S02E20-22 - Boba Fett Trilogy - Desirable

This one’s nearly important, because it’s a good Boba episode, and recent media may be developing Boba a little further. But ultimately it doesn’t serve our core. It’s interesting and fun, with plenty of good moments. I’d maybe cut the creatures which R2 fights, since they’re just padding and R2 gets some fun combat that’s more important to the plot elsewhere.

The third episode gives us our first major taste of Coruscant’s underworld, which will be explored further later in the series. It also gives us some good Hondo, hitting a lot of the character beats as in his introduction in the problematic Dooku Captured episodes, which is helpful.

We also get some good Ahsoka/Plo Koon relationship (taking pressure off the problematic Malevolence arc), which also references her growth since joining Anakin.

As an aside, I’ve noticed that this is one of a few episodes early on where Ahsoka isn’t taken on Anakin’s more dangerous missions. I think that’s quite a nice touch, and I’ll try to preserve some of it in the overall story.