you'd think he'd just call bossk, dengar, and the rest of the gang. Proper killers. The fight with the pikes could've been experienced ruthless killers against numbers. Instead we got that silly ass finale.
Not even a scooter gang, all he know up to that point is some kids with Spy Kids gizmos that won't pay for water and had some sass to talk back to him (like literally everyone in the show)
I was Sheev once, too... Remember when The Mandalorian was still good? Good enough, in fact, that when he came back *HALFWAY THROUGH BOOK OF BOBA AND TOOK OVER, **_EVERYONE WAS GRATEFUL?_* It's still insane to me how Disney could just do that and think it was fine.
The thing that pissed me off about this show was how it undermined the ending of mando s2. And if you didn't care about bobba fett, you have to watch this to understand s3
Absolutely. That´s just a disgusting marketing stunt, so you have to watch one show to get the full context to the other. And Mando is a pretty good show for the most part, but I just feel bad for anyone who has to watch this.
@Si mon I'll bet you it was Disney that forced them to put Grogu back in Mando's hands because "we can't have a season 3 of Mandalorian without the true star of the show" lol
@@riftshredder5438 I also think it was to make it clear that Grogu didn't die when Kylo Ren attacked Luke's new Jedi Order. And gods they are doing Luke so fucking dirty.
@@Adam-nc6qg there’s no way a second season comes off of that disaster and nonexistent arc, if they do go through it they’re gonna have to do a total 180 on boba
This video summarized a lot of my feelings in a nutshell. A lot of people grilled me for even wanting more Boba fett in his own show. It was a ok show at best and just a terrible Boba fett show overall.
I agree. The fact that it did start talking about other stuff really through off this shows groove. But more than that, a lot of people are confused about the philosophy and identity of all these characters. Especially the Jedi. So when people want to pick apart the Jedi way, they criticize based on their misunderstanding of it, bc this writers just didn't care to explain what the heck is happening with Luke. (Sorry this is long) A lot of people forget what was said in the prequels and that there is a difference between attachment and love. *(Check out Thor Skywalker's 3 videos on the topic.)* They gave friends and parental figures within the order but no attachment just means don't cling and don't have favorites, and Anakin failing to do this is in my opinion bc Obi wan was unprepared to be a teacher, and didn't teach the Jedi way well. Attachment implies unhealthy clinging to something/ someone, or putting your feelings above the mission (not implying lovelessness). The ability to let go is not "be emotionless" it's "manage your emotions". Anakin messing up doesn't speak for the entire order. Compassion which is defined as unconditional love is essential to a Jedi's life, and Luke displays that Jedi can and do care for others but "attachment" (the inability to trust in the force) is what nearly gets him killed in ESB, and he eventually learns to put his mission above his feelings. He fears for his friends and nearly kills Vader but remembers his mission.
I hope they flush out his character more and how he changed in the next season. They didn't give him nearly enough dialogue or exposition to fully get his intentions across, but Boba has always been a cold and distant character. He always does a lot of internal processing shown through shots without dialogue. Using context clues and tone/direction helps the viewer understand. Obviously some people didn't pick up on this and it makes me sad the show isn't appreciated more 😔
My pitch for this show would've been basically an outer space "Godfather" where Boba starts out with the best of intentions but has to sacrifice his morals bit by bit to keep his empire in tact with Fennec acting as the Devil on his shoulder. Then when he's become corrupted and realizes he actually likes the power of it, Mando and the others have to come in an save him from himself. I think that would've been a much better premise.
Boba Fett is thin, wiry, cunning and totally cut throat. Not a big bulky old man who literally struggles to stand up from 1 knee. I can't imagine him allowing people to give him first aid let alone dress him. He would have either escaped or killed the sand monster before killing the CHILD they had enslaving him (wtf??) and then he would have gone back to the raiders and killed them all to get his armor back before leaving that shit hole forever. Also the angsty scooter teens were pure cringe and my eyeballs rolled to the other side of the galaxy.
I mean, I get what the show was trying to do, trying to make Boba into a better person... it was just executed bad. Like I'm all for Boba being a good person, since he isn't really a villain. It's more so that he only really does "evil" things when someone either double crosses or pays him. Boba believes in honor, not senseless fighting. That being said, I'm disappointed that we never got to see that part of Boba, just filler fetch quest boba in the present. It's quite obvious that they are setting Boba up to be the actual perfected ruler of mandalore since his "finding his true path" was literally what the armorer had said, word for word. This is what happened in the eu and I wouldn't be surpised if Boba of all people is the one to survive to the sequel trilogy as the leader of mandalore. They are trying to establish him as a better leader than all of the other people that could have it: Din already has grogu... he doesn't care if he loses the saber, Bo-Katan had already failed before, and Sabine just doesn't want it.
Dude, have you read anything about that character from the before disney because you have been thoroughly misinformed. Boba was seldom cruel but rather would do anything needed for a job
@A 23 M. Because insulting an actor for their teeth and looks is just low? Morrison damaged his upper front teeth about a decade ago in a motorcycle accident. We're here to talk about the atrocious story and characterization of the BOBF, where as you're making us look bad by resorting to petty physical insults. 1. They use stuntmen for the extreme fights and stunts for legal and safety purposes. If we're not getting good scenes in that domain its not because of Morrison, its because Jon and his choreographers haven't developed any for the stuntmen to preform. 2. Boba lived a hard, hard life, has acid burns and lived under 2 suns, he's not young, he's a middle aged man, being played by an older middle aged man who naturally has an older look due to his injuries. If he were in his 20's and early 30's i'd agree with you. 3.Morrison got fit again for the role. He has a strong, big Polynesian build. You can see him and stuntmen working out in BTS material. He's gotten even fitter this year too. 4. It doesn't matter what he looks like, If the writing is shit, if the stuntmen and choreographers have no material from Jon and Dave to actually work with, it will suck whether he is bulky or skinny or has shiny teeth.
People who use that excuse also use it poorly. Take Avatar which uses the Book style with seasons being called books and episodes called chapters. They had an episode with no Aang, Katara, Iroh, Sokka or Toph. It was just a Zuko episode called Zuko Alone. It works because Zuko is not only a main character but his time alone is crucial to his development which later impacts Aangs development when Zuko abandons the Fire Nation to teach him. Here, Grogus training contributes nothing to Boba. Mando learning about the beskar spear and about Bo Katan contributes nothing to Boba. You can have those chapters that go off but they need to then be relevant to the plot of the main character.
Yes, thank you! I'm tired of people heaping Robert Rodriguez with ALL the blame. It was a bizarre show top to bottom -- writing, directing (that chase man... oof), the utterly bizarre structure of completely shifting to Mando in the last third only to then switch AGAIN to "The Jedi Show", even the odd way Ahsoka and Luke acted given their respective "the Old Jedi Way was kinda bad" and "maybe attachments are a saving grace" character arcs only to inexplicably 180 with "let's try the same thing again!", and everything else in between. ______________ BoBF features Fett doing nothing but just rolling over for literally everyone which is so at odds with him talking back to Vader, demanding his armor back, ruthlessly killing Bib Fortuna. Every idea or tactic comes from one of his allies -- Fennec says to do this, Fennec says to do that, the Mod Squad Mos Vespa gang says to stay there, Mando says "this is the way." The only time he comes up with an original thought is "like a bantha." So... uh... there's that. Not only that, but he just lets everyone else walk all over him and he takes EVERYTHING at face value. He's honestly shocked to learn that the Pykes killed the Tuskens. Are you shitting me!? Literally the one real major character trait we learn about Boba Fett in the OT is that he's cunning as fuck. When even the Empire loses Han, Fett is the *only* one to correctly surmise Han's game and track him to Bespin. In BoBF, he can't even put 2 & 2 together to conclude that the crime empire he JUST stole from AND let everyone go free from was behind it just because they left behind conveniently placed graffiti? Come. On. And then the criminal bosses? FETT: Hey could you guys join me? BOSSES: lmao no. FETT: Pretty please? I even have a wancor. BOSSES: no dude. FETT: Okay okay, fine! Gosh. Could you like, at least pinky promise not to betray me? BOSSES: Uh sure, yeah. FETT: Well that settles things. They all seem like fine, upstanding, trustworthy gents. SHAND: Yep. And also no one will get to us, we're perfectly defended. FETT: Great. DROID: They got to us, we're not perfectly defended. FETT: Fiddlesticks. Who was it? DROID: You're never gonna believe it, but get this... it was the criminal bosses that *promised* not to betray you! FETT: *surprised pikachu face* WASH: Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! _______________ Honestly, just to sum up how incredibly insane the lack of basic plot structure is... even with ALLLLL the other mounds of bullshit, they could have salvaged something at least vaguely resembling a plot at the end. They even had a few options! 1. Cad Bane confronts Fett. Reveals the Pykes killed the Sand People thinking it'll be some revelation. Fett gestures around and goes "why do you think I did ALL this?" Bane furrows his brow. "To bring the Pykes to me." Then the entire reason for taking over Jabba's criminal empire becomes a long con to get revenge on the Pykes. Sure, we still wouldn't really understand why he felt a kinship with them -- maybe they remind him of Mandalorians? I mean, this is a show that devoted like 5 minutes to a Wookiee bizarrely attacking Trandoshans which is never really explained and relies on you knowing the expanded universe lore of Trandoshans hunting and enslaving Wookiees; and never takes a minute to explain what spice is until a vague scene with Vanth in the *second to last episode.* Okay, but Boba is an idiot and doesn't know, so what now? 2. Cad Bane confronts Fett. Reveals the Pykes killed the Sand People. He then lets that sink in for a moment and adds. "Who do you think they hired to slaughter those savages?" before smiling that toothy grin. So now we know Cad Bane is *directly* responsible for the deaths of Boba's adopted Tusken family. He has a tangible connection to the plot of the show, ties the Tuskens back in (you know... like a STORY!) and becomes the main antagonist. So then when Boba does the thing with the stick -- you know, the stick thing, the thing he did cause Tuskens... NOW it's got SOME ounce of poetic justice, no? I'm not saying it's good. It's like... high school creative writing but for a simple western revenge story, that works well enough! Okay, but no, deciding to make things make less sense and not do that, they still had ONE... FINAL... chance for any semblance of basic story telling. 3. Cad Bane confronts Fett. Reveals the Pykes killed the Sand People. For whatever reason, Cad Bane is ultimately unimportant and his role could have been fulfilled by literally anyone, existing or brand new, but he at least served to reveal that the Pykes were behind the deaths of Boba's adopted family; a family he thought he had already laid to rest and gained vengeance for by killing the biker gang. Now he knows the truth. So he gets revenge on the ones truly responsible for the Tuskens' deaths. lolno, Fennec does that lmao SO WHAT WAS THE ENDING!?
Also hear hear on not just blindly following Filoni/Favreau. Blind love and blind hate are absolutes and as we all know... only Sith... I love what Filoni's brought to the universe (originally alongside George Lucas himself though, let us not forget). I think the Lucas/Filoni+TCW Writers dynamic really balanced things out. Lucas is SO genuinely creative but sometimes his choices can be... odd... to say the least. But he also never ever ever plays things safe. Left to their own devices, Filoni and the TCW writers almost assuredly would have done everything safe -- no Mortis, no weird droid adventure on a white sand world with an orange sky, no purple and yellow lava world, maybe not even Ahsoka -- the crucial element that vastly improved the Prequels (said as someone who always enjoyed the Prequels anyway) -- because kneejerk reaction is "Anakin? Padawan? Pft, no way." I mean, that's what a LOT of people literally did when she was introduced, myself included. TCW's most creative episodes, I guarantee wouldn't have existed without Lucas's imagination. Conversely, those best episodes likely may have landed a bit flat for the majority of us had Lucas not bounced those ideas back and forth with Filoni and company. But Filoni & Favreau are NOT infallible just like Lucas clearly wasn't, and just like Robert Rodriguez isn't the sole person responsible for "ruining" BoBF since he didn't *write* the fucking thing! lmao
Ashoka is literally spreading her cultish jedi propaganda into Luke's ear. Jedi shit that clearly didn't work out well in the Prequels, but she feels the need to latch onto still so she can be a homewrecker for Mando and Grogu. She literally did nothing else but to fuck everyone over in that episode. XD
I guess they wrote them to go along with the no attachment to set up Luke's failure, but imo it shows that the writers know just as little about no attachment as the audience. This show is very rushed anyway, so when people want to pick apart the Jedi way, they criticize based on their misunderstanding of it, bc this writers just didn't care to explain what the heck is happening with Luke. A lot of people forget what was said in the prequels about the difference between attachment and love. *(Check out Thor Skywalker's 3 videos on the topic.)* Attachment implies the inability to put others/a greater good above your own feelings, and of course compassion counts as unconditional love, which is essential to a Jedi's life. They had friends and parental figures within the order but no attachment just means don't cling and don't have favorites, and Anakin failing to do this is in my opinion bc Obi wan was unprepared to be a teacher, thusly not helping him understand the Jedi way.
Brilliantly said. Only a shit show of the proportions that this show was could make someone want to write a post if that exacting detail and length! I enjoyed every word, and agree wholeheartedly!
Agreed. Really makes me worried about Obi Wan...if they tank that I’m effectively going to lose all hope for the rest of these shows that Disney insists have to exist
Wait you still had hope? After endgame what good disney content did we get? Mandalorian was ok but also had a lot of problems and everything else will be forgotten 1 year after release.
Mandalorian mostly bored me. Book of Boba Fett just sucked. I really want Ahsoka to do well, although I would prefer Rebels Era Ahsoka establishing an underground and fighting inquisitors. Kenobi should be foolproof. Action-packed. If they can't do action scenes and some trauma then yeah, Star Wars is done. But I am excited for Kenobi for now. We'll see.
@@thoughtful1233 well mandalorian was objectively a really well written show and jon did an amazing job, but it’s fine if there are people who don’t like it, i myself do have my problems with it, even if it’s not as many as other peopl
@@onenonly9186 How is Mandalorian objectively well written? It has the same problems as this show, just to a lesser degree. Less bad does not equal good.
That’s because even at it’s worst Star Wars movies & shows can still be really fun & well made. The only exception to this rule off the top of my head is the holiday special.
@@haydentravis3348Disney bought a herd of prized cows, cut out the branded hide, let the cows bleed out, die and rot, and ultimately sold cheap photocopies of the first, shoddily made, imprint as glitter tattoos for kids at the local fare where rides break down regularly, are dismantled and rebuilt the exact same way with glued together, rotten plywood.
@@publichearing8536 Meh, that's the problem, though: Disney puts in a lot of work all around. It's corporate and soulless, but does the job. And plenty of people don't care that much, its just a cheap trick to pass the time. People don't see the horror of the biggest media conglomerate in the world devolving into vaguely fascist, passive aggressive background noise.
It was definitely a show I could've done without. The Luke and Mando episodes were the best so that says a lot. Boba should've just stayed a guest star on Mandos show.
@@storba3860 I tried but he ran off on me, wanted to go back to his dad or something. Now I'm just tricking Padawans out of their application fees for my new "school" lol
This show suffered from every factor Disney has put upon its content. Shitty lazy writing, time constraints, God awful directing, budget being spent carelessly, and no interest in telling a good story. Plus it was about 200% low on extras. Boba Fett was made to be a moron because DISNEY'S VERSION of Boba is WAY cooler, right? Do you see the pattern yet? All OT Characters MUST be made fools to make Disney's COPYCAT characters "better and cooler".
yeah, but why? I can understand why the scumbags dont want to pay royalties to EU authors, but Boba is their own character. We really have to question the Disney creative process here. Boba is a bounty hunter. He huts bounties. So lets do a show about that. About bounty hunters. But wait, Temura is 60, while Boba is 40. So maybe Sarlar aged him this much and he has to struggle with the fact he is an old man, not as fast adn strong and suited for the job. But the job is all he knows. And he struggles with it in his dangerous profession. And he needs to stop being a loner and get some friends and the whole empire is gone for most part, there is a lot of unrest and crime. People who try to make a name for themselves by killing him, the victims of his bounty hunting trying to get a revenge on him, his weird honor code that woudl get fleshed out, etc. Builds up his vin diesel "family" and finally hangs up his guns and retire on his farm. Or maybe get killed in a duel, the Great Silence style. The stories practically write themselves, yet they come up with their own ideas that dont work, because it is not a natural progression of the story and the characters. He is a gunslinger, there is a whole genre you can use as your inspiration. And dont set it on Tatooine. Like everything happens on Tatooine these days.
The show was garbage. Lazy writing, lazy directing, lazy set pieces. The show only exists because they needed filler content to keep Disney+ Subscriptions and because they could reuse the Mandalorian Tattooine set pieces, costumes, and CGI. Obi-Wan will be set on Tattooine as well, and wouldn’t put it past Ahsoka spending a lot of time on Tattooine or another desert planet in her show.
Not gonna lie, during the whole "The Mandalorian" series, I've never looked at how much time was left on an episode. During the very first episode of "The Book of Boba Fett", I kept watching how much time was left because I was bored to tears lol. It was sad that the only good episodes were the ones with Mando and Grogu. I don't really care if they changed Boba's character (as in how he act and thinks) because people change as the years go by, but they make it look like Mandalorians are nothing without their armors and that, is something I didn't liked. All in all, this show was what I thought it was going to be, just a filler while they fixed the issues they had with Pedro Pascal about making a third season for The Mandalorian.
Him coming out of the pit is literally before the end of the ot so why would he be different? It has been multiple years in the crime lord timeline but nothing we have seen would justify him changing like that. People change over years but very slowly and always for reasons. We see all the scenes the writers deemed necessary over that time period and the moment he crawls out of the hole he is a fundamentally different person than he was hours or a few days ago.
While watching it, I am astonished on how dumb and nonsensical of the show is. I legitimately questioning if the writers are children with brain damage or not. People liking it makes me confused that they even seen the same show as me. Yeah you liked it is cool there's many aspect of the show can be liked, but if you do not recognized what is going on in how characters act and the progression of the story then I say you're disillusion. I liked it how bad it is, "YES I go directly face on top of the pit to look for my armor(even though I come out the pit with my armor and conscious about it). OH NO I AM STUCK IN THE PIT AGAIN"
I can pardon that he was dazed when he climbed out of the sarlacc pit and was knocked out by some Jawa but goddamn the mental image of having the Slave I going face-first into the hole is like a fever dream.
@@AnakinSkyobiliviator but he never asked his “best friend” tusken raiders how they found him? Or he didn’t have the brains to conclude the tusken raiders likely didn’t go into the sarlacc to save him? There is no reason he should have thought his armour was there. I can only slightly believe he didn’t remember the Jawas stole his armour.
As I begrudgingly stuck with it, I began to wonder if this show was being done badly on purpose…almost like a shitty TV show from the 80s. I don’t know….I’m kind of at a loss.
@@edwardrichtofen8530 Boba's a confused fella who probably was fairly confident that his armor is somewhere around the sarlacc and therefore never really asked. Or he finally felt at home among the Tuskens and thought he could leave that part of himself behind and never asked, but after they got wiped out, he has no choice but to return to who he was.
You didn't even mention that one scene where the Wookie mercenary - WHO IS THERE TO KILL HIM - successfully sneaks up on him while he is SLEEPING in his bacta chamber...and pulls him out of the chamber and throws him on the ground. Like, you were never going to get a better kill shot, and this supposedly lethal mercenary just throws Boba Fett around a little instead. Also, I'm sure the wookie's electrified knuckles were supposed to be cool, but don't wookies have CLAWS? And wouldn't those have just been better most of the time? This may be opinion, but I think the scene would have been a whole lot better - and even scarier - if Boba's bacta tank had had one last perimeter alarm that the Wookie activates, waking Boba at the last moment where he has to fight and dodge for his life. In those circumstances, they could have choreographed the fight so that the Wookie was more clearly trying to kill him, instead of just throw him around a little. If the studio executives were willing, one could easily have Boba taking some claw-related injuries in that fight as well. Being woken in the middle of the night for a sudden life-or-death situation without his armor still could have been an awesome and terrifying scene, IMO.
I feel like the series should've focused more on his origins. Start on Kamino in the flashbacks, show his life through the years, they have Temuera Morrison, why not show Jango Fett or the clones. They could've used Daniel Logan to show some history between Boba and Cad Bane. After The Mandalorian S2 reintroduced him, I would've expected him to act a little more villainous after threatening to shoot Grogu.
When Luke showed up in the 6th episode I was so happy but when he said that attachment bs I was so pissed. Vader literally became Anakin again because of his attachment to Luke. The people at Disney have to stop making there sequels dog shit and just make the separate timeline of what really happened. Legends is the real star wars not some bad writers rushing movies out for money. When Luke wasn’t in episode 7 of BOBF I was so pissed. Boba and Luke meeting again would have been strange but also in a way cool. That’s my opinion, the rest of the show was honestly ruining boba fett. I used to love this character now I am realizing that I might not anymore. Luckily for me the OT boba is a thing
Most legends stories are even worse than this and have worse writers. Some are good yes but grouping legends into one category saying it’s the real Star Wars is laughable.
@Neo's danger you can’t fathom the fact that most of them suck and are written by hacks who can’t create their own stories so you deflect criticism that by saying I haven’t read any, sound argument. No legends stories have even come close to the OT and TCW which is why I said calling legends the real Star Wars is laughable. Of course saying this to someone with a Revan pfp probably means nothing, though I conceded that the Old Republic games are good
so true! they basically took that one line from the unfinished clone wars episode of the boba and cad bane duel where boba says "no more people are going to die, all living locked up, all living fair" (or something like that) and turned into a show which just doesn't work. We don't have the full context of those unfinished episodes but as i saw that scene it meant that boba had unrealistic expectations, and he would later mature and not care about that anymore. I can also see the argument that since his father was taken from him that's his motivation but as cool as the unfinished episodes seemed to be it just doesn't make sense with the boba we see in the OT. It just seemed like Filoni wanted his boba to be that honorable again since he didn't get to finish those clone wars episode but the tuskens are such a lazy excuse for it. Also luke and ahsoka's scenes were so bad, like they of all people (not just all jedi but all people) tell grogu that jedi shouldn't form emotional attachment? what??
I didn't watch the clone wars so I don't have a lot of reference for that but otherwise I agree. also the Jedi attachment thing really brought home on top of other things they just chose to reference a lot of prequel stuff to try to appeal to other age groups for no reason
I really don't think is that bad of a show, but damn it, it's still frustrating that the show about Boba Fett is more focused on other characters around him. Why is it called "The Book of Boba Fett" again?
So what did you like? The stupid scooter gang that make no sense at all? The garbage fight scenes? The slowest car chase scene ever? 2 episodes of mandalorian that got mixed in? Boba doing, deciding or saying nothing of value except in the last episode? No crime lord things at all? The Pigs that were worthless? Sorry but I can't remember anything of substance. The only thing the show got points for fanservice which is the only thing Disney seems to be able to do and sadly it seems to work.
I never realized how flawed BoBF was until this video. I have to thank you for putting everything into perspective for me. You voiced my subconscious feelings towards this show. I mean, I like it, but there's just an underlying sense of dread I feel while I was watching... Now lemme add a tidbit. I cannot say with certainty, as it is PURE speculation... but perhaps the MASSIVE writing flaws in this show aren't just from the writers. As we have seen, Disney as a corporation is a money-hungry beast who want to cram anything with their branding on it down the throats of viewers and fans, regardless of quality. They oftenly do this with Marvel, as we have seen... Now, Filoni and Favreau have shown us what they can do with Star Wars. Look at The Mandalorian. We all adore that show. We love it because the characters are compelling, the stories are moving and ooze with actual substance and LIFE... that being said; with an entity like Dinsey at your back, breathing down your neck to make em MORE money with no questions asked is bound to lead to writing flaws. I am willing to bet that Disney demanded a spin off with "popular, marketable character Boba Fett" not because the fans wanted it, and not because it was necessary for the world-building and storytelling, BUT because it would give them profits. For me, the red flags about this went up with all the other spin offs announced after Mando: Ahsoka, Kenobi, Rex (?), Bad Batch, etc etc. That all being said, this definitely doesn't EXCUSE the bad writing. Hell no. They should've taken more time to proof read, edit, and polish. However, I feel like my tidbit adds more nuance to the situation as a whole. We can only HOPE that Disney and the writers will see the MASSIVE criticism it's getting and get it together to keep Star Wars going strong, and get it back on track.
Maaaannn I thought I was the only one that thought luke Skywalker making Grogu choose was bullshit and wAyyyyyy outta character it was Luke attachment to his father that brought Vader back to the light
The most Boba Fett thing that happened in this series was when he finally got his ship back and killed the nikto gang. He was straight faced and it was pure ruthlessness. Merciless Boba Fett is what I wanted to see. I didn't like the tusken raider based episodes at all. It made Boba Fett look weak and very silly a lot of the time. I'd like to see Boba Fett not get another season but instead be merged into Mando season 3 and get him helping with the Mandalorian questline. I liked the brotherhood aspect created between him and Din where Din didn't need payment to help Boba and how later Din was willing to die alongside Boba because they respect each other and its the right thing to do (this is the way) something that Boba was not raised by but begins to understand its about loyalty and mutual respect all things he wants to find in common criminals but won't. Since both of them are basically clan less now it would be awesome to see them create a new clan or something along those lines (the Mandalorian misfits). Just my two cents and great video!
The 'Mando Bros' stuff was solid. A 90 min film of their BOBF storyline, airing right before Mandalorian S3, would've been awesome.... Start it off with one Boba Fett flashbacta about escaping the Sarlacc and being saved by Tuskens who were then slaughtered, so he rode a bantha until he found Fennec... 5 minute pre-titles scene and we're all caught up, and we cut to Dinn Djarin slicing fuckers with the darksaber and fixing up a Naboo Starfighter on Tatooine, where Boba Fett is looking for who killed the Tuskens. That's enough right there for them to bump into each other and intertwine their arcs... No need for scooter racers or newly found political aspirations. And BK the Wookie could still kick just as much ass if not more. Getting hired to kill Boba Fett, then getting hired by Boba Fett, is enough to play with.
You hit the nail on the head about this show. They ruined the character and honestly I just wish they would have left Boba RIP in the Sarlaac pit. I say that as a fan of the character too. I have little hope for Kenobi now.
This show should have been totally different. It should have been boba venturing off into the galaxy to fix unsettled scores, along the way evolving from some heartless mercenary to what this show wants us to see Boba as. Instead of getting Nar Shadaa and other seedy underworld planets, we get more sand and pointless practical effects for the sake of practical effects.
I think 3/10 is a reasonable rating. This show suffered from a lot of problems, especially bad writing and those increadibly forced fanservice cameos by characters that barely behave like themselves. With the Mandalorian and the Bad Batch being also just mediocre shows I have bad feelings for Obiwan and Ahsoka. I think I'll just rewatch the Clonewars and play with my Legos.
Damn i thought i was the only one who thought mando was just mediocre and not amazing. But bad batch? Come on that one was actually terrible. While as awesome as it will be to see hayden and ewan again my expectations for kenobi are so incredibly low. There hasnt been a single piece of GREAT star wars content since the disney aquisition IMO(clone wars s7 doesnt count, episodes were written/recorded before the aquisition). My expectations for kenobi are so incredibly low i honestly dont even care at this point. Ima jus be chillin in a lifeboat smokin a blunt while star wars sinks to the bottom of ocean and the remaining fandom that wasnt destroyed over the sequels explodes.
Mandalorian sucked... It's like a drawn out G rated 90s star Trek episode. It's sad that they cover alien characters head to toe except for their face so they can do the LEAST amount of alien makeup.
Im glad im not the only one who thought Mandalorian was sort of meh. Theres a few cool episodes and scenes but overall i thought it was pretty boring and shit. only reason it took off was cuz of baby yoda and the fact that star wars fans were so desperate for content theyd eat up anything that got thrown their way. After the horrible movies it sort of make sense that a subpar show would gain traction especially as i said they are starved for star wars content. But still its pathetic
I think my personal biggest issue with the show, and I think is probably the most apparent aside from the show literally shifting into being Mando season 2.5, is the fact that Cad Bane, who was the *main antagonist* , gets introduced in the last few minutes of the second to last episode, if I were in their position, I personally would’ve revealed him much earlier on to give him time to shine as an antagonist for the show rather than saving him for the last minute just for the sake of a big reveal, as I think Cad Bane being in the show would’ve been much better if he actually got a good amount of focus honestly, that’s the issue with the whole show, a lack of focus
man no kidding, they just had to do the late reveal of a beloved character for shock but didn't develop him as an actual villain. super sloppy, personally I wasn't a fan of all these cameos in Mando season 2 but this one was really something. of course the two side quest episodes are good but they don't advance the plot of the show, they shouldn't have been here, all it did was bloat the finale and prove that they diluted any compelling aspect of the main character
It made no sense why he all of a sudden had such a change of heart. Maybe he learned the importance of "friendship" from the raiders, but he can still value loyalty while being ruthless. We know even from canon lore, he modified his ship after Jango to have smaller, less comfortable prisoner cells. He froze Solo in carbonite, and even in comics we see him flat out kill an ex-empire general who just wanted to see a recording of his wife, after he didn't have the money to pay in the end. Boba in this show is a joke. I'm hoping they make a second season where they redeem him, but also afraid they will only dig a deeper hole.
It's a bit of a mess. I like this Boba aside from him being too much of a goody-two-shoes (a form of weakness tbh), which is a pretty glaring fault of the series. Though I don't mind his sappy love of animals. We can only hope they kind of redeem him in season 2 by making him a morally grey badass again. It's possible. It would help to get there if he loses his position as the self-appointed protector of Tattooine, and perhaps that is the plan, with the hints that either the Mandalorian or Boba will fulfill the Mandalore prophecy (mirroring of the Chosen One prophecy) and become the grand leader. A lot of fans are tired of Tattooine and I am too, to an extent, but a big reason for it is because they're making a deliberate mirroring between Boba and Vader. I kinda dig that... even though it can be argued it's lazy and derivative of what came before. But there's always been an indication that Boba and Vader are similar to each other, starting with ESB, as there's some kind of respect and understanding between them. Not to mention, the biggest similarity between them is seen in AOTC, where both Anakin and Boba lose their only parent. Then of course in this series, Boba experiences a harrowing rebirth but it redeems him instead of solidifying his bad qualities. But he still needs to be bad, like a proper anti-hero.
There isn’t gonna be a season 2 of this show. It was just… bad. Not Sequel levels of bad as it does have its moments, but it fails at its primary objective. Which is tell a good story about Boba Fett. Instead we get an awkward bad story that’s hijacked by Mando a little over halfway through. The fact that they haven’t announced any plans for a season 2 so long after it’s finale is pretty telling when Mando had a season 2 confirmed after the 1st episode aired and a season 3 confirmed halfway through for season 2 airing. The studios been pretty ready to jump the gun on the announcements when it comes to these shows, and now we have complete radio silence once all the criticism started rolling in? Yeah, Season 2 for Fett looking pretty unlikely. Even if it does get another season I don’t want one. Where are they gonna go with it now? They basically pissed away all their options. Let’s just sweep this one under the rug and move on
Disney manged to make the star wars galaxy feel so fucking small. Rey grew up on a dessert again, last jedi had a "desert" but this time with salt and red. Mandalorian had a lot on tatooin. Boba fett was all on tattoin except the 2 misplaced mandalorian episodes. And obi wan is going to be a lot on tatooin as well I bet. As bad as the prequels were at least they expanded the universe and tried telling a story and not just push fanservice to make people clap like seals for showing things we've already seen in better movies/shows. Look it's Ahsoka and young Luke and Cad Bane. Remember the Naboo Starfighter Guys? Yeah you remember now please clap and give us money even though it makes no sense. Seriously all people talked about the kenobi trailer was that they used duel of the fates as if that had any bearing on the quality the show will have. They just use fanservice and nostalgia to get cheap claps and praise.
@@LukasJampenneed world building. Don't make Lucas direct but get him to write the ideas again not Filoni or anyone. Then have directors for each genre direct cuz Lucas can't direct
Being a good two shoes isn't weakness in a character it just isn't fitting for a villian, anti Villian or anti hero at best( idk what role u want for boba I'd pick anti villain if it was me) A hero can be a goody two shoes, a villian can not they have nobility but have to be ruthless to a certain extent u know. To me Boba should be an an anti villain There are the opposite of anti heroes villains with heroic traits to the point it very blurry And he shouldn't start out that way he should end up that way. You question his villainy at times like a anti hero due to their noble actions but you know for sure in the grand scheme of things there evil to a degree Dr.Doom at times is this and at times full Villian Wolverine is a anti hero Deadpool flip flops between both And Punisher is a anti hero but if written by super edgyly a anti Villian Just a evil monster who kills worse monsters. All these are valid and I agree Boba should be some form of not good boy scout I think noble Villian works. Way later he can be anti hero proper but for now he should just start developing and I really like him this way. Old man boba like in retirement could have a anti hero story dealing with a mob boos coming from his family but that's when they kill off the character Idk sorry for the rant. And yes morally gray is where he shines I think he should be dark grey atm but I'd like him to keep his mobility here somewhat. Like the animal but makes a lot of sense to me.
7:35 The fuckers didn't even do anything! Instead of Ashoka telling Luke about his parents, training him in the ways of the jedi, literally ANYTHING, she just comes in as a home wrecker to prevent Grogu from having attachments, screw over Luke, and then leave without doing anything actually useful! XD
I love the ideas of this show and the idea of a mature Boba Fett who knows what his morals and desires in the world truly are. But man even as an easy guy to satisfy this show barely does anything for the ideas this show wants to convey. This whole show reeks of crunched development and hesitation. What sorta makes me cynical the most is how the idea of a story could be more conveyed. We should have had an episode about Boba Fett interacting with the citizens of Tatooine and hearing what they have to say instead of just talking to 2D evil crime lords, a moment where we find out why spice is so gosh darn dangerous, the reason why Boba Fett wants to change the living style of Tatooine and a confrontation on what he actually wants to do as a crime lord and him having to prove that he actually wants to fight for people now. For a crime lord show we do not even have stakes on what would happen if Boba Fett fails and gets killed. Why do we care about a random planet being ran with spice? WHAT DOES SPICE DO??? Beyond this show I am just wondering what they can even do with Boba Fett in the first place because they barely even tried developing him having a desire to gain some power. It's like the worst thing you can ever get from a crunched Disney+ storyline. I like The Bad Batch and while there are wasted episodes at the very least I can feel like there is some natural development being given to make me wonder and theorize what could happen next.
📌Disney-fied version of the mob was never gonna work. The premise was doomed from the start. Hey guys instead of extortion let's give money to the poor! Do the writers know how the mob gets their finances??
How did Disney manage to make me not care about a TV show about my favorite character in Star Wars? The world may never know. Also show don’t tell. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
I am only a casual Star Wars fan at most and this series is the only one I've watched because pop culture has said Boba Fett is the most bad ass character ever! People seem to love the Mandalorian, and I'm a longtime fan of Ming-Na Wen so I was down to give it a try and just couldn't comprehend the hype. Basically for the reasons you outlined here. He is utterly uncompelling which would be fine if the far more interesting supporting players were developed at all. Still, I wouldn't call it terrible. Confused? Sure, but I never regretted watching it. There were still some magical moments. But this series has tempered my expectations for Obi Wan and Ashoka. I have been trying to learn some lore so I won't be completely lost so I hope I come across some material that explains better Boba's ba reputation.
A Boba Fett show should have followed the same route as Boba Fett was taken in the Expanded Universe. With him trying to rebuilt back up his reputation as a badass bounty hunter and actually, 'GASP', hunting for bounties. But of course they couldn't do that cause it would be too similar to Mando. Hell, what they did with in the much later EU stuff would have been more interesting, with Boba becoming the leader of the new Mandalorians.
I genuinely think that the writers just didn't know what show they were writing. As someone who does a lot of writing myself, both literature and film, I can safely say that there's a lot of things I write that I just don't know about. For example, I have to write scenes of complicated geopolitics as a person who doesn't know anything about geopolitics. Because I'm an amateur, I can sort of fly by the seat of my pants, and get the bare minimum of realism right. But in the case of this show, I feel like the writers had the same problem - none of them knew anything about criminal organizations - but didn't even try to learn before writing it. They just said "it's... like being the sheriff, I guess", and just moving forward with that idea. Compound that with the weird pacing and the Mando scenes, where it feels like they were debating whether to make this season 3 of mando, and it really does just seem like they had no clue what they were trying to accomplish.
It's cynical marketing to ensure you have to stay subscribed. Put important developments for other shows in and people need to watch this show as well to fully understand the developments. It's just that here it feels so egregious that it might as well have had a big neon sign pointing it out. Utterly disgraceful, but so typically Disney.
Everything you said on the video is spot on. Especially the bit about Luke giving Grogu an ultimatum. It doesn’t even make sense for Luke to follow Galactic Republic-era Jedi philosophy since that’s exactly the whole reason why his father became a Sith Lord? Also, when I binged BOBF, I was confused to see two full episodes on The Mandalorian and Grogu with no connection to whatever’s happening to Boba Fett whatsoever. I would have loved those episodes on Mandalorian S3, now people would have to watch BOBF to understand why Grogu is in S3 of the Mandalorian. I honestly feel like it wasn’t driven by storytelling, it was because they needed to pull casual Mandalorian fans to watch BOBF. So now they’ll have enough numbers to ensure the show does good and that is just fucking sad. Because Boba Fett in Legends was a true badass, more so than Mando. Also sad because Disney Boba seems too tired and old. Like, Disney, redemption arcs only work when you show us how the character gets there. BOBF shows us flashbacks of his time with Tuskens that enslaved him and for some reason he decides to go help them out of the goodness of his heart. Really…the guy who took Empire bounties and worked for Vader wants to save a bunch of savage sand raiders in a backwater planet because…just because?
Attachments do lead to the dark side, that's a fact. The old Jedi would kidnap children and force them not to have attachments. Luke is allowing his students the freedom and cognizance to choose for themselves. He knows that depriving people of their attachments won't make them good Jedi, but also you need to be at peace with your attachments in order to be a good Jedi. If you recall from Return of the Jedi, it was Luke's attachment for Leia and Vader's threat to turn her to the dark side if Luke wouldn't that caused Luke to briefly fall into darkness himself. The lesson about attachments is not that all attachments are fine and there isn't any danger to them at all.
I agree I think we just needed more time for grogu to show off how unhealthy his attachment is for a Jedi.. at least I know he's a kid but that's the point maybe he should be older. He either needed no attachments or to slowly be able to leave Mando side and then train. Since Luke isn't the old Jedi order he should have told grogu he isn't ready yet, it feels like they were making it so Luke wouldn't train him outright due to Ben solo being his first student. I agree that probably what Luke in universe should be thinking but the dialogue is old galactic republic Jedi. The way he says it i mean
I guess they needed a scene where he said "since I nearly died in the Sarlac...my heart is changed and I want to make things right in the world." They never did anything like this so now you have to ask yourself why he cares about Tatooine and being a goodie-two-shoes instead a one-man wrecking crew mercinary.
It’s funny because Boba literally has textbook Stockholm syndrome with the Tuskins. and you can even say this isn’t even unintended. but when you bring it up to people in Star Wars forms and Facebook groups you get branded as a “toxic hater” I mean shit.. we are really supposed to believe that being captured by the Tuskins and manipulated by them made him a nice moral person? ladies, if a dude puts you in an abusive relationship, manipulates and gaslights you.. Would you, A) reevaluate your life, becoming a moral person and trusting of everyone despite not before? B) become infinitely more reserved, not readily trusting anyone and overall becoming bitter and resentful? Point is, Boba should be more ruthless after the Tuskins than ever before. It’s a dumb excuse
Considering people who constantly shit on sequels will always so because it makes them money. I remember that one girl from Mando being constantly shit on for being “overpowering” Mando, but as soon as her Actress was “based” they flipped sides and started using her as a lightening rod for their hate of Disney. It’s kind of Ironic how the “toxic fans” flip flop like fish out of the water.
@@klutzspecter3470 lmao what? I literally don’t make money shitting on Disney. If you think everyone shitting on Disney is a reverse-shill please explain why TLJ sits at 42% on RT with over 100K verified user reviews? Also it’s pretty dam possible the people that were shitting on Cara Dune (Gina Carano) weren’t the same as the ones upset at her departure. Not only that, but it’s also possible to simultaneously not like her character yet be upset how she was treated by Disney.
@@Kirdo-6241 That’s blatantly incorrect. The original trilogy had strong themes about family, failure, sacrifice, and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. All that while developing the characters in natural ways that solidify them as better men & women through their struggle. Han abandons his past, despite the consequences, and finds a cause that he believes in as well as a family. Luke finds mastery through patience, and gains a father through his virtues. Even the prequels have depth as Anakin’s story becomes the antithesis to Luke’s; where Luke’s attachments made him better man, Anakin allows his attachments to consume him and turn him to evil. To quote George, “Its like poetry, it rhymes.”
I really love this show sure it had some bad parts but we saw him go through an actual character arc. He was a killer then he found a family (the Tuskens) when this family was taken from him he changes his motive. He just wants a family. Throughout the saga people keep telling him he’s just like his father Cad Bane even says this “You’ve got your fathers blood pumping through your veins.” This show wasn’t about him becoming a leader, it was about him finding a family and proving to people that he can change his fate and be better than Jango. And when he’s in trouble he ignites the killer within not to cause harm but to protect his people. When he’s attacked by assassins he spares them symbolizing that people can change. He doesn’t want to be like other rulers this is shown by his dialogue with fennec. Where she says to him that he should be carried around to show his power and he declines. He faces real struggles with the mayor when he returns the assassin when this approach doesn’t work he becomes the killer we knew him to be. To protect and serve his people. Cad Bane isn’t just a villain but a reflection of his past. And with that he ultimately defeats his past. The show takes his death not as one but as a rebirth and a chance to change.
The worst crime of this show is killing my interest in the Mandalorian which is one of my fav shows. I cried so hard when Din let Grogu go and I was so excited for the future but now…Reuniting Din and Grogu completely ruins the amazing finale of season 2, so at this point..I don’t even care about their characters anymore if any random spinoff can completely ruin an amazing experience like that legendary scene. Clearly Disney ruined the storytelling to market Grogu. If Ashoka and Obi Wan are bad, I’m ditching Star Wars for good.
Honestly, I agree with the points you've been making. The only fight scenes that were visually engaging were the ones in the Mando episode. Probably because it was done by someone who can actually direct action, compared to the flat, overcast bs Robert Rodriguez did in Mando season 2 and in this show. It sucks too, because I like Robert Rodriguez. He makes fun movies, but the man just isn't cut out for show running. It sucks that we had to wait over a year for more live action Star Wars and this is what we got. The best moments with Boba were when he murdered an entire swoop gang in a bar fight and said nothing, and when he stabbed Cad Bane in the chest and said nothing.
Disney taking out childhood hero’s and ruining them. No reason to write something good when all they are going to do is bring back characters we loved from much better shows. That’s really all these new Star Wars are is just nostalgia.
Boba Fett should be a secondary or background character. He was one of the most popular Star Wars characters for decades despite him having no back story and almost no personality. Anything they do to define who he is will just go against what people have built up in their heads. Just leave him be. He can cameo on The Mandalorian every so often, but that's it.
3:13 "I always see him more like The Man With No Name but in Star Wars" Honestly it could've been a better show. (My Fan Pitch) After Boba escape the Sarlac pit he decide to recover himself by laying low with Tuscan raiders, after he gear-up he left the raiders & continue his bounty hunting job. The entire show now all about how Boba handling his job while meeting interesting characters & reclaimed his title "world greatest bounty hunter"
Luke is written so badly in the show. You would think Luke who cut his jedi training short to save his friends would maybe sympathize with Grogu, and maybe bond with him. Its also a massive plot convenience that R2 just so happened to go to a hangar that the mechanic woman owns. What if R2 went to a different hangar, would R2 just wait there untill the mandalorian shows up? Also the show makes pretty much all of the mandalorian season 2 pointless.
I initially thought this would just be another video bashing the show, but now that I've finished watching it... yeah, I kinda have to agree that the shows could have been a whole lot better
You know it's not "bashing" if the show is legitimately garbage, right? That's the problem with entertainment today - no one wants to be critiqued and they just want to clap and be told that what they like is amazing
@@gingeranagram2467 I do not at all think the show was garbage. And what's wrong with enjoying a show even if you know it has flaws? The pacing and Boba's character treatment were the main issues for me, but I loved the music, the visuals, the new lore we got, as well as finally getting to see Cad in live action :)
@@lonely_adolescent2715 I didn't say there's anything wrong with enjoying garbage; what I SAID was refusing to critique - or allow critique - is why we keep getting terrible, brainless entertainment. This show didn't have flaws - it had occasional good moments in an ocean of flaws
I thought the final episode was stunningly bad, but I liked all the Tuskin stuff. You ask why he takes their culture and changes… I think because he was searching for meaning.
It had some good ideas but wasn't done well. You can tell it's low-budget as well which makes watching it quite 'painful' because the backgrounds and environments aren't 'alive' enough with activity - aliens/droids/creatures. Sadly we are in the times of low-budget Star wars which will always be on Tattooine because its easy and cheap to film on a sand planet.
I was really pumped when I imagined this series as a Godfather homage where an aging Boba Fetteone would navigate his retirement from bounty hunting as our brutal but likeable crime boss. A psycho with a softer side learning to balance the iron fist and the velvet glove. But nope... They should have cut out the spice syndicate plot entirely and had the throughline be the Hutt's disputing Don Fetteone's rule as daimyo. I thought Fennec Shand played a good consigliere when she wasnt dumping exposition on us like a hooker in a swing above John McAfee. RIP, king. Also its too bad they got half way through the season and realized theyd lost the plot and decided to shoehorn in Mando season 2.5... SMH what else is there to say?? Goodbye, Star Wars.
With Book Of Boba and the sequels I've made up my mind that my head cannon is only what Lucas did, no new Disney stuff. As much as they have succeeded with Clone Wars 7 and Mando I feel that the failure of episodes 7-9 and Boba don't make me want to see any of the new stuff and to leave it at what we were left, what George Lucas left us.
I mean what to expect from a tv show ran by the guy who did Spy Kids and Planet Terror, I went in expecting garbage, got garbage and I enjoyed the garbage, consumed it as the finest rotten milk, because it was so stupid cheesy I could not bring myself to get angry and I had my fun But yeah it sucks lol
You’ve been waiting ten years? Some of us have waited 30-40 years. I remember back in the day before the prequels and the unaltered original trilogy when boba Fett and Star Wars overall had mystique and soul. The good ole days
I have a Boba Fett wallet and since this show came out all that happens when I look at my wallet now is it reminds me of how disappointing and a let down Boba was. It reminds me of the toned back lamer Boba and not the absolute G we got left with after Mando S.2. Why did he drastically change character in like a week or two? He fucking murdered the shit out of people in Mando and now he doesn’t even wanna be a mean guy lol I wanted more of him being a big ole bad ass.
The reason why Luke is anti attachment is because he has to make the same mistakes for the sequel trilogy to happen. So yeah technically it’s not Jon or Dave’s fault…
Well for some reason both this and starts of legends stuff like Jedi Academy have him prodding at people's feelings a bit. Kind of just a weird thing both seem to do in an attempt to make him more "jedi-like" I suppose.
The only reason boba wanted to take over tatooine instead of oh say CORESANT : Budget. It’s cheaper to film in a desert green screen than animating a city scape . They went cheap on the cheapest route Thanks Disney
I am disappointed in Filoni and Faverou for this series. But hold your horses and lets not forget Mandalorian and how good that was. Idk what happened here but it seems like they lost their ability to make fantastic Star Wars entertainment after Mandalorian season 2.
@@Blastaar7 Well that isn't a problem with Mandalorian but with Book of Boba Fett. Season 2 ending was fine until now. Overall issues Mandalorian may have are so minor its not even worthy to talk about.
@@tarponpet True, though i never said that they had lost their touch just that it seems like they may have. Why idk, it makes me also think that maybe they had less control this time around from Mandalorian. Idk.
A good narrative. Episode 2 and 5 whete excellent. The rest....maybe 6 The point about the Tuskens is well....he completely forgets about the other Tribe and what happened to rhe female? Biker Gang attached the same aching school as Daisy Ridley
It’s a 6/10 show with some good episodes, I only like 3 episodes of the show. I wanted it to be a stand anole project especially after his episode in mando season 2, sad to say this John and Dave putting so much effort with Mandalorian,they forgot about bobafett.
I on the same side of the fence as you man; show wsa awful. The only thing that kept me watching was when Mandalorian Season 3 inserted itself into the plot, then it became so much better lol. Very sloppy writing though. Felt way too Disney-fied
What this brief series did was perfectly illustrate why sometimes less is more. In fact, in Boba Fett's case, almost nothing was enough to make him one of the most beloved background characters of any movie franchise. It's so sad how they managed in little over five episodes to dismantle decades of fascination, by presenting a clueless, directionless and largely characterless individual who frankly deserves to have imposter syndrome, just like the creators of this debacle.
I think what hurt the story was Boba Fett being “good”. To me, he’s always been a amoral character, like Arthur Morgan or Frank Castle: He’s tough, doesn’t take shit, and is occasionally ruthless and uncaring. But he’s also simple, respectable, and has his own code and sense of honor. He’s a man who, so long as you don’t mess with him, won’t mess with you (so long as you don’t have a bounty on your head) Idk who decided to change his character (Filoni, Favreau, Kennedy, or some Disney exec) but it was obviously a extremely bad choice. It made him feel bland and uninteresting, which completely contrasts him to his movie counterpart.
Nobody is talking about how the build up of Grogu and Mando separating and then eventually reuniting was completely ruined by this show. I personally think they should have stayed apart from each other until at least the end of Mando Season 3. It was clear that they rushed it purely for the sake of marketing so that they could sell toys and Lego sets of Mando’s new ship with Grogu in the backseat of it. Made Luke and Ashoka look like idiots as well by not moving away from the old Jedi ways like they should be doing. I wish none of them but Mando were even seen in this show, literally felt like Mando Season 2.5 forced in because the story with Boba was so trash.
I'm glad somebody had the courage to do this. And, that's coming from someone who is one of those "Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are singlehandedly saving Star Wars" guys. The first two episodes didn't sit well with me for some reason, and during the third one I actually started writing a list of absurd things that were happening in the episode. By the time I got to the three pages I just decided to stop and watch the rest of the series and 'just let it entertainment me', which it didn't do either. So, thanks again for helping to clarify the unsettling feeling I've been having for the past month. And--God yes--please please don't fuck up Kenobi!
Honestly, I like the Tusken sequence. Feloni apparently wants to recontextualize the Tuskens as a group of misunderstood salvagea as we saw snippets of in The Mandalorian (alongside making Jawas actually a threat) so this is just more worldbuilding for them. But otherwise, I agree with this review. Yes, Luke demanding Grogu to choose between the othrodox Jedi way and attachment to friends was absolutely out of character, and Grogu returning to Din this quickly invalidated the plot of the last two seasons of Mando and the emotional departure from the end of its second season. And yes, Boba Fett's stupidity is beyond absurd in the show. Why is Boba given the audience proxy treatment to get all these dull, expository dialogue from Fennec on how the criminal underworld work when he literally grew up in it? Even if we were to discount any time he could have learned things from Jango (who this show reveal to be some kind of neglectful dad for whatever reason?)
This is the second best Book of Boba Fett review I’ve ever seen👀
My views have doubled since the last time we met, Count
What is first?
@@Acrocanthosaurus The Critical Drinker has a pretty good review.
We got this instead of 1313. Just remember that
@@BadPandaStudios What is 1313?
Does anyone else absolutely despise the fact that Boba Fett, a "badass" mercenary recruits.... a scooter gang?
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you'd think he'd just call bossk, dengar, and the rest of the gang. Proper killers. The fight with the pikes could've been experienced ruthless killers against numbers. Instead we got that silly ass finale.
Every single person that saw the show does
Not even a scooter gang, all he know up to that point is some kids with Spy Kids gizmos that won't pay for water and had some sass to talk back to him (like literally everyone in the show)
Yeah, the scooter gang that fit in so well on Tatooine. 😝
Young Sheev was such an optimistic youngster.
"I like The Mandalorian."
"I have hope for Ahsoka."
Oh 2022 Sheev, you precious lil wrinkly bean...
I was Sheev once, too...
Remember when The Mandalorian was still good? Good enough, in fact, that when he came back *HALFWAY THROUGH BOOK OF BOBA AND TOOK OVER, **_EVERYONE WAS GRATEFUL?_*
It's still insane to me how Disney could just do that and think it was fine.
You forgot "Let's just pray Kenobi doesn't get ruined too" at 13:30
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment”.
Ahsoka was decent
@@treman722 only if you never turn on your brain
@@HectorRiveraOrtiz Do you have a more specific reason why it's bad
The thing that pissed me off about this show was how it undermined the ending of mando s2. And if you didn't care about bobba fett, you have to watch this to understand s3
Absolutely.
That´s just a disgusting marketing stunt, so you have to watch one show to get the full context to the other.
And Mando is a pretty good show for the most part, but I just feel bad for anyone who has to watch this.
@Si mon I'll bet you it was Disney that forced them to put Grogu back in Mando's hands because "we can't have a season 3 of Mandalorian without the true star of the show" lol
@@riftshredder5438 lmao can yall just own up to the fact not all writers are perfect
The cynic in me thinks it's intentional, IE it's a plan to pump up their viewership numbers.
@@riftshredder5438 I also think it was to make it clear that Grogu didn't die when Kylo Ren attacked Luke's new Jedi Order. And gods they are doing Luke so fucking dirty.
im glad more are coming out about how utter trash it is, i felt like i was fighting alone after last episodes aired
Don't worry bro, you are not alone
@@Adam-nc6qg there’s no way a second season comes off of that disaster and nonexistent arc, if they do go through it they’re gonna have to do a total 180 on boba
@@dumb-angel Hell, do a prequel where’s he’s in his prime doing BADASS BOUNTY HUNTER SHIT!
@@scottmoore1614 How dude, he's old as fuck lol
It was so fucking dogshit
This video summarized a lot of my feelings in a nutshell. A lot of people grilled me for even wanting more Boba fett in his own show. It was a ok show at best and just a terrible Boba fett show overall.
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@@Kirdo-6241 fair point to people who did but I wasn't asking 4 one tho 1🤷🏾♂️
YEAH EXACTLY!!!! I've been grilled too for some reason😆 like what the heck?!
I agree.
The fact that it did start talking about other stuff really through off this shows groove. But more than that, a lot of people are confused about the philosophy and identity of all these characters. Especially the Jedi. So when people want to pick apart the Jedi way, they criticize based on their misunderstanding of it, bc this writers just didn't care to explain what the heck is happening with Luke.
(Sorry this is long)
A lot of people forget what was said in the prequels and that there is a difference between attachment and love. *(Check out Thor Skywalker's 3 videos on the topic.)* They gave friends and parental figures within the order but no attachment just means don't cling and don't have favorites, and Anakin failing to do this is in my opinion bc Obi wan was unprepared to be a teacher, and didn't teach the Jedi way well. Attachment implies unhealthy clinging to something/ someone, or putting your feelings above the mission (not implying lovelessness). The ability to let go is not "be emotionless" it's "manage your emotions". Anakin messing up doesn't speak for the entire order. Compassion which is defined as unconditional love is essential to a Jedi's life, and Luke displays that Jedi can and do care for others but "attachment" (the inability to trust in the force) is what nearly gets him killed in ESB, and he eventually learns to put his mission above his feelings. He fears for his friends and nearly kills Vader but remembers his mission.
I hope they flush out his character more and how he changed in the next season. They didn't give him nearly enough dialogue or exposition to fully get his intentions across, but Boba has always been a cold and distant character. He always does a lot of internal processing shown through shots without dialogue. Using context clues and tone/direction helps the viewer understand. Obviously some people didn't pick up on this and it makes me sad the show isn't appreciated more 😔
My pitch for this show would've been basically an outer space "Godfather" where Boba starts out with the best of intentions but has to sacrifice his morals bit by bit to keep his empire in tact with Fennec acting as the Devil on his shoulder.
Then when he's become corrupted and realizes he actually likes the power of it, Mando and the others have to come in an save him from himself.
I think that would've been a much better premise.
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I hate when people say they could have written a better show, but in this case I legitimately think I could have written a better show
@@masongraves4228 Keep telling yourself that.
@@Kirdo-6241 So you're just here to troll?
@@StephenLeGresley 😉
Boba Fett is thin, wiry, cunning and totally cut throat. Not a big bulky old man who literally struggles to stand up from 1 knee. I can't imagine him allowing people to give him first aid let alone dress him. He would have either escaped or killed the sand monster before killing the CHILD they had enslaving him (wtf??) and then he would have gone back to the raiders and killed them all to get his armor back before leaving that shit hole forever.
Also the angsty scooter teens were pure cringe and my eyeballs rolled to the other side of the galaxy.
I mean, I get what the show was trying to do, trying to make Boba into a better person... it was just executed bad. Like I'm all for Boba being a good person, since he isn't really a villain. It's more so that he only really does "evil" things when someone either double crosses or pays him. Boba believes in honor, not senseless fighting. That being said, I'm disappointed that we never got to see that part of Boba, just filler fetch quest boba in the present.
It's quite obvious that they are setting Boba up to be the actual perfected ruler of mandalore since his "finding his true path" was literally what the armorer had said, word for word. This is what happened in the eu and I wouldn't be surpised if Boba of all people is the one to survive to the sequel trilogy as the leader of mandalore. They are trying to establish him as a better leader than all of the other people that could have it: Din already has grogu... he doesn't care if he loses the saber, Bo-Katan had already failed before, and Sabine just doesn't want it.
@A 23 M. temuera morrison was not the problem with the series.
Dude, have you read anything about that character from the before disney because you have been thoroughly misinformed. Boba was seldom cruel but rather would do anything needed for a job
@A 23 M. Because insulting an actor for their teeth and looks is just low? Morrison damaged his upper front teeth about a decade ago in a motorcycle accident. We're here to talk about the atrocious story and characterization of the BOBF, where as you're making us look bad by resorting to petty physical insults.
1. They use stuntmen for the extreme fights and stunts for legal and safety purposes. If we're not getting good scenes in that domain its not because of Morrison, its because Jon and his choreographers haven't developed any for the stuntmen to preform.
2. Boba lived a hard, hard life, has acid burns and lived under 2 suns, he's not young, he's a middle aged man, being played by an older middle aged man who naturally has an older look due to his injuries. If he were in his 20's and early 30's i'd agree with you.
3.Morrison got fit again for the role. He has a strong, big Polynesian build. You can see him and stuntmen working out in BTS material. He's gotten even fitter this year too.
4. It doesn't matter what he looks like, If the writing is shit, if the stuntmen and choreographers have no material from Jon and Dave to actually work with, it will suck whether he is bulky or skinny or has shiny teeth.
he got fit for the role but they stuffed him up with robes under the armor for some baffling reason
The worst defence for the show I've seen is the 'books have chapters' one.
Definitely
lmao just dont call it book of boba fett then
@@bayek8377 Now it’s just “Book”
People who use that excuse also use it poorly.
Take Avatar which uses the Book style with seasons being called books and episodes called chapters. They had an episode with no Aang, Katara, Iroh, Sokka or Toph. It was just a Zuko episode called Zuko Alone. It works because Zuko is not only a main character but his time alone is crucial to his development which later impacts Aangs development when Zuko abandons the Fire Nation to teach him.
Here, Grogus training contributes nothing to Boba. Mando learning about the beskar spear and about Bo Katan contributes nothing to Boba. You can have those chapters that go off but they need to then be relevant to the plot of the main character.
Bad chapters are bad chapters.
The show was nothing but wasted potential
It definitely was. 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👌👌👌💯💯💯👌👌👌👌👌
One of the most underwhelming SW products ever.
Exactly like the sequel trilogy. Disney don’t seem to learn from their mistakes..
@@craiggallagher4461 “So far, no. No they don’t”
- Dr. Nefario, Despicable Me
@@chasehedges6775 agree
Yes, thank you! I'm tired of people heaping Robert Rodriguez with ALL the blame. It was a bizarre show top to bottom -- writing, directing (that chase man... oof), the utterly bizarre structure of completely shifting to Mando in the last third only to then switch AGAIN to "The Jedi Show", even the odd way Ahsoka and Luke acted given their respective "the Old Jedi Way was kinda bad" and "maybe attachments are a saving grace" character arcs only to inexplicably 180 with "let's try the same thing again!", and everything else in between.
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BoBF features Fett doing nothing but just rolling over for literally everyone which is so at odds with him talking back to Vader, demanding his armor back, ruthlessly killing Bib Fortuna. Every idea or tactic comes from one of his allies -- Fennec says to do this, Fennec says to do that, the Mod Squad Mos Vespa gang says to stay there, Mando says "this is the way." The only time he comes up with an original thought is "like a bantha." So... uh... there's that.
Not only that, but he just lets everyone else walk all over him and he takes EVERYTHING at face value. He's honestly shocked to learn that the Pykes killed the Tuskens. Are you shitting me!? Literally the one real major character trait we learn about Boba Fett in the OT is that he's cunning as fuck. When even the Empire loses Han, Fett is the *only* one to correctly surmise Han's game and track him to Bespin. In BoBF, he can't even put 2 & 2 together to conclude that the crime empire he JUST stole from AND let everyone go free from was behind it just because they left behind conveniently placed graffiti? Come. On. And then the criminal bosses?
FETT: Hey could you guys join me?
BOSSES: lmao no.
FETT: Pretty please? I even have a wancor.
BOSSES: no dude.
FETT: Okay okay, fine! Gosh. Could you like, at least pinky promise not to betray me?
BOSSES: Uh sure, yeah.
FETT: Well that settles things. They all seem like fine, upstanding, trustworthy gents.
SHAND: Yep. And also no one will get to us, we're perfectly defended.
FETT: Great.
DROID: They got to us, we're not perfectly defended.
FETT: Fiddlesticks. Who was it?
DROID: You're never gonna believe it, but get this... it was the criminal bosses that *promised* not to betray you!
FETT: *surprised pikachu face*
WASH: Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Honestly, just to sum up how incredibly insane the lack of basic plot structure is... even with ALLLLL the other mounds of bullshit, they could have salvaged something at least vaguely resembling a plot at the end. They even had a few options!
1. Cad Bane confronts Fett. Reveals the Pykes killed the Sand People thinking it'll be some revelation. Fett gestures around and goes "why do you think I did ALL this?" Bane furrows his brow. "To bring the Pykes to me." Then the entire reason for taking over Jabba's criminal empire becomes a long con to get revenge on the Pykes. Sure, we still wouldn't really understand why he felt a kinship with them -- maybe they remind him of Mandalorians? I mean, this is a show that devoted like 5 minutes to a Wookiee bizarrely attacking Trandoshans which is never really explained and relies on you knowing the expanded universe lore of Trandoshans hunting and enslaving Wookiees; and never takes a minute to explain what spice is until a vague scene with Vanth in the *second to last episode.*
Okay, but Boba is an idiot and doesn't know, so what now?
2. Cad Bane confronts Fett. Reveals the Pykes killed the Sand People. He then lets that sink in for a moment and adds. "Who do you think they hired to slaughter those savages?" before smiling that toothy grin. So now we know Cad Bane is *directly* responsible for the deaths of Boba's adopted Tusken family. He has a tangible connection to the plot of the show, ties the Tuskens back in (you know... like a STORY!) and becomes the main antagonist. So then when Boba does the thing with the stick -- you know, the stick thing, the thing he did cause Tuskens... NOW it's got SOME ounce of poetic justice, no? I'm not saying it's good. It's like... high school creative writing but for a simple western revenge story, that works well enough!
Okay, but no, deciding to make things make less sense and not do that, they still had ONE... FINAL... chance for any semblance of basic story telling.
3. Cad Bane confronts Fett. Reveals the Pykes killed the Sand People. For whatever reason, Cad Bane is ultimately unimportant and his role could have been fulfilled by literally anyone, existing or brand new, but he at least served to reveal that the Pykes were behind the deaths of Boba's adopted family; a family he thought he had already laid to rest and gained vengeance for by killing the biker gang. Now he knows the truth. So he gets revenge on the ones truly responsible for the Tuskens' deaths.
lolno, Fennec does that lmao
SO WHAT WAS THE ENDING!?
Also hear hear on not just blindly following Filoni/Favreau. Blind love and blind hate are absolutes and as we all know... only Sith...
I love what Filoni's brought to the universe (originally alongside George Lucas himself though, let us not forget). I think the Lucas/Filoni+TCW Writers dynamic really balanced things out. Lucas is SO genuinely creative but sometimes his choices can be... odd... to say the least. But he also never ever ever plays things safe. Left to their own devices, Filoni and the TCW writers almost assuredly would have done everything safe -- no Mortis, no weird droid adventure on a white sand world with an orange sky, no purple and yellow lava world, maybe not even Ahsoka -- the crucial element that vastly improved the Prequels (said as someone who always enjoyed the Prequels anyway) -- because kneejerk reaction is "Anakin? Padawan? Pft, no way." I mean, that's what a LOT of people literally did when she was introduced, myself included.
TCW's most creative episodes, I guarantee wouldn't have existed without Lucas's imagination. Conversely, those best episodes likely may have landed a bit flat for the majority of us had Lucas not bounced those ideas back and forth with Filoni and company. But Filoni & Favreau are NOT infallible just like Lucas clearly wasn't, and just like Robert Rodriguez isn't the sole person responsible for "ruining" BoBF since he didn't *write* the fucking thing! lmao
Ashoka is literally spreading her cultish jedi propaganda into Luke's ear. Jedi shit that clearly didn't work out well in the Prequels, but she feels the need to latch onto still so she can be a homewrecker for Mando and Grogu. She literally did nothing else but to fuck everyone over in that episode. XD
I guess they wrote them to go along with the no attachment to set up Luke's failure, but imo it shows that the writers know just as little about no attachment as the audience.
This show is very rushed anyway, so when people want to pick apart the Jedi way, they criticize based on their misunderstanding of it, bc this writers just didn't care to explain what the heck is happening with Luke.
A lot of people forget what was said in the prequels about the difference between attachment and love. *(Check out Thor Skywalker's 3 videos on the topic.)*
Attachment implies the inability to put others/a greater good above your own feelings, and of course compassion counts as unconditional love, which is essential to a Jedi's life. They had friends and parental figures within the order but no attachment just means don't cling and don't have favorites, and Anakin failing to do this is in my opinion bc Obi wan was unprepared to be a teacher, thusly not helping him understand the Jedi way.
I am a leaf in the wind.
Brilliantly said. Only a shit show of the proportions that this show was could make someone want to write a post if that exacting detail and length! I enjoyed every word, and agree wholeheartedly!
Agreed. Really makes me worried about Obi Wan...if they tank that I’m effectively going to lose all hope for the rest of these shows that Disney insists have to exist
Wait you still had hope? After endgame what good disney content did we get? Mandalorian was ok but also had a lot of problems and everything else will be forgotten 1 year after release.
Mandalorian mostly bored me. Book of Boba Fett just sucked. I really want Ahsoka to do well, although I would prefer Rebels Era Ahsoka establishing an underground and fighting inquisitors. Kenobi should be foolproof. Action-packed. If they can't do action scenes and some trauma then yeah, Star Wars is done. But I am excited for Kenobi for now. We'll see.
@@thoughtful1233 well mandalorian was objectively a really well written show and jon did an amazing job, but it’s fine if there are people who don’t like it, i myself do have my problems with it, even if it’s not as many as other peopl
@@onenonly9186 How is Mandalorian objectively well written? It has the same problems as this show, just to a lesser degree. Less bad does not equal good.
Surprise! It's also bad
Star Wars fan be like:
"Eh, not the best I've ever seen, didn't actually like much about it. I'll give it 8/10".
This is too accurate lmfao
@starwarstheory
Cuz we're so deprived
I think it was a decent show tbh
That’s because even at it’s worst Star Wars movies & shows can still be really fun & well made. The only exception to this rule off the top of my head is the holiday special.
I swear, every new show with Luke Skywalker in it only exist to justify or explain how he became the way he is in the sequel trilogy.
Spent 4 billion usd to own the rights to sell a cultural icon, and they forgot all the culture when they collected the branding and iconagraphy.
@@haydentravis3348Disney bought a herd of prized cows, cut out the branded hide, let the cows bleed out, die and rot, and ultimately sold cheap photocopies of the first, shoddily made, imprint as glitter tattoos for kids at the local fare where rides break down regularly, are dismantled and rebuilt the exact same way with glued together, rotten plywood.
@@publichearing8536 Meh, that's the problem, though: Disney puts in a lot of work all around. It's corporate and soulless, but does the job. And plenty of people don't care that much, its just a cheap trick to pass the time. People don't see the horror of the biggest media conglomerate in the world devolving into vaguely fascist, passive aggressive background noise.
It was definitely a show I could've done without. The Luke and Mando episodes were the best so that says a lot. Boba should've just stayed a guest star on Mandos show.
cause those episodes were from a different series
Yeah, he's better as a minor side character.
Hey Luke, shouldn't you be gaslighting a toddler right about now?
@@storba3860 I tried but he ran off on me, wanted to go back to his dad or something. Now I'm just tricking Padawans out of their application fees for my new "school" lol
Watch the tusken footage again .it's absolutely incredible
The artwork at the end of each episode was awesome in fact better than the actual program content
Agreed
Legitimately the only thing I couldn't roll my eyes at
@@gimmedataids same
This show suffered from every factor Disney has put upon its content. Shitty lazy writing, time constraints, God awful directing, budget being spent carelessly, and no interest in telling a good story. Plus it was about 200% low on extras. Boba Fett was made to be a moron because DISNEY'S VERSION of Boba is WAY cooler, right? Do you see the pattern yet? All OT Characters MUST be made fools to make Disney's COPYCAT characters "better and cooler".
yeah, but why? I can understand why the scumbags dont want to pay royalties to EU authors, but Boba is their own character.
We really have to question the Disney creative process here. Boba is a bounty hunter. He huts bounties. So lets do a show about that. About bounty hunters. But wait, Temura is 60, while Boba is 40. So maybe Sarlar aged him this much and he has to struggle with the fact he is an old man, not as fast adn strong and suited for the job. But the job is all he knows. And he struggles with it in his dangerous profession. And he needs to stop being a loner and get some friends and the whole empire is gone for most part, there is a lot of unrest and crime. People who try to make a name for themselves by killing him, the victims of his bounty hunting trying to get a revenge on him, his weird honor code that woudl get fleshed out, etc. Builds up his vin diesel "family" and finally hangs up his guns and retire on his farm. Or maybe get killed in a duel, the Great Silence style.
The stories practically write themselves, yet they come up with their own ideas that dont work, because it is not a natural progression of the story and the characters. He is a gunslinger, there is a whole genre you can use as your inspiration.
And dont set it on Tatooine. Like everything happens on Tatooine these days.
The show was garbage. Lazy writing, lazy directing, lazy set pieces. The show only exists because they needed filler content to keep Disney+ Subscriptions and because they could reuse the Mandalorian Tattooine set pieces, costumes, and CGI. Obi-Wan will be set on Tattooine as well, and wouldn’t put it past Ahsoka spending a lot of time on Tattooine or another desert planet in her show.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I personally know people that cancel Disney Plus as soon as they're done with the new Mandolorian season.
Not gonna lie, during the whole "The Mandalorian" series, I've never looked at how much time was left on an episode. During the very first episode of "The Book of Boba Fett", I kept watching how much time was left because I was bored to tears lol. It was sad that the only good episodes were the ones with Mando and Grogu. I don't really care if they changed Boba's character (as in how he act and thinks) because people change as the years go by, but they make it look like Mandalorians are nothing without their armors and that, is something I didn't liked.
All in all, this show was what I thought it was going to be, just a filler while they fixed the issues they had with Pedro Pascal about making a third season for The Mandalorian.
Him coming out of the pit is literally before the end of the ot so why would he be different? It has been multiple years in the crime lord timeline but nothing we have seen would justify him changing like that. People change over years but very slowly and always for reasons. We see all the scenes the writers deemed necessary over that time period and the moment he crawls out of the hole he is a fundamentally different person than he was hours or a few days ago.
While watching it, I am astonished on how dumb and nonsensical of the show is. I legitimately questioning if the writers are children with brain damage or not.
People liking it makes me confused that they even seen the same show as me. Yeah you liked it is cool there's many aspect of the show can be liked, but if you do not recognized what is going on in how characters act and the progression of the story then I say you're disillusion.
I liked it how bad it is, "YES I go directly face on top of the pit to look for my armor(even though I come out the pit with my armor and conscious about it). OH NO I AM STUCK IN THE PIT AGAIN"
You want to know something. I haven’t even pass high school, and I bet I could make a better show with Boba
I can pardon that he was dazed when he climbed out of the sarlacc pit and was knocked out by some Jawa but goddamn the mental image of having the Slave I going face-first into the hole is like a fever dream.
@@AnakinSkyobiliviator but he never asked his “best friend” tusken raiders how they found him? Or he didn’t have the brains to conclude the tusken raiders likely didn’t go into the sarlacc to save him? There is no reason he should have thought his armour was there. I can only slightly believe he didn’t remember the Jawas stole his armour.
As I begrudgingly stuck with it, I began to wonder if this show was being done badly on purpose…almost like a shitty TV show from the 80s. I don’t know….I’m kind of at a loss.
@@edwardrichtofen8530 Boba's a confused fella who probably was fairly confident that his armor is somewhere around the sarlacc and therefore never really asked.
Or he finally felt at home among the Tuskens and thought he could leave that part of himself behind and never asked, but after they got wiped out, he has no choice but to return to who he was.
You didn't even mention that one scene where the Wookie mercenary - WHO IS THERE TO KILL HIM - successfully sneaks up on him while he is SLEEPING in his bacta chamber...and pulls him out of the chamber and throws him on the ground. Like, you were never going to get a better kill shot, and this supposedly lethal mercenary just throws Boba Fett around a little instead. Also, I'm sure the wookie's electrified knuckles were supposed to be cool, but don't wookies have CLAWS? And wouldn't those have just been better most of the time?
This may be opinion, but I think the scene would have been a whole lot better - and even scarier - if Boba's bacta tank had had one last perimeter alarm that the Wookie activates, waking Boba at the last moment where he has to fight and dodge for his life. In those circumstances, they could have choreographed the fight so that the Wookie was more clearly trying to kill him, instead of just throw him around a little. If the studio executives were willing, one could easily have Boba taking some claw-related injuries in that fight as well. Being woken in the middle of the night for a sudden life-or-death situation without his armor still could have been an awesome and terrifying scene, IMO.
There's a spoof I saw on yt somewhere about how villains just throw the protagonist around instead of going for the kill.
I feel like the series should've focused more on his origins. Start on Kamino in the flashbacks, show his life through the years, they have Temuera Morrison, why not show Jango Fett or the clones. They could've used Daniel Logan to show some history between Boba and Cad Bane. After The Mandalorian S2 reintroduced him, I would've expected him to act a little more villainous after threatening to shoot Grogu.
The dumbest thing a Star Wars character has ever done? Did you not see the Last Jedi?!?
I mean there is so much dumb stuff in Disney Star Wars that there is a real fight for the top spots.
When Luke showed up in the 6th episode I was so happy but when he said that attachment bs I was so pissed. Vader literally became Anakin again because of his attachment to Luke. The people at Disney have to stop making there sequels dog shit and just make the separate timeline of what really happened. Legends is the real star wars not some bad writers rushing movies out for money. When Luke wasn’t in episode 7 of BOBF I was so pissed. Boba and Luke meeting again would have been strange but also in a way cool. That’s my opinion, the rest of the show was honestly ruining boba fett. I used to love this character now I am realizing that I might not anymore. Luckily for me the OT boba is a thing
Most legends stories are even worse than this and have worse writers. Some are good yes but grouping legends into one category saying it’s the real Star Wars is laughable.
Love and attachment are not the same thing
@@peaceunion5316 look up the definition and you’ll find out your wrong
@@skimask6984 its hilarious to me that you guys keep saying "most" when at best you guys are thinking of like 10 stories out of a 200"
@Neo's danger you can’t fathom the fact that most of them suck and are written by hacks who can’t create their own stories so you deflect criticism that by saying I haven’t read any, sound argument. No legends stories have even come close to the OT and TCW which is why I said calling legends the real Star Wars is laughable. Of course saying this to someone with a Revan pfp probably means nothing, though I conceded that the Old Republic games are good
This is like a high-budget CW show.
No, The Clone War's writing was pretty competent most of the time.
@@loganmenchaca No, as in The CW; The Flash, Supergirl, Batgirl, etc.
@@MNGN101 Ohhhh! Yes, you are absolutely correct.
At least CW shows have characters and an actual plotline. They're usually shit, but that still puts them miles ahead of Bobby Feet.
Smallville was good though and that was Low budget
so true! they basically took that one line from the unfinished clone wars episode of the boba and cad bane duel where boba says "no more people are going to die, all living locked up, all living fair" (or something like that) and turned into a show which just doesn't work. We don't have the full context of those unfinished episodes but as i saw that scene it meant that boba had unrealistic expectations, and he would later mature and not care about that anymore. I can also see the argument that since his father was taken from him that's his motivation but as cool as the unfinished episodes seemed to be it just doesn't make sense with the boba we see in the OT. It just seemed like Filoni wanted his boba to be that honorable again since he didn't get to finish those clone wars episode but the tuskens are such a lazy excuse for it.
Also luke and ahsoka's scenes were so bad, like they of all people (not just all jedi but all people) tell grogu that jedi shouldn't form emotional attachment? what??
I didn't watch the clone wars so I don't have a lot of reference for that but otherwise I agree. also the Jedi attachment thing really brought home on top of other things they just chose to reference a lot of prequel stuff to try to appeal to other age groups for no reason
Love your use of the Mandalorian Funeral Music in the end, basically what this show felt like to me. The death of Boba's character.
I really don't think is that bad of a show, but damn it, it's still frustrating that the show about Boba Fett is more focused on other characters around him.
Why is it called "The Book of Boba Fett" again?
cause people know boba fett ,they wouldnt check it out if it was called tatooine scooter gang
So what did you like? The stupid scooter gang that make no sense at all? The garbage fight scenes? The slowest car chase scene ever? 2 episodes of mandalorian that got mixed in? Boba doing, deciding or saying nothing of value except in the last episode? No crime lord things at all? The Pigs that were worthless? Sorry but I can't remember anything of substance. The only thing the show got points for fanservice which is the only thing Disney seems to be able to do and sadly it seems to work.
@@LukasJampen Even the fan service wasn't good, they somehow managed to character assassinate Luke again.
@@LukasJampen the tusken episode was good imo
But other then that pretty much sucked
I never realized how flawed BoBF was until this video. I have to thank you for putting everything into perspective for me. You voiced my subconscious feelings towards this show. I mean, I like it, but there's just an underlying sense of dread I feel while I was watching...
Now lemme add a tidbit. I cannot say with certainty, as it is PURE speculation... but perhaps the MASSIVE writing flaws in this show aren't just from the writers.
As we have seen, Disney as a corporation is a money-hungry beast who want to cram anything with their branding on it down the throats of viewers and fans, regardless of quality. They oftenly do this with Marvel, as we have seen...
Now, Filoni and Favreau have shown us what they can do with Star Wars. Look at The Mandalorian. We all adore that show. We love it because the characters are compelling, the stories are moving and ooze with actual substance and LIFE... that being said; with an entity like Dinsey at your back, breathing down your neck to make em MORE money with no questions asked is bound to lead to writing flaws. I am willing to bet that Disney demanded a spin off with "popular, marketable character Boba Fett" not because the fans wanted it, and not because it was necessary for the world-building and storytelling, BUT because it would give them profits.
For me, the red flags about this went up with all the other spin offs announced after Mando: Ahsoka, Kenobi, Rex (?), Bad Batch, etc etc.
That all being said, this definitely doesn't EXCUSE the bad writing. Hell no. They should've taken more time to proof read, edit, and polish. However, I feel like my tidbit adds more nuance to the situation as a whole. We can only HOPE that Disney and the writers will see the MASSIVE criticism it's getting and get it together to keep Star Wars going strong, and get it back on track.
Mickey cracking that whip….
“Write you bastards! Let’s get ten more shows out for next season!”
Temuera Morrison really deserved better.
His voice alone deserves better. 😢
Maaaannn I thought I was the only one that thought luke Skywalker making Grogu choose was bullshit and wAyyyyyy outta character it was Luke attachment to his father that brought Vader back to the light
"Deaf ears?" Nah. The Book of Boba Fett was beyond disappointing. And for many more reasons than you stated.
Prequel/cw shills still love it
@@Dgjserffft all my friends and I are CW/ prequel shills and we hated it, mainly because we are CW/ prequel shills
Luke's "no attachment" thing was completely stupid. All Luke does in the original trilogy is form attachments to friends. It's beyond dumb
The most Boba Fett thing that happened in this series was when he finally got his ship back and killed the nikto gang. He was straight faced and it was pure ruthlessness. Merciless Boba Fett is what I wanted to see. I didn't like the tusken raider based episodes at all. It made Boba Fett look weak and very silly a lot of the time. I'd like to see Boba Fett not get another season but instead be merged into Mando season 3 and get him helping with the Mandalorian questline. I liked the brotherhood aspect created between him and Din where Din didn't need payment to help Boba and how later Din was willing to die alongside Boba because they respect each other and its the right thing to do (this is the way) something that Boba was not raised by but begins to understand its about loyalty and mutual respect all things he wants to find in common criminals but won't. Since both of them are basically clan less now it would be awesome to see them create a new clan or something along those lines (the Mandalorian misfits). Just my two cents and great video!
The 'Mando Bros' stuff was solid. A 90 min film of their BOBF storyline, airing right before Mandalorian S3, would've been awesome....
Start it off with one Boba Fett flashbacta about escaping the Sarlacc and being saved by Tuskens who were then slaughtered, so he rode a bantha until he found Fennec... 5 minute pre-titles scene and we're all caught up, and we cut to Dinn Djarin slicing fuckers with the darksaber and fixing up a Naboo Starfighter on Tatooine, where Boba Fett is looking for who killed the Tuskens.
That's enough right there for them to bump into each other and intertwine their arcs... No need for scooter racers or newly found political aspirations. And BK the Wookie could still kick just as much ass if not more. Getting hired to kill Boba Fett, then getting hired by Boba Fett, is enough to play with.
You hit the nail on the head about this show. They ruined the character and honestly I just wish they would have left Boba RIP in the Sarlaac pit. I say that as a fan of the character too. I have little hope for Kenobi now.
Nobody RIPs in the Sarlacc pit.
I couldn’t agree more. I will never watch this show again and if the Kenobi series is ruined too I will quit on Star Wars completely.
Don’t let the door hit your ass.
@@Kirdo-6241 preposterous, I would never let that happen.
If it sucks please warn me, I won't watch it
it will be
We’ve waited for Kenobi for so long, they should know what’s a stake with that….
I was laughing throughout the whole show at how bad the show was and at how savagely you went in on it. You earned my subscription. 💪😎
*unadulterated
But yeah, the brightest parts of this show were Temuera Morrison's dentures.
This show should have been totally different. It should have been boba venturing off into the galaxy to fix unsettled scores, along the way evolving from some heartless mercenary to what this show wants us to see Boba as. Instead of getting Nar Shadaa and other seedy underworld planets, we get more sand and pointless practical effects for the sake of practical effects.
Agreed
I think 3/10 is a reasonable rating. This show suffered from a lot of problems, especially bad writing and those increadibly forced fanservice cameos by characters that barely behave like themselves.
With the Mandalorian and the Bad Batch being also just mediocre shows I have bad feelings for Obiwan and Ahsoka. I think I'll just rewatch the Clonewars and play with my Legos.
Damn i thought i was the only one who thought mando was just mediocre and not amazing. But bad batch? Come on that one was actually terrible. While as awesome as it will be to see hayden and ewan again my expectations for kenobi are so incredibly low. There hasnt been a single piece of GREAT star wars content since the disney aquisition IMO(clone wars s7 doesnt count, episodes were written/recorded before the aquisition). My expectations for kenobi are so incredibly low i honestly dont even care at this point. Ima jus be chillin in a lifeboat smokin a blunt while star wars sinks to the bottom of ocean and the remaining fandom that wasnt destroyed over the sequels explodes.
Mandalorian sucked... It's like a drawn out G rated 90s star Trek episode. It's sad that they cover alien characters head to toe except for their face so they can do the LEAST amount of alien makeup.
Im glad im not the only one who thought Mandalorian was sort of meh. Theres a few cool episodes and scenes but overall i thought it was pretty boring and shit. only reason it took off was cuz of baby yoda and the fact that star wars fans were so desperate for content theyd eat up anything that got thrown their way. After the horrible movies it sort of make sense that a subpar show would gain traction especially as i said they are starved for star wars content. But still its pathetic
@@stephenmisener1659 facts man that show sucked.
@@thechuube8442 Rouge One was great
I wish it took place during the Empire's rule while he was growing up and training.
"And for the love of god lets hope kenobi doesn't get ruined too." aged like fine wine 🤣🤣
I think my personal biggest issue with the show, and I think is probably the most apparent aside from the show literally shifting into being Mando season 2.5, is the fact that Cad Bane, who was the *main antagonist* , gets introduced in the last few minutes of the second to last episode, if I were in their position, I personally would’ve revealed him much earlier on to give him time to shine as an antagonist for the show rather than saving him for the last minute just for the sake of a big reveal, as I think Cad Bane being in the show would’ve been much better if he actually got a good amount of focus
honestly, that’s the issue with the whole show, a lack of focus
man no kidding, they just had to do the late reveal of a beloved character for shock but didn't develop him as an actual villain. super sloppy, personally I wasn't a fan of all these cameos in Mando season 2 but this one was really something. of course the two side quest episodes are good but they don't advance the plot of the show, they shouldn't have been here, all it did was bloat the finale and prove that they diluted any compelling aspect of the main character
It made no sense why he all of a sudden had such a change of heart. Maybe he learned the importance of "friendship" from the raiders, but he can still value loyalty while being ruthless. We know even from canon lore, he modified his ship after Jango to have smaller, less comfortable prisoner cells. He froze Solo in carbonite, and even in comics we see him flat out kill an ex-empire general who just wanted to see a recording of his wife, after he didn't have the money to pay in the end. Boba in this show is a joke. I'm hoping they make a second season where they redeem him, but also afraid they will only dig a deeper hole.
It's a bit of a mess. I like this Boba aside from him being too much of a goody-two-shoes (a form of weakness tbh), which is a pretty glaring fault of the series. Though I don't mind his sappy love of animals. We can only hope they kind of redeem him in season 2 by making him a morally grey badass again. It's possible. It would help to get there if he loses his position as the self-appointed protector of Tattooine, and perhaps that is the plan, with the hints that either the Mandalorian or Boba will fulfill the Mandalore prophecy (mirroring of the Chosen One prophecy) and become the grand leader.
A lot of fans are tired of Tattooine and I am too, to an extent, but a big reason for it is because they're making a deliberate mirroring between Boba and Vader. I kinda dig that... even though it can be argued it's lazy and derivative of what came before. But there's always been an indication that Boba and Vader are similar to each other, starting with ESB, as there's some kind of respect and understanding between them. Not to mention, the biggest similarity between them is seen in AOTC, where both Anakin and Boba lose their only parent. Then of course in this series, Boba experiences a harrowing rebirth but it redeems him instead of solidifying his bad qualities. But he still needs to be bad, like a proper anti-hero.
Yeah, I’ve had enough of Tatooine for the time being. Sad part is, we’re probably going to be spending a lot more time there in Obi Wan.
There isn’t gonna be a season 2 of this show. It was just… bad. Not Sequel levels of bad as it does have its moments, but it fails at its primary objective. Which is tell a good story about Boba Fett. Instead we get an awkward bad story that’s hijacked by Mando a little over halfway through. The fact that they haven’t announced any plans for a season 2 so long after it’s finale is pretty telling when Mando had a season 2 confirmed after the 1st episode aired and a season 3 confirmed halfway through for season 2 airing. The studios been pretty ready to jump the gun on the announcements when it comes to these shows, and now we have complete radio silence once all the criticism started rolling in? Yeah, Season 2 for Fett looking pretty unlikely. Even if it does get another season I don’t want one. Where are they gonna go with it now? They basically pissed away all their options. Let’s just sweep this one under the rug and move on
Disney manged to make the star wars galaxy feel so fucking small. Rey grew up on a dessert again, last jedi had a "desert" but this time with salt and red. Mandalorian had a lot on tatooin. Boba fett was all on tattoin except the 2 misplaced mandalorian episodes. And obi wan is going to be a lot on tatooin as well I bet.
As bad as the prequels were at least they expanded the universe and tried telling a story and not just push fanservice to make people clap like seals for showing things we've already seen in better movies/shows.
Look it's Ahsoka and young Luke and Cad Bane. Remember the Naboo Starfighter Guys? Yeah you remember now please clap and give us money even though it makes no sense.
Seriously all people talked about the kenobi trailer was that they used duel of the fates as if that had any bearing on the quality the show will have. They just use fanservice and nostalgia to get cheap claps and praise.
@@LukasJampenneed world building. Don't make Lucas direct but get him to write the ideas again not Filoni or anyone.
Then have directors for each genre direct cuz Lucas can't direct
Being a good two shoes isn't weakness in a character it just isn't fitting for a villian, anti Villian or anti hero at best( idk what role u want for boba I'd pick anti villain if it was me)
A hero can be a goody two shoes, a villian can not they have nobility but have to be ruthless to a certain extent u know.
To me Boba should be an an anti villain
There are the opposite of anti heroes villains with heroic traits to the point it very blurry
And he shouldn't start out that way he should end up that way.
You question his villainy at times like a anti hero due to their noble actions but you know for sure in the grand scheme of things there evil to a degree
Dr.Doom at times is this and at times full Villian
Wolverine is a anti hero
Deadpool flip flops between both
And Punisher is a anti hero but if written by super edgyly a anti Villian
Just a evil monster who kills worse monsters.
All these are valid and I agree Boba should be some form of not good boy scout I think noble Villian works.
Way later he can be anti hero proper but for now he should just start developing and I really like him this way.
Old man boba like in retirement could have a anti hero story dealing with a mob boos coming from his family but that's when they kill off the character
Idk sorry for the rant.
And yes morally gray is where he shines I think he should be dark grey atm but I'd like him to keep his mobility here somewhat. Like the animal but makes a lot of sense to me.
"And for the love of God let's pray Kenobi doesn't get ruined too."
Ooof. As a latecomer to the channel... yikes. Palpy aged better than that.
7:35 The fuckers didn't even do anything! Instead of Ashoka telling Luke about his parents, training him in the ways of the jedi, literally ANYTHING, she just comes in as a home wrecker to prevent Grogu from having attachments, screw over Luke, and then leave without doing anything actually useful! XD
I love the ideas of this show and the idea of a mature Boba Fett who knows what his morals and desires in the world truly are. But man even as an easy guy to satisfy this show barely does anything for the ideas this show wants to convey. This whole show reeks of crunched development and hesitation. What sorta makes me cynical the most is how the idea of a story could be more conveyed.
We should have had an episode about Boba Fett interacting with the citizens of Tatooine and hearing what they have to say instead of just talking to 2D evil crime lords, a moment where we find out why spice is so gosh darn dangerous, the reason why Boba Fett wants to change the living style of Tatooine and a confrontation on what he actually wants to do as a crime lord and him having to prove that he actually wants to fight for people now. For a crime lord show we do not even have stakes on what would happen if Boba Fett fails and gets killed. Why do we care about a random planet being ran with spice? WHAT DOES SPICE DO???
Beyond this show I am just wondering what they can even do with Boba Fett in the first place because they barely even tried developing him having a desire to gain some power. It's like the worst thing you can ever get from a crunched Disney+ storyline. I like The Bad Batch and while there are wasted episodes at the very least I can feel like there is some natural development being given to make me wonder and theorize what could happen next.
📌Disney-fied version of the mob was never gonna work. The premise was doomed from the start. Hey guys instead of extortion let's give money to the poor! Do the writers know how the mob gets their finances??
How did Disney manage to make me not care about a TV show about my favorite character in Star Wars? The world may never know. Also show don’t tell. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
I am only a casual Star Wars fan at most and this series is the only one I've watched because pop culture has said Boba Fett is the most bad ass character ever! People seem to love the Mandalorian, and I'm a longtime fan of Ming-Na Wen so I was down to give it a try and just couldn't comprehend the hype. Basically for the reasons you outlined here. He is utterly uncompelling which would be fine if the far more interesting supporting players were developed at all. Still, I wouldn't call it terrible. Confused? Sure, but I never regretted watching it. There were still some magical moments. But this series has tempered my expectations for Obi Wan and Ashoka. I have been trying to learn some lore so I won't be completely lost so I hope I come across some material that explains better Boba's ba reputation.
agreed. I was underwhelmed by this show
A Boba Fett show should have followed the same route as Boba Fett was taken in the Expanded Universe. With him trying to rebuilt back up his reputation as a badass bounty hunter and actually, 'GASP', hunting for bounties. But of course they couldn't do that cause it would be too similar to Mando. Hell, what they did with in the much later EU stuff would have been more interesting, with Boba becoming the leader of the new Mandalorians.
I genuinely think that the writers just didn't know what show they were writing.
As someone who does a lot of writing myself, both literature and film, I can safely say that there's a lot of things I write that I just don't know about. For example, I have to write scenes of complicated geopolitics as a person who doesn't know anything about geopolitics. Because I'm an amateur, I can sort of fly by the seat of my pants, and get the bare minimum of realism right. But in the case of this show, I feel like the writers had the same problem - none of them knew anything about criminal organizations - but didn't even try to learn before writing it. They just said "it's... like being the sheriff, I guess", and just moving forward with that idea.
Compound that with the weird pacing and the Mando scenes, where it feels like they were debating whether to make this season 3 of mando, and it really does just seem like they had no clue what they were trying to accomplish.
It's cynical marketing to ensure you have to stay subscribed. Put important developments for other shows in and people need to watch this show as well to fully understand the developments.
It's just that here it feels so egregious that it might as well have had a big neon sign pointing it out. Utterly disgraceful, but so typically Disney.
Everything you said on the video is spot on. Especially the bit about Luke giving Grogu an ultimatum. It doesn’t even make sense for Luke to follow Galactic Republic-era Jedi philosophy since that’s exactly the whole reason why his father became a Sith Lord? Also, when I binged BOBF, I was confused to see two full episodes on The Mandalorian and Grogu with no connection to whatever’s happening to Boba Fett whatsoever. I would have loved those episodes on Mandalorian S3, now people would have to watch BOBF to understand why Grogu is in S3 of the Mandalorian. I honestly feel like it wasn’t driven by storytelling, it was because they needed to pull casual Mandalorian fans to watch BOBF. So now they’ll have enough numbers to ensure the show does good and that is just fucking sad. Because Boba Fett in Legends was a true badass, more so than Mando. Also sad because Disney Boba seems too tired and old. Like, Disney, redemption arcs only work when you show us how the character gets there. BOBF shows us flashbacks of his time with Tuskens that enslaved him and for some reason he decides to go help them out of the goodness of his heart. Really…the guy who took Empire bounties and worked for Vader wants to save a bunch of savage sand raiders in a backwater planet because…just because?
Attachments do lead to the dark side, that's a fact. The old Jedi would kidnap children and force them not to have attachments. Luke is allowing his students the freedom and cognizance to choose for themselves. He knows that depriving people of their attachments won't make them good Jedi, but also you need to be at peace with your attachments in order to be a good Jedi. If you recall from Return of the Jedi, it was Luke's attachment for Leia and Vader's threat to turn her to the dark side if Luke wouldn't that caused Luke to briefly fall into darkness himself. The lesson about attachments is not that all attachments are fine and there isn't any danger to them at all.
I agree I think we just needed more time for grogu to show off how unhealthy his attachment is for a Jedi.. at least I know he's a kid but that's the point maybe he should be older.
He either needed no attachments or to slowly be able to leave Mando side and then train.
Since Luke isn't the old Jedi order he should have told grogu he isn't ready yet, it feels like they were making it so Luke wouldn't train him outright due to Ben solo being his first student.
I agree that probably what Luke in universe should be thinking but the dialogue is old galactic republic Jedi.
The way he says it i mean
Hi. The Future here. They managed to f’k up Obi-Wan too.
"Still hopeful for Ashoka"
Aged like fine wine
Fr 😭
I guess they needed a scene where he said "since I nearly died in the Sarlac...my heart is changed and I want to make things right in the world." They never did anything like this so now you have to ask yourself why he cares about Tatooine and being a goodie-two-shoes instead a one-man wrecking crew mercinary.
Luke hasn't been written properly since the original EU (Post Return Of the Jedi).
I agree. OT/EU Luke >>>>>>>Di$ney Luuke
It’s funny because Boba literally has textbook Stockholm syndrome with the Tuskins. and you can even say this isn’t even unintended.
but when you bring it up to people in Star Wars forms and Facebook groups you get branded as a “toxic hater”
I mean shit.. we are really supposed to believe that being captured by the Tuskins and manipulated by them made him a nice moral person?
ladies, if a dude puts you in an abusive relationship, manipulates and gaslights you..
Would you,
A) reevaluate your life, becoming a moral person and trusting of everyone despite not before?
B) become infinitely more reserved, not readily trusting anyone and overall becoming bitter and resentful?
Point is, Boba should be more ruthless after the Tuskins than ever before. It’s a dumb excuse
Considering people who constantly shit on sequels will always so because it makes them money. I remember that one girl from Mando being constantly shit on for being “overpowering” Mando, but as soon as her Actress was “based” they flipped sides and started using her as a lightening rod for their hate of Disney. It’s kind of Ironic how the “toxic fans” flip flop like fish out of the water.
@@klutzspecter3470 lmao what? I literally don’t make money shitting on Disney. If you think everyone shitting on Disney is a reverse-shill please explain why TLJ sits at 42% on RT with over 100K verified user reviews?
Also it’s pretty dam possible the people that were shitting on Cara Dune (Gina Carano) weren’t the same as the ones upset at her departure. Not only that, but it’s also possible to simultaneously not like her character yet be upset how she was treated by Disney.
If you really want your blood to curdle just look up all the ways the director dismissed the wishes of the actors.
I don't think it was that bad.
It did have some laughably terrible moments but most of the great moments on every episode made the show decent for me.
Yeah I enjoyed it mostly. If they left out Luke and Grogu I think most people would be happier with it.
What are the great moments?
It was pretty mid. Had a lot of cool stuff in it but none of it had any depth beyond being “cool”
@@brandonaumiller3997 Star Wars doesn’t have any depth beyond being “cool”.
@@Kirdo-6241 That’s blatantly incorrect.
The original trilogy had strong themes about family, failure, sacrifice, and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. All that while developing the characters in natural ways that solidify them as better men & women through their struggle. Han abandons his past, despite the consequences, and finds a cause that he believes in as well as a family. Luke finds mastery through patience, and gains a father through his virtues.
Even the prequels have depth as Anakin’s story becomes the antithesis to Luke’s; where Luke’s attachments made him better man, Anakin allows his attachments to consume him and turn him to evil. To quote George, “Its like poetry, it rhymes.”
In legends continuity, Boba becomes ruler of Mandalore and never stops being a badass, even as an extremely old man. I prefer that Boba
I really love this show sure it had some bad parts but we saw him go through an actual character arc. He was a killer then he found a family (the Tuskens) when this family was taken from him he changes his motive. He just wants a family. Throughout the saga people keep telling him he’s just like his father Cad Bane even says this
“You’ve got your fathers blood pumping through your veins.” This show wasn’t about him becoming a leader, it was about him finding a family and proving to people that he can change his fate and be better than Jango. And when he’s in trouble he ignites the killer within not to cause harm but to protect his people. When he’s attacked by assassins he spares them symbolizing that people can change. He doesn’t want to be like other rulers this is shown by his dialogue with fennec. Where she says to him that he should be carried around to show his power and he declines. He faces real struggles with the mayor when he returns the assassin when this approach doesn’t work he becomes the killer we knew him to be. To protect and serve his people. Cad Bane isn’t just a villain but a reflection of his past. And with that he ultimately defeats his past. The show takes his death not as one but as a rebirth and a chance to change.
The worst crime of this show is killing my interest in the Mandalorian which is one of my fav shows. I cried so hard when Din let Grogu go and I was so excited for the future but now…Reuniting Din and Grogu completely ruins the amazing finale of season 2, so at this point..I don’t even care about their characters anymore if any random spinoff can completely ruin an amazing experience like that legendary scene. Clearly Disney ruined the storytelling to market Grogu. If Ashoka and Obi Wan are bad, I’m ditching Star Wars for good.
Honestly, I agree with the points you've been making. The only fight scenes that were visually engaging were the ones in the Mando episode. Probably because it was done by someone who can actually direct action, compared to the flat, overcast bs Robert Rodriguez did in Mando season 2 and in this show. It sucks too, because I like Robert Rodriguez. He makes fun movies, but the man just isn't cut out for show running. It sucks that we had to wait over a year for more live action Star Wars and this is what we got. The best moments with Boba were when he murdered an entire swoop gang in a bar fight and said nothing, and when he stabbed Cad Bane in the chest and said nothing.
Disney taking out childhood hero’s and ruining them. No reason to write something good when all they are going to do is bring back characters we loved from much better shows. That’s really all these new Star Wars are is just nostalgia.
expectation: godfather meets narcos in space
reality: dances with wolves meets mando s3 sneak peek in horrible writing
You know, I actually quite enjoyed the early episodes where he was with the Tuskan Raiders. Then it basically got worse and worse.
Boba Fett should be a secondary or background character. He was one of the most popular Star Wars characters for decades despite him having no back story and almost no personality. Anything they do to define who he is will just go against what people have built up in their heads. Just leave him be. He can cameo on The Mandalorian every so often, but that's it.
3:13
"I always see him more like The Man With No Name but in Star Wars"
Honestly it could've been a better show.
(My Fan Pitch)
After Boba escape the Sarlac pit he decide to recover himself by laying low with Tuscan raiders, after he gear-up he left the raiders & continue his bounty hunting job. The entire show now all about how Boba handling his job while meeting interesting characters & reclaimed his title "world greatest bounty hunter"
It wasn’t even a book
Luke is written so badly in the show. You would think Luke who cut his jedi training short to save his friends would maybe sympathize with Grogu, and maybe bond with him. Its also a massive plot convenience that R2 just so happened to go to a hangar that the mechanic woman owns. What if R2 went to a different hangar, would R2 just wait there untill the mandalorian shows up? Also the show makes pretty much all of the mandalorian season 2 pointless.
I initially thought this would just be another video bashing the show, but now that I've finished watching it... yeah, I kinda have to agree that the shows could have been a whole lot better
You know it's not "bashing" if the show is legitimately garbage, right?
That's the problem with entertainment today - no one wants to be critiqued and they just want to clap and be told that what they like is amazing
@Jedimaster420 Uhm, aren't videos like these supposed to influence our opinion about the show? 😅
@@gingeranagram2467 I do not at all think the show was garbage. And what's wrong with enjoying a show even if you know it has flaws? The pacing and Boba's character treatment were the main issues for me, but I loved the music, the visuals, the new lore we got, as well as finally getting to see Cad in live action :)
@@lonely_adolescent2715
I didn't say there's anything wrong with enjoying garbage; what I SAID was refusing to critique - or allow critique - is why we keep getting terrible, brainless entertainment.
This show didn't have flaws - it had occasional good moments in an ocean of flaws
@@gingeranagram2467 To each their own I guess. I thought it was a decent show with some cool moments ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I thought the final episode was stunningly bad, but I liked all the Tuskin stuff. You ask why he takes their culture and changes… I think because he was searching for meaning.
It had some good ideas but wasn't done well. You can tell it's low-budget as well which makes watching it quite 'painful' because the backgrounds and environments aren't 'alive' enough with activity - aliens/droids/creatures. Sadly we are in the times of low-budget Star wars which will always be on Tattooine because its easy and cheap to film on a sand planet.
It has some good ideas but wasn’t done well.
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Biggest disagreement is, "boba Fett looks cool" nah he's just a fat guy.
I was really pumped when I imagined this series as a Godfather homage where an aging Boba Fetteone would navigate his retirement from bounty hunting as our brutal but likeable crime boss. A psycho with a softer side learning to balance the iron fist and the velvet glove. But nope...
They should have cut out the spice syndicate plot entirely and had the throughline be the Hutt's disputing Don Fetteone's rule as daimyo. I thought Fennec Shand played a good consigliere when she wasnt dumping exposition on us like a hooker in a swing above John McAfee. RIP, king.
Also its too bad they got half way through the season and realized theyd lost the plot and decided to shoehorn in Mando season 2.5... SMH what else is there to say??
Goodbye, Star Wars.
I agree
The bit where he embraced the tusken life style was the justification as to why he was using a Gaffi stick in Mando S2.
Tbh this show had me confused a few times
The Peacemaker show is even better
Peacemaker was f-ing awesome
While I didn't enjoy the humour, at least Peacemaker was focused on the narrative.
With Book Of Boba and the sequels I've made up my mind that my head cannon is only what Lucas did, no new Disney stuff. As much as they have succeeded with Clone Wars 7 and Mando I feel that the failure of episodes 7-9 and Boba don't make me want to see any of the new stuff and to leave it at what we were left, what George Lucas left us.
I mean what to expect from a tv show ran by the guy who did Spy Kids and Planet Terror, I went in expecting garbage, got garbage and I enjoyed the garbage, consumed it as the finest rotten milk, because it was so stupid cheesy I could not bring myself to get angry and I had my fun
But yeah it sucks lol
You’ve been waiting ten years? Some of us have waited 30-40 years. I remember back in the day before the prequels and the unaltered original trilogy when boba Fett and Star Wars overall had mystique and soul. The good ole days
I have a Boba Fett wallet and since this show came out all that happens when I look at my wallet now is it reminds me of how disappointing and a let down Boba was. It reminds me of the toned back lamer Boba and not the absolute G we got left with after Mando S.2. Why did he drastically change character in like a week or two? He fucking murdered the shit out of people in Mando and now he doesn’t even wanna be a mean guy lol I wanted more of him being a big ole bad ass.
The reason why Luke is anti attachment is because he has to make the same mistakes for the sequel trilogy to happen. So yeah technically it’s not Jon or Dave’s fault…
He wasn’t anti-attachment in the sequels
Well for some reason both this and starts of legends stuff like Jedi Academy have him prodding at people's feelings a bit. Kind of just a weird thing both seem to do in an attempt to make him more "jedi-like" I suppose.
All Luke has was ancient Jedi books. He doesn’t know about the corruption that plagued the order
Bro that annoyed the shit out of me. It basically means he learned nothing.
@@hearts4mikey he had no knowledge of the corruption and things he just had the ancient texts and followed those rules accordingly
The only reason boba wanted to take over tatooine instead of oh say CORESANT :
Budget.
It’s cheaper to film in a desert green screen than animating a city scape . They went cheap on the cheapest route
Thanks Disney
I am disappointed in Filoni and Faverou for this series. But hold your horses and lets not forget Mandalorian and how good that was. Idk what happened here but it seems like they lost their ability to make fantastic Star Wars entertainment after Mandalorian season 2.
mandalorian had its issues too. Issues, I thought were behind it until they just undid the season 2 ending.
@@Blastaar7 Well that isn't a problem with Mandalorian but with Book of Boba Fett. Season 2 ending was fine until now. Overall issues Mandalorian may have are so minor its not even worthy to talk about.
A mistep isn't enough to say they've lost their touch
@@tarponpet True, though i never said that they had lost their touch just that it seems like they may have. Why idk, it makes me also think that maybe they had less control this time around from Mandalorian. Idk.
It’s a bad show, but dang it, I really wanted it to be good. Is it wrong to like bad things?
A good narrative.
Episode 2 and 5 whete excellent. The rest....maybe 6
The point about the Tuskens is well....he completely forgets about the other Tribe and what happened to rhe female?
Biker Gang attached the same aching school as Daisy Ridley
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"BUT LUKE IN THE LAST JEDI WOULD TELL YOU THAT" - Sequel Lovers
"But Luke of the EU AND the OT wouldn't." - Me
It’s a 6/10 show with some good episodes, I only like 3 episodes of the show. I wanted it to be a stand anole project especially after his episode in mando season 2, sad to say this John and Dave putting so much effort with Mandalorian,they forgot about bobafett.
its bad to the point of parody, his Boba Fetts armor doesn't even fit him and his belly sticks out form underneath 😅
I on the same side of the fence as you man; show wsa awful. The only thing that kept me watching was when Mandalorian Season 3 inserted itself into the plot, then it became so much better lol. Very sloppy writing though. Felt way too Disney-fied
What this brief series did was perfectly illustrate why sometimes less is more. In fact, in Boba Fett's case, almost nothing was enough to make him one of the most beloved background characters of any movie franchise. It's so sad how they managed in little over five episodes to dismantle decades of fascination, by presenting a clueless, directionless and largely characterless individual who frankly deserves to have imposter syndrome, just like the creators of this debacle.
You nailed it. With the exception of episodes 5 and 6. This is one of the dumbest shows outside of the CW.
There is literally no reason they couldn't have made a good show from Boba, seriously like they could've just cracked open a comic
I think what hurt the story was Boba Fett being “good”.
To me, he’s always been a amoral character, like Arthur Morgan or Frank Castle:
He’s tough, doesn’t take shit, and is occasionally ruthless and uncaring.
But he’s also simple, respectable, and has his own code and sense of honor.
He’s a man who, so long as you don’t mess with him, won’t mess with you (so long as you don’t have a bounty on your head)
Idk who decided to change his character (Filoni, Favreau, Kennedy, or some Disney exec) but it was obviously a extremely bad choice.
It made him feel bland and uninteresting, which completely contrasts him to his movie counterpart.
Nobody is talking about how the build up of Grogu and Mando separating and then eventually reuniting was completely ruined by this show. I personally think they should have stayed apart from each other until at least the end of Mando Season 3. It was clear that they rushed it purely for the sake of marketing so that they could sell toys and Lego sets of Mando’s new ship with Grogu in the backseat of it. Made Luke and Ashoka look like idiots as well by not moving away from the old Jedi ways like they should be doing. I wish none of them but Mando were even seen in this show, literally felt like Mando Season 2.5 forced in because the story with Boba was so trash.
they did that on purpose, disney, to ruin more george lucas original characters and the og lore etc...next up obi wan
Which is why i dread it’s arrival, it’s trailer doesn’t give me hope
@@bcmm1880 don't blame you, hope its good, right now I'm trying to give hope to halo...1st episode passed but I already see mistakes
@@bcmm1880 yup proceed with caution
Yep you were right Obi wan is terrible
@@doger6531 thanks...that last episode I thought was the best one yet but yup...
I'm glad somebody had the courage to do this. And, that's coming from someone who is one of those "Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni are singlehandedly saving Star Wars" guys. The first two episodes didn't sit well with me for some reason, and during the third one I actually started writing a list of absurd things that were happening in the episode. By the time I got to the three pages I just decided to stop and watch the rest of the series and 'just let it entertainment me', which it didn't do either. So, thanks again for helping to clarify the unsettling feeling I've been having for the past month. And--God yes--please please don't fuck up Kenobi!
Honestly, I like the Tusken sequence. Feloni apparently wants to recontextualize the Tuskens as a group of misunderstood salvagea as we saw snippets of in The Mandalorian (alongside making Jawas actually a threat) so this is just more worldbuilding for them. But otherwise, I agree with this review. Yes, Luke demanding Grogu to choose between the othrodox Jedi way and attachment to friends was absolutely out of character, and Grogu returning to Din this quickly invalidated the plot of the last two seasons of Mando and the emotional departure from the end of its second season. And yes, Boba Fett's stupidity is beyond absurd in the show. Why is Boba given the audience proxy treatment to get all these dull, expository dialogue from Fennec on how the criminal underworld work when he literally grew up in it? Even if we were to discount any time he could have learned things from Jango (who this show reveal to be some kind of neglectful dad for whatever reason?)