again with the boundless universe and we get more skywalker shenanigans… this time 5% of one
Still has the potential to be better than Book of Boba Fett.
Aside from the random 90s power rangers cameos, I didn’t have a problem with it. I liked how they gave the Tusken Raiders nuance, and no story would have been enough to satiate the decades of contradicting lore around Boba Fett.
And you can’t beat them making part of Patton Oswald’s iconic star wars rant/filibuster canon.
My comment was a bit tongue in cheek because it did have some good parts, but there was a lot of missed potential. The sand people part I actually liked a lot, it was something cool and new. The power rangers I could have maybe looked past even though it was ridiculous, if they hadn’t tried to turn Boba into some kind of noble gangster. You can’t be a good guy AND run a criminal empire on Tatooine, sorry. Star Wars can be really dark sometimes but they didn’t want to go dark here? Makes no sense.
Stuff I liked in BOBF: The Tusken Raider flashbacks and Boba’s spiritual journey. That could have been the whole show.
I liked Cad Bane. I don’t really have an attachment to the cartoons, but I thought he was efficiently and effectively introduced into the show.
Stuff I didn’t like: The mod gang. Low hanging fruit, but needed to be mentioned.
I didn’t like how dreadfully boring the action sequences tended to be, especially the shootouts. Shootouts in shows between groups should have some goals each group is trying to achieve in order to be exciting. In BOBF the shootouts were so flat. They felt like that Naked Gun shootout.
I didn’t enjoy the overly comical nature of so many side characters. Comedy in Star Wars is good, but extended scenes that feel like cosplayers doing improv are not. A lot of the new Star Wars content feels increasingly like watching cosplayers in a weird uncanny valley themepark of Star Wars. A setting that was once the example of a grungy and lived in setting now constantly has a layer of gloss varnish on everything.
Boba Fett himself seemed like a big dummy. His plan at the end to split up his few people to just kind of stand around was confusing. Boba Fett never seemed much interested in actually doing crime as a crime lord. I get that he is being redeemed as an anti-hero, and thus Disney wants him not to be too dark, be he easily could have become the new canon version of Talon Karrde and brokered in information. Boba Fett would know a lot of dirt. In any case he seemed to have little agency or decision making as the boss. Even the choice to hire mercenaries was suggested to him.
The series started out good as him literally being reborn as a new person via the Raiders way of life. Then it seemed to go into him seeking a retirement plan with passive income using the open spot Jabba left. That Mando’s cameo stole the show showed how dull it had become. I actually loved the idea of him injecting purpose into the vandals by hiring them, but did they have to be so campy? Jesus, I hadn’t thought of that spin-shot in a while…why?
The slower than walking speed chase.
It is burned into my head forever how ridiculous that looked. So many people have seen that scene before it aired and no one said enough to stop it from going out like this. Weird.
Yeah… but character assassination
The worst part was the terrible action sequences and the lack of attention to detail, like the big ass droidekas not managing to kill anyone running in a straight line, just so bad, not to mention stuff like Boba’s back rocket reappearing magically for the final fight after being used a few scenes before. etc.
just very stupid low quality stuff.
the first 3 episodes that mostly had tuskens were the tits.
I couldn’t work out what I hated most about Book of Boba Fett until a character from the other series turned up and immediately sliced somebody in two.
And then I was like “why is Boba Fett such a massive fanny all of a sudden?”
Even Darth Vader had to tell the guy to chill the fuck out a bit.
Okuyasu Stand origin story
Obviously the doctor picks it up and uses it during regeneration to turn into a Jedi.
Jedi/time lord metacrisis!
Oh balls I got snookered, good one
As George Lucas loves amputation so much (Top 10 hand amputations in Star Wars) there’s a lot of potential for limb-based team-ups if this works.
You could have a story where a mad scientist Sith goes around collecting them and then stitches them all together to create a force-sensitive limb-ball of terror
I…I would watch that.
Wierdo.
I would too.
Would we put Jangos head with Luke’s hand or Dooku’s?
Both, just a menacing ball of limbs and other bits
Show shoulda been called Cool Hand, Luke
What about Cool Hand, Luuke?
This is satire, right? Right?
Yes thankfully. Though its not too far off
The overmilking and enshittification of the Star Wars franchise is officially in full swing.
It’s a joke.
That is also real. no, I don’t mean the hand show
April Fools is still 6 months away ffs…
I recall reading somewhere that an early draft of The Force Awakens opened with a shot of Luke’s hand floating through space.
‘How did it get into space?’
‘The Force!’
‘That’s not how the Force works!’
Which doesn’t make any sense as it was cut off in the atmosphere of a gas giant. Not that logic or details would get in the way of JJ.
Somehow Luke’s hand has returned.
Oh it was a planet, I always thought it was some gas clouds in space
Thing is born.
Thing plus light saber! Don’t let him get impatient anymore!
Finally we will know what happened between Empire and Wednesday.
Will it use the force to connect with Luke or will it have a failure to communicate.
What sort of temperature will the hand be kept in?
Maybe half a Hoth, so pretty cool.
I was 100% ready for a decapitated hand as a protagonist to a 7 episode show. The story of a hand trying to make it’s way back to it’s master through the ways of The Force. Then realizing it can make a family with other decapitated hands and that it doesn’t have to be bound by it’s place if origin. The more I think about it, the more I want it.
The finale can segue into an origin story for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(The_Addams_Family)
We laugh but Luke’s cut off hand played a fairly important role in one of the book series.
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