The Book of Boba Fett

[Wolfsburg]

The fact that the Boba storyline has been mostly mediocre is the bigger problem for me. The loss of these two episodes provides less time to turn his story around.

Totally agree. I remember hearing this would be Mando 2.5 and that the episode internal numbering would continue from Mando season 2 but I thought that'd simply mean we'd follow Fett and whatever his efforts are toward the larger picture, presumably the Thrawn story they're building up to. That was well before I knew Fett would just be on Tatooine the whole time and it would just sort of halfheartedly pursue a weird mobster storyline, heavily interspersed with flashbacks (which turned out to be the most interesting part). That is in addition to Fett being portrayed in such an overall dull, milquetoast way.

 

[Wolfsburg]

Now that you’ve mentioned this is really deals like BoBF episodes 5 and 6 were actually Mando 3.1 and 3.2. You don’t need to know any other Boba stuff for the plot to still work, and Fennec would have just showed up at the end of the first episode to introduce the next side quest.

For whatever reason it seems like they just tacked Boba-centric episodes onto the front of that as an excuse to rename the show.

Honestly when I rewatch all this stuff later I’ll probably just skip BoBF 1.1-1.4

Exactly. I don't mind Mando having a role to play in this but if they wanted to keep it Boba-centric, all they needed to do is have Mando show up on Tatooine to help, at Fett's request. Dedicating entire episodes to Mando getting excommunicated, getting a new ship, and Grogu training with Luke have no relevance to Boba's story at all. All that could be explored in Mando's show.

 

[Halliwax]

i think there is more to it with these injected mando episodes... still think this was them not thinking they would have pedro anymore.. and threw a fett show together and then scored pedro back.. idk... feels wicked weird

 

[Eruonen]

i think there is more to it with these injected mando episodes... still think this was them not thinking they would have pedro anymore.. and threw a fett show together and then scored pedro back.. idk... feels wicked weird

Dude Pedro not coming back would be so sad. I like him

 

[Wolfsburg]

i think there is more to it with these injected mando episodes... still think this was them not thinking they would have pedro anymore.. and threw a fett show together and then scored pedro back.. idk... feels wicked weird

That's for sure!

 

[Halliwax]

Dude Pedro not coming back would be so sad. I like him

i never believed the rumors until we got mando episodes in boba fett

 

[Galactican]

Exactly. I don't mind Mando having a role to play in this but if they wanted to keep it Boba-centric, all they needed to do is have Mando show up on Tatooine to help, at Fett's request. Dedicating entire episodes to Mando getting excommunicated, getting a new ship, and Grogu training with Luke have no relevance to Boba's story at all. All that could be explored in Mando's show.

Indeed. It would have been better to release the last two eps as Mando eps because they are essential for the future of the series. They could have been released as Mando Christmas Special in December and then followed by the Boba series. Even if the final ep of Boba features Mando there would have been enough excitement created by the two Mando eps alone to make the viewers tune in. And if we indeed see a conclusion to the Mando eps in the final Boba ep the whole thing would go full circle and deliver a satisfying whole.

 

[Treadwell]

Has anyone found confirmation that they're still synthesizing Luke's voice, as they did the last time? I mentioned it elsewhere and someone claims Hamill did it this time, and I haven't found convincing documentation either way.

Star Wars: Was Mark Hamill NOT Involved in Luke Skywalker's The Book of Boba Fett Return?

It looks like Mark Hamill didn't have to record new dialogue for The Book of Boba Fett!

epicstream.com

"He further revealed that they managed to use Hamill's voice from archival footage to recreate the younger Luke's voice.

"It's a neural network you feed information into and it learns. So I had archival material from Mark in that era. We had clean recorded ADR from the original films, a book on tape he'd done from those eras, and then also Star Wars radio plays he had done back in that time. I was able to get clean recordings of that, feed it into the system, and they were able to slice it up and feed their neural network to learn this data," Bluff said."

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I'm not sure about that.

Mando episode 12:

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I don’t remember him getting the razor crest repaired on Jaku.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Star Wars: Was Mark Hamill NOT Involved in Luke Skywalker's The Book of Boba Fett Return?

It looks like Mark Hamill didn't have to record new dialogue for The Book of Boba Fett!

epicstream.com

"He further revealed that they managed to use Hamill's voice from archival footage to recreate the younger Luke's voice.

"It's a neural network you feed information into and it learns. So I had archival material from Mark in that era. We had clean recorded ADR from the original films, a book on tape he'd done from those eras, and then also Star Wars radio plays he had done back in that time. I was able to get clean recordings of that, feed it into the system, and they were able to slice it up and feed their neural network to learn this data," Bluff said."

Does this process dictate what the dialog must be?
I'd hate to rope in a writer to selected words and phrases right?

 

[NakedMoleRat]

One day I’m gonna buy a bag of edibles and try to watch TROS again…. I haven’t made it through since having to watch it in the theater a few times*…

*Original time with a rpf member, Dave and his pals… then had to take my dad…. Then my Star Wars buddy I see em all with… then my cousin wanted to go but by then I was like “I CAN’T!!! It’s AWFUL!!!!!”

Now I’ve had some Mando goodness… and my burns have healed a bit. I enjoy a lot of these series but I may never be the same….

I need to return to the scene. I need to understand.

300mg should do it.

TROS. Third Remake Of Stupidity.

 

[Treadwell]

It might also work with phonemes so I imagine it can stitch together parts of words to make new ones. But yeah, it might have trouble with antidisestablishmentarianism.

It's also an insult to Hamill. An AI is not an actor.

This must be why he speaks so slowly. I think the program would have to generate the words separately, and not be able to run them together, as one might naturally, without it sounding like a sped-up disclaimer in a radio car dealership ad.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

His name was in the credit, so he got paid! I wouldn’t be upset at all if they use my face, voice, and paid me not to do anything!

 

[Mottrex]

It might also work with phonemes so I imagine it can stitch together parts of words to make new ones. But yeah, it might have trouble with antidisestablishmentarianism.

It's also an insult to Hamill. An AI is not an actor.

This must be why he speaks so slowly. I think the program would have to generate the words separately, and not be able to run them together, as one might naturally, without it sounding like a sped-up disclaimer in a radio car dealership ad.

It will be interesting to see how they cope with the speed and delivered lines from Han Solo himself HF when he shows up...
I think de aging Chewie

 

[Halliwax]

TROS. Third Remake Of Stupidity.

agree

 

[Elevader]

I’m surprised at some of the stuff that is bugging people here. I guess I‘m just easier to please. I just want good Star Wars in any form and I’ve really enjoyed the last two episodes. So I’m good with that.

Even the earlier episodes were mostly just boring to me. Not a crime against humanity or anything.

 

[ScourgiousJinx]

I guess the question is how much is the sub par SW content really bothering people? Tone is sometimes difficult to convey and some seem to severely overestimate the amount of annoyance that is actually occurring lol. Idk, I guess I can only speak for myself when it comes to that.

 

[Wolfsburg]

Agreed. Other than the Vespa teens/Mod stuff, there hasn't been anything I just hated. For me it all wavers between "just okay to good"... with the non-Fett episodes being pretty great in my book. I just didn't anticipate how uninteresting they'd make Fett himself be.

 

[ScourgiousJinx]

I suppose Yoda or Obi-Wan could've picked up crystals or parts to build more lightsabers when they went back to the Jedi temple to change the coded message in ROTS. We only saw snippets of what happened when they went there.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

If Ella Fitzgerald had married Darth Vader, she would have been Ella Vader.