The Book Of Boba Fett (December 2021)

[Mondragon]

Great use of the spin-off-topic window to bring it in...

There was a video of a Knights of Ren Disney+ show that made it onto YT last night. It looks fake to me, but interesting that another D+ show rumor is making the rounds.

Lol I like the fake "capture" (yet crystal clear) "distortion".
Drop any reference to "Ren" from the title and theme, the Nazgul horn, and the stupid soundtrack, and the fan might have something there. Well done!

Dark Knights assemble...

 

[Mondragon]

YOU wanted Mandalorian stories? You got it -- from Disney!

The Mandalorian
Book of Boba Fett

and now...

Bo-Katan the Conqueror


Yes, if you wanted to know more about Mandalore, then you're going to be sad. But if you wanted more and more of helmeted space knights wandering through inexpensive desert-scapes with your favorite Star Wars characters -- Tuskens, Jawas and Cantina critters -- then you're in luck with yet a third try at the same series!!!

This doesn't end till they've turned the IronBatMandDelorean into a time machine! The fusion of the greatest franchises in one! As he goes back in time to stop the Disney story group from "*fixing" Comics and Star Wars for modern audiences.

And by *fixing I mean -cutting it's balls off! In case that wasn't obvious.

 

[greygoose]

They tried Kevin Maul but that just didn't strike fear in anyone...

Don't give Disney any ideas.

 

[Khev]

Timeline 2 is a strange new universe.

And its true -- Boba Fett seems to dominate in that universe.

I'm curious, what is your Timeline 1 universe, Khev? I think you're going to try and sneak the ST in there... I'd argue that the ST is the start of a 3rd timeline. The Disney timeline.

Disney definitely added a number of significant departures from what Lucas was planning at that time to where you could call it a new timeline or what have you but....honestly Star Wars has been zigging and zagging away from prior predefined courses since ESB so I try not to get too caught up in calling it out anymore unless it really rubs me the wrong way for whatever reason.

My Timeline 1 SW universe?

Probably just OT plus Dark Empire (for whatever reason the mood and aesthetic of that series really resonated with me.) Pretty much everything prior to 1997. That year presented a seismic shift with the OT essentially being rebooted with the SE's to fit Lucas' new priorities/interests. And man did I resist the hell out of that until pretty much TFA (and especially RO.) The ST and RO/Solo (and their subtle but noticeable callbacks to the PT) finally helped me to come to terms with the prequels and enjoy them well enough as a valid alternate canon.

So "Timeline 1" if you will for me is OT + Dark Empire (I tried reading the Zahn trilogy but stopped shortly into the first book when Luke was standing on a balcony sipping hot chocolate, that right there killed it from feeling like a viable Star Wars story and I never revisited it.)

But my favorite timeline is probably all 11 movies plus Mando 1 and 2. Whenever I'm binging though I do tend to pull a Steve Rogers and skip timelines midway through to sleep with Peggy (ie theatrical OT instead of the SE's, lol) before coming back to the bigger timeline to continue the rest.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Kevin Maul gets cut in half and goes home to his mom...

 

[Khev]

Bottom line is - beware returning OT characters. Everyone one of them has been destroyed by Disney

Let's not get carried away. 8D8 and Jawas are still awesome.

 

[Mondragon]

Posted this earlier but a bunch of posts were moved around to the proper places (quite rightly) so it may have been lost along the way.
Temeura confirms in the interview below, that Slave 1 is called Firespray in BoBF.

At 2:50
Wow "I'm offended by the name of his ship" said no fan in the history of forever.
Disney story group meeting "we don't actually like SW we just want to "fix" it for modern audiences!"

 

[Khev]

They were so clunky and slow, there was no sense of drama and intensity. I wish they shot it similar to the Corellia chase from Solo.

I just love that the speeders encountered not one, not two, not three, but FOUR hapless droids trying to cross the street. And not one of them suffered such a fate as the droid that got decapitated on Corellia. No they were all just throwing their hands in the air, shouting, and falling over comically.

It's like they took equal inspiration from Spy Kids, BTTF 2, and The Apple Dumpling Gang. The only thing missing was one of the speeders being run off the road and flying through the air into a pond, lol.

 

[abake]

Through three episodes, I'm trying to understand the purpose of this show by looking for common themes. A prevailing one seems to be that things you knew from the OT aren't what they seemed to be. Rancors aren't vicious monsters; they're docile unless provoked or trained to be violent. Tuskens aren't savages; they're cultural victims of a changing world and technologically-driven outsiders. Boba Fett wasn't a ruthless and willing gun-for-hire; he was struggling to find himself and his place in the world without his clone father.

Why? Why do any of this rebranding? None of it helps make any of those more compelling than they were in the OT.

If the argument with Fett is that you couldn't make a compelling 7-episode series (totaling about 4 hours) about a mysterious badass with equally ambiguous morality, then Sergio Leone should rise from the grave to slap these guys in the face and remind them what Fett was inspired by. They turned "The Man With No Name" into "The Man With No Balls" and I'm struggling to understand why.

What's with all the softening of OT context? It can't be as simple as Disneyfication, since Favreau and Rodriguez wouldn't need this specific gig to get the same kind of paycheck. It's just baffling to me. I'm hoping the last four episodes will make the purpose clearer. If not, then what a bizarre waste.

I watched the third episode yesterday and wanted to share my thoughts, but then I just couldn't be bothered...
However...
I'll say this: it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. If I completely erase the OT from my mind, then I can understand this Boba Fett. The way the character is written and is portrayed is pretty consistent from episode to episode, and he's not an unlikeable character. The bad news is that the character has pretty much zero to do with the one we knew from the OT, so...
The Mod Squad, however, is utter and complete garbage. Every scene they were in was ruined. Which ruined about 70% of the episode. And I'm guessing they will be heavily featured in the next episodes, so we really have a lot of fun to look forward to. Ugh.

 

[Khev]

They just released the Season Finale animatics of the final battle where the mayor's forces storm Jabba's palace and catch Fett unawares on the throne:

 

[Khev]

They turned "The Man With No Name" into "The Man With No Balls" and I'm struggling to understand why.

Now that we have more context of who he is on this show I can't help but wonder what this scene on the upcoming figure box art is meant to depict. Is he offering his gun to Fennec because it is getting too heavy?

 

[Bo Shrek]

Disney: softening the edges for 98 years.

Remember Pinocchio where an old man took little boys to Pleasure Island!!!

 

[Wor-Gar]

In the early 80's, there were only two evil droids from the movies: IG-88 and 8D8 -- mech scourges, cruel and unreasonable, they killed and tortured for 'pleasure'...

Now, years later, Disney has softened them both up into babysitters. Yes, 8D8 is also a babysitter of a kind.

 

[greygoose]

I just love that the speeders encountered not one, not two, not three, but FOUR hapless droids trying to cross the street. And not one of them suffered such a fate as the droid that got decapitated on Corellia. No they were all just throwing their hands in the air, shouting, and falling over comically.

It's like they took equal inspiration from Spy Kids, BTTF 2, and The Apple Dumpling Gang. The only thing missing was one of the speeders being run off the road and flying through the air into a pond, lol.

Comically bad.

How did this type of stuff end up in series about Boba Fett...

 

[Mondragon]

Yes, 8D8 is also a babysitter of a kind.

Does he change Baby Fett's bacta diaper?

So I've been looking at the show all wrong?
If you just surrender to Fennec as the hard-edge in control bad-ass lead of the show, and Fett as the babbling Baby Grogu of the series. She's just humoring him, letting him play (new friends, new toys, new pets) and indulging in his inane baby antics and ramblings, while protecting him?
It all makes more sense that way, and reads allot easier.

I'm finally seeing the parallels.

 

[Futurion]

Poor 8D8 has to explain everything, every episode Boba is completely clueless about what is going in "his" town. Poor droid ...

 

[ajp4mgs]

I watched the third episode yesterday and wanted to share my thoughts, but then I just couldn't be bothered...
However...
I'll say this: it really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. If I completely erase the OT from my mind, then I can understand this Boba Fett. The way the character is written and is portrayed is pretty consistent from episode to episode, and he's not an unlikeable character. The bad news is that the character has pretty much zero to do with the one we knew from the OT, so...
The Mod Squad, however, is utter and complete garbage. Every scene they were in was ruined. Which ruined about 70% of the episode. And I'm guessing they will be heavily featured in the next episodes, so we really have a lot of fun to look forward to. Ugh.

No matter how tolerable or entertaining this show might be if you allow yourself to ignore the OT, that shouldn't even need to be a consideration. This series is an extension of the setups which preceded it, and there's nothing so far which couldn't have been accomplished the same (better, actually) without recontextualizing the OT.

If they wanted Fett to assimilate into a culture of unfairly-perceived savages in order to discover their nobility and motivate his new perspective on life, then *create* a new culture of neglected underground Tatooine natives rather rather than rebranding Tuskens. Each time Lucas revisited Tatooine, he kept adding new species to the territory. Could one of those also have been native to Tatooine, like Jawas and Tuskens? Why not? Shows you how much room there is to play with, given how relatively little we've actually seen of *an entire planet* on screen.

And if they wanted Boba Fett to have a life change, then establish a clear delineation between his OT persona and his new ongoing persona. It's that simple! Acknowledge the OT Fett by making it clear that who he *was* is dramatically different than who he now *is* post-Sarlacc. Instead, the OT Fett traits and context, which had been abundantly obvious for decades, are ignored as if it's essentially the same guy.

It's downright laughable to think of a guy wearing Wookiee-scalp trophies and disintegrating targets being a mostly kindhearted, but conflicted man who does things like apologize for an unintentional "keep an eye out" pun.

 

[ajp4mgs]

Now that we have more context of who he is on this show I can't help but wonder what this scene on the upcoming figure box art is meant to depict. Is he offering his gun to Fennec because it is getting too heavy?

Maybe he's merely pointing out to her where his manhood was lost. "Over there... in the Sarlacc."

 

[The Buffinator]

Now that we have more context of who he is on this show I can't help but wonder what this scene on the upcoming figure box art is meant to depict. Is he offering his gun to Fennec because it is getting too heavy?

Maybe he's merely pointing out to her where his manhood was lost. "Over there... in the Sarlacc."

Or he's asking her to refill it with water - it's not like he can be trusted with a real blaster.

 

[Khev]

In the early 80's, there were only two evil droids from the movies: IG-88 and 8D8 -- mech scourges, cruel and unreasonable, they killed and tortured for 'pleasure'...

Now, years later, Disney has softened them both up into babysitters. Yes, 8D8 is also a babysitter of a kind.

Torture Droid 8D8 was even mindful of Fett's potentially hurt feelings over mentioning Jabba, lol.