Maybe you could show Boba seeing the flare, but don’t show Boba finding her body and him taking her to mod parlor. Boba seeing the flare could be the set up, and then later in the episode it is paid off when we fade in from black and reveal that Fennic is alive, and that Boba saved her life. For all we know, Boba could have found Fennic’s body not long after Din left.
I know showing is typically better than telling, but since Boba explains how he saved her, you could just skip all of that, and it would help truncate the “movie” a little more too. Also, I think the mod shop looks a little low budget, so cutting it is a plus in my opinion.
Hey, that’s actually a pretty good idea. I just tested in out in my cut and it seems to work well. Now when we have that Day 2 to Day 3 time jump it seems that Fennec has been under Boba’s care for 24 hours instead of bleeding out under twin suns all that time. Yes, we do miss the context of how exactly she was saved, but like you said the mod parlor looks odd anyways.
The main downside is cutting out all of this reduces the film length by ~5 minutes and it was already beginning to run on the short side. We now clock in at 1 hour 50 minutes with the entire movie taking place on Tatooine. But in the interest of telling the most cohesive story possible out of the content provided I think this does the best job of it, thanks for the suggestion friend.
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