Running Book of Boba Fett Thread

[Octave]

Let's hear it.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

I was kinda underwhelmed but the first episode. It wasn’t bad. But a lot of scene setting.

 

[outofplace]

I feel the same way. It isn't as good as The Mandalorian, which started strong and got even better in the second half of its second season, but maybe it just needs time to hit its stride. The episode had one big highlight for me, which I don't want to spoil here.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

I’ve watched two episodes…I feel it would seem better if viewers hadn’t experienced how amazing The Mandalorian was.

I do enjoy the idea that we are seeing a lot of scenes through Fett’s eyes and ears. He doesn’t know what the hell is happening and neither does the viewer. There is no person explaining the story to us and him.

 

[JRoyal]

This definitely isn't what most fans wanted from a Boba Fett show. I think a lot of folks would've preferred something that delved deeper into his past and wasn't all post-sarlacc. Maybe some of that is coming later. They've done that stuff in the Legends canon, but a lot of folks only follow the movies and TV shows, and all the Legends stuff was thrown out anyhow.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

It’s not what Drew Magary wanted:

'The Book of Boba Fett' premiere is an abysmal failure on every level

 

[Octave]

No pleasing a miserable **** stain who thinks everything in life sucks.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I haven't missed Magary or any of his asshole buddies at their new pay site. Their sneering contempt for everything is tiresome.

 

[Octave]

I also think the greatness of The Mandalorian does this show no favors. Those artists set the bar pretty high. Would be hard even for Lawrence Kasdan, in his prime, to reach.

As I was telling my kid the other day, the Iggy scenes alone from Mando are better than anything from The Rise of Skywalker.

Those scenes charmed my nerdly heart.

 

[Key]

I dont know, I just cant help but sit back and enjoy the ride. I thought this episode was pretty entertaining as long as you dont think too much.

However, the chase scene didnt do it for me. Just didnt seem like any of the vehicles were moving very fast.

 

[outofplace]

I dont know, I just cant help but sit back and enjoy the ride. I thought this episode was pretty entertaining as long as you dont think too much.

However, the chase scene didnt do it for me. Just didnt seem like any of the vehicles were moving very fast.

I had the same thought. Also, is it me, or is the Boba Fett too...polite? It's annoying.

The little teaser at the end of the fourth episode gave me hope that things are about to get better.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

I’m not a big fan, so I’m coming at it from a normie’s perspective. I thought it was enjoyable, although I’ll agree with the earlier comment that he seems too nice for his position. Looking forward to the other episodes.

 

[User 150927]

It's OK. The biggest problem I see is that Boba Fett just isn't all that. He's not particularly handsome, big, intimidating, ferocious, menacing.... he's not larger than life. He's just a guy. Sometimes, the time jump is a bit confusing. Not often, but occasionally.

 

[outofplace]

It's OK. The biggest problem I see is that Boba Fett just isn't all that. He's not particularly handsome, big, intimidating, ferocious, menacing.... he's not larger than life. He's just a guy. Sometimes, the time jump is a bit confusing. Not often, but occasionally.

He was better in small doses. Despite an end that seemed to be played for laughs, having Han Solo accidentally knock him into the Sarlaac pit, he was still somehow seen as this badass character. He actually lived up to that in The Mandalorian, but that hasn't been the case in his own series.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Get ready for an unexpected treat.

 

[outofplace]

Get ready for an unexpected treat.

That was a fun episode, a lot more fun than those that preceded it.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Last episode was great. Of course, it was an episode of a much better series.

I think it’s gotten much better since the first episode. Like it don’t love it. The decision to make Boba “nice” is definitely a script choice. Not sure it completely works because the actor is kind of wooden, going back to the prequel movies.

Some of the dialog, especially lines give to Ming-Na Wen, is a bit stiff too. (And wow, she looks as great as she did 25 years ago on ER).

I still can’t get past the early scene when he escaped the Sarlaac. You have to nail that scene and the special effects were at the level of a high school stage production.

It’ll be interesting to see how it weaves into the expanding Star Wars TV universe.

I have super high hopes for “Obi-Wan Kenobi.”Really hope it delivers.

 

[Starman]

I suppose one angle they'll probably play at some point is that out in the galaxy some 40-50 years earlier, there we're supposed to be hundreds if not thousands of genetically identical clones to Boba Fett.
Now as I understand it, most of those clones (although not Boba himself) were designed with accelerated aging so they could go from test tube to battle ready warriors within 10 years, so many might have died from early aging, and many others were killed in the general warfare of the ensuing years, which explained why the imperial army of the Original Trilogy era was not made up o legions of identical Jango Fett replicas, but you'd think of all those thousands of clones turned out of the Geonosis factories, there'd be a few of them still around to surprisingly drop in on their biological brother.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I liked last week’s episode of The Mandalorian, although I did not need to know that Jawas are furry.

Unfortunately, it made me wonder if they ran out of plot points for The Book of Boba Fett and needed a one-week filler. Granted, this particular story may have been the plan all along once they’d filled in Boba Fett’s recent back story.

It seems more and more like this series came from the mindset, if not the mind, of George Lucas. Good idea, not executed as well as we’d hoped.

New episode Wednesday is written by Jon Favreau (who wrote last week’s episode) and Dave Filoni.

By the way, y’all may remember Boba Fett’s major domo droid from a particular scene in Return Of The Jedi.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Holy ****. Couldn’t sleep. Was up so just decided to watch the new Boba Fett when it dropped at 3 am EST.

Won’t spoil. But damn. Made me feel like a little kid in 1983. And they upped their CGI game.

Looking forward to other reactions.