The Book of Boba Fett

Episode 5 and the fan response is definite evidence that if there's actual decent content the majority will respond positively.

I watched it again and still really enjoyed it, totally holds up. Minus the crazy cat lady mechanic lol but the N1 was great. Always liked those. Would be interesting if it turned out to be the same one Anakin flew in TPM. But that would be a stretch, what would it be doing on Tatooine? So maybe not lol.
It's not the same N-1. Someone compared the writing on the side of the cockpit and compared it to Annie's and they didn't match.
 
I liked that episode a lot!

Some of the iconography was used in really huge brush strokes and felt a bit "on the nose", i.e. the slaughterhouse set for all the mayhem, the Terminator 2 - aesthetics shot of the destruction of Mandalore. Seeing the Treadwell Droid and R5-D4 again and that little Droid from the videogame was fun, love the mechanic as a character, the banter with the Jawas , loads of entertaining fanservice.

And of course I liked the reintroduction of the N-! starfigther. Seeing the pimped version outrunning the X-Wings was neat. I thought to myself "see, George, everybody likes you, and I bet that Hot Rod Spacefighter made you smile a little. We all still love you.".

It was one of those episodes that feel kinda comforting, like slipping into comfy, worn out slippers after coming home. Just the thing that I need at the moment in these crazy times.
 
I wonder if it does match any of the ships seen in TPM.
I don't know if they ever showed a close up of the cockpit from the outside of any other N-1. If they did, it would be a matter of comparing screen shots to find out if it's a match.
 
Seems like in all the excitement, everyone's forgotten about Boba.
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The starship formerly known as Slave 1…annnnd the bounty hunter formerly known as Boba Fett.
The real Boba Fett is still out there in his all-green armor, with an EE-3 with no ribbed barrel shroud, with a sidearm blaster pistol in a hip holster, with an orange shoulder cape, and flying around in Slave I. Fauxba Fett, here on Tatooine, has forged provenance in counterfeit armor and helmet, and is flying around in another Firespray-class system-patrol craft that he hasn't been able to copy Slave I's transponder for.

That's still my headcanon and I'm sticking with it.
 
It's funny, how we all loved this latest episode. But Din Djarin has horribly regressed as character. His returned to his uber violent ways. Heck even more violent. Using a sacred sword for bounty hunting......Grogu was his moral compass. Without him, Din is very lost.
Do you think he sees the sword as sacred or just another weapon? (I know it was explained to him in the last Mandalorian season but do you think he truly understands how sacred it is?)
 
Listen to the conversation between the Armorer and Mando...it's crystal clear. She knows exactly the where, why, when and who of Din Djarin. She's forseen it....somehow. She gave all of us obvious clues as to which direction Mando is taking. I mean, seriously...she talks about a former Mand'alore being a mandalorian and Jedi at the same time...makes Mando verbally attest to the fact that the two creeds are opposite(Yet it was okay for a former Mand'alore to actually be a Jedi)...tells him beskar can't be used for a weapon, just armor(everyone points out the hypocrisy of the whistling birds...it's not hypocrisy) why? because the Darksaber is made of Beskar and she hands it to him and says it's more fitting for him. She knows the creed perfectly and is testing Mando's Metal( where his leaning is) BTW, after the fact he was told he was no longer a Mandalorian, he goes to get on the ship , has to surrender his weapons and still states, "I'm a Mandalorian...weapons are a part of my religion". I'll be shocked if he doesn't end up as a Mandalorian Jedi who becomes Mand'alore and unites his people with a new ideology.
 
It's funny, how we all loved this latest episode. But Din Djarin has horribly regressed as character. His returned to his uber violent ways. Heck even more violent. Using a sacred sword for bounty hunting......Grogu was his moral compass. Without him, Din is very lost.

I was shocked when he needlessly hacked that bounty in half with the saber, and then decapitated his corpse (albeit off screen)! I loved it but that’s the kind of edgy stuff I’d have expected Fett to do. Shocking moments like that are certainly welcomed by me regardless. In many ways Din is an excellent proxy to how I imagined Fett would be.
 
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