love the flashback/dream sequences that fill in the gaps between ROTJ and Mando, hope we get more. really excited to see where it goes "in the present" too
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Fun first episode. That sand monster had to have been a tribute to some of those old Ray Harryhausen stop animation movies from back in the day (stuff like Jason and The Argonauts)
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Didn't understand a lot of it, but enjoyed it. The Gamoreans were cool. I wish the escape from the Sarlac was a longer story, and I would have liked subtitles to understand the Sand People's response to him.
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I think that's kind of the fun of the no subtitles, Boba (and the audience) have no idea if they're gonna save him, sacrifice him, leave him to rot... It keeps the enigmatic atmosphere of the Sand People intact which I really like.
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I was on the fence after the first episode but now, now I can not wait for next Wednesday. A little mafia intrigue and the best train chase since Indiana Jones, I'm hooked.
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What was the significance of the symbol the speeder biker gang spray painted on the outside of the moisture farmers house? Did that on guy give Fett a Wookie belt as tribute? I liked seeing all the different Star Wars "races" again, from a giant Wookie mercenary to the twin Hutts.
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I think the symbol is just a teaser as to whoever the "big bad" is going to end up being this first season. We saw it on the house in the first episode and then on the speeder bikes for the Nikto aliens. In canon, the Hutts are known to enslave that species as muscle, but it could be a number of intriguing options as to who the primary rival is going to end up being.
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While it would be cool to see Q'ira, Crimson Dawn already has a symbol (see it multiple times in Solo), and it is definitely not the one we've seen in BofBF
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I love that we are getting shows of this quality in the SW universe.
I understand the difference between a 2.5 hour movie and a 10-12 hour season of a TV show, but the plotting and character development in this show (and the Mandalorian) is SOOOO much better.
Heck, the head Tusken warrior in the black, I actually care about what happens to that guy (gal?)
As for Boba himself, talk about taking a guy that famously did zippo in the original trilogy but had this badass reputation with the fans...and making him even more of a badass than that when we finally get to learn about him.
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Words can't express how pissed I was when they made Boba Fett a clone of Jango in the prequels with an off-handed line of dialogue. They couldn't even give him an absent/deceased mother? Ugh.
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i feel like this show has started off kind of "meh", but i felt like the Mandalorian did as well and it got much better during its run, so I am hopeful this will do the same.
The Tusken culture has been a nice bit of worldbuilding though. Makes the world feel bigger and more real.
My biggest gripe is that everything looks too clean and new on tatooine. The casino-place i get, that makes sense. But everything else is too clean, the corners are too sharp, Boba Fett's shoes (which went through the sarlacc with him) still look new and not worn. None of the colors are sun-faded.
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I'm still not sold on this one. The dialog feels... small? Out of context? I don't know how to put it. I like the addition of the rancor (and the witches of Dathomir shoutout), but the hutts are really not impressive in CG and haven't been since 1997 - the should have stuck with practical effects in that context.
The gang is a nice addition since the whole "I'm a crime boss, I run this place" seemed a little implausible with only 3 employees and a droid, but the cuts and pacing of the chase scene felt more like it was being done with hoverround motorized wheel chairs than with fast vehicles. Also, no one got injured in the fight scene unless you count the gamorrean who needed a bacta tank despite no visible injury. I don't need gore or anything, but if a 7 ft tall carnivore bites your hand, there is going to be some broken skin at the least.
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There's no other way around it; the most recent episode sucked.
Some laughably bad CG on that biker chase (that biker gang looks like something out of a movie for 6 year olds). And I'm not really liking the the direction they're going with Boba Fett. He seems to be getting pretty lame.
Black Krrsantan is dope though
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Yeah, the Power Ranger biker gang thing was a really odd choice. This episode had a big "we need to set up a bunch of stuff for later but nothing's happening yet so we'll throw you a bone with some action stuff" feel. I think part of the disappoinment is the contrasting struggles from Mando to Fett. We're going from a hard-scrabble life of bounty hunting where Mando is just barely winning out against all odds to the opening half of The Godfather with Boba setting up his criminal empire. The thing is, no one has had the skills or resources to challenge Boba yet (outside of flashbacks and Krrsantan) so there's no suspense.
I'm hoping the arrival of the Pykes will require him to utilize his fighting skills and weaponry more than intimidating street scum does. They should provide a challenge for him.
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The flashback dream has one of the most powerful scenes in SW visual media, surprised nobody mentioned it. And to go from that right to Black Krrsantan yeeting him out of the bacta tank was really well done. The fight scene there needed more consequences (and how does a 7' tall wookie just sort of ~get in to the fortress like that???)
But the rancor scene with Danny Trejo (!!!!! Perfectly cast) and the re-appearance of the Pykes in current timeline (with the flashback set ups showing some of Boba's dealings with them in the past) has me excited about trajectory of this series even if the chase scene was hella cheesy af
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Agreed. For all the missteps this episode made, it still actually finished with quite a few things I am looking forward to.
No need to discuss the chase scene any further, I was waiting for "Yakety Sax" to start playing as it kept going on.
I like the future possibilities for a character like Black Krrsantan.
I believe the animosity he has with the Pykes and where that will take the series. The first 2 episodes set that up very well.
And if you can sit there and say you don't want to watch Danny Trejo train Boba Fett how to ride a rancor, then you should just give up on television as a visual medium and Star Wars as a whole because it's just not for you.
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I dont see why they didnt give the little kids a power ranger theme song while they ran around and then during the chase switched to some good ol benny hill chasing theme song to cap it all off a really weird bit to me. If they follow lore and or stuff on the Pykes accurately the show is about to get very very interesting. A revenge plot on the pykes or the biker gang is where this heads I'd imagine.
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We finally got some exposition and explanation. I feel like it was a little late in the process, but I'm glad it showed up. The additional use of the mods sat better than it did with the scooter gang.
The action sequence again felt kind of slow and awkward in this episode, especially the cooking droids. I am glad they used practical effects, but the show feels like it can't decide if it wants to take itself seriously or not. Compared with the attack on the speeder bikes, it felt very different mood-wise, and not just because they were trying to be quiet in the palace. I feel like there are two Boba Fett characters in the show, and we can never really tell which one we are getting. One is determined and competent, the other is kind of floundering around.
Side note: Why would you park a starship that barely fits inside like that? Even under the best circumstances, you aren't getting it outside without property damage. Are there no other ships that belong to Fortuna that he needs to hanger nearby? I feel like he parked an SUV in his living room.
I'm still not super impressed with the dialog. It all feels... unpolished. Like it could have used another pass through the editing room.
All in all, better than last week, but still not great.
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I feel like there are two Boba Fett characters in the show, and we can never really tell which one we are getting. One is determined and competent, the other is kind of floundering around.
Is this a function of flashback vs present? Seems like present Boba knows what he's doing, but last Boba was finding his way after the Tuskens got massacred
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I don't know. It's certainly mixed.
Lost Bobba - seems to want to help Sand People and is forming his new approach on life/code. Makes decent 'decisions' seeks out help/resources to accomplish things and knows where to go to get help. Some weird incompetence in the fight scenes that don't sync w/ what we know of him but maybe he's still 'recovering from Sarlacc acid.'
Bobba w/ Helmet on - Badass that killed Bib Fortuna and handles assassins.
Bobba sitting on throne/walking around town - slightly clueless crimelord who sort of expects tribute to just continue to flow and is moderately surprised when petty thugs rebel/try to push his buttons and fails miserably at negotiations - I'm not sure what he 'won' at the dinner party negotiation. Each of his interactions with other crimelords/syndicates has seemed forced and he come off as a trying to "do the right thing, help each other". Even the stuff w/ the wookie at the cantina seemed out of character. He's like a weird Hermey the Elf/Fagan collecting misfit bounty hunters.
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Yes, we now have Fennec Shand's rescue and recovery filled in, and seemed to me like it hints that decide to go after Djin to get the hired muscle -- but if this leads to Boba's reappearance in Mando (when the razor crest get blown up and group gets snatched) then it doesn't jive with the timeline that's been established where Boba kills Bib Fortuna after he has his armor already, and when he is the Daimyo. More likely they want Djin and will bring him back into this story further down the line after the events of Mando S2.
The flashback/current sequences are great to fill in information but jumping around chronologically gets confusing, especially when the past starts catching up with what we already know about the present story.
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If I have my timeline correct (and it's entirely possible I'm wrong), the "current day" stuff is taking place after Mando S2, so if he hires Mando it will be the Mando that now possesses the Darksaber and may or may not be ruling over Mandalore
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I'm gonna guess that by the end of this season we'll have a full timeline of events from when Boba got out of the Sarlacc pit through meeting up with Mando and getting his armor back through the end of Mando S2 and then meeting back up with him for a spell during this season (which would itself set the direction for Mando S3).
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They announced before the series that the Book of Boba was timed just after the events of the Mandolarian. Ot maybe Filoni commented in a podcast. I forget which one but it runs consecutively.
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The timeline has been super messy on this show. They haven't done a good job establishing it at all. Best that I've been able to piece it together is as follows (could be wrong too because it is hard to follow);
-All the present day (non-flashback) scenes take place after Mando Season 2. In the last episode of Mando S2, you see Boba kill Bib Fortuna and take the thrown. Everything in the present day is happening after that.
-All the flashback scenes are taking place in a time span of immediately after RotJ and the 5 years up to the start of Mando S1. This is where it gets super messy. Boba gets out of the Sarlacc what we assume is reasonably quickly. Then he's taken in by the Tuskens. The way it plays out on the show it doesn't seem like he's with them long at all. But in fact, he's with them for several years. In the latest episode, we see him find Fennec, which happened in Mando S1 which is 5 years after RotJ. So all that stuff has happened in that 5 year span.
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I would say there's a 99% chance that was a foreshadow to Mando, but for discussion's sake, does anyone think the theme could be a reference to any other Mandalorian(s) and the theme was a bit of misdirection?
Bo Katan and Sabine are known characters out there, but they could also just recruit another clan for hire. The only real reason I'd consider this is that it seems odd to give Boba his own show and then bring back Djin 5 episodes in.
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I didn't realize that this was a weekly release... I thought I was going to buy a month of Disney+, binge it, then cancel, but nope... Looks like I'm locked into a couple months of D+... oh well.
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Seconded - Disney+ is one streaming service where I feel pretty good about what I get for the money, since there is something for almost everyone and one of my daughters is a massive MCU fan.
Also, if you haven't seen it yet, The Rescue is one of the better documentaries I've seen.
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Honestly, I'm not really a Marvel/superhero movie fan. With the exception of The Dark Knight series (I know, not Marvel), I find superhero movies to be very much just okay. They're a fun watch, but I'd rather go to the gym, hangout with my dogs/wife/kid, get work done, cook, do something around the house, or spend a couple hours on TKP.
Plus, I'm so far behind now (I've only seen Iron Man, Captain America, and Avengers 1) that it would take me so long to get up to speed. I'm just going to hold off until my kid(s) want to watch it, at which point I'll watch the whole series with them, and it will be a fun thing for me. Until then, I just don't feel the need.
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You could watch some of the other Star Wars content. Re-watch Mandolorian. Here's some good resources on watch orders for some of the shows: Clone Wars Movie Orders
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bro they're so good. i maintain that the final four-episode arc of the clone wars is the best star wars content produced to-date, and it is the culmination of a lot of character- and world-building. absolutely stunning
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I wish the animated series weren't animated. I just can't get into them.
Same. I could not stay interested in the animated stuff but I wanted to know more about the backstory of Ahsoka Tano and Bo Katan when I learned that they were going to show up in the Mandalorian. So I did a little research on which episodes were most relevant to those characters and watched them. In so doing I got interested in a few other characters/events and watched those episodes too. This gave me a good understanding of the characters and an idea of what I was or was not missing by not watching the whole Clone Wars series. It also led me to watch a bunch of Dave Filoni interviews which were great.
The Ahsoka episode of Mando turned out to be my favorite of the series so far.
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There's a page out there that puts the episodes into chronological order. Never understood why they were ordered the way they were, kinda like our RB rotations.
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Like all of you, I like parts of this and dislike/hate other parts. But what really frustrates me the most is Boba is not acting like Boba. When he came into the Mandolorian he came in like the badass everyone wanted him to be. Now he is trying to be a caring, calculated mob boss. Why? Let Boba be fucking Boba. Mayor not paying tribute? torch that fuckers office with your flame thrower. Dudes with power shields on the street? get mowed the F down by real Boba. Let Boba be Boba doing Boba things. It's what we all came for.
Then we have this last episode. Best so far, because it's about Mando... kicking ass and not giving a fuck who gets in his way.
I do enjoy the flash backs with the Sand People but the scenes of getting out of the sarlacc were lame.
I hope beyond hope that the Ashoka series does not suck as much as this does now.
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It's interesting to me because I really like the humanization of boba. He became a demigod-like construct in the minds of so many fans for so long that anything that shows some nuance or departure from the mental narrative inherently sucks. He didn't have much airtime at all in the OT, we got a snippet in the PT and Clone Wars show. The meshing of what we know with what we thought we knew is fuzzy and not so clean, just like most of life. I'm looking forward to how the show fills in the gaps and focuses things to bring alignment.
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Tbh, he wasn't all that badass in The Mandalorian. He fought more than he has in this series so far, but he didn't scream "most feared bounty hunter" when he was on screen either. I think the problem they have run into is since we never really got much of Boba Fett in the OT, people imagined what he would be like. And a lot of what people imagined him to be...Mando actually is. So they have to tell another story here without him being the same type of character Mando is. The show is having a hard time finding that balance. I also think some of it is Temuera Morrison just isn't a good actor. He is VERY rigid and its hard to get any kind of emotional read on the character. I'm still enjoying Book of Boba Fett so far, but its pretty damn telling that the best episode of the series so far was essentially an episode of The Mandalorian
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He's not the best actor in the world but he definitely isn't a bad actor. If you get a chance watch Once Were Warriors or the Patriach, both great Morrison films. The writing seems more robotic in this series, trending more Lucas, which is killing actors performances. (eg. Natalie Portman) Morrison needs the Keanu approach to scripts. Less is more, with a few punchy dialogues, which is what I expect from a stone cold killer feared throughout the galaxy.
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But what really frustrates me the most is Boba is not acting like Boba
Part of this I think is by design. Boba has historically been the muscle, but now he has to be the brains behind the operation too. So it makes sense that there is going to be a learning curve for him as he figures out his style. That said, it does feel pretty lifeless at times. When the other bosses basically told him to kick rocks and they wouldn't help, I don't think he should have burned them all alive at that instant, but he kind of just took it. I know the wheels could be turning in his head, but there's definitely ways that they could show that a little more.
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I don't see why he can't have brains and still be ruthless. I don't think he should have killed the bosses either but the "please don't help the pikes and we're all good" is boring.
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Agreed - the way it was handled was boring. It came across less as a "I'll handle them. don't worry" or "I'm not sure what, but i'll make sure they get theirs" and more as an "ah shucks" reaction. Which has seemingly been Boba's reaction to a few different things in the present, though the flashback of him gunning down the biker gang was pretty good.
Hoping we get an iconic moment at the end of the season where we see that he's been two steps ahead of everyone the whole time.
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Just throwing this out there, but could his lack of "Boba-ness" stem from the fact he was still going through his bacta treatments? Maybe he's been really injured and had to heal up before doling out retribution. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.
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I take it as he's trying to be diplomatic to give everyone the option to see things his way and choose to side with him. At at this point its been all about setting the table in chess before you begin the attack.
As for Temuera Morrison, from what I understand he tried during production to reduce his lines to no avail, thinking that Boba needed to be more mysterious. (also my wife saw he's apparently the voice of the father/chief in Moana, which surprised me, because they sound nothing alike)
I'm cautiously hopeful that the last couple episodes see Boba and Mando go ham on everyone. After last night's episode I am fully in on building out the Star Wars universe from the Mando storyline and to try and distance itself for a while from the big Rebels vs Empire that we've had for so long.
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As for Temuera Morrison, from what I understand he tried during production to reduce his lines to no avail, thinking that Boba needed to be more mysterious.
that's interesting and really shows he knows the character better than what's being given to him. It's a shame.
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or thinks he does -- pretty sure he, ming na wen, and pedro pascal didn't know they were filming something different than Mando when they started filming this. really good chance none of them had any clue where this was going before they were filming it
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It couldn't work that way with how contracts work in entertainment. Not to mention all the crew, 3rd party contracts and financing etc. Payscales for actors graduate according to the run time of the project they work on. that's why Netflix cancels so many shows before Season 7, because that's where big money starts being made. It would be impossible for them to think they are working on Mando and be in production for an entirely different series.
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I can 100% guarantee that is not accurate. She personally may have 'assumed' but her agent, who also gets paid via those contracts, definitely did not.
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Best episode yet for me with all the little call backs to phantom menace and all the small call backs to rebels and clone wars its obvious as day how much of a hand Filoni has here. If mando had let out a now this is pod racing while flying through the canyon I wouldve pissed my pants. Fun episode with some interesting dialogue and a awesome call back to night of a thousand tears something weve always only heard about but it was cool to get a little screen time. Intriguing how they refer to Sabine handing over the sword as the beginning of the end of mandalore.
Full disclosure Im a prequels fan boy, the pahntom menace was the first one I saw in theatres and I know that series gets crapped on but I loved those movies growing up and still very much do so I can see why some may not have gotten as many kicks from the last episode.
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Am I the only one who is a little bit bothered that they left so many exposed components in the Naboo Starfighter hotrodding? Maybe that was just a test drive, but... I'm sitting here looking at it like...
That said, nice little spot for a baby yoda to sit in the vacated droid hub, no?
Oh, and pretty cool to bring in the BD droid from Fallen Order. Very much appreciated that callback.
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same. there was so much shaking and rattling going on with whatever part the "supercharger" thing is, I thought it was going to blow up at first and then have another montage of them making more repairs.
In the end, it looks pretty badass, but two thoughts. 1) the bubble in the back just doesn't fit the design. just looks awkward with the rest of the ship that is basically smooth everywhere. 2) Mando is a bounty hunter, where does he store the bounties he needs to bring back alive? Hope there is a cool chamber underneath that opens up for this that is shown later.
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same. there was so much shaking and rattling going on with whatever part the "supercharger" thing is, I thought it was going to blow up at first and then have another montage of them making more repairs.
Yeah.... I mean obviously they are leaning heavily into the hot rod aspects that they touched on the 'totally not a biker gang chasing a mob boss in a Lincoln Continental' scene earlier in the season, but this one seemed a little over the top. That ship looked like it was built with toothpicks and would crumble the first time it came under fire.
1) the bubble in the back just doesn't fit the design. just looks awkward with the rest of the ship that is basically smooth everywhere.
Its a Grogu bubble. You know it I know it. The American people, they know it.
) Mando is a bounty hunter, where does he store the bounties he needs to bring back alive? Hope there is a cool chamber underneath that opens up for this that is shown later.
I dunno, with him being ejected from the Mando culture, I took that a bit as him no longer being a bounty hunter. Especially now that he's working pro bono for Boba. But yeah... good point.
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call me a damn kid but I loved the look bubble aside its a bad ass looking rig. I have a slight fetish for shiny chrome like ships like that so for me I thought it looked sweet.
My wife got concerned when I have a fan boy moment when the BD droid from fallen order was shown that was so cool to see for me atleast.
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Oh I like the chrome, just close up the bodywork and don't leave so many interior parts exposed. Seeing the engines completely exposed as well as almost the entire 'tail'.... I dunno, I feel like someone like Mando would want those parts closed up and protected given he's going to be in dangerous situations often.
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Yeah I see where youre coming from but it also has a kind of bad ass pod racer look with exposed parts so I think that filoni may have been aiming for that as a call back to tattooine. It had to be chrome mando doesnt do anything painted like his armor or the razor crest. Hes the polar opposite mandalorian from sabine
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Also from this week: the ring world/space station/habitation area/whatever it was called.
Serious Larry Niven vibes that I was digging there. I know the scale was smaller and more manageable than a ring-world type-construct, but the panels for night/day and the layer of atmosphere above it and the area below open to space was really a nice classic sci-fi homage for me.
This whole episode felt much more polished and grounded than all of the previous ones. From dialog to setting, to effects. Just better from start to finish.
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i really liked this episode -- i think i'm more willing to be patient than most and take a longer view of the series. there are only seven episodes in the first season (we've now seen five of them), and it's either a side-loop that will join back in with Mando S3, or it's going to have a second season. IF it's just a seven-chapter expository arc to fill in his backstory and position Boba as Daimyo on Tattoine, it's got a lot of heavy lifting to do in the next two episodes because there still hasn't been any real conflict with the Pykes. Unless Mando S3 really features Djin supporting Boba against the Pykes, it's difficult to see BOBF not getting a second season.
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This, and they've also shown mando drinking by lifting his helmet with the cup to consume and then letting it fall back into place. I'm sure you could sneak some pretzel rods in that gap if you're hungry.
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Season three: Mando Nails his 95 complaints about the system to the door of that place on the ring world and is promptly excommunicated. He then sets up his own sect and Boba Fett bans dancing on Tatooine while Bo Katan translates the Star Wars OT into Bocce.
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Somebody took History of Religions 101. You forgot the part where Mando returns to the devastated home planet wielding the Dark Saber declaring a New Covenant resulting in the Great Schism.
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I'm not sure if it's just because they needed to backfill some stuff, but the best episodes have not featured Boba and that seems problematic to me. However, the past two episodes have been baller.
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the best episodes have not featured Boba and that seems problematic to me
Its only problematic if the plan is to make BoBF its own thing as opposed to a 1 or 2 season engagement to provide plot information in the future for The Mandalorian. Right now it feels more like a chance to flesh out Boba Fett a bit more to help make what is already a superior show that much better (and keep us all satiated until Season 3 comes out of Mando)
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I love these episodes without Boba so far, but might as well be the Mandalorian. And I like scumbag Boba Fett more than the Boba given so far. He was way more badass in his short time in Mando (so far).
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Dave Filoni is a god. THAT WAS AWESOME. My heart never stopped racing. Teared up multiple times. This man should have been given the sequels. Hell, let him remake them and we'll pretend the others never happened
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Again, a fantastic episode. They really should have called this The Mandalorian: The Book of Boba Fett and assigned similar titles to the first two seasons. I would have enjoyed the earlier episodes more if I had known this was building into the same show instead of being a spin-off.
The CG Luke face was much, much better than in S2. I still wish they has cast Sebastian Stan instead of digital facework, but the improvement is appreciated. Some of the dialog was still a little thin, but overall it felt much more connected to the universe. The stakes felt much more real than they have in earlier episodes and it was nice to get an acknowledgement that you can't run an empire with a staff of 7.
The aside in the other town (Mos Pelgo?) was well done. Timothy Olyphant has made a character with very little screen time feel very fleshed out and complete. Some of the other side characters (across other episodes) very much feel like "actor getting to be in Star Wars" and Cobb Vanth feels much more like a character in a real town dealing with real issues to me.
And R2-D2. The droid, the myth, the legend.
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I guess Im in the minority for not liking this weeks episode. I really didnt like any of the pieces with luke and grogu. They felt like a kids copy of empire strikes back
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Tbh, that's consistent with all of the books I've read where Luke is training other Jedi so it's not just a thing in this series. There's very little innovation from his time on Dagobah and his choices about when to be totally involved and when he's hands-off are really counterintuitive to me.
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So what if Grogu is actually "The Mandalorian" in the title of the show? Hear me out. The flashback to order 66 and the comment from Luke about how it was like he was remembering more than he was learning, could mean that he had a lot of training already and suppressed it in is memory due to order 66. So, he takes the armor that Mando made for him, joins back up with Mando (has to be with Din's new ship having a "Grogu cubby" already built in) and then takes up the Darksaber and wins back Mandalore and becomes the ruler. Since he is a Mandalorian Founding he is technically Mandalorian. The whole winning the Darksaber in combat is the only real problem with the theory, but they could find another way for Grogu to get it.
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Pretty easy plot mechanism for Grogu to win the Darksaber.... Someone defeats Din to claim the dark saber, Grogu goes angry baby (like we've ALREADY SEEN with the lil angry chokey chokes) and immediately wins it back from Din.
My buddy and I were spitballing a ton of ideas and we think this kind of longer term plot aligns pretty well with what the show is setting up and what we already know.
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If the 3rd trilogy directors were writing it grogu would secretly be palpatine reincarnate and in the end he will kill mando and take the darksaber, pull a maul like approach to claim mandalore and then the galaxy.
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Cad Bane stepping out of the desert was the coolest damn thing. Who would have thought that a live action Star Wars episode would have Ashoka, Luke, Mando, Boba Fett, etc. and they all got the spotlight stolen from them by that mofo with the rocket boots and cowboy hat.
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I didn't see the hazy silhouette and immediately think Bane because we had already seen a lot of SW legends at that point. Also TBH I wouldn't have guessed that Bane would re-enter the Filoniverse anyway because he has to be old as dirt by now.
But when my brain did recognize him I'm pretty sure I yelled so loudly that the dogs came over to check on me.
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But wookiepedia has a Duros being considered an Adult in the ages of 15-35, 36-50 is middle aged, 51-70 is old, and 70+ is "venerable". Cad bane was clearly an adult in the clone wars, so he's gotta be 50+ now
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Came here to say that as my gf and I were watching it this morning, the silhouette popped up and I yelled "YOOOOOO!!"
My gf was both confused at wth was going on and pissed off at me for scaring her 😂
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Same. First shot, you couldn't really tell who it was because it was sort of blurry. But the second shot is more clear and you can see his hat. That's when my soul briefly left my body
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My only nitpick is the size of the hat I want it a hair bigger like in clone wars but the reveal was the tits hes gotta be like an older han getting slower but still got enough badass to stay on top.
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I came into this knowing Boba Fett is really old in this galaxy. So I had a feeling there was going to be more characters involved. Dave and Jon have done a fantastic job tying in different stories, characters, etc. I'm all for it.
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So much to like and dislike about this episode... biggest let down, showdown between Cad and Boba. I mean... rocket boots, am I right?
Rancor was badass though.
Was hoping Grogu would show up with both the armor and the lightsaber, but apparently Luke's inability to learn the lesson of his father is going to be a continued storyline.
Was hoping the 80s psychopunk speeder gang would have been killed off entirely.
Mostly for how much I liked what I did like the action all seemed to be happening in slow motion. And for the plot twist everyone could see coming the local bosses all double crossing Fett is something a cold blooded killer feared throughout the galaxy should have seen coming a mile away.
lastly, apparently the baddest killer of them all is actually fennec shand.
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cinematography... yes it was better. in all other ways it is the worst movie of all Star Wars films, including prequels.
I mean the movie started with two of the lamest gags in all of Star Wars. Poe with the "can't..... hear.... breaking.... up" on Hux and Luke throwing his light Saber after such a buildup about its importance. Puke worthy . Give me Ewoks all day, every day. I'll take an Ewoks - JarJar jamboree in a Christmas Special over Last Jedi.
but if you and Mike liked it then I am happy for you both. :)
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My only issue with the latest trilogy was it felt like a constant call back and fan service from the original trilogy instead of its own story and felt hamstrung by that attempt to me. I can enjoy them if I watch simply to enjoy star wars stuff but the moment you start digging into the story it makes me sick. However I wont tell anyone to like or not this fanbase has too many stupid ass toxic losers who want to tell everyone what to like etc. If you like the content dont let some whiny bitch on the internet stop you from enjoying what you like we all love star wars I may like the prequels the most and nobody is going to change that for me.
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but apparently Luke's inability to learn the lesson of his father is going to be a continued storyline.
This to me is the most frustrating thing about all of the new shows/movies regarding the Jedi.
I mean, we keep getting hit over the head about how the Jedi are taught not to have attachments. And yet the all the movies and shows have shown us is that the most good, most important and consequential galaxy saving actions are being performed by...Force users with strong attachments to their families and friends.
Luke destroying the Death Star and redeeming his father
Vader's redemption and ultimate love for his son
Kylo Ren finding the strength from a vision of his father to become Ben Solo again and make his sacrifice
Obi Wan giving him self up so they could get away from the Death Star
And so on
Every single time, the attachment is the most important part. And the Jedi just can't even...
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exactly, literally every jedi has attachments and fails because they fight against them.
meanwhile Ashoka leaves the Order and is the best damn character in Star Wars. Rey in the sequels leans into her attachment to Ben Solo and finds the willpower and a mystically teleported lightsaber behind her back to kill Palpatine because she accepted her attachments. Brilliant.
But here we go again, Luke learns NOTHING from his father's redemption, Obi Wan's sacrifice or his own love for Han, Leia and Chewy and gives Grogu a binary choice. lame. lame. lame.
I guess it's a good way to get away from Luke in these series and give the fans what they really want, more Grogu.
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Not the greatest finale, but pretty good. Seemed like Cad Bane was underutilized for his appearance, but I might need to rewatch to see if I missed anything.
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Well... Fett didn't spend an entire episode learning how to point the pointy stick, getting drugged up so he could find raw pointy stick material and making his own pointy stick for no reason!
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Solid finale for me I would have preferred more consequences for them sleeping on the other crime lord's instead of everyone miraculously surviving. The gaurds were sad but wouldn't have minded the power rangers getting nuked. The rancor was a beautiful call back and gave us the bad ass boba bit we all wanted.
The cad bane fight was inevitable and I think we'll done they're both old farts slightly and bane is particularly old by now and to have him killed by boba with his sand people stick was poetic as crap.
Overall filoni and co continue to kill it and give us what we want to see.
I see alot of people talking about Luke's dilemma and personally I always find it amusing how it's supposedly the siths who deal in absolutes but somehow the Jedi are the ones that do it the most.
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Fun finale (in parts, Robert Rodriguez's direction still irks me) but I think I'd give the series a B-. It's largely enjoyable and I don't hate it. I'm definitely not one of those SW fans you find on Twitter or elsewhere on the internet that just shits on everything SW does yet consumes it all anyway. But there is quite a bit the show could have done better. It's underwritten in a lot of ways and in others, it doesn't even follow basic logic (example: If Fennec is so bad ass that she can just drop in and kill all the leaders, which she is btw, why not just do that from the beginning?). It struggled a lot with not really having enough content to justify building a compelling show around Fett. You end up caring about basically every other character but him. It's largely just a show to set the table for more Mandalorian episodes. They left a lot of meat on the bones here. Don't know why they decided to go with this instead of doing a couple more episodes to fill in the story better
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The Mandalorian episodes were definitely some of the more entertaining of the series, but they could have been used to build out the Boba arc so much better. A few episodes of Boba actually dealing with the people of the city and his own allies would have made the conclusion a bit more satisfying.
We don't really know why those are "Boba's people" because we were watching Luke and Grogu train instead.
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I think I'm in the B-/C+ range as well for the series as a whole. When they talked about all-out war with the Pykes, i assumed they meant more than one big battle, and thought it would be a protracted conflict.... like most cartel or Mafia clashes are. The battle had too few consequences for me, and the trajectory of the show felt very rushed at the end.
In all, I kinda agree with Cad Bane in that I never understood Boba's angle. "These are my people" just sounds weak when he was an adopted Tusken instead of a city dweller, and when before that he was a man making his way through the universe
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I havent ever heard it called out anywhere thats only why I asked maybe jango was from there or something. Maybe we will get that reveal next season or itll be irrelevant at this point.
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I said it earlier and I'll reiterate, the weakest parts of the Book of Boba Fett were all the Boba Fett parts.
The action sequences all felt slow, though the Rancor callback worked pretty well. The fleeing along the road and no one getting shot bit was kind of ludicrous. I get that you need to have some cast left for the last stand, but it strains credulity that the droid can't hit any fish in the barrel.
It all feels kind of silly though them fighting the droids with hand blasters when Boba Fett has a starship with much bigger weapons available to just blast them apart. If he hadn't had a chance to leave the battle, I get it, but he left and presumably had to ride the rancor all the way from his palace.
I agree with everyone that the Grogu choice bit is all the worst parts of the Jedi Order from the prequels and the sequels. As much as I hate it, the choices made in the sequel movies are stuck here though and it gave no room for Luke to do anything differently. The lack of planning for the sequel trilogy, no coherent arc and inconsistency between directors and films kind of doomed the franchise with having to deal with a mess. After the prequels, they were kind of able to handwave away midichlorians, but the sequels choices (since they are "yet to come") don't really have that luxury. Everything has to end up fitting in place even if the place is pretty meh.
The dialog still felt kind of bland for most of it and the single great battle might make for a decent sequence, but doesn't make a lot of sense given the large nature of criminal syndicates.
C-. We could have just moved the Mandalorian bits into season three and had a little exposition about what happened on Tatooine and we'd be in the same place story-wise.
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Now that I've thought on it I can say that I agree with many of the criticisms yall have already posted (awkward pacing, slow speed moped chase scenes, and Luke just being Luke) but at the end of the day it's good Star Wars with some of my favorite characters of that universe and I'm grateful for that. When I grew up we had three SW movies, a few video games, some books, and a Christmas Special. So any good Star Wars content makes me happy.
Edit: I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't criticize SW when it's warranted - because we should. This also includes the OG trilogy. I think some of us nerd types have a tendency to put the first three movies up on a pedestal just because what it means to us.
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I agree. Even though I disliked lots of elements of it, I appreciate good Star Wars and enjoyed the show for that reason... Also, the exact reasoning of why I hate Last Jedi 🙃
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That was my take. I thought Bane may not have finished him when the people who ran over to him started applying bandages. I liked that character, so I hope he makes it into (whatever the next step is).
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Yep, that was him with the doctor who does all the Mod stuff. Not much of a tease other than to let you know he's still alive and will return in the future. Which is awesome because you can never have enough Timothy Olyphant
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Bless your hearts, y'all think Bane is actually dead. They made a point of showing his ticker was still ticking, he'll be back.
All in all, not bad for Mando season 2.5. By the way, totally called the Baby Yoda bubble on the Starfighter. Also, having a now 1 year old, every scene with Grogu just hits a little different lately. Absolute spot on for the way my kid acts all the time.
Anyone know when Mando S3 starts?
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Did not think Bane was dead. Just disappointed in the showdown which should have been much more of a high octane, dog fight. Overall the fight choreography was really poor in this series and the pace of everything except the 2 all Mando episodes was like in slow motion.
Did anyone NOT think the bubble was for Grogu?
Not sure about Mando but Obi-Wan comes in May.
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INJECT ALL THE EWAN MCGREGOR AND HAYDEN CHRISTAINSEN INTO MY VEINS. May 25th is going to be the tits.
Edit: Maybe im the minority but I assumed the one beeping red light meant cad bane was dead but now that yall mention it that makes sense that hes still kicking.
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My biggest disappointment with this show (and it's really a minor complaint as I enjoyed it quite a bit overall), but for a series about the baddest bounty hunter in the galaxy, the fighting sequences kinda...sucked.
The scenes from the Mando centric episodes were really good, which makes the rest even more perplexing.
Side note, I think I'm leaving this season more afraid of Shand than anyone else. She is stone cold.
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I would have been happy with just the scene of him being in and escaping the sarlacc. Everything else is gravy.
How did Patton Oswalt not get at LEAST a consultant credit for that?
One of my favorite episodes. I had no idea it was done completely off script.
love the flashback/dream sequences that fill in the gaps between ROTJ and Mando, hope we get more. really excited to see where it goes "in the present" too
I thoroughly enjoyed the first episode. Making the Gamorrean guards less bumbling and actually decent fighters was a nice touch, too.
Fun first episode. That sand monster had to have been a tribute to some of those old Ray Harryhausen stop animation movies from back in the day (stuff like Jason and The Argonauts)
Didn't understand a lot of it, but enjoyed it. The Gamoreans were cool. I wish the escape from the Sarlac was a longer story, and I would have liked subtitles to understand the Sand People's response to him.
I think that's kind of the fun of the no subtitles, Boba (and the audience) have no idea if they're gonna save him, sacrifice him, leave him to rot... It keeps the enigmatic atmosphere of the Sand People intact which I really like.
Dances with wolves
If a Tuscan Raider asks if you want a guide, SAY NO
What are you, a DARE officer? All the cool kids snort lizards
I was on the fence after the first episode but now, now I can not wait for next Wednesday. A little mafia intrigue and the best train chase since Indiana Jones, I'm hooked.
What was the significance of the symbol the speeder biker gang spray painted on the outside of the moisture farmers house? Did that on guy give Fett a Wookie belt as tribute? I liked seeing all the different Star Wars "races" again, from a giant Wookie mercenary to the twin Hutts.
I think the symbol is just a teaser as to whoever the "big bad" is going to end up being this first season. We saw it on the house in the first episode and then on the speeder bikes for the Nikto aliens. In canon, the Hutts are known to enslave that species as muscle, but it could be a number of intriguing options as to who the primary rival is going to end up being.
I think the big bad of the season is going to be Crimson Dawn, aka Maul
A this point, Maul is dead, but it could be whoever replaced him - possibly Qi'ra
Right... too many timelines to keep track of
but yes, Qi'ra is out there
That would make sense with the leaks that she's getting her own show.
While it would be cool to see Q'ira, Crimson Dawn already has a symbol (see it multiple times in Solo), and it is definitely not the one we've seen in BofBF
I love that we are getting shows of this quality in the SW universe.
I understand the difference between a 2.5 hour movie and a 10-12 hour season of a TV show, but the plotting and character development in this show (and the Mandalorian) is SOOOO much better.
Heck, the head Tusken warrior in the black, I actually care about what happens to that guy (gal?)
As for Boba himself, talk about taking a guy that famously did zippo in the original trilogy but had this badass reputation with the fans...and making him even more of a badass than that when we finally get to learn about him.
Words can't express how pissed I was when they made Boba Fett a clone of Jango in the prequels with an off-handed line of dialogue. They couldn't even give him an absent/deceased mother? Ugh.
i feel like this show has started off kind of "meh", but i felt like the Mandalorian did as well and it got much better during its run, so I am hopeful this will do the same.
The Tusken culture has been a nice bit of worldbuilding though. Makes the world feel bigger and more real.
My biggest gripe is that everything looks too clean and new on tatooine. The casino-place i get, that makes sense. But everything else is too clean, the corners are too sharp, Boba Fett's shoes (which went through the sarlacc with him) still look new and not worn. None of the colors are sun-faded.
I'm still not sold on this one. The dialog feels... small? Out of context? I don't know how to put it. I like the addition of the rancor (and the witches of Dathomir shoutout), but the hutts are really not impressive in CG and haven't been since 1997 - the should have stuck with practical effects in that context.
The gang is a nice addition since the whole "I'm a crime boss, I run this place" seemed a little implausible with only 3 employees and a droid, but the cuts and pacing of the chase scene felt more like it was being done with hoverround motorized wheel chairs than with fast vehicles. Also, no one got injured in the fight scene unless you count the gamorrean who needed a bacta tank despite no visible injury. I don't need gore or anything, but if a 7 ft tall carnivore bites your hand, there is going to be some broken skin at the least.
Was that Toche's Station? With Cammie and Fixer?
That wasn't Tosche Station that the bar fight was in, but it was Camie and Fixer.
My 5 yr old who hasn't sat through ROTJ, was captivated by The Twins scene.
Love getting my kids into SW
There's no other way around it; the most recent episode sucked.
Some laughably bad CG on that biker chase (that biker gang looks like something out of a movie for 6 year olds). And I'm not really liking the the direction they're going with Boba Fett. He seems to be getting pretty lame.
Black Krrsantan is dope though
Yeah, the Power Ranger biker gang thing was a really odd choice. This episode had a big "we need to set up a bunch of stuff for later but nothing's happening yet so we'll throw you a bone with some action stuff" feel. I think part of the disappoinment is the contrasting struggles from Mando to Fett. We're going from a hard-scrabble life of bounty hunting where Mando is just barely winning out against all odds to the opening half of The Godfather with Boba setting up his criminal empire. The thing is, no one has had the skills or resources to challenge Boba yet (outside of flashbacks and Krrsantan) so there's no suspense.
I'm hoping the arrival of the Pykes will require him to utilize his fighting skills and weaponry more than intimidating street scum does. They should provide a challenge for him.
Also, the *ahem* "chase" scene felt like watching 4 kids on Scooty Puff Jr's chasing the Griswold family station wagon.
Seriously this was a real step back. Now I'm hoping the whole show is a fever dream while he is still being digested in the Sarlaac.
While I am enjoying the series overall, I agree the chase scene was hot garbage. The only thing missing was ewoks chasing Jar Jar.
The flashback dream has one of the most powerful scenes in SW visual media, surprised nobody mentioned it. And to go from that right to Black Krrsantan yeeting him out of the bacta tank was really well done. The fight scene there needed more consequences (and how does a 7' tall wookie just sort of ~get in to the fortress like that???)
But the rancor scene with Danny Trejo (!!!!! Perfectly cast) and the re-appearance of the Pykes in current timeline (with the flashback set ups showing some of Boba's dealings with them in the past) has me excited about trajectory of this series even if the chase scene was hella cheesy af
Agreed. For all the missteps this episode made, it still actually finished with quite a few things I am looking forward to.
No need to discuss the chase scene any further, I was waiting for "Yakety Sax" to start playing as it kept going on.
I like the future possibilities for a character like Black Krrsantan.
I believe the animosity he has with the Pykes and where that will take the series. The first 2 episodes set that up very well.
And if you can sit there and say you don't want to watch Danny Trejo train Boba Fett how to ride a rancor, then you should just give up on television as a visual medium and Star Wars as a whole because it's just not for you.
I dont see why they didnt give the little kids a power ranger theme song while they ran around and then during the chase switched to some good ol benny hill chasing theme song to cap it all off a really weird bit to me. If they follow lore and or stuff on the Pykes accurately the show is about to get very very interesting. A revenge plot on the pykes or the biker gang is where this heads I'd imagine.
Once I accepted that Star Wars is still primarily for kids, it made it much easier to just sit back and enjoy it.
I'm excited about the Pykes as well, and my theory is that they will somehow connect to Crimson Dawn and Q'ira.
Love me some Qira
Seems like they ripped off Back to the Future on the ending to that chase scene.
People unhappy with the chase scene and bikes in an otherwise excellent episode?
We finally got some exposition and explanation. I feel like it was a little late in the process, but I'm glad it showed up. The additional use of the mods sat better than it did with the scooter gang.
The action sequence again felt kind of slow and awkward in this episode, especially the cooking droids. I am glad they used practical effects, but the show feels like it can't decide if it wants to take itself seriously or not. Compared with the attack on the speeder bikes, it felt very different mood-wise, and not just because they were trying to be quiet in the palace. I feel like there are two Boba Fett characters in the show, and we can never really tell which one we are getting. One is determined and competent, the other is kind of floundering around.
Side note: Why would you park a starship that barely fits inside like that? Even under the best circumstances, you aren't getting it outside without property damage. Are there no other ships that belong to Fortuna that he needs to hanger nearby? I feel like he parked an SUV in his living room.
I'm still not super impressed with the dialog. It all feels... unpolished. Like it could have used another pass through the editing room.
All in all, better than last week, but still not great.
Is this a function of flashback vs present? Seems like present Boba knows what he's doing, but last Boba was finding his way after the Tuskens got massacred
I don't know. It's certainly mixed.
Lost Bobba - seems to want to help Sand People and is forming his new approach on life/code. Makes decent 'decisions' seeks out help/resources to accomplish things and knows where to go to get help. Some weird incompetence in the fight scenes that don't sync w/ what we know of him but maybe he's still 'recovering from Sarlacc acid.'
Bobba w/ Helmet on - Badass that killed Bib Fortuna and handles assassins.
Bobba sitting on throne/walking around town - slightly clueless crimelord who sort of expects tribute to just continue to flow and is moderately surprised when petty thugs rebel/try to push his buttons and fails miserably at negotiations - I'm not sure what he 'won' at the dinner party negotiation. Each of his interactions with other crimelords/syndicates has seemed forced and he come off as a trying to "do the right thing, help each other". Even the stuff w/ the wookie at the cantina seemed out of character. He's like a weird Hermey the Elf/Fagan collecting misfit bounty hunters.
Was that the Mando theme at the very end of the episode right before the credits?
Oh damn they're gonna tie both stories together next week, aren't they
Pretty sure it was. That was an awesome little winking teaser
Yes, we now have Fennec Shand's rescue and recovery filled in, and seemed to me like it hints that decide to go after Djin to get the hired muscle -- but if this leads to Boba's reappearance in Mando (when the razor crest get blown up and group gets snatched) then it doesn't jive with the timeline that's been established where Boba kills Bib Fortuna after he has his armor already, and when he is the Daimyo. More likely they want Djin and will bring him back into this story further down the line after the events of Mando S2.
The flashback/current sequences are great to fill in information but jumping around chronologically gets confusing, especially when the past starts catching up with what we already know about the present story.
If I have my timeline correct (and it's entirely possible I'm wrong), the "current day" stuff is taking place after Mando S2, so if he hires Mando it will be the Mando that now possesses the Darksaber and may or may not be ruling over Mandalore
But also we don't know how far into the future... It would stand to reason not all that far, but who even knows at this point.
I'm gonna guess that by the end of this season we'll have a full timeline of events from when Boba got out of the Sarlacc pit through meeting up with Mando and getting his armor back through the end of Mando S2 and then meeting back up with him for a spell during this season (which would itself set the direction for Mando S3).
They announced before the series that the Book of Boba was timed just after the events of the Mandolarian. Ot maybe Filoni commented in a podcast. I forget which one but it runs consecutively.
The timeline has been super messy on this show. They haven't done a good job establishing it at all. Best that I've been able to piece it together is as follows (could be wrong too because it is hard to follow);
-All the present day (non-flashback) scenes take place after Mando Season 2. In the last episode of Mando S2, you see Boba kill Bib Fortuna and take the thrown. Everything in the present day is happening after that.
-All the flashback scenes are taking place in a time span of immediately after RotJ and the 5 years up to the start of Mando S1. This is where it gets super messy. Boba gets out of the Sarlacc what we assume is reasonably quickly. Then he's taken in by the Tuskens. The way it plays out on the show it doesn't seem like he's with them long at all. But in fact, he's with them for several years. In the latest episode, we see him find Fennec, which happened in Mando S1 which is 5 years after RotJ. So all that stuff has happened in that 5 year span.
I would say there's a 99% chance that was a foreshadow to Mando, but for discussion's sake, does anyone think the theme could be a reference to any other Mandalorian(s) and the theme was a bit of misdirection?
Bo Katan and Sabine are known characters out there, but they could also just recruit another clan for hire. The only real reason I'd consider this is that it seems odd to give Boba his own show and then bring back Djin 5 episodes in.
Ahem
And it sure as heck sounds like Baby Yoda next week... Yay
I didn't realize that this was a weekly release... I thought I was going to buy a month of Disney+, binge it, then cancel, but nope... Looks like I'm locked into a couple months of D+... oh well.
As long as you have it, might as well watch some of the Marvel shows (if you haven't already).
Seconded - Disney+ is one streaming service where I feel pretty good about what I get for the money, since there is something for almost everyone and one of my daughters is a massive MCU fan.
Also, if you haven't seen it yet, The Rescue is one of the better documentaries I've seen.
Honestly, I'm not really a Marvel/superhero movie fan. With the exception of The Dark Knight series (I know, not Marvel), I find superhero movies to be very much just okay. They're a fun watch, but I'd rather go to the gym, hangout with my dogs/wife/kid, get work done, cook, do something around the house, or spend a couple hours on TKP.
Plus, I'm so far behind now (I've only seen Iron Man, Captain America, and Avengers 1) that it would take me so long to get up to speed. I'm just going to hold off until my kid(s) want to watch it, at which point I'll watch the whole series with them, and it will be a fun thing for me. Until then, I just don't feel the need.
You could watch some of the other Star Wars content. Re-watch Mandolorian. Here's some good resources on watch orders for some of the shows:
Clone Wars
Movie Orders
Ahh I still haven't seen Solo yet. Maybe I'll watch this weekend.
I wish the animated series weren't animated. I just can't get into them.
bro they're so good. i maintain that the final four-episode arc of the clone wars is the best star wars content produced to-date, and it is the culmination of a lot of character- and world-building. absolutely stunning
Yup. Very moving stuff and worth watching.
Same. I could not stay interested in the animated stuff but I wanted to know more about the backstory of Ahsoka Tano and Bo Katan when I learned that they were going to show up in the Mandalorian. So I did a little research on which episodes were most relevant to those characters and watched them. In so doing I got interested in a few other characters/events and watched those episodes too. This gave me a good understanding of the characters and an idea of what I was or was not missing by not watching the whole Clone Wars series. It also led me to watch a bunch of Dave Filoni interviews which were great.
The Ahsoka episode of Mando turned out to be my favorite of the series so far.
can skip season 1 and 2 of the animated series and be better off. really hard to get through those early seasons.
There's a page out there that puts the episodes into chronological order. Never understood why they were ordered the way they were, kinda like our RB rotations.
Hell of an episode this week, of course it's more of a Mandalorian episode than a BOBF episode.
If you haven't watched the Mandalorian episodes in Rebels or Clone Wars, you might not catch some of the dialogue in this week's episode.
best episode of the run and Boba Fett wasn't even in it
agreed
Like all of you, I like parts of this and dislike/hate other parts. But what really frustrates me the most is Boba is not acting like Boba. When he came into the Mandolorian he came in like the badass everyone wanted him to be. Now he is trying to be a caring, calculated mob boss. Why? Let Boba be fucking Boba. Mayor not paying tribute? torch that fuckers office with your flame thrower. Dudes with power shields on the street? get mowed the F down by real Boba. Let Boba be Boba doing Boba things. It's what we all came for.
Then we have this last episode. Best so far, because it's about Mando... kicking ass and not giving a fuck who gets in his way.
I do enjoy the flash backs with the Sand People but the scenes of getting out of the sarlacc were lame.
I hope beyond hope that the Ashoka series does not suck as much as this does now.
It's interesting to me because I really like the humanization of boba. He became a demigod-like construct in the minds of so many fans for so long that anything that shows some nuance or departure from the mental narrative inherently sucks. He didn't have much airtime at all in the OT, we got a snippet in the PT and Clone Wars show. The meshing of what we know with what we thought we knew is fuzzy and not so clean, just like most of life. I'm looking forward to how the show fills in the gaps and focuses things to bring alignment.
Tbh, he wasn't all that badass in The Mandalorian. He fought more than he has in this series so far, but he didn't scream "most feared bounty hunter" when he was on screen either. I think the problem they have run into is since we never really got much of Boba Fett in the OT, people imagined what he would be like. And a lot of what people imagined him to be...Mando actually is. So they have to tell another story here without him being the same type of character Mando is. The show is having a hard time finding that balance. I also think some of it is Temuera Morrison just isn't a good actor. He is VERY rigid and its hard to get any kind of emotional read on the character. I'm still enjoying Book of Boba Fett so far, but its pretty damn telling that the best episode of the series so far was essentially an episode of The Mandalorian
He's not the best actor in the world but he definitely isn't a bad actor. If you get a chance watch Once Were Warriors or the Patriach, both great Morrison films. The writing seems more robotic in this series, trending more Lucas, which is killing actors performances. (eg. Natalie Portman) Morrison needs the Keanu approach to scripts. Less is more, with a few punchy dialogues, which is what I expect from a stone cold killer feared throughout the galaxy.
Part of this I think is by design. Boba has historically been the muscle, but now he has to be the brains behind the operation too. So it makes sense that there is going to be a learning curve for him as he figures out his style. That said, it does feel pretty lifeless at times. When the other bosses basically told him to kick rocks and they wouldn't help, I don't think he should have burned them all alive at that instant, but he kind of just took it. I know the wheels could be turning in his head, but there's definitely ways that they could show that a little more.
I don't see why he can't have brains and still be ruthless. I don't think he should have killed the bosses either but the "please don't help the pikes and we're all good" is boring.
Agreed - the way it was handled was boring. It came across less as a "I'll handle them. don't worry" or "I'm not sure what, but i'll make sure they get theirs" and more as an "ah shucks" reaction. Which has seemingly been Boba's reaction to a few different things in the present, though the flashback of him gunning down the biker gang was pretty good.
Hoping we get an iconic moment at the end of the season where we see that he's been two steps ahead of everyone the whole time.
Just throwing this out there, but could his lack of "Boba-ness" stem from the fact he was still going through his bacta treatments? Maybe he's been really injured and had to heal up before doling out retribution. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.
had the same thought, but he hadn't been through it in the Mando series and seemed to be ok to beat the hell out of those storm troopers
I take it as he's trying to be diplomatic to give everyone the option to see things his way and choose to side with him. At at this point its been all about setting the table in chess before you begin the attack.
As for Temuera Morrison, from what I understand he tried during production to reduce his lines to no avail, thinking that Boba needed to be more mysterious. (also my wife saw he's apparently the voice of the father/chief in Moana, which surprised me, because they sound nothing alike)
I'm cautiously hopeful that the last couple episodes see Boba and Mando go ham on everyone. After last night's episode I am fully in on building out the Star Wars universe from the Mando storyline and to try and distance itself for a while from the big Rebels vs Empire that we've had for so long.
that's interesting and really shows he knows the character better than what's being given to him. It's a shame.
or thinks he does -- pretty sure he, ming na wen, and pedro pascal didn't know they were filming something different than Mando when they started filming this. really good chance none of them had any clue where this was going before they were filming it
It couldn't work that way with how contracts work in entertainment. Not to mention all the crew, 3rd party contracts and financing etc. Payscales for actors graduate according to the run time of the project they work on. that's why Netflix cancels so many shows before Season 7, because that's where big money starts being made. It would be impossible for them to think they are working on Mando and be in production for an entirely different series.
https://www.slashfilm.com/709369/ming-na-wen-didnt-know-she-was-starring...
Show titles are pseudonymed in contracts
I can 100% guarantee that is not accurate. She personally may have 'assumed' but her agent, who also gets paid via those contracts, definitely did not.
Best episode yet for me with all the little call backs to phantom menace and all the small call backs to rebels and clone wars its obvious as day how much of a hand Filoni has here. If mando had let out a now this is pod racing while flying through the canyon I wouldve pissed my pants. Fun episode with some interesting dialogue and a awesome call back to night of a thousand tears something weve always only heard about but it was cool to get a little screen time. Intriguing how they refer to Sabine handing over the sword as the beginning of the end of mandalore.
Full disclosure Im a prequels fan boy, the pahntom menace was the first one I saw in theatres and I know that series gets crapped on but I loved those movies growing up and still very much do so I can see why some may not have gotten as many kicks from the last episode.
Am I the only one who is a little bit bothered that they left so many exposed components in the Naboo Starfighter hotrodding? Maybe that was just a test drive, but... I'm sitting here looking at it like...
That said, nice little spot for a baby yoda to sit in the vacated droid hub, no?
Oh, and pretty cool to bring in the BD droid from Fallen Order. Very much appreciated that callback.
same. there was so much shaking and rattling going on with whatever part the "supercharger" thing is, I thought it was going to blow up at first and then have another montage of them making more repairs.
In the end, it looks pretty badass, but two thoughts. 1) the bubble in the back just doesn't fit the design. just looks awkward with the rest of the ship that is basically smooth everywhere. 2) Mando is a bounty hunter, where does he store the bounties he needs to bring back alive? Hope there is a cool chamber underneath that opens up for this that is shown later.
Yeah.... I mean obviously they are leaning heavily into the hot rod aspects that they touched on the 'totally not a biker gang chasing a mob boss in a Lincoln Continental' scene earlier in the season, but this one seemed a little over the top. That ship looked like it was built with toothpicks and would crumble the first time it came under fire.
Its a Grogu bubble. You know it I know it. The American people, they know it.
I dunno, with him being ejected from the Mando culture, I took that a bit as him no longer being a bounty hunter. Especially now that he's working pro bono for Boba. But yeah... good point.
call me a damn kid but I loved the look bubble aside its a bad ass looking rig. I have a slight fetish for shiny chrome like ships like that so for me I thought it looked sweet.
My wife got concerned when I have a fan boy moment when the BD droid from fallen order was shown that was so cool to see for me atleast.
Oh I like the chrome, just close up the bodywork and don't leave so many interior parts exposed. Seeing the engines completely exposed as well as almost the entire 'tail'.... I dunno, I feel like someone like Mando would want those parts closed up and protected given he's going to be in dangerous situations often.
Yeah I see where youre coming from but it also has a kind of bad ass pod racer look with exposed parts so I think that filoni may have been aiming for that as a call back to tattooine. It had to be chrome mando doesnt do anything painted like his armor or the razor crest. Hes the polar opposite mandalorian from sabine
Also from this week: the ring world/space station/habitation area/whatever it was called.
Serious Larry Niven vibes that I was digging there. I know the scale was smaller and more manageable than a ring-world type-construct, but the panels for night/day and the layer of atmosphere above it and the area below open to space was really a nice classic sci-fi homage for me.
This whole episode felt much more polished and grounded than all of the previous ones. From dialog to setting, to effects. Just better from start to finish.
I was waiting to see a master chief reference on the halo ring personally.
i really liked this episode -- i think i'm more willing to be patient than most and take a longer view of the series. there are only seven episodes in the first season (we've now seen five of them), and it's either a side-loop that will join back in with Mando S3, or it's going to have a second season. IF it's just a seven-chapter expository arc to fill in his backstory and position Boba as Daimyo on Tattoine, it's got a lot of heavy lifting to do in the next two episodes because there still hasn't been any real conflict with the Pykes. Unless Mando S3 really features Djin supporting Boba against the Pykes, it's difficult to see BOBF not getting a second season.
Y'all gotta give Bryce Dallas Howard some credit on this episode.
For sure. she's directed a few Mandolorian episodes too. Quite good. Have heard she is going to be one of the main directors on Ashoka as well.
I move that we permanently remove Robert Rodriguez and give BDH more seat time in the Director's Chair.
So many mixed feelings. All I know for sure is that I wish they'd lay off the slapstick marvel comedy.
GF made a great point I hadn't paid any attention to...no cell phones (or the equivalent) in Star Wars universe or at least not that we've noticed.
well duh... long time ago, galaxy far away and all that
the point is...it's a nice break from reality.
5G interferes with the hyperdrive
there are handheld communicators. We see Luke and 3PO (and others) use them in ANH. But no smartphone-style handheld computers that I know of.
They do have datapads which essentially do everything cell phones/tablets do except make calls and Googling.
How the hell do the orthodox Mando's eat if they never take their helmet off?
They showed this in one of the early episodes of the first season: they only take it off when they are alone.
This, and they've also shown mando drinking by lifting his helmet with the cup to consume and then letting it fall back into place. I'm sure you could sneak some pretzel rods in that gap if you're hungry.
The reformed Mando's seem like a better path.
It's why Mando's sect is considered a fringe group of orthodox zealots.
Season three: Mando Nails his 95 complaints about the system to the door of that place on the ring world and is promptly excommunicated. He then sets up his own sect and Boba Fett bans dancing on Tatooine while Bo Katan translates the Star Wars OT into Bocce.
Somebody took History of Religions 101. You forgot the part where Mando returns to the devastated home planet wielding the Dark Saber declaring a New Covenant resulting in the Great Schism.
Don't forget about the part when Mando returns to the homeworld to find Grand Admiral Thrawn sitting on the throne.
Read this this morning and thought it posed an interesting questions:
https://www.cracked.com/article_32549_why-does-anyone-fear-the-hutts.html
cracked.com?
I did not know that site was still up and running.
Not just running, but still consistently insightful and funny
Business just picked up.
I'm not sure if it's just because they needed to backfill some stuff, but the best episodes have not featured Boba and that seems problematic to me. However, the past two episodes have been baller.
Its only problematic if the plan is to make BoBF its own thing as opposed to a 1 or 2 season engagement to provide plot information in the future for The Mandalorian. Right now it feels more like a chance to flesh out Boba Fett a bit more to help make what is already a superior show that much better (and keep us all satiated until Season 3 comes out of Mando)
Laying the foundations of the Grogu-verse which our granchildren's grandchildren will be enjoying as they terraform Mars.
Cad Bane is the best part of this series so far and as menacing as Boba should be. Looking forward to the showdown.
Boba is so menacing that they had to completely leave him out of two episodes of his own show.
Guess I have to go find the Cad Bane episodes of clone wars now. Thanks Jon and Dave.
Cad Bane is the best part of anything he's in.
I love these episodes without Boba so far, but might as well be the Mandalorian. And I like scumbag Boba Fett more than the Boba given so far. He was way more badass in his short time in Mando (so far).
Dave Filoni is a god. THAT WAS AWESOME. My heart never stopped racing. Teared up multiple times. This man should have been given the sequels. Hell, let him remake them and we'll pretend the others never happened
Again, a fantastic episode. They really should have called this The Mandalorian: The Book of Boba Fett and assigned similar titles to the first two seasons. I would have enjoyed the earlier episodes more if I had known this was building into the same show instead of being a spin-off.
The CG Luke face was much, much better than in S2. I still wish they has cast Sebastian Stan instead of digital facework, but the improvement is appreciated. Some of the dialog was still a little thin, but overall it felt much more connected to the universe. The stakes felt much more real than they have in earlier episodes and it was nice to get an acknowledgement that you can't run an empire with a staff of 7.
The aside in the other town (Mos Pelgo?) was well done. Timothy Olyphant has made a character with very little screen time feel very fleshed out and complete. Some of the other side characters (across other episodes) very much feel like "actor getting to be in Star Wars" and Cobb Vanth feels much more like a character in a real town dealing with real issues to me.
And R2-D2. The droid, the myth, the legend.
excellent!! CAD MF BANE!!!!
I guess Im in the minority for not liking this weeks episode. I really didnt like any of the pieces with luke and grogu. They felt like a kids copy of empire strikes back
Tbh, that's consistent with all of the books I've read where Luke is training other Jedi so it's not just a thing in this series. There's very little innovation from his time on Dagobah and his choices about when to be totally involved and when he's hands-off are really counterintuitive to me.
Do we have to be worried about losing Brent Pry to Hollywood after his debut role as the Deputy of Mos Pelgo?
I had this exact same thought when he came on screen
So what if Grogu is actually "The Mandalorian" in the title of the show? Hear me out. The flashback to order 66 and the comment from Luke about how it was like he was remembering more than he was learning, could mean that he had a lot of training already and suppressed it in is memory due to order 66. So, he takes the armor that Mando made for him, joins back up with Mando (has to be with Din's new ship having a "Grogu cubby" already built in) and then takes up the Darksaber and wins back Mandalore and becomes the ruler. Since he is a Mandalorian Founding he is technically Mandalorian. The whole winning the Darksaber in combat is the only real problem with the theory, but they could find another way for Grogu to get it.
Pretty easy plot mechanism for Grogu to win the Darksaber.... Someone defeats Din to claim the dark saber, Grogu goes angry baby (like we've ALREADY SEEN with the lil angry chokey chokes) and immediately wins it back from Din.
My buddy and I were spitballing a ton of ideas and we think this kind of longer term plot aligns pretty well with what the show is setting up and what we already know.
If the 3rd trilogy directors were writing it grogu would secretly be palpatine reincarnate and in the end he will kill mando and take the darksaber, pull a maul like approach to claim mandalore and then the galaxy.
you are forgetting tangential love stories and jabs at northrop grumman
Cad Bane stepping out of the desert was the coolest damn thing. Who would have thought that a live action Star Wars episode would have Ashoka, Luke, Mando, Boba Fett, etc. and they all got the spotlight stolen from them by that mofo with the rocket boots and cowboy hat.
Question for the people that know lots about Cad Bane, because I do not.
Did you know it was gonna be Cad Bane when you first saw the hazy silhouette in the desert?
I watched it a day late, I had heard that he was in it, so as soon as the silhouette appeared I knew.
I didn't see the hazy silhouette and immediately think Bane because we had already seen a lot of SW legends at that point. Also TBH I wouldn't have guessed that Bane would re-enter the Filoniverse anyway because he has to be old as dirt by now.
But when my brain did recognize him I'm pretty sure I yelled so loudly that the dogs came over to check on me.
Yes this!!!! He already appeared to have lost half a step in Bad Batch, and this is 18-20 years after that
I mean what is the average life span of the blue red eyed aliens?
Depends which ones you're talking about lol
But wookiepedia has a Duros being considered an Adult in the ages of 15-35, 36-50 is middle aged, 51-70 is old, and 70+ is "venerable". Cad bane was clearly an adult in the clone wars, so he's gotta be 50+ now
Can confirm, the doggos were very concerned.
As soon as I saw the outline have the wide brimmed hat, yes I geeked tf out. He's incredible
Came here to say that as my gf and I were watching it this morning, the silhouette popped up and I yelled "YOOOOOO!!"
My gf was both confused at wth was going on and pissed off at me for scaring her 😂
Same. First shot, you couldn't really tell who it was because it was sort of blurry. But the second shot is more clear and you can see his hat. That's when my soul briefly left my body
My only nitpick is the size of the hat I want it a hair bigger like in clone wars but the reveal was the tits hes gotta be like an older han getting slower but still got enough badass to stay on top.
immediately, and it was instantly the best part of this series
When that happened I paused it and said to everyone that they're throwing the kitchen sink at this show and that's Cad Bane sort of jokingly.
I came into this knowing Boba Fett is really old in this galaxy. So I had a feeling there was going to be more characters involved. Dave and Jon have done a fantastic job tying in different stories, characters, etc. I'm all for it.
Pretty good finale, but after S2 Mando finale everything else is going to feel lesser.
The payoff of the Rancor was nice, and I love that we got more of Cad Bane and a hint at him and Boba's history.
Overall this show gets a B, B- from me. Like I said, after S2 Mando last year it's going to be a tough comparison.
So much to like and dislike about this episode... biggest let down, showdown between Cad and Boba. I mean... rocket boots, am I right?
Rancor was badass though.
Was hoping Grogu would show up with both the armor and the lightsaber, but apparently Luke's inability to learn the lesson of his father is going to be a continued storyline.
Was hoping the 80s psychopunk speeder gang would have been killed off entirely.
Mostly for how much I liked what I did like the action all seemed to be happening in slow motion. And for the plot twist everyone could see coming the local bosses all double crossing Fett is something a cold blooded killer feared throughout the galaxy should have seen coming a mile away.
lastly, apparently the baddest killer of them all is actually fennec shand.
The comment about Luke is pretty much a direct line to where he ends up in The Last Jedi, so yes while frustrating it tracks with where he's headed
exactly, which is why I was hoping they would change it because the Last Jedi is absolute shite.
We will agree to disagree on that one. My favorite of the sequels, and I really wish we could have seen what Rian Johnson would have done with Ep 9.
could not think of a better way to kill off Star Wars than to have let Rian Johnson direct more. hard agree to disagree.
I mean The Last Jedi was a better movie than Return of the Jedi, so maybe VTMike0 has a point.
cinematography... yes it was better. in all other ways it is the worst movie of all Star Wars films, including prequels.
I mean the movie started with two of the lamest gags in all of Star Wars. Poe with the "can't..... hear.... breaking.... up" on Hux and Luke throwing his light Saber after such a buildup about its importance. Puke worthy . Give me Ewoks all day, every day. I'll take an Ewoks - JarJar jamboree in a Christmas Special over Last Jedi.
but if you and Mike liked it then I am happy for you both. :)
My only issue with the latest trilogy was it felt like a constant call back and fan service from the original trilogy instead of its own story and felt hamstrung by that attempt to me. I can enjoy them if I watch simply to enjoy star wars stuff but the moment you start digging into the story it makes me sick. However I wont tell anyone to like or not this fanbase has too many stupid ass toxic losers who want to tell everyone what to like etc. If you like the content dont let some whiny bitch on the internet stop you from enjoying what you like we all love star wars I may like the prequels the most and nobody is going to change that for me.
MY MAN
This to me is the most frustrating thing about all of the new shows/movies regarding the Jedi.
I mean, we keep getting hit over the head about how the Jedi are taught not to have attachments. And yet the all the movies and shows have shown us is that the most good, most important and consequential galaxy saving actions are being performed by...Force users with strong attachments to their families and friends.
Luke destroying the Death Star and redeeming his father
Vader's redemption and ultimate love for his son
Kylo Ren finding the strength from a vision of his father to become Ben Solo again and make his sacrifice
Obi Wan giving him self up so they could get away from the Death Star
And so on
Every single time, the attachment is the most important part. And the Jedi just can't even...
exactly, literally every jedi has attachments and fails because they fight against them.
meanwhile Ashoka leaves the Order and is the best damn character in Star Wars. Rey in the sequels leans into her attachment to Ben Solo and finds the willpower and a mystically teleported lightsaber behind her back to kill Palpatine because she accepted her attachments. Brilliant.
But here we go again, Luke learns NOTHING from his father's redemption, Obi Wan's sacrifice or his own love for Han, Leia and Chewy and gives Grogu a binary choice. lame. lame. lame.
I guess it's a good way to get away from Luke in these series and give the fans what they really want, more Grogu.
Can we get a buddy adventure spin-off with R2-D2 and baby yoda?
That show would do absolutely insane numbers, esp. if marketed towards kids. Although neither speak "english" so that may be an issue lol
Galactic Base Standard
It's got "animated short" written all over it
Give me a chop, r2 d2 and grogu animated series and youd have the dream team right there.
Not the greatest finale, but pretty good. Seemed like Cad Bane was underutilized for his appearance, but I might need to rewatch to see if I missed anything.
Cad Bane fought multiple Jedis and was done in by a pointy stick
Well... Fett didn't spend an entire episode learning how to point the pointy stick, getting drugged up so he could find raw pointy stick material and making his own pointy stick for no reason!
Solid finale for me I would have preferred more consequences for them sleeping on the other crime lord's instead of everyone miraculously surviving. The gaurds were sad but wouldn't have minded the power rangers getting nuked. The rancor was a beautiful call back and gave us the bad ass boba bit we all wanted.
The cad bane fight was inevitable and I think we'll done they're both old farts slightly and bane is particularly old by now and to have him killed by boba with his sand people stick was poetic as crap.
Overall filoni and co continue to kill it and give us what we want to see.
I see alot of people talking about Luke's dilemma and personally I always find it amusing how it's supposedly the siths who deal in absolutes but somehow the Jedi are the ones that do it the most.
Really good finale and payoff. My only complaint is that Boba won, TBH. I would have been fine with a Book of Bane series after this one.
You can still do it. He was fucking shit up for, what, 20 years of the Empire post his fight with Fennec Shand in the Bad Batch?
Fun finale (in parts, Robert Rodriguez's direction still irks me) but I think I'd give the series a B-. It's largely enjoyable and I don't hate it. I'm definitely not one of those SW fans you find on Twitter or elsewhere on the internet that just shits on everything SW does yet consumes it all anyway. But there is quite a bit the show could have done better. It's underwritten in a lot of ways and in others, it doesn't even follow basic logic (example: If Fennec is so bad ass that she can just drop in and kill all the leaders, which she is btw, why not just do that from the beginning?). It struggled a lot with not really having enough content to justify building a compelling show around Fett. You end up caring about basically every other character but him. It's largely just a show to set the table for more Mandalorian episodes. They left a lot of meat on the bones here. Don't know why they decided to go with this instead of doing a couple more episodes to fill in the story better
The Mandalorian episodes were definitely some of the more entertaining of the series, but they could have been used to build out the Boba arc so much better. A few episodes of Boba actually dealing with the people of the city and his own allies would have made the conclusion a bit more satisfying.
We don't really know why those are "Boba's people" because we were watching Luke and Grogu train instead.
I think I'm in the B-/C+ range as well for the series as a whole. When they talked about all-out war with the Pykes, i assumed they meant more than one big battle, and thought it would be a protracted conflict.... like most cartel or Mafia clashes are. The battle had too few consequences for me, and the trajectory of the show felt very rushed at the end.
In all, I kinda agree with Cad Bane in that I never understood Boba's angle. "These are my people" just sounds weak when he was an adopted Tusken instead of a city dweller, and when before that he was a man making his way through the universe
Maybe In his older age he feels like he wants to settle down. Lost his dad young, doesn't have any other family.
To quote nickm2 ⬆️
Honest question here but is there a chance that Bobas dad is from Tattooine originally or something like that?
pretty sure Jango was from Mandalore. I think Boba explained the lineage to Mando in season 2 when explaining why the Armor was rightfully his.
Jango was a foundling, so who really knows
I havent ever heard it called out anywhere thats only why I asked maybe jango was from there or something. Maybe we will get that reveal next season or itll be irrelevant at this point.
I said it earlier and I'll reiterate, the weakest parts of the Book of Boba Fett were all the Boba Fett parts.
The action sequences all felt slow, though the Rancor callback worked pretty well. The fleeing along the road and no one getting shot bit was kind of ludicrous. I get that you need to have some cast left for the last stand, but it strains credulity that the droid can't hit any fish in the barrel.
It all feels kind of silly though them fighting the droids with hand blasters when Boba Fett has a starship with much bigger weapons available to just blast them apart. If he hadn't had a chance to leave the battle, I get it, but he left and presumably had to ride the rancor all the way from his palace.
I agree with everyone that the Grogu choice bit is all the worst parts of the Jedi Order from the prequels and the sequels. As much as I hate it, the choices made in the sequel movies are stuck here though and it gave no room for Luke to do anything differently. The lack of planning for the sequel trilogy, no coherent arc and inconsistency between directors and films kind of doomed the franchise with having to deal with a mess. After the prequels, they were kind of able to handwave away midichlorians, but the sequels choices (since they are "yet to come") don't really have that luxury. Everything has to end up fitting in place even if the place is pretty meh.
The dialog still felt kind of bland for most of it and the single great battle might make for a decent sequence, but doesn't make a lot of sense given the large nature of criminal syndicates.
C-. We could have just moved the Mandalorian bits into season three and had a little exposition about what happened on Tatooine and we'd be in the same place story-wise.
Now that I've thought on it I can say that I agree with many of the criticisms yall have already posted (awkward pacing, slow speed moped chase scenes, and Luke just being Luke) but at the end of the day it's good Star Wars with some of my favorite characters of that universe and I'm grateful for that. When I grew up we had three SW movies, a few video games, some books, and a Christmas Special. So any good Star Wars content makes me happy.
Edit: I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't criticize SW when it's warranted - because we should. This also includes the OG trilogy. I think some of us nerd types have a tendency to put the first three movies up on a pedestal just because what it means to us.
I agree. Even though I disliked lots of elements of it, I appreciate good Star Wars and enjoyed the show for that reason... Also, the exact reasoning of why I hate Last Jedi 🙃
So was that Marshall Vance in the bacta tank in the final scene with that doctor/engineer who will make him a Mod?
That was my take. I thought Bane may not have finished him when the people who ran over to him started applying bandages. I liked that character, so I hope he makes it into (whatever the next step is).
Yep, that was him with the doctor who does all the Mod stuff. Not much of a tease other than to let you know he's still alive and will return in the future. Which is awesome because you can never have enough Timothy Olyphant
Bless your hearts, y'all think Bane is actually dead. They made a point of showing his ticker was still ticking, he'll be back.
All in all, not bad for Mando season 2.5. By the way, totally called the Baby Yoda bubble on the Starfighter. Also, having a now 1 year old, every scene with Grogu just hits a little different lately. Absolute spot on for the way my kid acts all the time.
Anyone know when Mando S3 starts?
Did not think Bane was dead. Just disappointed in the showdown which should have been much more of a high octane, dog fight. Overall the fight choreography was really poor in this series and the pace of everything except the 2 all Mando episodes was like in slow motion.
Did anyone NOT think the bubble was for Grogu?
Not sure about Mando but Obi-Wan comes in May.
INJECT ALL THE EWAN MCGREGOR AND HAYDEN CHRISTAINSEN INTO MY VEINS. May 25th is going to be the tits.
Edit: Maybe im the minority but I assumed the one beeping red light meant cad bane was dead but now that yall mention it that makes sense that hes still kicking.
Agree with you.
My biggest disappointment with this show (and it's really a minor complaint as I enjoyed it quite a bit overall), but for a series about the baddest bounty hunter in the galaxy, the fighting sequences kinda...sucked.
The scenes from the Mando centric episodes were really good, which makes the rest even more perplexing.
Side note, I think I'm leaving this season more afraid of Shand than anyone else. She is stone cold.
Mando S3 slated for December
10 months?
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak
Pssst! Coming sooner, Master Obi-Wan, he is.
I had a good time.
I liked the mods.
Anyone else catch that Mando dropped the dark saber during the fight with the droid?
I'm not expecting a season 2. You can only go so far with an old character.
Saggy ol palatine would like a word with ya
Truthful Trailers episode on Boba Fett
Between Honest Trailers, Honest Game Trailers, and the Pitch Meeting guy...hours and hours of high quality entertainment
Just really disappointing overall.
please disregard, repost
Now I've seen the kenobi trailer and I'm ready to get hurt again.
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