The Book of Boba Fett

[nozza_uk]

SPOILERS

I found out elsewhere that the bar/diner where Boba fights the biker gang is supposed to be Tosche Station from a deleted scene in the original film. The human couple that get harassed by the bikers are identified in the credits as Camie and Fixer, so they are Luke and Biggs’s friends from that deleted scene, although played by different actors.

[OSHIROmodels]

That's quite a cool nod 

[nozza_uk]

So when are you building the train? 

[OSHIROmodels]

 

Got to finish the AT crane first 

[Daeothar]

 

[Maniac]

I would agree that Fett seems a little too restrained, for the one guy Darth Vader singled out, as crime lord.  However, he got back into the saddle in Episode 2.  I kept thinking the whole time, 'This is Lawrence of Arabia in space.  Neat'

[CookAndrewB]

I liked episode 2 better. Still a bit wishy-washy in terms of his "alignment" to draw from a D&D reference. I'd say that he should be true Neutral bending towards Neutral Evil. A bounty hunter would be self-preserving but have little care about the machinations of his employers. Money talks, but causes don't matter. The Neutral Evil slant would simply be a nod to the fact that sometimes you have to do bad stuff to be a bounty hunter, or as the leader of a crime family. The bad stuff is just part of the natural order of things and can be shrugged off as the way the galaxy works.

But the show has Boba running a bit Neutral Good. "Righter of wrongs" doesn't feel on target for me. It isn't that people can't change in the real world, they certainly can. But I like my entertainment to be a little more black and white. Disney has a bent towards making everything a redemption story. The bad guys aren't that bad, every cloud has a silver lining, and every underdog wins. Boba was a good place for the story to go Scarface or Goodfellas. The story of Boba building an empire under an iron fist, even if the moral of the story is that the crime syndicate outlasts Boba, or that crime pays well but exacts a terrible toll all the same. For me, that would have matched the Boba of my youthful imaginations. I admit that was too much to hope for coming from Disney. 

I liked the Hutts. I've still yet to figure out what makes them scary or powerful, but I'm hoping that this season will give us a look at a Hutt in action that is on par with that moment that Yoda drops the cane and wields his lightsaber in combat. That was a great "ah-ha!" moment for me. It proved out how that little green thing could be so dangerous. I would like to see a similar treatment for the Hutts.

The Wookie was awesome. We always hear about how Chewie could tear your arms off, but he looks too cute and cuddly, and I think the scenes with Chewie in combat always looked comical. Like watching Andre the Giant in Princess Bride. That Wookie looked lethal. For the first time in any Star Wars, I felt like a Wookie might be truly dangerous.

The Gamoreans continue to be awesome when they are around, but seem to vanish into thin air somehow. I also loved the Mayor of the town. Not totally sure about a fuzzy Ithorian, but I love the officious bureaucracy of his office and his henchmen. Like the best kind of sleazy politician who is clearly feeling the untouchability of being propped up by a criminal organization.

[Blackwolf]

Incidentally the making of the Gaffi stick was pretty exciting for me,they used a spokeshave! I thought that was pretty fab (well for someone like myself anyway  ).

[SotF]

SPOILERS

I found out elsewhere that the bar/diner where Boba fights the biker gang is supposed to be Tosche Station from a deleted scene in the original film. The human couple that get harassed by the bikers are identified in the credits as Camie and Fixer, so they are Luke and Biggs’s friends from that deleted scene, although played by different actors.

They kind of had to do that with Camie, the actress who had played her is the reason why there isn't much of the Tosche Station characters due to trying to sue over toy rights...and there's the other issue that she did porn for a while which added to the mess.

[Grumpy Gnome]

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[DivisMal]

I watched both episodes im the last couple of days and loved them. Surely there were some rough edges and a few deus ex machina scenes, but they made it believable(for me) that Boba went through some life changing episodes. His redemption now also makes sense to the Mandalorian cameo.

Loved the Tusken. Simply great…I need an army of them. And the wookie. Wow, that is some scary bodyguard.

Very, very excited to see where this is heading!

[Cubs]

Watched the second episode now and yes to all. The cheeky wink from the huge Wookie was great, as was all the backstory of Boba with the Tuskens. I enjoy how the Tuskens started life in the films as quasi Afghan hillmen in space, with their jezzails and flowing desert robes. But now you start to see the Maori influences with the Tusken gaffi stick being used very like a Maori taiaha fighting stick, with Temuera Morrison's Polynesian snarls and grimaces perfectly complementing it. I half expected him to break into a Haka during the end scene with the ceremony round the campfire.

Right after the show I told my wife I thought he took is helmet off a bit too much. I know he is not of the strict sect “Mando” was but it still seemed odd.

Jango Fett wasn't a Mandalorian at all, but he was raised there and thus acquired his suit of armour. Neither was Boba of course, being Jango's clone raised on Kamino. After Jango's death he spent time in prison on Coruscant and then was a member of various criminal gangs, eventually wearing his father's armour and becoming a mercenary and bounty hunter. But I agree, the decision to leave off the helmet so much probably had more to do with Temuera's amazing face as much as any backstory.

[OSHIROmodels]

I think his teeth are a bit too white 

[nozza_uk]

I think his teeth are a bit too white 

I blame it on the healing properties of the Bacta tank! 

[OSHIROmodels]

I blame it on the healing properties of the Bacta tank! 

I was thinking that it might have been Sarlac stomach acid