The Book of Boba Fett was about the wrong guy
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He wanted to rule with respect. Unfortunately, the Book of Boba Fett didn't rule. It was a frustrating mess. And the worst part is, there was a character within the show who could have saved it.
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What did you think of The Book of Boba Fett? How would you rank it from 1 to 10?
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8 out of 10
Mind boggling. How do I rate it when I can't even get what they were going for?
Maybe 3/10 - there was something in the flashbacks, and there were cool scenes.
6 or lower
As a stand alone story 3/10
As a SW story 6/10
My take is that BoBF was a corporate excercise rather than an artistic one. The inclusion of BF in Mando basically forced the hand to get this to screen asap while the fire was still hot. Unfortunately what was delivered is the result there of.
The structure of the narrative made no sense and the story told did not stay true to the known character. The flashbacks were poorly used, and could of been more coherent had they also touched on the time spent as a bounty hunter (alone and ok). To juxtapose against the PTSD of apparently short time in the Sarlaac pit (alone and not ok). And again the time spent with the Tuskens (alone/included and not ok/ok).
4 at best
If it was called the book of tattooine it could be a collection of stories focusing on different characters that all tie together into a stronger narrative. That way we could have mando, boba, and cobb all be the stars of certain episodes without having to stick in one.
This is the best alternate idea I heard so far. Start with 1 Boba flashback episode (Tuskens, meeting Fennec), then the Mandalorian episode (which is now ep5 and leave Grogu/Luke for later, 'I got to visit a little friend' is cliffhanger for S3), then a Cobb Vanth episode where we meet the Pykes + Bane for the first time, then Boba current timeline episode (with the Mayor/Hutts + rancor) then a villian story about Cad Bane/Pykes to build up tension, then the finale. Perfectly spread out in 6 chapters. Let some survived Tuskens return and involve Mando's N1 starfighter in the finale and literally everything is connected in a nice bow.
Tales of Tattooine
@@Montasir125 yes perfect name
You mean like.....Tales from Jabba's Palace? Oh.....oh.....
@@AlphaAuroraThat idea definitely reminded me of "Tales From Ba Sing Se."
I’m sure that was your intention though. Lol.
A fully western styled show set entirely on Tatooine about a man with a violent past learning to unite people against a greater threat is what Boba should've been. But it wasn't even close.
Yeah. The first Red Dead Redemption game was more or less how I pictured the "The Book of Boba Fett."
In Red Dead Redemption, John Marston is a retired outlaw turned bounty hunter that is forced to track down the former friends of his old gang in order to be granted his, and his family’s freedom.
He is shown to still possess the violent ideals of his former leader and mentor, but as the story progresses, he begins to develop a greater sense of morality and honor while still maintaining his gruff outward persona.
And the game’s story doesn’t pretend that John was never an outlaw either. John still slips up from time to time and has violent outbursts to show that he still needs to work on himself. People also hold him accountable for the atrocities he committed in the past, and not everyone is willing to forgive him for the people he’s murdered.
So, having said that, I expected "The Book of Boba Fett" to show us that the people of Tatooine despise and fear him for working with the empire. I expected to see the remnants of Jabba and Bib Fortuna’s gang retaliate against Boba, leading to the conflict of the show.
Most of all, I expected Boba’s redemption to be more gradual like John Marston’s in order to illustrate that redemption is possible, but requires hard work and self control (something Boba was shown to have little of in the OG trilogy).
Boba should of stayed in that pip he's a pointless character.
Boba was the least interesting thing in his own show. I fell asleep on every episode until episode 5.
@@hunnerdayEDT Biggest takeway of that, is you need more sleep.
@@ckmoore101 😅🤣😂 you ain't wrong about that
"The Star Wars brand should be bigger than a few characters"
THANK YOU
The fate of the whole galaxy doesn’t always have to revolve around the same 3 families.
Precisely.
But Disney wants to lure us with nostalgia cause that's all they can do
Instead of unceremoniously killing Boba's Tusken friends, they could have him building his new empire by making an alliance with the people of Mos Espa and the Tuskens, which would give him a natural advantage over all organizations on Tatooine. To make another Dune comparison, he could rule not with fear but with respect and "desert power." I feel like that's the kind of ideology they want us to read from him now.
They needed an excuse to make him hunt down his armor. If his Tusken tribe had survived there would be no need for that. The plot had to be written to address Boba’s antagonist origins while still making him an anti-hero in a quest of revenge and, as his supposed redemption story, it fell short and turned out rather disjointed with the addition of the other characters.
It just felt like they started things and didn't follow up. First with the "I want to rule with respect" thing, which mostly amounted to "I'll hire some people who previously caused trouble for me, and I won't make anyone carry me." And then with the Tuskens. It seemed like they might be going somewhere with the Tusken story, then suddenly they're all dead. They killed them off screen, and Boba didn't even get to be the one to get revenge on their real killers!
But how would you have space for the mods scooby doo gang then?
Alive Tuskens means too much subtitles for the show 🤔
Thats what tgey should have done and with a linear story and save luke and grogo unitl later
This show should have focused on three characters:
Cad Bane - who Boba was
Cobb Vanth - who Boba could be
Boba Fett - A flawed & conflicted man, finding his place
Imagine a Boba Fett who tries to be a ‘better crime boss’ only to come into conflict with Cobb Vanth. And having to deal the fact he’s still a criminal and not the BEST person to protect the people. Maybe he even contemplates giving the armor back and putting Cobb in charge.
Until, Cad Bane shows up. Now there’s a threat that Cobb’s ‘small town sherif with a heart of gold’ can’t handle and Boba’s way of doing things is needed.
Maybe Boba navigates the crime world well enough to turn the Hutts against the Pikes. Something Cobb couldn’t do.
Boba*
Booba*
I like the idea, but am too distracted by how you managed to misspell Boba 4 times under a video with his name in the title.
@@Nofixdahdress 6 times! 🤣🤣🤣
@@Nofixdahdress Bobo
Maul? I don't wanna spoil anything in other SW stories but uhh Maul is super dead. Like, actually confirmed "we watch the light leave his eyes" type of dead.
The problem with Boba Fett is that 80% of his arc happens off-screen inside the Sarlacc pit.
He is a changed, much more merciful, and arguably naive man in the very first flashback, before any meaningful interactions with the Tuskens.
And then, from his escape from the Sarlacc to his appearance in The Mandalorian, about 5 years pass. Again, that's a lot of character development happening totally off-screen.
The most baffling thing is Disney already made a Boba Fett show, but they wisely made a new character to play ""Boba Fett"" so they didn't have to adhere to the established character or expectations that come with that name. They called it The Mandalorian.
That stuff with Maul can always be retconned, just like it was originally when be was brought back from the dead in TCW. :)
@@igotin9264 I hope not considering the dramatic closure the nature of his death had…
@@igotin9264 I very much doubt they will retcon rebels.
@@igotin9264 That wasn't a retcon, that was taking advantage of the fact that we don't actually see him die on screen
It would be like if Empire Strikes Back ended from Vader's perspective, watching Luke fall from Cloud City
@@Lazypackmule I mean, Luke wasn't chopped in half, but I know what you mean
It needed more boba. Specifically post ep 3 flashbacks of him being an actual bounty hunter to contrast his more pacifist ways in the present, perhaps showing a rivalry with bane in the past too, to actually set up and earn a conflict between them
Totally agree. There's dialogue referencing history with Krrsanton and Cad Bane, but we get none of that in the show. I really like the Mando episodes, but they should've saved it for Mando season 3 and given us more Boba Fett development.
If there’s one thing this show did right , it was getting me hype to see the Justified revival with Timothy Olyphant.
is that real? that’s one of my dad’s favorite shows that’d be awesome
@@ethanwatson6131 yeah they’re doing a mini revival I think it’s coming out next year
Yep it’s a limited series. So Olyphant is not actually doing nothing
THIS!
@@ethanwatson6131 They are adapting Elmore Leonard's novel City Primeval for the Justified revival series.
When I first heard about this show I thought he'd be trying to make a mercenary faction like Big Boss from Metal Gear. Not flailing around as a crime boss that hates crime.
Honestly I'm not gonna be surprised if they actually were doing that only to be declined by Disney. Can't sell toys of actual crime boss lol.
This show is the perfect template for “how to fix it” because you probably could take any random idea from this comment section and it would’ve been better.
I agree with everything you said! Cobb Vanth would’ve been more interesting and would’ve made more sense! I was hoping he’d play a bigger part in The Book Of Boba Fett, and was disappointed when he was only in it for like 10 minutes. Anyway great video and I hope to see more of this character!
Lets be honest, it was barely 10 minutes. He looked cool in a quick draw, said five lines and got shot after maybe deciding to help. He only did something for maybe 4 minutes and the rest was standing around.
@@kennethkennethson4991 yeah I think saying 10 minutes was a bit generous, but I didn’t want to undershoot it.
@@TitleInProgress fair enough hahaha, i never caught the boba train when i watched the original trilogy and thought he was a bit weak from how much we saw him. But im all aboard the vanth train
@@kennethkennethson4991 yeah I didn’t really understand the Boba hype in the OT, but after that first episode of Mando season 2 I’ve wanted to see more Vanth!
Seems like all of the characters brought in were for fan service. Cobb Vanth, Ahsoka, Mando, Luke, and Cad Bane. What did they all really contribute to the overall plot of the show? Nothing. I’m all for fan service, but it has to be built up and deserved. This wasn’t
the only issue with having darth maul as the hypothetical big bad of this show is that he's dead at this point in time
Just like he was dead before! :)
@@igotin9264 actually in the clone wars he was around and kicking, and was actually a really great part of that series, as well as an amazing light saber battle with obi wan in rebels
@@Ddddddddddd381 just yell kenobi and he shall rise from the sand
@@igotin9264you keep advocating for Maul possibly being bought back, but if you watched or know anything about his arc after he came back in TCW you’d know that the way he dies is pretty definite closure for his character. They won’t be bringing him back again.
@@santi_super_stunts2573 😂 this is hilarious
I mean every show probably needs more Timothy Olyphant, it's just easier to notice here
First time I saw Timothy Olyphant as an actor was in that Hitman movie and I kind of assumed I'd never see him again. But seeing him on Conan and shows like this, I've just grown to love the man. He's brilliant.
@@El-Burrito oh man, if you watch his tv show, justified, you would wish he had a bigger role in mando. He’s so sarcastic but also charismatic.
@@El-Burrito I could not believe it was the same guy haha. He was so different in Hitman
@@El-Burrito check out the movie Go. It was the first time I saw him in a movie and he was one of the best characters.
@@El-Burrito first movie I saw him in was the 90's movie "Go". Dude had to grind for 2 decades before he hit justified. Hes underrated for sure
I originally thought there was going to be much more of a strategic long-term gang war with the Pykes. So I was disappointed when there was only one giant battle instead of one that involved way more planning and sabotage.
I hate, hate, hate this trope. "We're going to war!" - 12 hours later - "War's over, we won!" War is only used as a buzzword.
It's clear that this show was never thought through; they had a board/list of "cool" scenes and moments they wanted to include, and probably a mandate from Disney execs to include the little green money-maker (Grogu) in at least part of the show.
Your idea sounds spot on, very similar to what our local group of SW fans came up with. It's a sad thing when professional storytellers become so cocky that they think basics like breaking a story are for lesser mortals.
I was talking to my brother about the show, and felt that they completely fell flat on the whole "Crime boss" aspect of the show and Boba's character. I remarked that they could've learned a thing or two about developing a likeable outlaw climbing up the criminal world from show Justified (which funny enough starred Timothy Olyphant as a US Marshall), particularly the character Boyd Crowder. A intelligent, charismatic, ruthless, witty criminal who snakes his way up to the top of the criminal underworld in Kentucky. Could have taken some pointers and make Boba Fett similar on Tattooine. But instead they try and make him the "crime boss" with a heart of gold and it just doesn't work.
Yeah, a crime boss that wants to outlaw spice because it’s "immoral" makes no sense to me. If anything, Boba should’ve just threatened the Pykes to cut him in on a slice of the dough.
The only way I think they could’ve rewrote the Pykes conflict was by having Boba work with them for an episode before discovering that they murdered the Tuskens at the end of the episode. That would’ve fixed the consistency of Boba’s character greatly.
You're totally right! Cobb Vanth should have been the lead and Boba Fett could have had the guest starring Mando role on the show. It would have been interesting to see Vanth and Fett meet and have conversations about the armor. I would have expected a Boba Fett show to take place on Coruscant with futuristic CGI cities. Disney was probably so adamant that the show take place on Tatooine just so they could save money shooting on sand instead.
I do like to think that Boba Fett would've been rendered partially insane from being nearly absorbed/digested by a Sarlacc. He was way too level headed. How do you get over being eaten and left to digest? Maybe that's just me I don't know.
Now that would have been an interesting premise.
Imagine Boba acting like a mix-between Mando's portrayal of him and insane Spider-Maul from TCW
"Played by Hitman's own Timothy Olyphant." He was also in a couple of shows called Justified and Deadwood, where he played two genuine badasses. This guy could be a Han Solo-level character... if he's given the right story.
They took this character that never really had a personality, and gave him the most boring personality possible. It's not even offensive, it's just meh. When you said Boba could show up with the rancor, I imagined that as a fantastic moment of fan service for a different show. Maybe mildly telegraph it with people saying things like "I haven't seen Boba Fett for years, last I heard he was killed by a rancor in the desert" - and then he just shows up riding the rancor like a boss.
Then disappears with a mild nod to Vance or Mando or whoever the protagonist is in this obviously better show.
He did have a personality. Jon Favreau took it, watered it down, and gave it to Mando.
@@horhay3608 His personality in Legends used to be canon before Disney retconned it. I think it would’ve been so much better if Disney just followed the lore from those comics instead of completely ignoring its existence.
@@jinxthatsme2317 those books were never Canon they were part of the expanded universe that had nothing to do with Lucasfilm
I wouldn't say the show was "about the wrong guy" per se but I do agree that they treated Boba Fett like a "precious character" as stated in this video.
It's not that Boba Fett couldn't have been awesome, it's just that they wrote him to be so ineffectual(especiallyin the first 3 episodes). You can't write a feudal lord/ crime boss wanting to "rule with respect" and then allow people to not just disrespect them but try to have them straight up murdered.
What ruling with respect looks like for someone in Boba Fetts position is telling your subjects "Look I'm not my predecessor. I'm not looking to put you in the poor house. I'm not Jabba. Im giving everyone a substantial break on the amount I expect you to pay in tribute. If legitimately your moisture farm isn't yielding so well or your cantina is struggling we can work out an extension or maybe even a loan. If someone is hassling you I can help because thats what paying protection money means. You're protected from me but ill also protect you from others. However if you refuse to come to me in person, if you flat refuse to pay tribute, if you turn around and demand tribute FROM ME, and certainly if you try and have me killed then you are going to get a response by way of a measured show of force appropriate to your offense."
And if you were to keep that character true to their word their situation is much one believable. And you can have your right hand man character like Fennic tell them "look boss we've had to put some people in their place and we've been coming out on top for the most part. You and I can handle ourselves, the Gamoreans aren't bad, but one of these times we are going to walk into a situation that's too much for us unless we get some more muscle."
And the conflict would work alot better because you don't have your title character who's supposed to be this tough guy letting himself get walked on. He's actually doing stuff.
I think we should have seen the influence and the power of the Pykes. See them shaking down merchants, strong arming citizens, and coercing local government. I think seeing it from the antagonists POV would have been much more effective. And then Boba Fett could have been the bogeyman or a John Wick type character and keep some mystery that made Boba Fett cool
They took the most vile, cunning, and badass villains from Star Wars and made him a big softy-with zero autonomy of his own. An exploration of a grey anti-hero had me excited. But this show as mostly mediocre. I agree, the Cobb Vanth v Cad Bane standoff was the best moment of the show. The Boba v Bane standoff didn't have the tension or impact it should've had. Now my 30+ year head cannon of Boba is all outta wack. I need to read some Dark Horse Boba comics to cleanse the palate.
There’s so much about this show that didn’t work. Too many plot lines are just dropped instantly for the familiar. That is one of the larger problems with Star Wars as a whole these days. They seem to refuse to do anything new, and can only show us pieces from the past that might hold nostalgia for someone.
What you said in the beginning is exactly right - this show had issues with conflict. Every two episodes it kept changing up the conflict. Uh oh the hutts! Oh wait, no its the syndicate. Oh wait its Mandalorian episodes. Its the finale watch the main cast make poor decisions. On another note, how long was Boba staying with the Tuskens? Was it the full like 5 years after ROTJ? This show makes it feel like he was with them a very short amount of time, but also it expects us to believe that Boba staying with them completely changed his outlook on Tatooine and morality.
I know. Oh but the mayor is aktshually the employer of a syndicate but there's huts and oh wookie but no more huts and now there's the syndicate and they're dead.
I also got the same feeling watching this show. Cobb Vanth needs his own show. Love the character in the little we’ve gotten of him. That Rangers of the New Republic show probably isn’t happening due to… reasons, so we might as well give Vanth the show. I hope that’s what the post credits scene was teasing.
I'd give this show a 2 out of 10. Ask yourself this, do you think Disney said "we have a compelling story we planned out about Boba Fett, lets make a show", or did they say "everyone loves Boba Fett, let's make a show about him. The story will work itself out."? They never established who Boba is as a character. We have no idea what his values are or why he wants to rule. We're never shown why the Pyke syndicate is supposed to be feared. The narrative structure was mind boggling and the flashback scenes had no tie in to the rest of the show. Cad Bane reveals the Pykes were behind the Tuskan deaths but that reveal doesn't change anything from that point. If the flashbacks were left out nothing about the show would've changed.
Alternative pitch: Tales of Tatooine. Episode titles: The book of Boba Fett, The Ballad of Cobb Vanth, A stranger in the desert, the return of the mandalorian, etc. let each character have their episodes with an overarching story happening in the background
I’m really interested to see what will happen with Cobb Vanth, he was in Boba’s Bacta tank at the end. A spin off on the overwhelmingly handsome space cowboy Cobb Vanth, and honestly The Ballad of Cobb Vanth sounds fantastic.
Id honestly love that I just hope they dont make him look so weird with the cybernetics. Hes one of my new favorite characters so I hope they'll do more with him.
He appeared to be shot in the shoulder, so I really hope he gets a mechanical shoulder and/or arm that gives him the literal fastest draw time in the galaxy.
it also helps that timothy olyphant has so much more charisma in his 2 minutes of screentime than temuera in the whole show
Tem’s great but the script left him with nothing to work with.
Cobb Vanth was essentially a proto-Din when they first appeared in the Aftermath book trilogy, they got watered down when they were introduced in the Mandalorian Season 2 so that they didn't out-shine the main character.
That's what I thought when I went back to read Aftermath for Vanth's origins! He was even raising a baby Hutt!
Disney: We have a Boba Fett show!
Cobb: Think it through.
If you consider that Boba Fett's entire shtick in the Original Trilogy is that he looks cool but is mostly incompetent, I'd say "The Book Of" is very in-keeping with tradition.
I don't think that's an accurate reading of Boba at all. In Empire he successfully acquires and turns in the bounty for Han. In RotJ, yeah, they literally give him the shaft, but in fairness, Boba had never been confronted by a force wielder/Jedi. One failure (albeit a nearly fatal one) doesn't make him incompetent.
Oh people will still try to give reasons other than him looking cool
@@jackinthebox301 Im mean the only thing that boba did on empire was to tell the empire where the milenium falcon were going but other than that Darth Vader pretty much did Boba work.
@@star88wars Oh yeah, totally, but Bounty Hunters in real life don't necessarily have to collect/capture a bounty themselves either. Information leading to the capture of a fugitive is still hunting bounties.
@@jackinthebox301 Well thats fair. I really dont know anyhting about bounty hunter
Cob Vanth was unironically the perfect heir of Boba's armor this entire time.
This series shouldve been called The Marshall
In the new lego star wars game, I will make it my primary goal to unlock Armored and Unarmored Cobb Vanth as my free play character, and just roleplay around in open world mode as if it were Red Dead but in Space
With the last episode having shown Cobb Vanth in a Bacta Tank, I think that they have plans for him in the future.
One thing I will say in defense of Boba Fett being a major character, if not necessarily the protagonist, is that the flashback scenes with the Tuskens were far and away the most compelling stuff in the show, up until it just became Mando season 3
The fact that Disney could have elevated a new fresh character makes me want to punch the air. Thank you for this video.
Vanth is such an interesting character and, what a shock, Timothy Olyphant is incredible.
I was with you until you said "The Magnificent Seven." Star Wars has done the Seven Samurai story multiple times already (including in _The Mandalorian_ just recently), and it's gotten pretty stale by now.
I heard an idea I liked of Boba fett becoming a title, never bring back the original boba, Cobb keeps the armour and could have an interesting series about a guy losing his identity to the armour and the legacy that comes with it. Eg people on Taboune (spelling?) recognising and assuming it old boba and treating him as such idk. You could then even bring og boba back in in this series. Kinda makes more sense having that happen in a Boba Fett tv show rather than the mandolorian.
There is nothign I hate more than names being titles. It's basically always "we want to sell a second version of this character we already have". They just need to actually use Boba Fett as Boba Fett, a badass refuses to die bounty hunter who is the most lethal non-force using combatant in the outer rim. Instead they had him sit around for a bunch of episodes. They plotted this like a movie with one big finale fight instead of every episode is its own big adventure which is what it needed.
@@Jasonwolf1495 "There is nothign I hate more than names being titles"
NGL, I'm still a little salty over them turning "Darth" into just a title Sith have, instead of it being Vader's name... d-:
@@fisheyenomiko but...but why tho?😐
The biggest problem was they already did a Bobba Fett show, it was called "The Mandalorian". So now they have to somehow make a different show with almost the same character, and they didn't lean heavily enough into what makes Bobba Fett Bobba Fett like you mentioned with the strategy and the fighting ect.
Now I've seen the premise of a Timothy Olyphant show it would have been awesome, basically "Justified" but in Star Wars.
From the look of things, the story of Cobb Vanth as leader and defender of Tatooine might be "season two" of BoBF. That stinger at the end of the last episode, the fact that Boba might very well get dragged in Mandalorian business (not the Mando, but the Mandalorian people as a whole), and the general idea that Cobb took a laser bullet for Tatooine to bring the Freetownians together for the final fight. Might not be a show but I would not be surprised to see him taking Boba's place, if not like a more legit government.
But yeah, there were a lot of little things wrong with the show. The scale was what was off for me. It really felt like a dozen people were having a beef with a dozen people over a planet.
Cobb vanth has been one of my favs since the krayt dragon episode. So glad he got more screen time.
Any show could use more Timothy Olyphant. I'm excited to see the Justified sequel series next year.
He has a way of elevating any show he's in and also stealing the show
This idea is brilliant. Cobb Vanth is Raylan Givens-meets-Daenerys Targaryen in space, and the potential for him is amazing.
Agree 100% The series should have been about Vanth in Fett's armour. Do his marshal adventures and have a running theme of a mysterious stranger who is watching him. Is the stranger Fett? Yep.
As a lifelong Star Wars fan (since the 80s) I have known Boba Fett for years and years and I totally agree; I would have been WAY more excited about a show about Vance.
"The balad of Cobb Vanth" would have been awesome! One of my favourite characters in SW.
Dueling sheriff's Cobb Vanth and Boba Fett, with different CLEAR ideologies and methods. Full space western style.
Seems to me that an easy answer to this show's problem would be simple: Make Cobb Vanth the antagonist. Not the villain; but an obstacle to Fett's goals. Maybe he and Vanth start out as allies against the Syndicate with an understanding that he'll leave Freetown out of the drug trade. But after they get rid of the syndicate; something happens that makes Vanth start to consider Fett just as bad as the syndicate. Fett does something that crosses the moral event horizon in his mind. Or maybe the Spice Trade ends up effecting Freetown in spite of their deal. Either way, Cobb Vanth and Boba Fett become enemies. It ends with a showdown between the two.
Wouldn't that be a better show?
ignoring the fact boba would destroy him, yes BUT it would mean we follow the bad guy which they might not wanna do
honestly yeah I thought it was originally going to be kind of an underdog story with Cobb Vanth being the marshal of some small town coming into conflict with the new big bad crime boss Boba Fett, before having them team up against the Pykes or Hutts, but then Vanth barely even appears and Fett is a crime boss who hates crime
Boba could have still been with the Tusken during this show. Then he en Cob could've had the common goal of trying to stop the spice trade for their people. Also giving us some time with a new Boba for more than flashbacks could give him some real growth as a character. It would have to be a prequel to The Mandolorian and we know Disney hates prequels.
i think that would've been a way better setup to be honest, instead of having them wiped out. vanth realizes he doesn't have much backup from the people of freetown, but hey, he worked with the tuskens before to take down the krayt dragon, maybe he can work with them again. but this time, he finds them way better armed and way more skilled in combat. they're not just in tents anymore, they've set up structures from that wrecked train. and at the center of this new tusken village is boba fett, who's got his armor back and returned to his people as their guardian.
@@kerricaine Yess that's it!
Instead of just flashbacks, the whole first season should have just been the redemption arc he had with the Tuskens.
I would rank it a whopping 6 out of 10, closer to a 5 than a 7
Mr. Sunday Movies threw out the idea of a "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina" Anthology series and I believe that would've been a much better format for Boba Stories/Tatooine stories in general
WE NEED THE COBB VANTH SHOW!
This is a great pitch and the potential of this character is great.
It’s not really fair to be on the same screen as Olyphant. His just too cool and charming
Hit the nail on the head. Boba Fett is far too precious now for the brand for him to ever do anything interesting. The show couldn't even decide if he was a crime boss or not. If he was, it might have helped if he committed any actual *crime*.
Totally had the same idea!
It could have just been called "The Marshall" again
Vanth is an awesome character and they wasted him
Watching this made me want a show with cob and now I’m mad that we did not get it
You did NOT make a whole video on the spin, this is amazing lol
You had me at "more Timothy Oliphant"
I really like what you said, but I would actually rather have Baba still be the crime lord but just more as a side character in Cobb's story. Cobb could go to Boba to ask for help and Boba's stake in the fight could be that the Syndicate was trying to go behind his back so he has to put them in their place.
I actually loved the series. Boba is a character who was front-and-center in legends but has been relegated to the background by Disney, and frankly this is what i needed after the sequel trilogy came out. I do hope they focus on Boba's past (pre-ROTJ) in Season 2, because it frankly was the reason I loved the character so much in legends. The killer with an honor code.
Cobb Vanth is probably one of my favourite characters 👍
6:22 Timothy Olyphant is absolutely amazing in the role of Lawbringer. If you haven't, you owe it to yourself to check out *Justified* and *Deadwood*
What's more, him being the protagonist would guarantee fans of those shows coming to see him reprise a similar role. I skipped the Book of Boba but I'd watch the Ballad of Vanth
I could imagine a world where we had a team up show between cob vanth and boba fett, each trying to run the town in their own way
wow, great video as always king
it’s odd that Boba Fett would choose to turn over his new leaf on Tatooine, even if he did Dance with Tuskens, but I don’t think it was so bad to redefine the character like they did… they just went about it in the wrong way. I thought it should’ve been longer, with _Lost-_ style flashbacks to various points in Boba’s life, informing his decision to make his big career change, and introducing characters like Cad Bane as proper antagonists.
Cobb Vanth is cool too, though… I could’ve used more of him, and less of Grogu.
I'd call it Tales of Mos Espa,
Boba gets an episode of how he got out of the sarlaac pit and his time with the raiders,
The title change gives us little one shot episodes to follow or learn about new characters as well.
They should make Cobb the sheriff of the town Boba just destroyed and keep the local criminals at bay while Boba is stuck with bureaucracy.
I got the feeling Vanth and Shand would both get their own Mandalorian-adjacent series at some point, and the impression that this series was just setting up a lot of stuff that may potentially get paid off later on.
To be fair, and if I recall correctly, George Lucas didn't realize the marketing potential of Boba Fett at the time and only saw it in hindsight; perhaps content-centric writers didn't see the storytelling potential of Cobb Vanth at the time either. After viewing all the live-action Cobb Vanth material to date, it's really easy to imagine something like a "Justified"-type show in space, with a little splash of "The Magnificent 7" and "3:10 to Yuma" in for finales.
Or heck maybe Boba could be the main villain of The Balled of Cob Vanth. Or he could've been a secret villain the whole time. Like we think Cad Bane is working for the Pykes, but it turns out Boba hired Cad for double the price of the Pykes offered. Like Boba wants to control the Spice Trade so he creates a crisis on Tatooine to weaken the Pykes, then during the disaster it could cause the Pykes to lose a lot of money, or they have a lot of spice that needs to be sold or something, so Boba buys it or becomes the new top investor and starts taking over the spice trade. And you could use Boba a background villain in the other recurring Star Wars show where he gains more and more power as he controls more and more of the Criminal Underworld.
Yeah the “Tales of Tatooine” route would have been so much better as a frame for this thing. There is so much they could have done to tell the same story but make it much more fulfilling. I am hopeful that Disney takes the feedback and pivots a potential season 2 of BoBF and instead makes ToT.
Like your take.
They could have still made Boba Fett the title character. Boba Fett could have been the antagonist or a strong background force. Cobb Vance is a *much* more compelling protagonist. They could have used/built-on the legend/mystique of Bobba Fett while using actual interesting characters to tell an actually interesting story.
Only issue with focusing on Cobb Vanth is the fact that once Mando or Boba show up they would steal the spotlight. So if they were brought into *“The Ballad of Cobb Vanth,”* their roles would have to be minor as to not take away from the main character Cobb Vanth.
All things considered I definitely would’ve preferred a show focused on Cobb Vanth, since compared to other characters we know he isn’t fully plot armored, but vulnerable with the possibility of death.
Kind of like how things were for Ahsoka and Rex back in the days of clone wars show never knowing their fate, and the times when they were near death you felt actual tension and fear for their lives.
This sounds like a really cool idea.. I went straight from the Cobb episode directly to Justified, cuz' I hadn't seen it yet.. but yes.. The Balled of Cobb
This will be the Rangers of the Republic show.
Edit: Ballad of Cob Vanth, I really like that!
Even from the title and thumbnail, I completely agree. I just prefer Vanth to Fett in every way. His scenes made me just want a Chronicles of Tatooine show.
I agree with your point that Boba is not suited for ruleing and how cobb would be a better choice but its a perfect story for a second season, imagine a story in which Fett makes the citys of tatooine floruished thanks to his actions in first season, and you can see that the more socialy open tatooine gets and better prospering as a whole, Boba seems less and less intrested in ruleing because he is not a man suited for this job, but then a new problem with sindciates arrive, and the plot moves somewhere else, maybe taking boba to another planets, and leaving tatooine, and in this scenario Cobb Vanth is left as his "daimyo deputy" so we can see how much better he does this job, and finaly Boba happily agrees to give him away the throne knowing that it is in the best hands possible and move on to live as a simple man trying to find his way in the universe.
This could be a compeling story.
Timmothy did a wonderful job in justified. I’d be down for a several season series about his character in the mando and book of boba fett.
Strong characters are made by strong motivations. I watched the first four episodes of Boba Fett, and I just didn’t know why. Why he wanted to be the daimyo, or what he wanted. He felt like he was just going through the motions. In Mandalorian, he wanted his armor. In this, he just does whatever.
Since they had Cobb being healed at the end of the show, they might actually use him like you suggested 🤔 we can hope
Is that who was in the tank? It was hard to tell. I assumed it was Boba.
@@overbuiltlimited I can't be certain, but I think it is Cobb (has the hair and it's the same guy who fixed Fennec, so would make sense)
This whole show should have been about Cad Bane's perspective of discovering how Boba escaped the Sarlac, aged 40 years in the Sarlac, and following Boba's rise to being a big boy. Cad Bane is the one creating this "book" or record of other Bounty Hunters, Boba included.
Could have had others. Dengar, Aura Sing.
More cool aliens and where all the Twi'Lek babes at? Disappointing.
I would've been 100% more likely to watch this show if it was called "The Ballad of Cobb Vanth" just because it sounds so much cooler than a SHOW being called a BOOK.
The problem with a Boba Feet show is that they already made it and called it The Mandalorian. Now they didn’t really have any ideas left for how to make a killer side character the lead.
"Hitman's own Timothy Olyphant"
Out of EVERYTHING this man has been in, you chose THAT? 😂
IKR, especially with Deadwood and Justified out there.
5:00 boba wanted to fight at the palace, but fennec convinced him not to
7:30 at this point maul has been dead for 15 years
DUDE, if this was about Cobb Vanth, I'd 100% watch it
I can't even bring myself to watch episode 2 of Book of Boba Fett....
*sigh* Is it too much to ask the largest media corporation in the world to *write* a character?
A man who has worked solo doesn’t suddenly take over the crime family. And your analogy of the New York mob is spot on.
He’s not equipped mentally. He’s a loner. A thief. A bandit. What happened? Did he find his soul?
A gritty western setting would have been amazing
The bland, safe, stereotypical, Disney world comes to the forefront.
This show confirms that Boba works best in small doses. Season 2 should be about Cobb. or an anthology show that about a different character each week.
You made a concept for a show that is never going to come out that I want to see.
Great video Nando. I am not the biggest Star Wars guy, but I did watch the Mandalorian, and I love Timothy Olyphant. So this would be great. I haven't watched Boba Fett, but I would watch your show!
You know what it really needed more of?? Dengar.
I am now so angry that we didn’t get “The Ballad of Cobb Vanth”
Would the Tuskens still be a part of this series? Not in the exact same way (flashbacks, etc.) but I love the worldbuilding of the Tuskens these shows have been doing, and since Cobb and Freetown are already connected to them it makes sense for them to show up to some extent.
I can't wait to never see the robot kids ever again
As much I like the Ballad of Cobb Vanth concept, the Star Wars name has been diluted to the point where people aren't going to show up en masse just to see "New Character: A Star Wars Story" the way they have for "Star Wars: Episode N."
"Famous Character: A Star Wars Story" can still draw audience. We'll see if I'm right with Kenobi and Lando vs Andor and Ahsoka.
i really hope they make something big with cobb vanth in the future