
I would like to see Mushishi but with old Luke instead of Ginko. Just feels like what an old Jedi should be doing. If you are a screenwriter and happen across this comment please pitch this for me. Thanks.
3:40 LMAOOOO Mason absolutely caught james lacking
Cad Bane literally saved me from slipping into a coma while watching this show.
Cad Bane gave me someone aside from Mando to root for in the finale episode
Who?
@@Turd_Rocket The cool gunslinging cowboy alien in blue.
"Man who likes a town" perfectly put hahaha
I want an angsty teenage Grogu wearing a Mando helmet and with the ears poking out for season 3.
Are they sticking with Grogu's age as about 50 years? Unless there's a time jump, we're probably stuck with baby yoda for awhile...
Luke was testing Grogu, but not the way it appeared. He left Yoda on Dagobah to help his friends, and it was the right decision, because it was motivated by love. He could sense darkness in Grogu, and you'll notice he offers him a weapon vs armor ("A Jedi uses the force for knowledge and defense, never attack"), he displayed his power with those frogs, and when he described the Jedi training, he emphasized the POWER he would get from the training, not the wisdom or peace. He was seeing if Grogu would choose love or power.
I would love for this to be true but I honestly feel like that's too 'real star wars' and beyond what writers think fans want. Also if they misunderstand the character of boba this bad I don't hold much hope for luke skywalker particularly after people reacted so badly to the (imo amazing) arc he had in TLJ
@@1TheResurrectionists You don't think Dave Filoni, who wrote the episode, has a grasp on these characters and the force?
@@QuintessentialQs I think Dave Filoni is great but this was really bad so I'm basing my worry on that. I don't think he's the only one with a say
@@1TheResurrectionists I am also worried that my take is a cope, tbh. I am just really hoping I'm right, because they were constantly referencing the scenes on Dagobah from ESB, and it just feels like it HAS to be deliberate.
I can't wait for The Book of Babu Frik
Slave 1 would have decimated Mos Espa. The Rancor was the less messy option, not to mention the townsfolk seeing Boba riding it into battle is a show of power, earning their respect as he chose to fight at street level.
The show was fine. Not good, not bad, just fine. But the thing that genuinely annoys me is reuniting Mando and Grogu. That should have been saved for Season 3 of The Mandalorian. One of the biggest things people complain about in television is when a show has a big cliffhanger in its season finale, but then immediately resolves it in the first episode of the next season. This show just took it to another level I never would have thought possible and literally resolved a season finale cliffhanger is a different show before the next season is even out. What the hell were they thinking?
Imagine if you’re someone 10 years from now watching Star Wars for the first time. You’ve just finished all the movies and decide to start some of the tv shows. “Hey, The Mandalorian, this looks interesting.” So you watch through the first two seasons and “Wow, Luke came and took Grogu. This is crazy. I wonder what’s going to happen for these characters.” So you move right along to season 3 and suddenly... what? Mando and Grogu are just back together? That is a problem. A show should stand on its own as one consistent, continuous narrative. You shouldn’t have to go and watch and entire season of a spin-off show (that in the future you may not even realize you need to watch) so that you can get the plot of the actual show you’re trying to watch.
That's kind of on par for Star Wars. Imagine if you knew nothing about Star Wars and started watching from Episode I: The Phantom Menace and once you get to Empire and Vader tells Luke that he was his father. That would be a lame reveal.
@@timbuckjr9081 Not the same thing. The episodic Star Wars movies are all part of the same film series. The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett are not. A more apt example would be if you were expected to know information from Rogue One in order to understand The Last Jedi. You can go through all nine Star Wars movies and find that the whole plot that series is within them. Now the plot of The Mandalorian is partially found in an entirely separate series. You can no longer just watch The Mandalorian on its own and not miss crucial plot points for that series.
It felt so spineless of them to go back to the status quo with Grogu and Mando back together after one episode. Why am I supposed to care about him letting Grogu go in the S2 finale now when they're back together immediately and in a different show I wasn't super excited for? Was it so scary for Disney to maybe go 3 or 4 episodes with them separated? Could have had a Mando storyline that brings him back to Grogu and Luke while showing a few scenes of them training during the time they're apart.
No more marketable plushies
Disney has mastered the art of making side characters more interesting than main characters
I always thought Baby G-gu was always going to choose the way of mandalor for two reasons.
1. Every time he is shown his past or gains a deeper force connect, his trauma re appears.
2. Luke’s first student in cannon is Leia and Han arriving to drop off their first born.. little Ben solo.
THAT wlllould of been a dope post credit scene
The whole series was like planning a nice dinner but eating at McDonald's instead. Not what I expected
I am Fucking stealing your analogy, this is brilliant.
@@afterburner94 Be my guest lol
I really felt the line you guys said @ 25:00
Where despite all the criticisms I have with the show. I really did enjoy my time with it and thought it was fun. I just wish they focused more on BOBA FETT. Which is like crazy thats a critique to have but still.
I kinda hope the show gets a season 2 so they can iron out its problems, have Boba and Shand go offworld and have him expand his underworld empire on places like Coruscant.
Certain times when Luke is speaking from the side angle hips lips aren't even moving, looked really strange like they couldn't make the mouth match the words or he had no expression.
it’s not just that either, the software they used to replicate his voice put me off so much
Richard Ayoade was also in an emotionless robot. I think that's the point. Take super funny people and stick them in these roles. I kind of like it.
The inclusion of two mando episodes at the end was super weird. I enjoyed them, but wanted more Boba Fett.
The power ranger mobility scooters were so weird, though. They just didn't fit the universe and the "teenagers" on them looked middle aged. Even the prequel pod racers, which were meant to be souped-up showy hot rods paled in comparison to these.
I liked the part where Boba used his ship to search the Sarlacc pit for his armour that in his old age, forgot he already had when he escaped the Sarlacc pit... And the part where he didn't use his very powerful ship to easily destroy his enemies in the final confrontation.
To be fair you can excuse him forgetting about his armour as delirious/trauma related, considering he'd just been buried within a Sarlaac's stomach and no doubt got some serious acid burns/injuries to deal with
For what is ACTUALLY Canon with Boba Fett has been very limited until this. We created our own idea of him from the expanded universe. This fixed that. I'm all for change- however, I feel like his uniform using a black under suit was to slim up Temuera. Understandable. But I honestly feel like I would have enjoyed this more of he had kept the gray. I'm saddened by this lol I should be okay with the black.
The one thing that really kept bothering me other than the extreme lack of stakes was that Boba Fett seemed so...
Idk
Goofy and slow
Like he lost a bunch of brain cells
Ikr, I kept telling myself he wasn’t “fully recovered” 😂🙄
Characters are only ever as smart as the writers
@@spencerbrinton1397 a tragedy that a fan favorite became a bumbling confused old man accidentally getting involved in random events
Rushing a reunion of Mando and Grogu felt like a result of some high up executive order in Disney
This show should have been called The Meh-dalorian.
My XCOM experience has taught me to use the jetpack to get to the rooftops, not the middle of the street.
Genuinely think it wasn’t the worst Star Wars show that’s come out, no where near Mando but better than Bad Batch.
Still don’t understand why the bad batch was bad, I genuinely enjoyed those episodes more than the book of boba fett.
@@shawnh9111 it’s a very mid show, it’s rather slow and takes to long to get to the actual events that matter in the story. The first episode feels like a speeding train but by the time u reach the third episode it feels like that train just hit a wall. That’s my opinion anyways
@@shawnh9111 what was the theme or story arch of Bad Batch? Omega becomes and friends with Hunter and Cross hair is alienated, ava then we get to go to Camino (so?) to show what happened to it, which I don't really remember being a question many people asked. That's not worthy of over eight hours of a Star Wars narrative. The original trilogy was told in under 7.5 hours. It told little to no meaningful story and served no purpose.
Yeah i tried to watch the BB, couldnt get past three episodes. Just not interesting
I appreciate the Mods’ aesthetic because to me they feel like a nod towards the sequel trilogy ship and droid designs. I see them and I think Maz Kanata’s place with all the colors and crazy blending of designs.
It reminded me of the "privateer" short films made by semi-talented fan-peeps.
Slow, stilted, lacking pacing, needing an editor and trimming down in areas and forty more pages in others.
Oh, and it is so Star Trek TNG, full of board meetings and debriefings, but with very little dynamism. Like, fark, the Pikes coulda bombed them from the clifftops.