The Unfocused, Incompetent Rise of Boba Fett | Star Wars

[@owengallagher5779]

"unfocused" is exactly how I would describe the show. It's less a singular narrative and more a series of events that happen in an arbitrary order, leading to... Not really a conclusion, more that they ran out of runtime.

[@InquisitorThomas]

Yeah, it feels like they gave up on telling the actually story halfway through: “Okay we’re done with the done with the flash sections of the show and we now know what Boba was doing between Return of the Jedi and Mandalorian season 2… now what?” “Mandalorian Season 2.5!!!!” Also the Mandalorian connections in Book of Boba Fett suck because now it forces Mandalorian fans to watch Book of Boba Fett to understand why Grogu is suddenly back after the finale of season 2. I’m fine with Mando being an ally who helps out Boba in the later episodes, but he pretty much steals Boba’s show from him, the emotional core of the ending is Grogu and Mando getting back together.

[@yoloman3607]

You’d have thought that Boba would have at least tried to ally with the other Tusken tribes outside of crime family control given his experience in the early arcs, but no he doesn’t. You’d expect his friendly tusken tribe to be on pretty good on defense after raiding an entire armored train full of weapons and supplies, gaining the “machines” of the sky folk for themselves. Nope, instantly killed offscreen like dogs. Basically waste of half the season’s buildup. He controls a grand total of 1 of Jabba’s cantinas, where are the protection tariffs, the blockade running smuggling, the podracing betting circuit, and all the other stuff the Hutts did? Never even brought up. He’s a crime lord who controls no crime. Mando spends half an episode building the N1 starfighter then never uses it in combat. Would have been good vs the scorpiteks or for clearing the streets. Mando has that whole scene where the dark saber fights him and is too heavy, then grogu chooses the armor over the lightsaber. I totally expected grogs to wield the dark saber to become a giga chad with the help of his foster dad. Nope. The armor never comes into play and the dark saber is used perfectly fine one handed in the finale fight by mando. Hell Fennec runs off to assassinate the enemy leaders in the beginning of the episode and only shows up to kill them after they start almost shooting themselves because the battle fell apart. She didn’t do anything useful because the leaders were already defeated and thus disrupted nothing. There is just really shitty or no payoff for so many things. Hell, nobody even gets paid properly in all of Boba’s crew.

[@shahzebhasan9995]

@@InquisitorThomas exactly, they threw away the set-up of the first four episodes the focus on Din Djarin and Grogu again

[@williamvbone5734]

You pretty well described neutrality, now if only they could have eliminated monetary poverty.

[@shinyagumon7015]

The Book of Boba Fett felt really rushed, especially at the end. It feels like we're missing half a season of character development with every character that isn't wearing a mandalorian helmet. It's especially noticeable with the Rankor. When it's first introduced we're told that it will take Boba lots of training and bonding to ride it and then the *very next time* we see the Rankor, Fett is riding him like he never done anything else in life. That's just bad story telling, plain and simple!

[@yoloman3607]

Honestly the finale shows that Boba had barely progressed any from his origins by how much plot armor his side needed to win. In such a lopsided fight I was expecting them to crack out the Slave and the N1 to even their terrible odds, or something smart. Instead Boba becomes the idiot he hated who gives retarded orders, like spreading out and standing in the middle of the street by themselves when they know they’re outnumbered 20 to 1 with only half a chance of reinforcements from a hick town. Who though his 2 green guards could hold a literal spaceport with 2 hand axes? Or a single Wookiee in the middle of the city center? He chooses to not use a barge procession to not show the people his authority, fine. Then he decides to show his authority to the people by making his command post a deserted and gutted cantina he failed to protect? Who is he trying to impress, the whole zero pedestrians on the street since the bar patrons all died inside?

[@Bogdan221192]

As one of the most well written caracters said: Indeed.

[@shahzebhasan9995]

Yeah, because half the season was spent following Din Djarin, if they used their time more intelligently, they wouldn't have created this problem

[@ankhmorpok1497]

@@Bogdan221192 t'Ilk from SG1?

[@UGNAvalon]

@Ankh Morpok *Teal’c , but yes.

[@samueltitone5683]

Got to love how the best episodes of The Book of Boba Fett were the ones about the Mandalorian.

[@jaffakeks4403]

To be fair they did feel a bit too drawn out and very slow.

[@brandonwalker5011]

@@jaffakeks4403 they were the best by default

[@artzilla3]

Book of the Mando

[@jaffakeks4403]

@@brandonwalker5011 *Compared* to the rest of the episodes i agree, but they did feel like a massive waste of time with the mando bench building part

[@shahzebhasan9995]

They wasted time that should have been used to build boba's story better, making the final battle feel underwhelming

[@Butonz1]

Calling him a "crimelord" in the first place was a mistake. They'd have avoided a lot of confusion if they'd just stuck with the other label they used for him, "Daimyou". A Daimyou was a feudal lord with a fiefdom granted to him by the shougun in ancient Japan. In the show, Boba acts a lot more like a feudal lord than a crime lord, protecting the people in his territory by actively opposing the criminal spice trade.

[@feelthepony]

how is he a crimelord? nobody seems to work for him, he has to do all the work by himself it seems, everytime there is a minor problem he has to walk in by himself, it is like the writers learn what a mob boss does by playing GTA.

[@cmedtheuniverseofcmed8775]

I agree. I don't remember the show mentioning a lot in wanting to be a crimelord, but that of a Daimyou.

[@Napoleonic_S]

Daimyo

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

He's still be lazy and incompetent but at least it wouldn't have made a mockery of the advertising.

[@Xenonfastfall]

@@Napoleonic_S ō = ou, typically

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

Theres one thing above all else that bothered me about this show What we expected was to see boba taking over the criminal underworld of the galaxy Instead we saw him not struggle to take over a planet, nor even a city No no no We saw him struggle to try and take over a NIGHTCLUB

[@yoloman3607]

Meanwhile darth maul fucking blasts through shady mercenarys in their own fort, takes drug deals from pikes, funds space terrorists, breaks corrupt politicians out of jail as a puppet ruler, fucking attacks the hutt homeworlds, fights the 501st, traps Jedi, and much much more. That was the taking over of the criminal underworld we were expecting. Not a man who decides to struggle and walk down the street when he can literally just fly at the press of a button.

[@AeneasGemini]

It was a city actually, it was a struggle for Mos Espa

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

@@AeneasGemini by the end but really he barely maintained control of that one club

[@Ozpawn]

@@AeneasGemini Most of the battle occurred in front of a bombed out nightclub which had no strategic value, only morale for the bikers and town's folk. It was barely a war and more a gang fight seeing as all the bikers fled their positions of holding the rest of the city

[@yoloman3607]

@@Ozpawn what town folk? Everyone from the bar died in the bar when it blew up. Not one citizen showed up to even take a look, much less even help so it was a pointless stunt that nobody saw. I bet mos Espa doesn’t even have a public news outlet at this point.

[@Mikael22-18]

A crime lord that fights crime. If he's becoming a better man then send him down embracing his Mando origins, not a soft ass bounty hunter. Legends did this, it's not as if they've got nothing to work off of.

[@shinyagumon7015]

Or make him a criminal with a moral code. Like he won't sell slaves or allow Spice trading in his territory, so you still have conflict with the other crime lords.

[@yoloman3607]

@@shinyagumon7015 The other crime lords don’t get enough screentime to even know what any of them do. Hell, Boba himself doesn’t even do anything as crimelord except hold meetings and try to get taxes.

[@shinyagumon7015]

@@yoloman3607 That's right too. We know nothing about the Mos Espa families except that they aren't trustworthy and we know even less about the major crime factions. The Pikes apparently want to use Tattooine as a Spice Hub and the Hutts well they seem to not even care at all about Tatooine or Boba. They literally show up just to leave.

[@yoloman3607]

@@shinyagumon7015 What makes no sense is the pikes smuggling drugs by train in a universe run by flying starships. Who exactly is receiving the drugs on the ground in this sparsely populated dustball of a planet? Why even bring drugs there at all when you can just fly past in hyperspace? Just fly those drugs on the spaceships that brought them, get a smuggler to fly them out. Why ship a fucking train to the middle of nowhere when you can just fly black market gunships out of range of the natives?

[@hamiltonstudios6545]

@@yoloman3607 Boba just made an HOA but in space

[@KingOfMadCows]

"We need to protect the people of Mos Espa. Now, let's set up our last stand in the middle of town, forcing our enemy to send their troops into highly populated areas, and ensuring that plenty of innocent bystanders and their property are caught in the crossfire."

[@hellacoorinna9995]

It's a bold move, Cotten

[@aralornwolf3140]

It works... if one doesn't have the personnel to build defences around the town... force the enemy into urban warfare where they have clear the streets block by block, building by building...

[@neocomp92]

Rancor ended up being the cause of most property damage. The spider droid isn't that scary when you consider a) Its cannon can't penetrate a low wall and b) It has problems tracking fleeing targets that follow the Prometheus school of running away from things.

[@UnknownSquid]

Also... "I just took over the ruling seat of one of the largest crime empires in the galaxy, and entered a war with another rival empire. Lets engage their forces with a tiny band of misfits that would make a Chicago street gang look powerful, let alone any generic drug baron from earth. We'll be equipped with regular small arms, dressed in rags, and next to no special equipment worth speaking of. That will surely be sufficient force to win this war." Typical problem in holywood and live action TV series. They love to downplay the scale of everything, to fit the camera shot of a handful of actors and the budget attached to it. Gotta get them close ups right? Is part of why animated series always seem to do more justice to fictional settings. They know when to give characters their moments, and when to zoom out and show the big picture without worrying about milking the most "star power" out of their actors screen time. They don't constrain the writers to making every scene occur on a human scale.

[@hellacoorinna9995]

@@neocomp92 And I thought the ED-209 sucked.

[@khandimahn9687]

I can't deny you hit many of my criticisms about BoBF. I wanted to see his rise to power, to earn Jabba's former throne. I wanted to see the clever bounty hunter transition to being a clever crime lord. He's BEEN working for the underworld for decades, he should have some idea what to do. But we got... this.

[@tristanhalbert5813]

As an aspirant writer myself; if I had presented a draft and been asked any of these questions I would have re-built whatever my project was from the ground up- after slinking away in shame; of course- which makes me realize the issue with so much bad media seems to be that no one is in place to ask these questions but the business that funded the project, who only cares about its market appeal.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*Please, PLEASE do your own rewrite of the ascension of Boba Fett into a crime lord.*

[@boc120]

Yes, this is the "Why Boba Fett's Criminal Empire Doesn't Work" episode. Then like you say, they can do a "Boba Fett's Criminal Empire Reimagined"

[@TheEk94]

This would be awsome.

[@javiercamacho1998]

Yes, this!

[@Econ1991]

The story could have been improved if they just changed a few things: Don't kill all the Sandpeople, have them attacked but some survive to tell him what happened and have him decide that taking over is the way to go. Also makes it open for them to join in Boba's empire. Have him way more decisive, the Boba we saw in Empire strikes back was 3 steps ahead, show that. Make it so when the ambushes come he's already set his own trap there or has his men stationed in wait. Lose the power rangers, cybernetics is fine but colourful hover scooters really? And it links in with Boba being more decisive, have him more competent, there were way too many scenes where they empathised him making mistakes to rise up another character as being better, don't do that.

[@somerandomschmuck2547]

I feel the power ranger weren’t exactly a bad idea, I think what they were going for was they were trying to show the positive effect Boba could have on Tatooine, taking those without work, those who are just causing problem and instead of punishing them he’s uplifting them, giving them purpose and a way to improve their lives. But the way it’s shown was off, and again colorful scooters. How about, we go with the Sand people idea, that gives Boba some manpower to work with, the sand people seem like they’re spread out over most of the desert, say while he was looking for his armor he was also organizing them, preparing them for the day he took over Jabba’s empire, have him walk into the palace with an army behind him during that scene at the end of the Mandalorian, you wouldn’t even need to hire that extra many actors, you could four or five guys with him during those palace scenes and say most of them are out securing the planet, specially trade lanes between the various settlements. Boba controls the deserts so now he has some credibility when he says he controls the planet (make that train jacking a sign of what’s to come instead of just a conflict for that episode,). But now Boba has to focus on gaining control of the settlements, the towns, he needs control over both the people and more specifically any ports. Tatooine itself has few resources, it’s importance is its position relative to trade lanes, he wants Jabba’s empire he needs to control the commerce. Now he needs people who can work in the settlements, something which the Raiders aren’t suited for, maybe he could try hiring some bodies from his bounty hunting days or from the clone wars, Londo might have some favors he can call with his old pirate crew, get him some more ships with crews. Bosc could act as an enforcer, maybe get some more Trandosian hunters to help, stuff like that. But maybe he wants to try hiring locally because just bringing in outsiders might not work long term, then do the whole storyline with the cyborgs, but instead of having them suddenly be his guards (something which is handled by raiders) they’re his eyes and ears, the ones doing leg work in the town.

[@Econ1991]

@@somerandomschmuck2547 I like that but thought of another direction Instead of him walking in with an army, the some of the sand tribe survive the attack, know it was the Pikes but know they currently don't stand a chance so they decide to spread out and get the other tribes on side and wait as Boba does his thing taking over from Jabba. He does some of the same moves but during the series he keeps getting messages from a source we don't know about. When it comes to the finale, all the Pikes attack but as the assault they get ambushed from all directions by the sand tribes. Turns out Boba was luring all his enemies, seeming weak and soft to hit him with everything they have in one place so they could be trapped and anhilated. Also make so if the droids come he already had the Rankor in place as the sand tribes spying for him knew of them.

[@sumguy01]

Really hoping the two of you are on-staff writers for the next book, because this is gold.

[@Econ1991]

@@sumguy01 I wish but wrong politics to get hired by them, I'm closer to Gina in terms of opinions and you saw how she was treated.

[@marley7868]

or ditch the sandpeople as that intro part is very very lame and dumb and really pointless

[@15oClock]

"Jabba ruled through fear. I intend to rule through respect. Unfortunately, I have no clue how."

[@yoloman3607]

How can he rule with respect if the writers don’t respect him enough to have him come up with his own ideas?

[@grandadmiralmitthrawnuruod5011]

What I noticed about this show is how little it did with Fennec. She didn't get character development, a background, a nemesis or anything to do. Mandalorian showed just enough of her to get me interested who she is. Then Boba made her a boring as hell sidekick.

[@yoloman3607]

Fennec just voices what the audience is thinking, “bro this is stupid” And Boba just shrugs her off saying: “I’m doing it my way, the new and shittier way”

[@nairocamilo]

@@yoloman3607 At some point, I really thought she would just hijack the whole crime empire out of Fett's hand.

[@yoloman3607]

@@nairocamilo If he wasn’t so soft he would have put a bomb in her robot torso. But he’s Disney boba so probably not.

[@samuraispartan7000]

I agree she didn’t get much to work with, but I thought she was infinitely more interesting than Boba. She felt like the real crime boss.

[@nairocamilo]

@@samuraispartan7000 I felt the same too! (sorry for the late answer)

[@Alex_FRD]

Book of Boba Fett felt like the ultimate "just consume product" show.

[@dredeth]

and if you didn't get amazed you are of course hater....

[@tTaseric]

I've always said that the flashback stuff in BOBF felt like it came straight out of that 2014 to 2017 era of Star Wars, and the modern stuff felt like it came straight out of the 2019 to 2020 era of Star Wars. That's why I like the flashback stuff. It sort of has the same vibe as the SWTOR expansions and the canon novels that came out back then.

[@nairocamilo]

@@tTaseric Damn, that's on point with my feelings towards the "story before the story" The flashback also "kills" the "old" Boba Fett character, but it fails to make me believe it so when we get to the modern stuff. I really can not believe, or immerse myself into believing that that new guy is supposed to be Boba.

[@GazingTrandoshan]

@@dredeth Nobody says this but to the people who nitpick stupid things like Bane being off by 1 shade of blue lmao .

[@nairocamilo]

@@dredeth Did not like that Boba "trained" the Rancor way too fast, way too easy? Then you're supposedly a hater... JUST. CONSUME. PRODUCT.

[@ukmediawarrior]

I still want to know what happened to Jabba's empire off world. He held sway over a significant portion of Hutt space, he was a powerful leader in the criminal underworld, but if we are to believe BoBF then Jabba's empire was a few towns on Tatooine, maybe the entire planet, but thats it.

[@tennozeorymer]

Eh, the Hutt brother & sister duo took over the rest of Jabba's empire.

[@ukmediawarrior]

@@tennozeorymer They did?! I don't recall them saying anything about Jabba's off planet holdings.

[@joeyskywalker1322]

@@ukmediawarrior Yes Jabba was in charge of the Hutt council and they controlled Hutt space so yes Jabba has territory outside Tatoonie it’s just that Tatoonie is Jabba headquarters

[@eternaldepression5659]

I think one of my issues with this direction and story that disney wants to do with star wars is not fully explore and recognize antagonistic forces and characters that dont have a stake to save someone else. Boba fett could have been a prime opportunity to show a morally grey selfish bounty hunter badass that just does what he wants. The mandalorian basically was a character arc for Mando to transform from a solo morally grey ish gun for Hire to a more anti hero esque fighter against the remnants of the empire. I wish disney had the balls to give a pov from the empire, siths, bounty hunters, etc. Most bad guys or neutral characters we follow in this medium usually just end up converting and fighting the stock empire/first order regimes. We've basically coasted on light side for stars wars for how long now? Not saying that's all bad, but when boba took Jabas throne in Mando season 2, I felt like the message it was sending is that boba will be a new crime lord doing mafia type stuff and working with bad guys under him. And then they just make him this undecided dude who won't commit to something while becoming a good guy who takes down the bad guys (pykes)

[@aralornwolf3140]

Disney doesn't have the balls... why do you think Jack Sparrow was an incoherent character in the later films? Disney can't make a story told from the POV of a villain... or an anti-villain, lol.

[@xboxman1710]

A few times he referred to himself as a Daimyo which would be a better representation of what they seemed to be going for but really did a poor job of emphasizing that.

[@SimpleNobody2420]

As Mark Hamill once said during his reaction to Luke Skywalker's reveal in the Mandalorian "it still Disney."

[@tails18boy]

I was also bewildered, but I started to pick up soon that he wasn't becoming a crime lord, he was becoming a legitimate govenor. Pacifying the harmful effects of crime and legitimizing their institutions. I just wished Disney didn't pretend Boba was trying to be crime lord at that point.

[@shahzebhasan9995]

Yeah, him calling himself a crime lord made his motivation make little sense, it felt like an odd about-turn at the end of the show when he started acting like he wanted to end all crime on tatooine

[@Mediados]

They have a creative conflict there. On one hand they have Boba Fett, through whom they can explore the criminal underground of Star Wars further. On the other, they want to make him a hero so the audience can root for him. Pulling off a heroic gangster is extremely hard and requires a lot of character depth, which the writers couldn't handle.

[@GazingTrandoshan]

@@Mediados What is something else is that Jon was the writer along with Filoni for 1 ep

[@Mediados]

@@GazingTrandoshan You're telling this the wrong person, I like the prequels just as much as the originals, Ep 1 included XD

[@feelthepony]

that's another problem boba fett was never remotely a good guy,he is a cool villain, wtf is this BS.

[@thedoruk6324]

Personally I am throughly glad that the Hutts domination over the space is dying or at the very least deteriorating their species did almost nothing but mass destruction makes sith look incompotent

[@igncom1]

If anything I'd argue the opposite, from a callous point of view, the Hut system has proven to be the most stable form of civilisation in the starwars galaxy that surpasses even the republic. It's not all that great for the majority living within it, but stability beats war in my books.

[@AeneasGemini]

@@igncom1 You're not wrong, the majority of people in Hutt space get by, live alright lives and often barely even come into contact with their Hutt overlords.

[@wolfgod6443]

Boba Fett always ended up becoming a "good guy" once the wars had died down, and helped defeat sith lords and lead a united Galaxy. The Book of Boba Fett couldn't wait and just set him up in a position of power ready to be helpful to whoever needs him in a later series. I have no doubt he'll return in another show and we'll probably love him in that, but his own show was sacrificed for those other, greater stories, yet you'd think Boba Fett is the one character they wouldn't take for granted.

[@Mitchz95]

I don't think I'll ever get bored of listening to Marc tear down poorly-designed narrative and worldbuilding.

[@razagan1343]

it is therapeutic

[@TechDragon1]

This video absolutely *PERFECTLY* articulated my thoughts and feelings about the show! Spot on!

[@andrewdiaz3529]

Is this a hint for a Templin Revised coming up like the First Order and Resistance Revised episodes? Cause that would be interesting.

[@boc120]

I hope so!

[@totallyahuman.2955]

I'm telling yah, it's that damn sarlacc, it has made his head mush. To the point he's relying on instinct for his survival. It's literally how drunk people are, impaired, reactionary, and just incapable of doing anything. The only difference being that it's post vore fluids him and how impaired he is. I'm telling yah, this is gonna be like legends. A damn tradegy awaiting to happen...

[@MinersLoveGames]

This show started off strong but began to show the cracks by the third episode. Then they switched to The Mandalorian for two episodes, and me and my dad were laughing at the fact that we were more excited by those two episodes than anything before.

[@tennozeorymer]

I'd say the show started off terribly, and continued to be terrible. Then it rushed through what should have been a full season of The Mandalorian in only two episodes, and then had a droopy conclusion. (Definitely agree that the two Mando episodes were the best part.)

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

Nah, cracks were showing in episode 1. He got attacked by a squad of assassins who forgot to bring any lethal weapons.

[@libertus612]

Sounds like a “Book of Boba Fett reimagined” episode is needed…

[@TheNo15]

Great video. Boba Fett's "rise to power" if you can call it that is so contradictory is bizarre. He's a crime lord but we never really see him do any crime. He rules over the town but doesn't really do any administration. He has assassination attempts against him but they never really seem to be trying to kill him (Black Wookie literally has him in his hands but doesnt shoot him or rip him in half like a Wookie could), he makes deals with businesses (like the water merchant) but seems to disadvantage them rather than benefit them (he tells the water merchant to slash his prices despite knowing nothing about his business). He demands tribute but we're never sure whether he gets that money or if he even needs money. He wants to stop the spice trade but we never see any bad results of the spice. He offers people who try to kill him a job, but is totally willing to kill the Pykes who are most likely poor and have a lack of options for other employment. Hell even when he kills the bikers based on false info, he doesn't feel bad about it; he just blames the people who tricked him as if it wasn't him who went out of his way to kill the bikers without fact-checking. It's like watching someone playing a videogame for the first time on very easy difficulty.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

It's a pathetically written story.

[@Gabthar]

Boba being the good guy kinda makes me want to call him Bob Fett. He’s simply not the same character

[@AeneasGemini]

I think they could've had him be a complex character, a ruthless man (but with the belief that being ruthless was the only way to bring peace to somewhere like Tatooine).

[@Gabthar]

@@AeneasGemini yeah that would have been a good idea. Obviously this means Disney will never use it

[@GazingTrandoshan]

Hes literally dude who stood around and died hilariously to most people . Not everyone read everything and even in the CW he had a conscious

[@UnknownSquid]

@@AeneasGemini Yep, this. He was a ruthless career killer, but there's still a difference between that and a crime lord. It would be easy enough to tell a story about him basically wanting to "settle down" but doing that the only way he knew how (violence). So he'd set himself up as a "lord" (not a crime lord) by taking out an existing one. He'd then deal with all his problems via expertly applied violence. He's not in it for the money, or even really power on any wider scale, and might well upset the balance of power as a result, but he's sure as hell going to build a reputation as someone you don't fuck with. He'd seek to make life as easy as possible for himself, and by extension his citizens and followers, however the easiest way he knows to do things, is to apply blaster bolts til the problem stops being a problem.

[@FogelTheVogel]

I just want to know who designed those "motorcycles"? When I first saw a scene with the bikergang on youtube, I thought some guy with video editing software had done a pretty decent job at pasting them into the scene. But nope, seems like they were supposed to be there. In the desert. Without a speck of dust on them.

[@hellacoorinna9995]

Exactly! They were too fracking shiny.

[@zobblewobble1770]

@@hellacoorinna9995 Yeah it almost seemed like the bikes and the Mods belonged to a CW adaptation of Power Rangers. They looked completely out of place on Tatooine (and most of the Star Wars galaxy, though they MAYBE could have worked if they were hanging around Dexter’s Diner on Coruscant)

[@hellacoorinna9995]

@@zobblewobble1770 True. Or Naboo. But Dexter's Diner (and M'aal't Shop) us more thematic with their space-50s cyberpunk motif.

[@IronVigilance]

8:40 I was 100% expecting R2 to come in with close air support with Luke's X-Wing. That would've been way more epic to see than the Rancor honestly

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

Boba went to his palace and decided to get the Rancor instead of his heavily armed and shielded gunship.

[@talscorner3696]

Not to mention that Fett was portrayed in the original trilogy as either very familiar with or even part of Jabba's power base.

[@MG6960]

“Seems like Boba just agrees to do what the last person he talked to say” Damnit Boba Fett is the Joe Rogan of Star Wars

[@yoloman3607]

He’s fucking Yes Man of an independent Vegas, trying to bring water to the strip

[@aralornwolf3140]

They do look alike... :thinks:

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@Theosake , *Looks at his positions on pseudo-science* . . . *Looks at how authoritarian the right is* . . . *Looks at him agreeing with racists* . . . Yes.. it's the left that's horrible.

[@aralornwolf3140]

@@Theosake , You're just like those anti-vaxx, anti-mask folks... just ignore the science. Studies showed ivermictin was very effective for treating intestinal parasites in patients with Covid and nothing else... It's something the scientific community knew since the start of the pandemic. Yet, they had to waste their time doing the studies to show conclusively, that Joe Rogan and many other conservatives peddled in shit. Shit, that they still deny.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@@aralornwolf3140 masks don't work.

[@brad5426]

In the finale I really wanted to see a B1 battle droid battalion go up against the Freetown militia. It would have been fitting considering Boba has flashbacks to the Clonewars. Cad Bane has also commanded battledroids in the past, so it would fit in with his leadership expertises. As for acquiring a battalion of B1 droids, there's many ways that could have been accomplished after the collapse of the CoIS.

[@killgriffinnow]

The words “unfocused” and “incompetent” are extremely apt for discussing almost anything done by Disney Star Wars lol

[@tTaseric]

Pretty sure Disney owned Star Wars when KOTET came out so there's some positives

[@GazingTrandoshan]

@@tTaseric People are always wishy washy , they prais mando , the praise Clone wars , then praise more mando , then one kinda boring show everything is bad lmao . No nuance

[@killgriffinnow]

@@GazingTrandoshan Mando wasn’t very good either, and Clone Wars wasn’t written under Disney. Really bad examples.

[@Nugnugnug]

@@killgriffinnow the best part of Clone Wars was written under Disney.

[@Veridiano02]

@@killgriffinnow Oh, I get it. So now the mandalorian wasn't that good either. I mean, at the end of season 2 we had people literally crying for the triumphant return of Star Wars, but now isn't as good. Ok. Now I just wish they return to the sequels again and kill Star Wars. You really don't deserve things like mandalorian.

[@lost_to_the_woods]

I’m glad someone said it better than I could.

[@SpamSide_B]

I felt the show was at it's best during the flaskbacks with the Tusken Raiders. At least then it made sense for Boba to act like he was out of his element (cause he was).

[@AncestorEmpire1]

And yet it’s season finale was more watched than the season 2 finale of the Mandalorian. Normies are weird

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

People love to gawk at a train wreck

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527 not me. I attempt not to give money to people that hate me.

[@GazingTrandoshan]

@@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527 Yet this means the show succeeded and will get more , hope for better content not by Jon

[@burnttoast26]

Normies tend to just be "it's new so it's good" when it's current. Consume product and get excited for next product.

[@RorikH]

I have no idea how his time among the Tuskens convinced him that drugs were bad. If anything, his policy should've been that every hit of spice should come with a Nose-Lizard chaser.

[@jujuplayboy]

They can't make a story without bringing back an old character, and even then they can't make a good story. I'm very afraid/apprehensive for Kenobi. Disney and LucasFilms have decided to not let the character alone to live a well-deserved tranquil life on Tatooine for the 19 years separating episodes III and IV. Then won't even dare make a new story with a new character in a new era.

[@theghostofsabertache9049]

I’m keeping my expectations for kenobi low until I’m shown otherwise. And there is so much lore to work from and they just focus on the same period which I feel is pretty already well covered.

[@saberiandream316]

I'm prepared for the bastardized version of Last of the Jedi and Kenobi.

[@n.a.4292]

They could have gone with The Rise of Tyber Zann... instead we have the Ballad of Bobby Fett

[@kadiliman3022]

Someone needs to make a parody of the old "Ballad of Davey Crockett" but with Boba Fett.

[@Ttran778]

The Book of Boba Fett is literally the story of a guy and his sidekick, literally making their plan up as they went along, and then somehow-- SOMEHOW, it all ended up in his favor in the end. I feel like there was so much more that could have been expunged and explored; I have lowered hopes of and for a 2nd season.

[@theflyingkaramazovbrothers6]

Fennec seemed like the mastermind and Boba like the sidekick other than explicit decision-making authority.

[@Ttran778]

@@theflyingkaramazovbrothers6 I personally felt like Fennec was more like the super capable and loyal henchman and Boba was literally just the rich dude bank rolling the adventure.

[@CommanderLongJohn]

After the new trilogy I genuinely can't fathom how any Star Wars fans (that aren't young ass children and Virgin neckbeard nerds) have *any* hopes for the entire franchise 👀

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

I feel so sorry for the people who waited 40 YEARS to see Boba Fett return to the screen.

[@cmdraftbrn]

under the rule of a incompetent, unfocused, disinterested, person that just agrees with what the last person uttered. why does this sound familiar‽

[@TheSquareheadgamer]

Considering 2 episodes of the season was a Mandolorain special it really feels like the show was an afterthought

[@brad5426]

What Boba should have done immediately was mobilise his supporters. But he does none of this, he wanders the streets with two Gamorians as far as manpower goes, so why don't more people try their luck to rival his power? As far as supporters of Boba's cause go, that's his manpower. They wouldn't be able to run a bar establishment, so it amazes me how Boba succeeded for the entirety of the series.

[@aralornwolf3140]

Where did the loner Cloned Jango Fett get supporters? That's where the narrative should start then work from there, right?

[@thebigbrzezinski3201]

Gee, it's almost as if Fett was never a character at all, just a plot device with a stylish appearance you could make action figures of. That, or all the head trauma he's suffered fighting unsuccessfully against so many player characters over his career has finally caught up to him.

[@SuperCrow02]

Yeah blame the fictional character don't blame the horrible writing from Jon Favreau and Robert Rodriguez.

[@DB-ku7vu]

The Mandolorian is basically what everyone expected Fett to be, so now he has to be something else

[@SuperCrow02]

​@@DB-ku7vu A stupid oaf? I don't think a single person wanted that lmao. Almost like they're ruining Boba Fett to make their Boba Fett clone look better.

[@thebigbrzezinski3201]

Hm, bad writing, nonexistent writing, or fandom delusion. Which is the least disastrous tool for building a story, I wonder.

[@AeneasGemini]

@@thebigbrzezinski3201 Fett has been a great character in things like comics, games, books and even in the clone wars show. None of that was fandom delusion, he's a character that's been done well in several mediums, it's this show which f'd it up . Although tbh, fairly sure that you're just trolling anyway

[@mrdrprof8402]

"It instead seems boba just blundered into this outcome" The Mr Magoo of Star Wars strikes back

[@Arclight104]

Boba is a new type of crime lord with no need for street smarts, business acumen, intimidation, violence, respect, diplomacy, organisation or loyalty.

[@GuyShōtō]

In a universe where rag tag rebels toppled an empire by blowing up two big space stations and a Chancellor managed to grow two massive military forces to finagle his way into being Emperor and people were just cool with it Boba Fett's rise is really in keeping with ridiculousness that is Star Wars politics.

[@salflores713]

You poured delusional little man you don't really know Star wars do you

[@simon2493]

Problem lies with former and current audience making anything to world plot heavy will just not sell well enough. SW if we take og trilogy for world build we are missing 99% of story.

[@GuyShōtō]

@@salflores713 Cope.

[@drksideofthewal]

That's a massive oversimplification. 1. First, the Emperor was on the second Death Star, and he purposefully left no line of succession, so the chain of command was in complete chaos with his death, splitting the Empire into competing factions. Second, Deathstars were moon sized superweapons, it's not hard to imagine why losing them would be economically ruinous. Third, the Empire relied on "fear" to keep their systems in line, yet they suffered two humiliating defeats in just four years, the second resulting in the deaths of their two biggest leaders. This led to many worlds declaring open rebellion after the second Deathstar was destroyed. 2. Corporate institutions like the Trade Federation and Techno Union already had massive armies, so all Palpatine had to do was unite them. The Clone Army was almost entirely manufactured on Kamino, a distant outer rim planet that was purposely removed from the Archive. While having a single point of failure for your army's production is bad on a strategic level, if your goal is to build an army in secret it makes perfect sense. It wasn't that people were "cool with it" it's that they had no idea the same person was pulling the strings of both armies. The Republic could have just not used the Clone Army, and tried to recruit a regular army to fight the Seperatists... but building an army takes time and they would have been crushed. Using the Clone Army was a necessity for survival, even if its origins were questionable.

[@GuyShōtō]

@@drksideofthewal So the Empire tossed all the eggs into one basket despite owning a galaxy larger than the Milky Way and despite having a more centralized system of governance than the Republic before it all that was needed was the blowing up a useless space station and the death of one cog in a galaxy sized empire that was significantly more centralized than any other prior regime. Yeah that totally results in a galaxy scaled empire’s collapse. Lol

[@TroyTheTory]

We need the Templin Institute to retell Boba Fett’s rise as they did with the Resistance and First Order.

[@illesgyurina1718]

Based on the information provided by the films alone, the role and position of Mos Espa is quite controversial to me. As it was the starting and ending point of Boonta Eve Pod Race, it felt most important from a cultural or entertainment point of view, it was not clear that Jabba's palace was also close to it, so this settlement would be the center of Jabba's crime empire somehow. In the first film, Obi-Wan specifically pointed out that Mos Eisley is the spaceport of Tatooine, so from a commercial-economic point of view, it should be more important than Mos Espa. When Fett returned, Mos Espa was depicted somehow as about ten times larger than Mos Eisley, and it was not very clear what caused this grandiose development, especially that after the death of Jabba, in principle, the whole planet sank into chaos. So why did this particular city suddenly become the most important settlement on the entire planet? Why Mos Espa is so special?

[@aralornwolf3140]

Well... it's a planet. It should have more than two "major" settlements. The "major" settlements should have their own space ports. Each "major" settlement should have a reason for existence. Each "settlement" should have clear logistics (especially where are the food and water the people who live there need comes from) to support its population, an explain how the economics of the settlements (how do the people pay for their food and water) function, and the local/regional politic entities. The bigger problem for Tatooine is... water security. Those who control the water supply, control the people. When the local economy is based around servicing the criminal organizations and a new person goes around saying "no more criminal organizations, or I'll kill you"... that new person just put so many people out of a job. Without the recently unemployed people spending money, the local economy _will_ experience a depression (think of what caused ghost towns). When enough people are out of water, they will turn on the new guy... _unless_ the new guy gives them alternate means of employment/source of water. George Lucas did the barest bones explanation of Tatooine in Episode IV. He then expanded on it in Episode I. Book of Boba Fett had an opportunity to greatly increase the lore, and provide concrete explanations for how everything on Tatooine functions.

[@derekburge5294]

Gee, it's almost like Disney isn't the least bit interested in writing good stories and has devoted nearly their entire enterprise into squeezing rememberries for maximum juice with minimal effort.

[@saberiandream316]

Yeah, to hell with that noise, I'll stick to the old Legends-branded EU.

[@anoninunen]

"We ar the pirates; That don't do anything..."

[@AnythingMachine]

Planet with a population of a couple of million is apparently effectively ruled by a dozen gangsters

[@MorallyDubiousFrog]

Funny how the other crime families tell Boba to his face that they’re all making money from the Pyke spice trade. He then expects them to just let him get rid of one of their biggest sources of income. Also funny how a merchant under Boba’s protection complains that he’s been robbed and asked for help.Boba confronts the thieves and then believe everything they say without question and tells off the merchant for having high prices.

[@horrorclause]

The world building in this show was busted, but at least we learned how Tusken Raiders get their gaffi sticks. That makes it all worth it... right?

[@yoloman3607]

Hey guys, we decided to try working speeder racing tusken into the script just for lolz, because usually they shoot at flying machines. Maybe have them do a train robbery, we’re writing a space western here. So what if tattooine is a shithole with no infrastructure, just make the train fly or something. Yeah it doesn’t matter that everyone can just fly cargo everywhere with spaceships, it’s gotta be a _train_ just like in solo.

[@Flyer07]

I think you just provided a far more thoughtful analysis of this show than an entire writers’ room of Lucasfilm employees cared to imbue purpose into Boba Fett’s actions.

[@kjmmediapro]

Good stuff man. The channel has really had an uptick in quality over the last year or so. It was good before but now it's a favorite

[@RobtheStampede]

Boba Fett's job as a crime lord went as well as his time as a bounty hunter, where he had the Empire catch Han Solo for him, then lost a fight to a blind man.

[@DFG3755]

The Tatooine Teletubbies Hover-Bike gang was beyond intolerable.

[@PhoenixGrov]

Let's not forget that a former mercenary didn't think of hiring mercenaries

[@lilchinesekidchen]

the issue with both the mandalorian and the book of boba is that they’re basically kids shows but attempting to cash in on the nostalgia of adults who grew up with this, and appeal to their more adult sensibilities. so the acting, storylines, and even choreography/blocking and are stilted and simplified so kids can follow along, but it tries to carry the tone of a serious action show like for instance, Boba in the Show is written as a very simple straightforward hero with a heart of gold, to make him digestible for younger audiences. this means he can’t be portrayed as a cunning cold or calculated bounty hunter like in legends. So he’s always reacting to the “devious” plan of his enemies instead of coming up with them. But the tone of the show still treats him like he’s a stone cold killer. Like the new trilogy, the show is trying to be too many things for too many different demographics and it’s dry and unfocused as a result

[@cristhianramirez6939]

There is Vito Corleone for inspiration, literally the most famous crime boss ever, a gangster with a sense of honor and community. The story writes itself, if the writers just got together a couple of hours with a board and some brainstorming this could have worked

[@awesomehpt8938]

When it comes to plotting and scheming this show ain’t like the first 4 seasons of game of thrones at all.

[@CucumberSadness]

Boba always seemed unfocused, easily swayed, and indecisive in the Clone Wars, so his personality made sense. And in the films he died in such a silly way so his being beaten also felt normal. But what really got me was how small scale it was. Like how many allies did he have? Like a gang of 6 people, 2 guards, 2 bounty hunters, Mando, and a dozen people from free town. I live in a small village that had a gang war that makes Boba's "gang war" look pathetic (apart from giant monsters and robots, but there were horses and technicals). Like... do you expect me to believe that this guy is controlling a planet? Or a city? Heck, I barely believed he is controlling his own darn Palace. Half the time no one was there. They needed to have more people coming and going from his palace, guards, guests, people paying tribute. The large biker gang and pikes felt like serious gangs, they had loads of people, and were well equipped. Boba's gang had a few mopeds. Like, in all seriousness, the cyberpunk gang should have had dozens of people joining them. There should have been shop owners approaching him on the street, or we enter scenes with him being paid tribute and then leaving an establishment rather than him just walking. There needed to be a greater sense of his presence in the world. Or at least greater explanation for why he didn't want to have much of a presence. Money wasn't an object for him, he could have bought on enough allies. Heck, at the begining they could have had him near alone, then every episode we see a few more people, droids, and guards with him and at the palace. This would show that he and his allies are being active off screen. We don't need to personally meet every new gain. Ugh... it was just... I wanted to like it.

[@theoxerbox3014]

It would have be nice to see him muster an amry from the people he protects and then strike the pike like it would be cool if it would have said like 1k people have taken up arms in bobas army like a line like that would have been cool and would help with realism

[@DIEGhostfish]

"A literal child had a hard time making up his mind. A man in his 40s with the face of a 60 year old should act the same way."

[@DIEGhostfish]

" There should have been shop owners approaching him on the street, " I mean ONE shopkeep approached him and he decided to act like Stalin and set price controls on farmed goods.

[@CucumberSadness]

@@DIEGhostfish Also later as a teenager when he was meant to be leading a group of bounty hunters. He showed difficulty choosing between doing what was right and what benefitted him and his allies most. I'm not saying it is good to not have had him develop in the mean time, just that it is inline with what we had previously seen of him and as a result it didn't upset me too much. In the OT it seemed like he mostly worked alone, and that perhaps was because he never got over that indecisiveness. Still, not great, but makes some amount of sense. It would have just been cooler to give him his own Rebels era show/episodes where he developed into a much more focused and less easily swayed person. Maybe one who still hovers between light and dark.

[@henriquereisjr6771]

I live in the west of Rio de Janeiro. Here there is a very interesting story of two communities. One is City of God (which was the subject of a famous movie) and the other is Rio das Pedras (River of Stones). Rio das Pedras was settled after City of God and irregularly (it did not originate in a government settlement). As shown in the film, City of God was dominated by drug dealers who obviously expanded their domains to other nearby communities. In Rio das Pedras there was resistance to this expansion, as some people saw the drug as a major problem that destroyed families. As a result, a group was organized that began to fight drug traffickers by taking justice into their own hands. Coincidentally, a couple named Otacilio and Dinda were the leaders. They maintained order in the community, took the law into their own hands and stopped the sale of drugs. The big problem arose after the death of this couple (for various reasons). There was a war for the seizure of power. The war continues to this day and the drug, once prohibited, has returned as a way of raising funds to finance the war. But even in the least turbulent time, there was much conflict. First, because the security scheme needed funding. And they charged a protection fee from people that many didn't want to pay. And second, many preferred drug dealers. In the view of these people, the traffickers did not bother anyone and only wanted to sell their poison to those who were stupid enough to buy it. In the eyes of these people, there was no reason to pay and accept control of a couple of dictators just to see the community free of drugs. It is a complex and interesting story. I kept remembering this story while watching Boba Fett and was saddened by the lost opportunity to tell a good and complex story.

[@everettjohnson9374]

Meh can't agree, granted his ride to the top was sloppy and not exactly what a crime boss would normally do but he was never one that was anything more than a pawn. He was tired of taking orders from idiots and instead decided to become the idiot in charge. Hell he reminds me of maul, a person that uses nothing but force to maintain power instead of planning ahead. I'm waiting for the second season to see what kinda crime lord he will be, hell he might wanna take over and reform it. Either way I still enjoyed it and was happy to see him take charge and not just go back to what he use to do like Din wanted to.

[@yoloman3607]

He went from taking orders from idiots to being the idiot giving orders. Maul actually has plans AND uses force, Boba doesn’t use force or plans. Maul got mandalorian splinter soldiers en masse, supplies, taking down rival crime syndicates, took on the hutts, gathered his force using brother, got a puppet ruler released from jail, and got transport for his invasion of mandalore. Boba walked around and hired a water stealing small time gang and thought that would be enough to be a crime lord? I expected him to rally other tusken tribes to cement his power without the families. Not tell his guys to fucking spread out and hold a city when they know they’re outnumbered. They all got ambushed as expected, if not for plot armor the Wookiee would have died like the poor gamorians who had 2 axes to fucking hold a spaceport.

[@jonathanfrost8767]

Great video. A lot in there. Can we get a video about how he aged 40 years in just five years in the rancor and the whole "Dances with Tuskens" arc?

[@PracticeNine]

This sums up Disneys approach to Star Wars. No thought put into it, just flashy battle scenes with no depth of plot.. The Star Wars Galaxy doesn't have the appeal to dive deeper into it anymore, it has morphed from a fascinating place to explore and learn about to a lifeless stage in the theater of corporate greed

[@darkroninmarvel]

Lucasfilm: we have no idea what are we doing! Disney: keep going, trust me bro

[@Gillymonster18]

This is a very formal way of saying “none of the characterization or writing in BOBF makes any sense and is driven by ‘because the plot says so.’”

[@wyzemann]

You’ve managed to hit the nail on the head with this thoughtful upload. Unfortunately, the “unfocused & incompetence” of the lead character results from the writers being subdued by the powers that be. For Boba Fett to exude any of the great qualities you so aptly listed, the writers must be made to adhere to a higher standard of storytelling, or the bulk of the audience must abandon the series altogether.

[@lorentzcoffin4957]

“I will rule with respect” Me to the writers: Do you even know how crimelords garner respect? Did you do any research into the role?

[@SuperAerie]

I know that in a year from now I will have no memory of whats actually happend in the Book of Boba Fett. Whats the story was about & so. Its not memorable in any way. Besides the hilariously bad car-chase that managed to contain every cliche a car-chase can have. And yes I completly agree. Boba Fett seem completly incompetent, never seem to take any initiative & only recruit some random people he happen to meet on the way.

[@theDuke0001]

we could had have a real dark series but no we have a crimelord being a trusty good guy

[@nigmar9115]

Please, made a reimagined of the rise to crime lord of Boba Fett!!

[@andrewellison4023]

Feels to me like there were two separate plotlines for Fett that never got explored or truly connected and then both got diluted in an effort to make Fett a good guy. I was hoping for a Narcos: Tatooine with Boba as a hard-riding cowboy type of boss, does terrible things but has a personal code of honor and takes matters into his own hands. Or they could've dropped the crime lord plot and gone full Last Samurai/Avatar with Fett leading a Tusken guerilla war against the Pykes, keep the Tuskens as the main plot and only interact with the crime world as necessary. In the end, felt like they really just wanted to make another Mandalorian season but had this other character they had to do, well, something with.

[@ClassicMagicMan]

This is the story telling era of "Tell, don't show". They'll tell us things are a certain way, and its our job as the audience to not question it. So progressive!

[@ludovicm5585]

I'm surprised there is not a word on how slow and clumsy the legendary bounty hunter is in the various fight scene shown.

[@AlgaeNymph]

A crime lord being a protag is something HBO could do, but Disney has to be squeaky clean. Combine this with the current trend among series writers to focus on Moments rather than a coherent narrative and you have a recipe for disaster.

[@notnotkevinjohn]

I really felt like Jabba's and then Boba's criminal empire was incredibly two dimensional. Jabba had an intergalactic criminal enterprise, and it seems like when Boba took over he had maybe 3-4 people working for him. When it was time to bring out some muscle, he had absolutely zero foot soldiers; where it seemed like Jabba had 10x as many hired guns around just to throw some prisoners into the Salracc pit. It reminded me of the way that Star Trek civilizations are 2D, they'll maybe have 1-2 people that show up and represent an entire planet (because of budgetary restrictions and makeup and such). But here I can't fathom why Boba Fett was running a criminal empire without anyone actually working for him.

[@lordextinction8322]

At this point I'd say Boba's more of a Guardian than Crimelord of tattooine taking tribute in exchange for protecting the civilians from outside threats is something a crimelord may do but not throw away everything else a crimelord does in the process

[@TheSpaceKiwi]

They re-introduced Boba as a sidekick and that vision of him never changed, even in his own series. Whether it's Din, Fennec or a Rancor, he's constantly overshadowed as other characters do the heavy lifting.

[@calebmyers3168]

This is really cool great video bro!

[@darken2417]

I remember back in the Lucas era where Boba Fett made sense. It was nice and simple his father was a Mandalorian and both were bounty hunting to eventually liberate and lead Mandalore. It writes itself.

[@saberiandream316]

Those days were over the second Filoni retconned them not to be Mandalorians.

[@darken2417]

@@saberiandream316 I'm extremely salty about that. You know the only two guys in the movies that wear Mandalorian armor and whom the entire bounty hunting Mandalorian civilization is based on? Those guys aren't Mandalorians anymore, surprise!

[@AlexDuos]

Remember when Boba Fett was considered a badass? *sigh* Me too. I'm still convinced this entire arc exists to sideline Boba permanently so that Djin can be THE Mandalorian.

[@irishdc9523]

I feel like he wanted to rule Tatooine, but as a legitimate governor while going through an organised crime family. The two are incompatable. It could be because crime lords are ingrained into Tatooine society, this was the only legitimate way to gain power and he was using what he's dealt with to try to improve things, but if he was trying to govern, then he was doing it far too early at this stage

[@henrykkeszenowicz4664]

I really missed the crime part in his lordly activities. After a ton of movies about dirty slums, impoverished people and rebel terrorists, I'm all in for some space feudalism, but based on Boba Fett's actions, what he really wanted is to retire.

[@objectivelyacat3873]

They gave Boba Fett the personality and competence of Tytos Lannister. The only difference is Tytos' actions, or lack thereof brought on the consequences you would expect, whereas Boba seems immune to consequence.

[@caad5258]

That close was devastating

[@MechaEmperor7000]

The annoying bit of this is that we did see what a quick rise in the criminal empire would look like with Maul and Savage and I was kinda expecting something similar.

[@Blakobness]

That's the difficulty of writing intelligent and creative stories and characters. It's difficult to show Boba Fett as cunning and a criminal mastermind when the writers don't match up to the intellect you're trying to portray.

[@Jackelmandingo]

They could have just made a 'Rex' show. Like a space A-team going from system to system solving problems and saving the day. Could just use the same cast more or less. Oh and Boba could just survive as he always does vs the sand butthole. And played as a 'Evil clone' and still be more like in the EU, a bounty hunting badass working for the Empire. Then we could have the reveal form Boba Fett too Rex that Darth Vader was Anakin Skywalker the whole time.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

What I like about the series is the flash back, the time where Boba's spent went the Tusken Raiders.

[@Dr_OzoneTV]

Nice, a KZbin channel designed for idle sci fi analysis posing as a US think tank, Stratfor should do this too.

[@valianthorizon6890]

I think the direction should've been towards the desert. Towns and farms that are terrorized by the syndicates transports, or speeder gangs. Where the law each area has is a small hand of folks or one hard working sheriff. In my opinion that should've been where Boba should be focused on.

[@xanderpiz8770]

This show was such a disappointment. As an EU and OT fan, I knew not to expect much from Nu SW but for Disney to basically castrate and relegate Boba into some sort of bumbling idiot was way too disrespectful.

[@matheuss886]

This show and the sequels are proof that success in Star Wars under Disney is not a rule or recurrent thing, but rather exceptions to a pattern.

[@jhs2110]

He’s the crime lord that doesn’t commit any crimes