The Book Of Boba Fett (live action series) - a general discussion thread - * SPOILERS * — Page 15

Just finished watching chapter 4 and as far as I’m concerned the show is back on form again. It was a bit more open ended than chapter 2 but it had the same high quality. Good action and far better cinematography.

I was a bit surprised to see that the flashbacks are already lining up with The Mandalorian season 1, but it does confirm that Fett spent a good amount of time with the Tuskens.

A few random thoughts:

The mods are actually called mods as they literally modify themselves with cybernetics. I thought that was kinda clever. They also looked a bit more OT this time, but there’s still that overall PT feel to the designs. Which I don’t mind. I also thought the mods was a clever way to explain how Fett saved Fennec as it always seemed unlikely that he did it himself.

Loved the droids in Jabba/Bib’s Palace. The meat cleaver kitchen droid was fun and appropriately had a little Grievous moment. Also, wasn’t the little droid a TCW design used by the separatists?

We also get our first on-screen Wookiee pulling someone’s arm off scene I believe. Yes I know they shot a scene for TFA but that was cut. Either way, this scene made more sense and was IMO much better. I just think it’s cool that Krrsantan is going to be a regular character in the series.

Excited for what the implication of the theme from The Mandalorian at the end means. Will it mean that Din will show up to help or just Mandalorians in general. Fett’s building up quite the team for fighting the Pykes.

I will add one critical observatio though. Why did Fett think the beskar armour was still in the Sarlacc? I suppose he could have been too dazed to have consciously noticed yhe Jawas and only reacted out of instinct, but it was an odd detail to not explain. Though I suppose we could see him learn of Cobb Vanth at some point in a future episode.

This is a weird specific crit, but I don’t like the bacta dreams as a framing device for the flashbacks? Why couldn’t the editing just take us back and forth, maybe even some on-screen text denoting “Months Earlier” or whatever? I think it only makes the present day plot feel like it’s spinning its wheels; it explicitly demonstrates that there’s just stretches of time where Boba and Fennec are doing basically nothing. At least with hard cuts, we can assume no time has passed since the last present day beat, or even that Boba and Fennec were busy doing anything else in between.

that’s been only takeaway since episode 1 lmao. I don’t get why the story can’t be told outside the diegesis

SilverWook said:

No Audrey II beak on the Sarlacc, thank the maker!

Ooer. This didn’t age well…

I enjoyed the episode, it was fun. It seems we’re done with the flashbacks now, but I had been hoping they would explore how Boba knows Cobb Vanth’s name in The Mandalorian but hasn’t tried to reclaim the armour from him before. There are multiple ways to explain it - perhaps he learned it from the jawas, or went in the direction Mando came from and found Cobb Vanth to ask him about it. But without concrete explanation, it feels like a plot hole.

I think we’re finally caught up on all trailer footage now! I didn’t think I would be this excited to see Din Djarin again, but I am. The Mandalorian season 2 ending felt like both a resolution and a cliffhanger, with the cliffhanger being where Din and the Mandalorians go from here, so finally we’ll get a glimpse of that - likely next week.

Episode 4 was really good, for the most part. Boba’s motivations make a lot more sense now. I only have 3 complaints:

1. Why would he think his armor was in the sarlaac? You crawled out of the sarlaac with your armor on, dumbass!

2. Having spice be the central item of the plot makes this all feel too much like Dune, and the last thing SW needs is more similarities to Dune.

3. As someone above said, we never learned how Boba found out who Cobb Vanth was and that he had his armor. Oh well. I guess that’s a small hole in the grand scheme of things.

I imagine Luke as a teenager considered getting modded like the cool kids the way we might consider getting a piercing. But Beru would’ve killed him.

I dislike the out of place disco must during Fenic’s surgery.

I think firespray is the name of the type of ship. Like “help me rescue my Chevy Impala, named Igloo.”

Well, this episode was actually really good. In fact, it’s probably the best one in the show so far. They really did a good job justifying Boba’s recent attitude: it’s not that he’s become soft, just that he’s tired of the endless cycle of petty conflict, and wants to forge a better path. It feels like what I wish Luke was like in the sequel trilogy.

I’m also really looking forward to how they wrap this up. They seem to be teasing this massive battle between Boba’s accumulated forces and the Pykes, and it sounds epic. Also really looking forward to Din’s return (if that’s what the music at the end was teasing). I just hope Rodriguez isn’t directing any more episodes.

I feel bad for the Sarlacc. I hope its family eats the mods soon. The episode was more disjointed than others. Not much of a story. I liked the Bantha but the tongue kiss was a bit much. I was curious how they were going to deal with Fett killing the cute little rat catcher droid, most tension in the episode there. Hal is right the ship’s type is firespray. Thor Skywalker has correct view on that matter. If they need to change it, something like Survivor 1 could work. Best part was Niktos getting blown up by Slave 1.

This episode was definitely a step up from the last. I do appreciate the comment about Boba being too soft and Boba reassured us, and the audience, that is not the case. So I am hoping to see more of the “Ill Rule with Respect, but Don’t Cross Me” vibe. I think the “softness” many were not keen about was more about Boba focusing on a tribe, or group for power, and not just himself. Im ok with that.

Still not a fan of the CyberPunk style, especially the music, but it does tie in Fennec’s “repair.”

Although I can “rationalize” about Boba and Sarlacc in that his memory could have been fuzzy about his escape of the Sarlacc (Loss of memory from injury/dehydration/etc.) … it was strange he thought it must have been inside of the sarlacc. I think the writers wanted him to have a sort of “revenge” against the pitt … but still wasn’t logical even if he had zero memory of what happened. But whatever.

It’s easy to see Disney is removing the Slave1 name. Granted, in context it made sense for Fett to describe his ship to Fennec as a ship model as apposed to just Slave1 so she knows what they are looking for … but even then doesn’t matter since he could just point it out to her. “Fennec, let’s find my ship … (goes to hanger and points to the ship) … That’s it.”

I am personally not a supported of changing established things for the sake of agendas or making something a problem that wasn’t. (asides for Fett’s ship, I also look at the Rule of Two being changed for the sake of an No Plan movie/saga.)

HOWEVER, with Boba changing from a bounty hunter/rebirth/Diaymo, I can see him changing the ship to reflect his new persona/title/role/etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if after he defeats the Pykes or is in full control, he simply names it Daiymo1. That would at least have a story reason for it … though again, not a fan of changing things or trying to make something an issue that never was.

Anchorhead said:

The Hutts, in 1983 and in this, seem ridiculous. If the show even flirted with realism, they would have been done away with quickly and easily. If you’re a worm that has to be carried everywhere, you can be easily killed by the criminals and killers you keep close by. But I digress…

Realism? In Star Wars? And even so, real life mobsters, or dictators for that matter, weren’t always all that tough themselves. Money and extortion are often far more powerful than just muscle, and the Hutts aren’t necessarily as weak as they seem either. They don’t have to be carried around, they just do it as a sign of power. 1983 Jabba didn’t move about simply because they didn’t have the technology to pull it off (at least not to Lucas’ high standards), and we’ve seen Hutts move about in TPM and throughout the cartoons. Some canonical Hutts are actually quite dangerous.

Chapter 4 wasn’t making much sense around a few plots (why is he looking for his armor while he should remember he escaped from the sarlacc with it? why does he tell the rat droid “I am Boba !”? many weird choices as well here and there) but it was fun and Boba is more objective driven with leadership than the unsecure version we have seen since the beginning of the season. I dig a bit more Fennec as well thanks to the pleasant Mission Impossible-like infiltration scene.

Not great but if they keep this level of brainless fun until the end, it can be decent. Not sure I’ll ever revisit it unless the ending really is surprinsingly epic (I also have never rewatched Mando at the exceptoin of the episode with the dragon, which is great).