Vagabond Elf
Well-Known Member
IF, and that's a big IF, Lucasfilm had good writers, they could fix the previous show by saying Boba Fett was still weak from being in the Sarlaac. Of course that begs why he was so awesome in The Mandalorian, then was weak again, but I digress. They need to stop worrying about whether Boba will out bad*ss the other characters and make him how he's supposed to be. They did it to Boba so Din would look tougher, and then did Din dirty by doing the same thing to prop up Bo-Katan. EVERY Mando, woman or man, can fight like that so it was extremely silly especially coming from a self proclaimed SW expert (Filoni).
Of course what we will probably get is 10% Boba and 90% the hipster scooter gang.
I dunno, personally I liked how they portrayed Boba. ( I've actually watched the whole series three times now, which is a lot for me these days.) I got a strong "I'm not some dumb kid full of hormones and I'm not some indoctrinated cultist, I'm all grown up and tired of fighting but I can if I have to." Sort of an "Unforgiven in Space" vibe. So a little less of "he can't fight" and a little more of "he doesn't want to fight." Because I feel like he was pretty dang badass in BOBF in the non-flashback bits when he chose to be.
The low-speed-chase is hilarious to me, massive shades of O.J. Simpson in it. But I get why it's not popular.
No, to me the problem is the ending. It just didn't have enough time to properly pay it all off. We didn't need Grogu in BOBF. The Din Djarin crossover was really cool but it could've been done without Grogu. Moving the whole "let's go get Grogu back from Luke" sequence into Mando Season 3 and using the runtime there to make an ending that isn't just a bad rehash of Desperado meets the Magnificent Seven would have produced something that was a solid story about how eventually, we all want to just settle down and live our lives.
But that's not what we got, and I personally put the blame for that on the way uberplot elements that were supposed to be in Rangers got shifted to Mando S03. I'm confident that the reason the "go get Grogu" stuff ended up in BOBF was to make some time in Mando for things that were supposed to be in Rangers. Of course, what I wanted to get isn't the same-old-thing that a lot of SW fans were so eager for (I'm not suggesting you personally, Sluis Van! Just saying that the general internet noise wasn't interested in any kind of complicated storytelling about Boba) so I dunno if a proper ending would have brought them around.
In any case, I suspect that post-strike "everything is FUBAR" effects, coupled with the generally underwhelmed reaction to BOBF, and with the story at *an* ending even if it's not an awesome one, means that there won't be any more BOBF.