The HUGE Problem with The Book of Boba Fett | Video Essay

[@FilmSpeak]

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[@turma8eac]

Completely agree Wonderful video

[@darriusbethea2373]

I think Boba could’ve been a better character but I think no offense to Robert Rodriguez he was simply wrong pick to be in charge of show, poor writing and general I guess fear of showing us a morally grey character because Boba from the little we knew prior to show is a brutal man didn’t really have that high of a moral compass and was raised in the criminal underworld yet he acted more saintly than a Jedi at times.

[@mr.safensound4238]

Your favourite episode 2 would possibly have worked had it been someone other than 'Boba Fett' being taught how to fight, and someone other than the savage mindless 'Tuskens' doing good the respectful 'tribal bonding'. Lore and world building actually matters. Fett was previously established as probably the best Bounty Hunter in the entire galaxy, yet it's clearly not that version of him that's ever really shown to us. We're instead expected to believe this badass, and now 'middle-aged veteran' mercenary has decided he needed to develop some new 'stick fighting' techniques? And commit his undying loyalty to a group that had cruelly enslaved him and left him to suffer and die in the desert heat? As for the Tuskens, Lucas had clearly never intended them to be anything other than savage raiders, the 'orcs and goblins' of Tatooine's wild landscape. There were of course countless other intelligent alien species that may have been 'misunderstood' and could have bonded with him, but that's just not the 'Disney' style. What was previously taught as 'bad' needs to be revised and reinterpreted as 'good' or just 'possibly misunderstood'. What was previously shown as 'good' must be shown to be 'flawed'. All of which renders the established lore and mesages as also flawed if not completely meaningless.

[@shantoreywilkins651]

🆗️🎁

[@korrblank1361]

I don’t think I was disappointed, I knew it was gonna suck before it came out.

[@vashythewabbit8288]

The biggest problem of the show is that it is trying to say that Boba is changing into this better person, BUT they don't show what he was changing from. Multiple characters claim that Boba before was some cold blooded murderer, but we never got to see that. We never get to see what Boba was like before falling into the Sarlacc Pit. Heck, even before he was fully adopted into the Tuskens, Boba still acted like his new developed persona by trying to save the Greedo alien and the Tusken kid and dog.

[@TonyAurum]

EXACTLY, I feel like if they could have showed some of Boba's various attrocities with those flashbacks. Maybe he gets a random flash back when he interacts with someone or he sees someone that reminds him of someone he had to kill, or even show him getting revenge for the deaths of the tusken raiders and going too far.

[@AlekTrev006]

And another point building on that, is how Boba is literally MINUTES away from trying to convince the fellow-Slave Rodian to “come with me to Anchorhead ! I can get us transport off-world !”…. yet moments later when the sand beast attacks them, and Boba ends up strangling it with the chains… he THAT INSTANT… appears to 100% change his entire motivation and mentality… and decides to go BACK with Tusken kid to his (at that point) Slave masters ?? It was baffling when you thought about in greater detail, a few days later. Watching it originally was cool and you get caught up in the scenes and such… but upon deeper consideration, it really makes no sense 😕…

[@rambler6519]

Yep. All this deep analysis and the simply point is the writers are guilty of saying but not showing. The trailers and sneak peak showed Boba is a bad ass. The actual show had a different idea. At worst, this show was guilty of bait and switch.

[@travisgames2]

Same. They just speed track all of his new character development just to show us why he is so soft.

[@travisgames2]

@@AlekTrev006 agreed

[@dragonstryk7280]

Truth of the matter is, they should have just front-loaded the entire Tusken plot, then brought things up to the present. The flashbacks got tiresome, at best, cause it kept making me feel like I was being yanked out of the story, and it got really aggravating. When they used flashbacks in Mando, they used them sparingly, giving context to his hatred for droids, and why he became a Mandalorian. Here, it felt more like they didn't really want to make the modern day stuff, and weren't really putting in the time on that section. The Tuskens weren't accepting, though. I mean, they literally started off enslaving him, staked him out in the desert sun, let their children beat him with sticks while they watched, and forced him into manual labor while also depriving him of water. That is not any version of acceptance, and they only reason they DID accept him, ultimately, was on his ability to kill, saving one of the children beating him in the process. I *hated* the mods. They are so insanely out of place, and raise a lot of really bad questions, on top of not really being useful for much of anything. It wouldn't have been hard to do it right, for instance, dropping the power rangers-eque swoops, and focusing on building them as characters that we want to see more of, rather than just sweep it under the rug as an "homage". They're basically a bunch of caricatures, and never advance past that. We're literally more invested in the citizens of Mos Pelgo than we are the mods, who are a legitimate part of Mos Espa. I also don't get why neither the Pyke Syndicate, nor the Hutts, try to buy Fett off. Like, think about it, they know he was a bounty hunter, so he has worked for money in the past, and had a massive reputation for honoring his word. I'm not saying the offer has to work, but having them not just immediately jump to murder would have added layers that just didn't get used. Just follow this track: The Hutts and the Pykes both try to get Fett on their side, while making surgical strikes against one another. The Hutts have BK hunting down Pykes, with Bane going after Hutt people, in a conflict that threatens to rip apart the city, until Fett makes the decision that he's done with them both, and that he'll stand alone as Daimyo of Mos Espa, hiring on Mando to start evening out the sides. Also, I cannot stress enough how shit Luke being pro "no attachments" was. Like, I get it with Asohka, she was there for the fall of Anakin, she's allowed to be a bit on the paranoid side about it. Luke, though, absolutely proved both Obi-Wan and Yoda wrong about needing to kill Vader, and instead, pursued peace, and leaned into his attachment to his father to bring Anakin back to the Light. He rejected no attachments twice, both in ESB and RotJ, even after Vader made him Forcibly left-handed. I would've been far happier had Asohka and Luke had arguments about that point, rather than her just being totally cool, and Luke making a fuck up he already had proof was wrong in the first place.

[@DoctorCyan]

This is a really great analysis! I am very disappointed that LucasFilm green lit this show last year before actually writing the entire thing, as though we never learned our lesson from the Sequel Trilogy

[@FilmSpeak]

Yeah, they're definitely a shoot first ask questions later kind of studio.

[@DoctorCyan]

@@FilmSpeak If there’s any franchise where that is most punishing… Great channel, by the way, criminally underrated

[@jmoney0796]

Taking Han shot first to the literal max haha

[@larniieplayz6285]

@@jmoney0796 don’t get it

[@shadowaussien7743]

It should have gotten 14 episodes not 7, Robert Rodrigues didn't give enough thought, Lucas films rushed it the time spent should have taken the same amount of preparation that Obi-wan got since it was announced 2015

[@matthewm9007]

I feel like no matter what you say the actual character has been destroyed through awful writing. The difference between the strong merciless Boba at the end of the Mandalorian to the Boba who gets bullied left and right by everyone is horrendous

[@travisgames2]

Ikr🤣🤣.

[@JerichoLeon]

Agreed

[@larniieplayz6285]

He can still be saved

[@ryuusaki7309]

Agreed I disagree with this video

[@JerichoLeon]

I think the only way to redeem this character is by having him leave his Daimyo position and turn him into a Punisher style vigilante who guns down spice dealers and spice runners without remorse. Remember that scene in Ch 4 when he gunned down those bikers with Slave 1? That look on his face... that gave me hope that there was still a hint of classic Boba left.

[@MiraBoo]

The show felt like a hodgepodge of rushed rewrites/reshoots, incomplete ideas, corporate interference, last-minute changes, etc... It’s really unfortunate because the show had such potential.

[@JayD001]

Also something that really bothered me about bringing Grogu back into the show and reuniting with Mando is it undoes the big emotional finale of Mando season 2. The whole reason Grogu was sent away was because he'll always be in danger around Mando and should be with his own kind yet they decided "nah we need grogu back to keep selling toys". It also turns the arrival of Luke in season into a complete fan service delivery instead of Luke serving as the necessary story choice to protect Grogu. I kinda just feel like the creators of Mando did a big uturn in their story direction, yet for some reason decided to shoehorn it into another characters show just so they don't have to do it in Mando S3. I loved the book of boba fett when it was on Boba Fett but I started to feel that disjointed feeling the the sequel trilogy gave me when they kept pulling away to other characters. I also want to add that as much as Robert Rodriguez is a respected director he's never in my book been a visionary of filmmaking and this show actually glaringly shows his weaknesses as a director, its not only his fault but they really needed someone like Taika Watiti to give it some identity.

[@simon_ltr_wck]

It also makes it super confusing for the Mandalorian viewers that aren't interested in the Book of Boba Fett, because season 2 ended with Mando returning Grogu to it's own kind and saying goodbye to his unlikely companion, and season 3 will begin with the pair together as if nothing ever happened.

[@AlekTrev006]

@@simon_ltr_wck A great point, Simon ! If someone only watched Mando-2, then immediately proceeded to Mando-3… they will be baffled , without having seen Boba 😅 too…

[@PartStupid]

@@AlekTrev006 - This is assuming there wont be a recap... which there will be.

[@AlekTrev006]

@@PartStupid agreed - they’d be Crazy to NOT have a recap… though it’s still jarring to an audience to have gone from (potentially) the Finale of Season-2 to start of Season-3 and simply be told / shown that all this stuff happened in between and now they are together again. I guess the possibility exists that Mando will take him back to Luke for yet more training ? - but I dunno if Luke would allow that, if Grogu already made his big Choice ?

[@theshipper5797]

Well remember, to be a jedi, one must be without emotional attachment, something they've made very clear. Given the time Grogu spent, two seasons with a man who is essentially his dad? That's not something you can just ignore and forget. So Luke was giving Grogu the option, which the old jedi didn't do. They just went, grabbed kids, and trained them before they could form a strong attachment with their own parents. So really, while I get why it might be annoying, when you think about it, it does make sense in universe

[@jaredouimette1]

I thought the whole thing was clumsy and poorly written. The Sand People didn't "rescue" Boba, they captured, tortured and enslaved him.

[@camembertcheese7092]

It’s a mess, the whole story. We are given no reason why he would come to like the sand people or why that whole experience changed him. Or did it? Instead of being an assassin for hire he comes away from his “spiritual transformation” wanting to be.. a crime lord. Just not tooo mean of a crime lord. A medium-mean crime lord. A crime lord people like and respect. It’s like a movie about greedy immoral Wall Street banker who gets lost in the jungle and then beat up and briefly imprisoned by a tribe. He escapes and returns to become… a greedy executive. And then wanders around trying to do that for the last half of the show. Honestly if you wrote this story and turned it in your teacher would give you an F

[@Vulcan-is8tw]

@@camembertcheese7092 Agreed, this “essay” does a terrible job at analysis, you can easily tell it’s full of bias

[@TheBombasticFatRat]

They had to have him talking about how its the natives land

[@texel76]

He was going to die if it wasn't for the Tuskens, so yes they saved his life, even when they didn't have good intentions at first

[@reecey1504]

Yeah they didn’t, because they came to respect him. Why is that so hard to believe in a fictional setting.

[@petergeddes6652]

The problem with the bikers is that it clashes with the aspect of the character that people most identified with him before the show: hyper competence and ruthlessness. He has no reason to believe these bikers are good for anything, thats why it seems unmotivated. Sure he may identify with them due to his past but most of the viewers won't have seen the Clone Wars what they are seeing a supposedly cool, calculating ex-bounter hunter recruit delinquent children who have shown him nothing

[@scienceofnoises]

Doesn't help that the bikers themselves as characters stick out like a sore thumb like they're from another property entirely.

[@shadekerensky3691]

The biggest issue isn't that Boba can't be a good MC, it's that he has been shown to be a good MC by the Bounty Hunter Wars novels and all they had to do is adapt that and they'd have been set.

[@CaptainBadNews]

For real,the make up and practical effects teams should win an award for the amazing their work on this show. The wookie, the gradual disappearance of Fett's scars, Cad Bane and those awesome eyes, and lots of other great work in the bar. They worked their asses off populating these worlds with wild and familiar alien fauna and towns where 95% of its citizens require some kind of prosthetic.

[@lycanmark]

I feel the main problem here was when this show was set. It should have been set just before Empire strikes back so we got the bounty hunter we all love. That way we could also explore more about how it was living under the Empire. But Disney now a days just wants to make everything in to the MCU and have the big team up battles. I feel that is a massive disservice for the fans. We have the mando show where boba could have been a stand in charter when they wanted with out giving him a show in the same time period.

[@AStageForTheKingdom]

I agree completely! There's so much potential for a dark Star Wars bounty hunter show about the seedy underworld of the galaxy. Something more in line with the Daredevil series on Netflix in terms of being dark, gritty, lots of shadowy entities, very violent at times, lines of good and evil being blurred, etc.

[@lycanmark]

@@AStageForTheKingdom big true. This sounds amazing and I am sure most star wars fans would love to watch that. I also hate that they force you to watch this to keep up with mando show. They do this all the time in the MCU and that is why I started to hate it now.

[@evan6338]

I guess that might be a good time to set it, if you were mostly interested in filling in the timeline. I don't think it's necessary, nor do I really care for the handful of lines of dialogue Boba has in the movie. Really not sure who this bounty hunter we all know and love is. We've had the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, and loads of animated and illustrated stories set during and before the empire. I personally find the post-empire / post-RotJ stories to be a richer ground for storytelling, especially the Mandalorian's first season. I won't bother holding water for the sequel trilogy (except Last Jedi) here though.

[@robertanderson4921]

I think the problem was the show's refusal to let Boba Fett be bad... At least by Mando we can see that he's not evil and he has a code, but he should still be a rough and tumble badass. I think it's wild that he became a "crime boss" who refuses to commit crimes. They could have had him refuse to traffic spice, but still send bounty hunters out to fight for cash and whatnot.

[@jonasdiaz8615]

The Book of Boba Fett feels like Lucasfilm further more trying to take the MCU build up route after Mandalorian Season 2 by turning Boba Fett into Season 2.5 with all of the MCU issues. From slowly building up the conflict in an episode format that’s single digits (Falcon Winter Soldier) to a rushed ending (WandaVision) to building up a potential storyline and squandering it (Ralph Bohner and Boba Fett with the Tusken Raiders) to building up an antagonist till the very end of the season (Cad Bane and Wilson Fisk) AND failing to create a threatening and compelling mob boss (Boba Fett and Wilson Fisk). Not to add in missing character beats that should work for Boba Fett such as Boba flashback to his time as a kid when thinking of the mod bike gang or Boba Fett calming down the Rancor to symbolize his emotional bond with it or a Cad Bane final fight that has the full emotional punch to it from being properly set up. It’s frustrating to see these issues coming up in Star Wars too. Cuz with all of these recent series there’s things to love mixed in with things not to love. Just hope that Deborah Chow can create an epic miniseries in Kenobi!

[@FilmSpeak]

I am VERY excited for Kenobi...but very nervous. I'm really hoping it doesn't run into the same issue but now we're hearing that Mark Hamill as Luke will be in the Kenobi series and I'm getting concerned it'll also be overcrowded. Just seems unnecessary.

[@jonasdiaz8615]

@@FilmSpeak Honestly have no idea how to react to Mark Hamill in Kenobi properly. Imma hope he stays in the last episode but with their use of Luke here in Season 2.5, I dunno. I’ll wait for the trailer and your first thoughts on Letterboxd tbh cuz it can go either way now.

[@FilmSpeak]

@@jonasdiaz8615 I'm just so over Luke showing up in every Star Wars property under the sun. I get he's one of the core characters of Star Wars, but damn...let other characters get a turn. Share the oxygen! lol

[@jonasdiaz8615]

@@FilmSpeak Just like Tatooine, it makes sense to have it there but we’ve seen the sand so many times complaining about it will make us sound like Anakin!

[@veevendetta3448]

Hello there. High Ground!

[@noobmasterruben5167]

You know when Cad Bane said “Boba Fett is a cold blooded killer”. It keeps reminding me of that one scene from Raya. you know the one: where Namaari says you’re as just as to blame for Sisu’s death as I am. Both lines contradict what has happened Case in point: both lines make me mad because I do not believe a single sentence of it

[@scoobiusmaximus9508]

I've never seen Raya, but I basically had the same reaction. Cad Bane had to remind the audience that Boba was a cold blooded killer because otherwise no one would have guessed that he was supposed to be one based on the show itself.

[@Doomer253]

This show was very disappointing on all fronts, short of the Mando's appearance. Holy Moly Robert Rodriguez is truly a hack director. Ron Howard's kid made him look like an amateur.

[@handles_are_a_bit_rubbish]

I think that Rodriguez just stopped trying after he "made it", and by this point he's practically a by-word for cheaply produced action schlock.

[@Doomer253]

@Rafael Lozano Lopez Let's be honest. El Mariachi and Desperado were his only good films. After that dude stop caring about improving as a director or ran out of ideas, or both.

[@tatters6623]

The show was written for Cob Vanth. "This is my town, these are my people". Helps new tusken allies stop the spice train. Stops water thefts and spice deals.

[@bernielomax6226]

I mean you can try to defend the biker gang all you want but when you introduce characters with 0 development the audience is generally gonna have a bad reaction. No issue with how they look, they just could’ve been so much more. I feel the story just has a lot to cram in with only 7 episodes and after all 7 I feel like I saw nothing progress in the Star Wars universe other than the death of cad bane.

[@Lazypackmule]

How they look is absolutely an issue, though I can easily buy that their style would fit into the universe, but making them perfectly groomed and clean and their bikes look like they are always fresh off the lot doesn't make any sense for a bunch of poor kids on tattooine without even so much as a garage to their name, and also makes every scene with them look wrong, like characters ripped from a random YA novel adaptation are riding a bunch of action figures puppeted around with green screen

[@brucesnow7125]

Great analysis. Unlike many, I thought first four episodes did a solid job exploring Fett and giving him a meaningful character arc, so I agree completely. Just like you, I could not care less about him before the show. Temuera was fantastic and his crazy eyes during actions scenes were chilling. Unfortunately, those two random fanservice episodes really broke the show. Because of this, finale felt like a lot of solid payoffs without any proper build-up. Like, look at Boba riding Rancor. Rancor was a perfect mirror to Boba. A big terrifying creature who is only seen as a killing machine, but is capable of so much more. Boba riding him is him reconciling two sides of him, right? But we don't even see him learning to ride it, which would have been important. He just does. Same with Cad Bane, same with Grogu coming back. It is all just a rushed mess. I loved Mandalorian because it wasn't afraid to take its time. This show completely forgot about that halfway through. The viewership numbers are so insanely high. Hopefully, it will lead them to make a better season 2 or they will double down on fanservice and ruin the show.

[@FilmSpeak]

Man you and I are on the EXACT same page here. Thank you! Great point about the Rancor too! They could’ve done something there but alas…failed to.

[@shonenbag6478]

It's fascinating, because I find that many casual fans who don't care about things like story structure really loathed the first 4 and loved the fan service episodes. I'm sometimes wondering if it's too much to ask for a show that has good fan service and good writing. Like, why do the two seem like they need to be diametrically opposed all the time? EDIT: I just realised the answer to my plea is The Clone Wars.

[@AlekTrev006]

@@FilmSpeak Enjoyable review, FilmSpeak ! One baffling thing for me was how Boba apparently jetpacked all the way back to the Palace, from Mos Espa (mid battle)… a distance of apparently 85-miles per the Lore ?! .. then instead of taking Mando’s fighter or Slave-1 with its Starfighter-scale lasers and missiles to fight the assault Droids.. he takes the RANCOR… and then I guess..rides it the entire 85-miles BACK to Mos Espa… all the while his allies are somehow surviving the Droid attack ? 😯 One of my buddies actually tried to use the old Star Wars RPG stats for the Rancor and came up with an “all-out” run speed of appx 30 mph (quite good considering humans are like 6-7 mph max, iirc). But even if we allow that, it would suggest that Boba rode that thing a stunning 2.85 hours (nearly 3) - all the way back to the city, after hopping on it at Jabba’s old Palace ?! Did the Writers not realize how goofy that all seems, considering the supposedly raging battle the other heroes were enduring that whole time ? 🤦‍♂️

[@Dylan-kv1ee]

Before i started watching it i read some reviews that said it sucked etc etc. The first few eps in i thought “wtf are they smoking, i’m loving it” then after ep 4 i knew where the opinions came from

[@larniieplayz6285]

I’m going to guess grogu returning was executive meddling

[@joshholland90]

If his reasoning for taking the mod kids in was because he saw a reflection of himself in them, that should have been explained in some dialogue between him and Fennec for those of us who haven't watched clone wars. Even if there is a legit reason for it, peoples dislike of him hiring them on is perfectly valid because they don't have this background context that you do.

[@gerunkwon2598]

Wouldn’t that ruin the subtlety?

[@dunno-19]

trust me, that wouldn't be able to be "explained in some dialogue" well without being overly plain and laid out. Boba's not the kind of person to just tell fennec about that, it would massacre his character. I do get it tho, but I think it's such a small matter that it's fine being left, subtle nods to his past are good.

[@joshholland90]

@@gerunkwon2598 it was just one suggestion of many rather than typing out a list. But no, I don’t think it would. Also, there’s zero subtlety for people who aren’t familiar with clone wars. Just confusion over a seemingly very stupid (in a long line of others) decision from Boba.

[@emmaesta9444]

As someone who hasnt kept up to date with Clone Wars and only watched (MAYBE) up to season 2, i wish that they made some reference to him in the TV show. Hell, my bf has watched all of it and he was still baffled at how easily he accepted the gang. Some people might need a refresher, even if they have seen the Clone Wars show. I also think that saying theyre referencing the TV show is giving them wayy too much props. With how disjointed and sloppy the writing can be, what are the chances that they sat and watched the Clone Wars and saw that he was a bit of a rebel and thought "ah yes, i need to make this a key part of who Boba is and is willing to accept in Present Day". They very well couldve but i just find it unlikely, yknow? And to not really point to his youth is.. an odd choice as new, casual fans really wont get it

[@viscountrainbows6452]

The dialogue, ideally could be one of the side characters asking him "Why did you hire these punk kids? They suck!" And Boba can have a short think on it and say "I don't know, but I have faith..." or something along those lines. A duct tape fix but it's something.

[@alejandrocr942]

I would also add the fact that the reunion of mando and grogu just diminish the meaning of the mandalorian season 2. I love chapter 5 as it own thing, but i think that would have been a really good take on the mandalorian season 3, the journey of mando and grogu living apart.

[@JcgLounge]

I said it before, and I’ll say it again. Episode 6 made me an emotional wreck. Luke training Grogu and speaking with Ahsoka was truly one of the best moments in Star Wars to me. That being said, you’re completely right. Episodes 5-6 are essentially the season 3 premiere of Mandalorian. And, Grogu going back with Din undermines season 2’s ending. At least imo. Good analysis.

[@BrianHartman]

I kind of had the opposite experience you did watching the show. I wasn't really impressed with episodes 1-4. I thought Boba Fett's situation was interesting, but they didn't handle it well. Breaking it up between flashbacks and the present day -- and then focusing so much on the flashbacks -- didn't work for me at all. Neither did changing who the villain was supposed to be week to week. They should've nailed the villain down more. It made the present day stuff very frustrating, because it never really came together until Episode 7. I enjoyed most of the Luke/Grogu stuff, mainly because it showed Luke being a teacher, which we didn't really get in the sequel trilogy. And I thought it was a nice reversal of the Luke/Yoda relationship. But they really bungled the scene with the light saber and the armor. They made Luke an imbecile. Here's a guy who saved his friends, redeemed his father, and took down the freakin' Emperor (at least for a while) *because* of his attachments, and they're going to have Luke act like attachments are a way to the Dark Side‽ No. #NotMyLuke

[@alexfarmer15]

This video encapsulates my thoughts and frustrations perfectly, so thank you for making it. It's a real shame that fan service is overshadowing good and original ideas, whether its new characters, new takes on characters and new stories, for example for me Mandalorian season was the most refreshing piece of Star Wars content I had seen and it got tainted, not neccesarily ruined, for me in season 2. And despite not caring for Boba, this new interesting take on him actually made me care. But this did get ruined and I feel that this vision wasn't saw through till the end of it's potential due to fan service. Worst part is that the fans eat this up, so there is no way for the creators to change this approach which is really infurianting. But I'm glad someone else wasn't blind sighted by meaningless fan service.

[@5against1radio58]

Dude you nailed it... this is exactly how I feel bout whole series.... I love seeing luke/grogu but we missed out so much

[@FilmSpeak]

Thank you man! Really appreciate that.

[@deathstalks2031]

I really wish Luke and Boba would’ve met again, that would’ve been SO interesting!

[@SagaciousNihilist]

nah, they would have ruined it. The only way Boba and Luke should meet should be behind the barrel of Bobas Blaster. But this pussified Boba would actually forgive luke for essentially trying to kill him, the real Boba would seek revenge. Both Luke, Han and Boba have been destroyed by Disney, the Luke in this show isn't the real Luke, he's Jake Skywalker the Nihilist bitter Luke from the Last Jedi, Even if they hadn't ruined Boba and not continued to Ruin Luke, These hacks dont have the talent to make a fulfilling interaction between both characters.

[@darthmalgus9267]

@@SagaciousNihilist While I agree that they would have utterly ruined that interaction, I wouldnt necessarily say that "the real Boba Fett" would have sought out revenge. I think that we (at least from what is in the movies, im not counting his representation in the comics, as I havent read them, so forgive me if he is characterized that way in said comics) could just as easily expect Boba to not take Luke trying to kill him all that personally, as he might see it in professional "it was just business, nothing personal" kinda way.

[@hardhitter5099]

@@SagaciousNihilist lol everything you said is the honest, straight forward harsh truth/reality of it… the No Bs answer some people may not want to hear but know deep down it’s true lol I like it. Very well said. It is annoying how they have ruined it. I would’ve been better off if they kept to the movie that he died in the sarlaac pit and not made this series so they don’t ruin him.. I have to say I was very excited to see the book of boba fett and thought I’d love the content from it because he’s a bad ass character but after watching it didn’t really do much for me

[@emmaesta9444]

My major gripe with the biker gang is how theyre supposedly poor yet ALL own brand new, flashy motorbikes. They can be fun colors but make them look dingy, beat up, scratched, rusty in places. Dont say "we're out of jobs, we're poor enough to have to steal water to survive" and yet have these flashy, brand new motorbikes. You can even do what they did with Bobas helmet. Cleaned up and well cared for yet still shows wear and tear. Show their cyberpunk parts malfunctioning bc they cant get the sand out of it, they dont have the money to oil them up, show rust in their parts. Show me that theyre poor enough to steal water, show me their suffering not just "hey we're super poor lol" "lol want to get a job with me then?". Have them comment on how glad they are that they can afford to get their mechanical parts moving again, finally not having to hear the squeaks of metal joints or have them get stuck in a spot. Their involvement felt super rushed and underdeveloped. They had cool ideas but.. it just felt so out of place. I couldnt even give you the name of a single one of them, they were so underdeveloped. You could take them out, replace them with the piglins, and the story would remain almost exactly the same

[@ericmiller5603]

This show was so convoluted and uneven, I suspect there were many rewrites and reshoots. The beginning is strong, and there’s something to like in every episode but it doesn’t hold together as a series. I would have liked Boba and Fennec to have a couple of bonding moments as I felt their chemistry wasn’t earned. I guess you could argue Boba saving and healing Fennec was such a moment but I wanted more between them, not just “we have similar goals so let’s continue working together.”

[@cmfort2696]

I think its like a lot of shows these days, you loved it, and then there's an episode where the decisions written are juat so illogical, in order to get to the next character episode.

[@Ohmanwhyyourfeelingshurt]

They showed that flashback of him watching Jango leave I was excited...thought we'd get flashbacks of things we didn't really see through the prequels and original trilogy...nope ...just Tuskan Raiders...I also heard that Tamura supposedly said he felt Boba talked to much...I feel like he did because that was mid season then all of the sudden Mando Rebirth Recoded 2.5 happened. Almost like an ok fuck you then.

[@coreyburns4168]

I still think covid screwed up production on this show because it's hard to believe this show had the same writer as the mandalorian. I'm also convinced that Boba serves best as a side character.

[@starwrs3468]

This whole series reminds me a lot of the prequels. A very good story under the surface. The idea was there and could have been incredible, but the execution just didn’t manage to pull it off.

[@100Creed]

Dafuq? Prequels where fire

[@starwrs3468]

@@100Creed oh I absolutely love the prequels don’t get me wrong. But I can’t lie and say they’re cinematic masterpieces.

[@06diogoleitao41]

I agree with you, and I think that if the prequels had a good execution of the story and plot they would be better than the original, for me

[@hellfish2309]

I’m sure your 46 min are on point, but really it’s not too complicated: too many insecure producers unwilling or unable to step up to the plate to write a story; all they did default Boba in a direction and start piling on member berries… it’s frustrating because Favreau KNOWS THIS ERROR and speaks about it through his character Carl Casper in his movie “Chef”, which is famously about the artistic process amid commercial success: “The signature app, intended to impress the country club brunch crowd, is the caviar egg. A shirred egg topped with a dollop of caviar is an excuse for the chef to overcharge us for his *insecurity and lack of imagination* ”

[@zoricgames]

I think Star Wars has way too many cooks in the kitchen right now.

[@hellfish2309]

@@zoricgames a line kitchen needs a few cooks, but there’s no Gordon curating the menu and keeping the storytelling tight and focused

[@andrewrivera4046]

Bryce's work made me so happy and sad at the same time. She blew the rest of the show out of the water and what makes me sad is it wasn't even a Boba episode. I look forward to where she goes in the future. She has worked with a bunch of cool directors and it's really cool to see her use what she learned.

[@thorneto2742]

Me and my wife enjoyed the heck out of the first two episodes and really enjoyed the Mando stuff until the finale when we realized how not worth it those episodes actually were. Fan service that sabotaged not only this show but also the Mandolorian.

[@SentinelHirsc]

6:26 Jango didn't leave the Mandalorian lifestyle, he's just the only one of his creed left. Jango was the last surviving "True Mandalorian" Super-Commando, a group who was opposed to both the Death Watch's zealotry and wanton destruction, and the New Mandalorian's erasure of their warrior ways. They lived by the letter of the Supercommando Codex, and Jango trained Boba by it while he could.

[@Mark-px8jt]

jango, Mando ,lando?

[@freezingsorbet3454]

I don't agree at all, Temuera Morrison just didn't resonate with me at all, from an acting standpoint. He's an OK actor, but there was just nothing going on there on an emotional level. The show was a disjointed mess, which probably didn't help the guy.

[@drlee2]

Yeah, he was easily one of the weakest parts of the show.

[@APenguinsLullaby]

Yo, I'm gonna be real, this destroys the sand people. The line you said "the more accepting tuskins" should have been a huge red flag. These are the same people that tortured Shmi Skywalker to death for, seemingly, their own entertainment. The people that randomly attacked Luke and were very clearly kidnapping him until old Ben got involved. The creatures in book of boba are not the Tuskin Raiders. This is a group that are dressed and sound like the raiders, but are completely different with different beliefs and practices.

[@machodgdon]

I swear the only reason Grogu and Din reunited so soon was so that way there’s a reason to actually watch this show

[@zoricgames]

Some executive mandating they don't mess with the only fully successful thing Disney Star Wars has produced. Return to status quo by Mando season 3 because those baby yoda toys sell

[@rexthewolf3149]

@@zoricgames “only successful thing” Rebels rouge one. And the books for the most part.

[@KingLIFEDRAIN]

Yea no matter what you're saying the character is ruined. The horrible writing they've done to try and make what is CANNONICALLY the most feared and badass bounty hunter the galaxy has ever seen,into some high morals good guy. That isn't who Boba Fett is and shouldn't ever be,for fucks sake he became THE crime lord on tatooine...to stop the crime? This isn't Boba Fett,it's some washed up dumbed down version of the galaxies greatest bounty hunter cause the writers suddenly wanna make him into something he's never been.

[@Willz828]

they absolutely wasted cad bane, and im insulted they brought him back to murder him with under 5 minutes of screentime, also black kraasantan shouldve gotten more time too

[@StreetPreacherr]

I just think that the live action movies and now these 'TV Shows' should STAND ALONE, and not depend on doing the 'homework' of watching associated cartoons to understand character motivations etc... This show IMPLIES that there is some long history between Boba and that 'blue guy', but not having watched the CARTOONS, the entire relationship was COMPLETELY lost on me.

[@hoagiemacintosh781]

If you’re a poor writer you have to reduce the main character to raise the secondary characters, if you’re a good writer you raise the secondary characters to meet the level of the main character, what they did in this show (except the 2 episodes of Mandalorian), was reduced Boba to a secondary character in his own namesake show. In order to have us care about poorly written side characters like the mod dorks. Overall it’s wicked Disney-fied, they need to stop with this whole, “we are the world”, happy chappy BS.

[@erideb3864]

All I would want is somebody to rewrite what the Book of Boba Fett should've been like and exploring those themes you mentioned. It's feels like history is repeating itself..again

[@ET-rg9xr]

I recon that the mods could've been brought back, but let go of the scooters. The scooters were absolutely horrendous.

[@dylantennant6594]

I like the idea of the Mod squad. Teen outcasts modifying themselves, especially in the after math of the war makes sense. My only problem is their bikes. Because they look like the most lazily designed vehicle in a series filled with incredible designs. Why couldn’t they be like moded up speeders, which each one being different. Maybe ones made for speed, the other for attacking. And it would fit with the rebel without a cause look. That’s what teens in the post war era did, they made bikes to their desire, it would make sense.

[@audriannagonzalez7503]

I think it’s because they are supposed to be a heavy-handed representation of the greasers of the 1950’s-1960’s that were a result of the end of World War 2 and the slow change of ideals.

[@dylantennant6594]

Consider these two facts One: You have a bunch of imperial and rebel tech lying around that can be scanvenged, repurposed and sold for cheap. Not exactly that hard to find (this was even the case after ww2). 2. Even in the real world, water is expensive. No joke, in many parts of the U.S, alcohol (which for intensive purposes is a luxury as it has no need) is cheaper then water (both bottled and tap). It’s a matter of fact that people who control the resources often controls the buyers with prices. So the water monger making water to expensive is far from out of the ordinary.

[@leonrussell9607]

@@audriannagonzalez7503 they're not based on greasers but rather the English mods, hence the vespas

[@hardhitter5099]

They should have just left boba alone and that he died in the pit from the movie so they don’t ruin him

[@thewalrus45]

It's the weakest of the 3 live action seasons so far but I liked Book of Boba but you are 100% correct on Cad Bane, honestly they could of had the episode of Mando adventures... but they REALLY REALLY needed to bring in Cad Bane earlier. He was THE perfect villain for a Boba Fett show. The Angel Eyes (as Cad was always inspired by but he could of REALLY gotten to play it here) to Boba's Man with No Name. As he did in Clone Wars and Bad Batch before he stole pretty much every scene. He's Boba's dark mirror, hell he's the worst parts of not just Boba but of who Jango was his entire life and Boba still clearly idolizes Jango to some extent. the conflict writes itself. But unless you've watched literally unfinished scenes from an arc of Clone Wars that was never finished the viewer has no context to it and thus no context to what's essentially the emotional crux of the final confrontation between the two greatest Bounty Hunters of their era. Bane should of been brought in by like episode 2 or 3 in both the present and in Flashbacks. His role would essentially be the same. He's the Pykes enforcer but he'd still clearly be the big bad because really the Pyke leader is just some dude and the Mayor barely does anything they don't really have the presence for it.... and nether has the charisma Bane has. It sucks cause the final confrontation (aside from Cad monologing too much) makes great thematic sense. Boba's moved on from the selfish bounty hunter life... so with the tools of that trade Bane has him utterly on the ropes but he still pulls out the win and ends him not though his guns or all the crazy tricks in his armor but through the tool and what he learned from his Tusken tribe. It's a perfect pure selfishness vs the importance of, of tribe moment but it could of had so much more impact had Cad Bane just... been there most of the series. Basically I liked a lot of what they did with this series but bringing in Cad so late was a huge mistake and a good 60% of it's issues could of been resolved by just.. having him present from the start. Book of Boba's biggest issue was the lack of a clear big bad and foil to it's protagonist and Cad Bane pretty much instantly fixed that but he did it too late.

[@AStageForTheKingdom]

I agree with that. They also needed to raise the stakes. Having Cad brutally gun down the inhabitants of Mos Pelgo in one of the first episodes would have have been perfect. Think "Once Upon A Time In The West". It would have made for a heck of an opening to see Boba recovering from the Sarlac in Mos Pelgo, when the Marshal refuses to let the spice pass through, and Cad Bane responds. by gunning down him and every other inhabitant of Mos Pelgo and burning the town to the ground. Boba barely survives, badly burned, and still damaged by the Sarlac. He is captured by Tuskens, but goes through that whole arc, finds the Tuskens gunned down by Bane, and then Boba goes on the warpath to take down Bane and the Pyke syndicate. Would have been epic and would have explained everything.

[@Deadman_Elit3]

What Disney needs to do is hire youtubers like Star Wars Theory and others to help guide the story of these characters.

[@cruizerdave]

I’m 13 minutes into this and I disagree with everything you’ve said. I’m sorry, I just don’t think any of the stuff you think works actually does. I’m okay with them doing something different with him. However, the first thing we see him do in the teaser for this show was Fett straight up killing a Guy in cold blood so he could be a crime boss. And several times through the series he references himself as a crime boss … yet for some reason he doesn’t want drugs dealt in his city? How does he intend to finance this criminal enterprise? Murder and extortion is fine, if they don’t pay the bills the way drugs do. It’s like Al Capone saying “we’re not selling booze no more.” No, considerably less works in this in my opinion.

[@MourningCoffeeMusic]

CGI Luke was better than all of The Last Jedi. The fan reaction alone proves it.

[@zerotohero1483]

The only thing I don't like about the mod squad is that their tech looks waaaaaay too fancy for Tatooine. Theres no tarnishing of the metal that would make sense for tech on the planet. I feel like they should've looked more like scrappers. Like all their tech was literally made of whatever they could scrounge up.

[@chokoon21]

Book of Boba Fett season 2: Jango Fett comes back no one is ever really gone.

[@Random_alias_JP-tl5xz]

I love my family too. I sometimes sit under the stars with a good wine and think back when they kidnapped, tortured and abused me while starving me to death. Ahhh, good times...good times. Why do want to visit Stockholm now? 😲🤔

[@gideonaigner1160]

If they’d called it “The Children of Mandalore”, it likely would’ve worked better

[@cmfort2696]

We need a Cad Bane show

[@DrPOP-jp7eb]

Thank you for this perfect analysis!! Especially the last episode infuriated me. The action looked so cheap and non-Star Wars. Power Rangers is the right analogy.

[@joen8529]

Post revenge of the Sith? The prequels suck worse than any of it… when did people start denying that obvious fact?

[@Pansapistolas]

Also my favorite part of the final battle is when Boba tells Din that he'll probably die if he stays and Din says this is the way.

[@hasanthedumb5340]

I really hated this series, and it ruined a lot of the emotion of the Mando season 2 finale by having Grogu and Mando reuinite so soon. Easily the worst Disney+ series out of the MCU and star wars series and one of the worst star wars projects

[@FilmSpeak]

Yeah they really did botch that reunion/emotional resolution to Din and Grogu's departure in S2. They should've saved it until AT LEAST the end of S3 after Din goes on his soul searching journey. Just absolutely baffling they would resolve that in a BOBA FETT show...

[@hasanthedumb5340]

@@FilmSpeak seriously, what is the point of Season 2 now. It pretty much got completely undone by this show

[@sage1682]

As an Apache native dude I loved the sand people in the old flicks, felt like they were nomadic desert savages lol What I loved even more was the nice little caviat in The Book of Boba where we see the "human" side of the sand people and their culture along with their honor system. Warriors seen as uncivilized. With a vulgar biker type gang wiping out his new friend's settlement, it felt like subversive subtle commentary on native american plight. It was refreshing, not having it shoved down my throat or hammered over the head with woke-ness and still adds social commentary to read between the lines. Props John Fav, props

[@TheDHCreator]

Very good analysis here. I thought the first four episodes were fine. They of course had their issues, but I think everything in Star Wars does to a point. And then Mando showed up. I thought episode 5 was fantastic as a Mandalorian episode, but putting it in BoBF was definitely not the right move. Also I really didnt like Grogu reuniting with Mando. Anyone who doesnt watch this show before Mandalorian S3 will be so confused to see them together again. I think it was a narrative step back that could hurt the Filoni/Faverau connected shows going forward. But, overall great video once again!! :)

[@mitchellhodgemeyer1950]

The biker gang doesn’t work with the setting. On Coruscant, they’d make sense, but Tatooine is a desert planet. They should be dirty, dusty. This was a misplaced bit of eye candy. Perhaps, if they’d been given any kind of characterization, maybe a discussion of their biker culture (the shiny bikes could explain the stolen water, and the local disdain for them), but this just didn’t happen.

[@peachtoastie]

Though i loved seeing Live-action Bane, the show wasted far too much time developing Mando to even bother explaining the relationship between Boba and Bane. It needed flashbacks because, realistically, not every star wars fan has seen the clone wars. My house mate was so confused on who bane was and just saw him as another bad guy, not really understanding the weight of his appearance

[@hardhitter5099]

EXACTLY! I never watched it much but a couple episodes of cad bane so when I saw him in this I was like oh dang I remember that guy from the clone wars shows. I thought he looked well done and was a good character but I definitely agree there should be more backstory and flashbacks on him and boba because i would’ve been very confused if I didn’t watch those clone wars episodes when I was younger.

[@drizzo4669]

The entire book of Boba Fett was pointless to me. The only way to salvage anything from it, in my opinion is since this is just after Jedi, he now has the opportunity to perhaps have a son (a real son) and pass on his armor; then we could have a Boba Fett character, raised with different ideals in the current timeline. (Different actor of course).

[@gasmanoo2]

Never was a huge Boba Fett fan, so I really didn´t care about this show. What I care about is the over reliance on fan favourite characters. Why bring back Ahsoka, Luke, Bo Katan, Cad Bane, etc. ? I guess they are important for the "larger story" they are trying to tell with these live action shows but when they´ve first announced the Mandalorian, I was hoping it would be "The Bounty Hunter, The Show". Episodic vignettes that would take the Mandalorian across the entire galaxy and show the viewers how life works in post Empire era. We get very little of this and the over reliance on the fan favourite characters makes the universe feels so small. I am very tired of Disney´s Star Wars.

[@Fatsaver]

The beskar spear scene didn't even make any sense tho. She literally built him beskar mini-missicles lmfao. Also she has beskar hammers which she used in combat against Stormtroopers.

[@TheDrover15]

My problem with the mods isn't their design or their flashiness, it's the the way they showed us that flashy personality, the camera zoom ins, the slow motion bringing the action to a screeching halt, the cringe dialog, the pointless 360 spin to shoot an enemy when in a life and death situation. When Fennec saves them from the ambush and she's in a hurry to go to her next task and they give us that awkward thank you dialog I literally said out loud "what the fuck, no one cares, move on"... the Mods felt like that one player in a D&D game that always interrupts the DM's narrative to impose themselves with a cool one liner. It felt like that mod chick has some sort of deal with the director where she needed to always have a line of dialog with a close up in every scene she was in.

[@socialjihad5724]

The "Thank you" dialogue was payoff for a setup that was never made....I think this is literally the second piece of dialogue (out of 2 total) Fennec ever said to the mods

[@peachtoastie]

I’ve never really cared about Boba Fett as a character. I never found him interesting in ESB, AOTC or CW. Star Wars is so fixated on giving is characters & stories from eras that we’ve already seen because of nostalgia. Mando season 1 worked so well because it was a new character exploring an environment we hadn’t seen. Though season 2 is great, if relies far too heavily on nostalgia to keep us interested: Bo Katan, Luke Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano etc. This is why i want a show set in the high republic era, but because of the risks taken with the sequels, Lucasfilm is too afraid to try something new.

[@AfterTheFirstNever]

Just a heads up - the ‘s’ in apropos is silent

[@xboxgamerJ16]

It's cool seeing Cad Bane in live action, but now I have even further questions, like why wasn't he ever around when Darth Vader ordered the bounty on Han Solo?

[@baxland2539]

As much as ep5/6 of this show (that is Mando season 2,5) are pretty good in themselves, the 2 problems are pretty major: 1) He yoinked the show halfway through for no reason 2) So what is the season 3 of Mando about now? We are back to the starting point. Grogu and Din were seperated by season2 end and they will be together by season3 start... that leaves no room for new plot to start.

[@shivverma3236]

me: slightly enjoys something filmspeak: The HUGE problem with Your Opinions ft Valid Arguments that make you feel bad for liking it in the first place.

[@FilmSpeak]

Hahaha no! Never feel bad about liking something! Glad the video made good arguments but if you enjoyed the show man, I’m happy for ya.

[@JacobYaw]

Thank you for this video. I thought I was hallucinating when I saw everyone else react to episode 6 like it was god's gift to star wars

[@WriterusAeternus]

The themes and ideas were there but the execution was poor. I love the Din/Grogu story arc so I was pissed they shoehorned their individual journeys into this series when they could have taken their time and explored them properly in Mando S3. The moment of their reunion should have been as big as their separation in S2- not haphazardly thrown into the middle of a chase scene. Ugh. I’m still mad they deprived the audience of what should have been an emotional climax.

[@donofab2358]

I actually got hyped up at the end of episode 4, cause I thought Din was just coming in to lend a helping hand the way Boba did in the Mandalorian. Then I spent the entire 5th episode waiting to get back to the main story, before realizing around episode 6 that this show was the Mandalorian season 2.5 now I feel like the episode, and by proxy the show, could've been much better if they'd cut back to Boba after Din says he has something he needs to do, save the Mando episode for the new Mando season and focus on Boba for the 5th episode with Din off doing his thing, then Din comes into the show in episode 6 without hijacking it

[@ericmiller5603]

Excellent remarks about a poorly written show. I feel for the actors and crew members who performed their jobs well; I feel also for young viewers who don’t see how poorly constructed this show was. I hope they do in time.

[@FlymanMS]

The problem with Mods is not their appearance or Boba hiring them, it’s that they are not fleshed out beyond superficial stuff. I don’t think those Klatunian butchers were slaves, more likely just employees. So he just reasoned with them for a safe passage. Also it’s funny to imagine that their boss was actually nice to them and provided social security and stuff so now Mando really shattered their income. Great review btw, I agree with the main thought and many points.

[@stethespaniard2]

I don’t like the mods because they go against the logic of the planet. Everyone on tatooine has kinda shitty vehicles I’m guessing because of the sand and dryness. Also most people on tatooine are poor as shit barely getting by. These mods actually say they are stealing because water and things are too expensive yet their speeder bikes look like they just came off the assembly line. Also how could they afford that and all the mech parts they have? They don’t look like they belong even though they were born right there. They just don’t fit. The girl is hot though

[@KidFresh71]

Cad Bane was so well executed, but I agree that his screen time was all too limited and his arc was underplayed. Maybe Cad Bane (in his prime) will be one of the major baddies in Kenobi?

[@Mark-px8jt]

I loved cad bane

[@jamiesadf5829]

I really think that this whole video essay misses the actual problems for the most part. Boba in the OT was a suit of armor and a jetpack. If you only watched that and no other star wars content, Book of Boba might be okay. But Clone Wars did SO much for the character, adding a lot of depth to him as he grew up. and then NOTHING. Between his final appearance in Clone Wars, then his appearance in the OT, we know very little in terms of mainstream content. I am sure there are comics or books or something with extended lore, but that doesn't mean much for most fans. Thats were the Book of Boba should have been set. Before the OT, under the rule of the empire. His distain for the people hiring Bounty Hunters makes no sense in Book of Boba because there just isn't any precedent for it. We aren't really shown Boba getting fucked over time and time again. He gets BTFO'd a single time, and suddenly he has an issue? What did he want Jabba to do? Come back from the dead, climb into a sarlacc, and fish out his gun for hire? That's absurd for a TON of reasons, and Boba wouldn't do it for someone he didn't know either. In fact, how many people did Boba go and save from the sarlacc when he went back? Oh wait, no one because your average person doesn't really survive that well in there. But just in case anyone WAS alive, he killed them along with the sarlacc. Being a Bounty Hunter isn't new to Boba, and he knows the risks. That's how bounty hunting is. So why the 180? Where is the reasoning here? and how is being a crime lord better? As long as we are asking questions, lets ask some more. Why did he kill Bib Fortuna? Jabba didn't personally wrong Boba, and also fucking died. Bib Fortuna simply took over the area afterwards. And then Boba just shows up and murders him in cold blood and thats okay because why? Cuz he was was gross looking? Because he was a Crime Lord? But Boba is both a scarred up baby man who sleeps in a soup tank most of the time, AND a Crime Lord now. Why did Boba stay with the Tuskens for so long? They arguably treated him worse than the Bounty Hunters he used to work with, and when he finally had the option to leave, after being a fucking slave and getting beaten frequently, he just doesnt? That is not a found family thing. They were not nice to him, and he has no form of connection to them. At least the bounty hunters make some sense, since Boba was trying to be like his father who was ALSO a gun for hire. The tuskens were just "ya he needs to get the stick so he has to hang out with Tuskens" like you can't just make or buy one of those sticks without tusken assistance. Don't get me wrong, exploring the tuskens is a cool idea, but this was a dumb way to do it. A lot of questions could have been answered if the show had been placed during the empire before Boba gets eaten. We could have had a show about Boba slowly getting fucked over by people hiring him, leading to a general dislike of the clients. This could build up to him getting eaten in the OT, and his time in the sarlacc could have given him time to reflect for a bit before getting out and killing Bib Fortuna. But no matter how I look at it, it still doesn't really work there. There has to be another incident. There has to be a reason Boba kills Bib Fortuna other than "Boba want Crime empire so he can remove all the crime and empire from it". The Sarlacc thing cannot be the reason he hates the Hutts and Bib Fortuna and Crime Lords because it was his own incompetence that got him eaten. It can't be the Tuskens getting killed because A: it wasn't Bib Fortuna's doing, and B: The Tusken Plot has issues of its own. So WHY? Why does this story happen AT ALL? Why does Boba do literally any of these things? Its not a "he wants family" because that doesn't really tie into anything here. Sure, his actions like half way in could be seen that way, but he has to get to that point first, and the story never gives us a reason for it. He gets out of the sarlacc, gets turned into a slave, suddenly loves his captors, gets his stick (which he needed to explain the mando scene) save Fennec Shand (which was already explained in the mando scene), then suddenly is just like "I want a Crime Empire" so he kills Bib Fortuna (???) and then is like "I want a Crime Empire, but we don't do crime :)", hires some random kids he found in a back alley to be his guns (again ????), and attempts to fight one of the larger Crime Syndicates despite not standing a chance because they... Killed the people that captured and enslaved him? Ah, remember the good old days, when being a slave at the hands of the Tusken Raiders was a pretty traumatic experience, and caused Anakin to have a deep rooted hatred that never really went away so he massacred them, and eventually fell to the dark side resulting in the Jedi Order being obliterated and the Empire rising to uncontested power? Guess Anakin's mom should have just saved a tusken child one time so she could go free and do nose lizard drugs with some Tuskens. Could have avoid a whole lot of conflict. Oh wait, that's fucking stupid and doesn't really make sense, also why the fuck did they send a single child out with two fully grown slaves?

[@monsieurcherry]

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[@allenparker7142]

What's next? "The Book of Babu Frik?"

[@tomdempsey3600]

Great video! I agree completely, one thing that made mando such an interesting character and great TV show was its isolated nature. It was a perfect balance of being still in the same universe we know but not a giant fan service as you point out here.

[@scrambled5948]

Mando season 1 is some of the best Star Wars content ever and instead of learning that it’s ok to have different things, Disney are milking it and making it massively interconnected to a frustrating degree because since they have the MCU, that’s the only way they can think of evolving

[@DrPOP-jp7eb]

Finally I have found someone else who finds Rodriguez' episode in Mando season 2 terrible!! Everybody seems to love it, but I think it looks like a fan film.

[@camembertcheese7092]

It’s the worst

[@JoshSJoshingWithYa]

I knew I enjoyed the Book of Boba Fett’s first four episodes, even though the action scenes were dumb, a lot of dialogue choices were confusing, and each one was formulaic, with lots of talking and then action, rinse and repeat. The Mandalorian episodes were better than those episodes on that level, but I felt the initial writing and themes for Boba Fett’s episodes were very interesting, so I liked it despite its flaws.

[@Octalux]

Excellent breakdown. I disagreed w/some observations BUT as someone who was kinda “meh” about the series as a whole, your analysis of Boba’s motivations made perfect sense! Great job!

[@High_Key]

It’s interesting because Robert Rodriguez shot my favorite Mandalorian episode, so I was super hyped for him to lead BoBF. While I’m glad it’s out and I have not even close to regrets in watching it, it sure was one…convoluted disappointment.

[@DenofLore]

I had a good time. Your opinion < my experience. Sorry you didn’t enjoy it.

[@MoFiTheMagnificent]

I was so excited for this show after episode 2 but it never got better than that

[@terriblecertainity]

I just finished it, and most of all, I was bored by it. I have no clue why a bounty hunter wants to controll a city. Or why the protagonist of his own show is SO passive and aimless plus, but this is a Disney problem in general: there is just no creativity here. AGAIN

[@grveyardshft]

The idea of a mod gang is fine. The execution was terrible. Aesthetically and tonally they didn’t belong in Star Wars at all, there’s a reason why so many people had an issue with them. It was only one of the many issues with the show though, which when combined made it a pretty terrible watch.

[@Shalyx3029]

honeslty i stopped being able to take you seriously when you acted like Luke not learning anything from any of the original trilogy movies, from Yoda or Obi-Wan and backsliding the order into the same status qou was a good thing. Rian Johnson didn't dissect the character of luke in a critique of the jedi order - he demonstrated a gross misunderstanding of the character and we're continuing that in the book of Boba fett. Because Heaven forbid Luke learn from the previous Jedi order's mistakes.

[@FilmSpeak]

Let's just agree to disagree there. I think he can learn a lot and still be a flawed person. OBVIOUSLY he learned a lot in the OT, but I just believe the core creed of the Jedi is incredibly flawed and hypocritical and Luke forcing a child to choose between a surrogate father or being a Jedi is a flawed way of thinking seeing as though we've seen Jedi and other force users embrace the best of both worlds. That's what the show and Rian was getting at. The hubris that the Jedi have and are often blinded by. Hell, it's not even a Rian Johnson thing. This is something DEEPLY embedded in the prequels. It was very much on the forefront of George's mind.

[@Doomer253]

100% agree

[@coreyburns4168]

@FilmSpeak people seem to overlook the fact that in the OT Luke wasn't trained in the traditional way most jedi were trained. How was he supposed to learn from the jedi's flaws if he wasn't taught everything there was to to be taught in the traditional sense?

[@FilmSpeak]

@@coreyburns4168 Right! He has this idea of who the Jedi were, what they used to be, and didn’t have a chance to learn that their arrogance blinded them to the rise of Palpatine. He was only viewing the Jedi one dimensionally. I think that’s what makes his failure with his training academy so tragic, he believed he was doing the right thing, following the right and just Jedi code, but succumbed to the same hubris they did and didn’t realize it until it was too late. To me, that really humanizes Luke and makes him relatable. He still had much to learn when he became a Jedi Master.

[@coreyburns4168]

@FilmSpeak I do understand why people have an issue with Luke going against the whole personal attachment thing since it was a big part of his character in the OT, but as you and I said, he didn't know that attachment is what lead to the dark side. As he learns more about the Jedi code, he will change. Luke as a Jedi will rub alot of fans the wrong way in my opinion.

[@Vangance]

Huge Boba Fett fan here, litteraly my favorite SW character, I've been reading comic books, watching clone wars and othere expaned SW media with him since my childhood. And this show was my most anticipated series probalby since ever! I loved what they did with Boba here because they escaped the vision probably many fans had about him, this ruthless, mysterious faceless armored dude with clint eastwood vibe. They replaced his mysteriousness, with something that you can build a character on! this tribal vibe, and this death and "reborn" motif really sat with me well, because they told me something new about this character this is exactly what I wanted after reading or watching countless of media where he is basically the same character. We need progress in characters if we want development in story, character cannot stay the same, they must evolve , just like we do, we are not some stainless steel figures, we change with years. And As you... I was so dissapponited with episodes 5 and 6, these two really ruined direction and course this series was going for, or at least tried to... this kind of fan service is really getting on my nerves. at least the Soundtrack was amazing throughout! Goransson and Shirley did an amazing job Hopefully we can get a second season, maybe with diffrent creative team, that focuses primarily on Boba and his story and relations with other characters.

[@woodbridgesfinest1904]

Well done! You've given me a new perspective on the show. I may watch it again. Great video!

[@FilmSpeak]

Thank you!

[@ericmiller5603]

Great video essay. You’re too smart for this show (I hope I’m in the same camp). I like how you articulate the deep issues and themes that SHOULD run through the series and achieve a satisfying resolution, but don’t. Fan service is one thing (I loved Luke’s decimation of the dark troopers in Mando) but it could have been provided in a more narratively coherent way.

[@Bioguy5]

The problem with the mods isn't that they exist. The problem is that they exist on Tatooine, that they're poor and unemployed despite having expensive mods and looking as clean as corporate executives on Coruscant, and that they're criminals who stole from one of Boba's vassals, but that end up getting hired by Boba despite being absolutely terrible at their jobs.

[@zaheera5164]

If the kenobi show is this bad, it might just ruin me

[@denisdooley1540]

If you've ever seen "A Man Called 'Horse'" with Richard Harris, it felt to me like there was heavy borrowing in the first couple episodes.

[@SirAlmightyAllseeinjah718]

I loved all of the Mando and Luke portions just as much as I loved boba part…you make a lot of great points that makes me enjoy the show more. I say just enjoy it , they’re trying.

[@grampagohan3385]

That last sentence is some of the dumbest shit you could say in relation to anything

[@oponamikwe5011]

bro. im amazed at how people hate the shows when i could not get enough. Maybe its because i hate breaking badd " the best series " my ass. Any how, lesson is humans are similar but verrrry different .. These views gutted me but ill survive. f@ck em

[@shutupdoug4976]

This show is spy kids Rodriguez when we need Desperado Rodriquez