The Book of Boba Fett

[Grievous]

" I'm out of it for a little while and everybody gets delusions of grandeur"

Mottrex

www.therpf.com

made me think of something.

One of my favorite movies of all time...starring the guy who everybody says Boba was like in the OT...a guy that Timothy Olyphant represented pretty well. He Needs no introduction at all but do you remember how this movie went?


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Love that movie- the fuel to anger fire comment very appropriate for that movie as well. I’m sure Boba will extract revenge. Maybe I would like a bit more Jason Bourne and a little less Jason Bateman but there is time. The inconsistency of these episodes is a bit maddening. Not every episode should make you drop your jaw but three was less than meh. Also, the Tuskens have been fridged-see below.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

The Sons of Fett biker gang…

 

[squirk]

Several days ago, one of our members (I can’t recall who, my apologies) was hoping that we would see Boba was 10 steps ahead of everyone in the end. That may happen eventually, but right now it is one of my biggest issues to see him wandering around getting played by everyone. In TESB, he KNEW where Han was going to be and found him immediately. Right now he is wandering from place to place and anticipating NOTHING. The Pykes tell him about the biker gang and he says he will take care of it. Dum de dum, riding my Bantha slowly back to my Tusken friends…Oh dang, what happened here? Didn’t see that coming. The traps are right in front of him (Rancor, biker gang being set up, Hutts) and I’m sure there will be a plot twist or traitor but he seems awfully oblivious to the dangers around him. Either that or incompetent, which is more infuriating, actually.

That was me, and yeah, it really does seem like he’s coming off as naïve and gullible.

I’m really hoping it’s some kind of fake-out, and in the end, we will indeed discover he was playing next-level chess and no one realized it.

 

[Mottrex]

So you think the rancor is a trap?

Admiral Akbar where are you when we need you

 

[CopperRevan]

Love that movie- the fuel to anger fire comment very appropriate for that movie as well. I’m sure Boba will extract revenge. Maybe I would like a bit more Jason Bourne and a little less Jason Bateman but there is time. The inconsistency of these episodes is a bit maddening. Not every episode should make you drop your jaw but three was less than meh. Also, the Tuskens have been fridged-see below.View attachment 1533430

There is a specific Tusken missing too. I've battled back and forth in my mind who it is. If she is a true tusken she may have been captured to lure Boba in for another trap, possibly for a ransom, idk. I believe she isn't a real Tusken. It's not a far stretch . Notice, the group that gets killed all have masks on...you can't verify either way who or what they are. You aren't gonna see Boba collect DNA to prove it. Have we addressed the fact in his lizard trip he sees Jawa eyes everywhere and in the end credit art

 

[Mottrex]

Also, the Hutts litter carriers are crazy fast. They show up at Jabba’s palace in a heartbeat after the assassination attempt. Not even breathing hard-impressive.

Maybe they have a Peleton subscription and are Super fit!

 

[Mottrex]

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to be fair..he's half naked in a bathtub without his armor...he's not a Jedi for crying out loud....lol

Maybe he Slipped on the Sloap!..


He was being thrown all over the shop!

 

[Grievous]

I love it when you step back a second and realize what you just wrote. Did I just say “Not exactly Nick Nolte teaching Din to ride a Blurg”?! These things don’t generally come up in casual conversation- and if they do, the person I’m talking to will politely excuse themselves. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and insights on the RPF!

 

[Joek3rr]

I understand the complaints about Boba's changing character. This is who we fell in love with.

Not this.

I get that. The character has changed. And we don't like the change. It's not who we fell in love with. But as wise mother once said to her son. "You can't stop the change anymore then you can stop the setting of the suns". Boba has changed. The bounty hunter, who is only a bounty hunter because he was the clone son of bounty hunter, got smacked into the Sarlacc by a blind dude. When he got out, his legacy, who he is, was stripped off of him by a bunch of desert rodents. He was taken prisoner by Tuskens, until he won their respect, and now his new tribe, has been slaughtered....

We are sum of our expenses. And Boba has recently gone through some life changing experiences. He has new perspective. And he's trying to figure out what to do with that new perspective. He's changed. That's actually just some good writing. He should change. But it's tough for us to see the change. Particularly with The Mandalorian around. Yeah, he's almost more like Boba Fett, then Boba Fett. But even he is changing. He's befriended a Droid, he's removed his helmet. He's changing too.

 

[kalkamel]

 

[joberg]

" I'm out of it for a little while and everybody gets delusions of grandeur"

Mottrex

www.therpf.com

made me think of something.

One of my favorite movies of all time...starring the guy who everybody says Boba was like in the OT...a guy that Timothy Olyphant represented pretty well. He Needs no introduction at all but do you remember how this movie went?


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It's not "Delusions of Grandeur" but "Illusions of Grandeur"

 

[CopperRevan]

It's not "Delusions of Grandeur" but "Illusions of Grandeur"

Then "Allusions of grandeur" as well

 

[Mottrex]

Notice, the group that gets killed all have masks on...you can't verify either way who or what they are.

The sneaky Buggers!
They killed that Speederbike Clan and swapped their garb!

 

[Riceball]

I have absolutely no facts with which to back up the following assertion, but I’ve often wondered if young George interacted with his young actors differently in 1976 than old George did in 2001. In ‘76, he was “George Lucas,” with one hit film and one artsy indie sci-fi film under his belt, and not that much older than Hamill and Fisher (and actually younger than Ford).

Contrast that with 2001. He’s now “GEORGE LUCAS,” a true mogul and an instantly-recognizable part of Western culture. He’s been around the block, maybe feeling himself a bit more nowadays, and is much older than his two principal leads.

Did he feel less inclined to collaborate with the “kids” in ‘01 than he may have in ‘76? Was he more willing to accept and play with feedback from his young actors in ANH than he was in AOTC, where he might have been more inclined to just tell Portman and Christiansen “this is what I need you to do”? And were Portman/Christiansen perhaps so awed and even intimidated by working with GL whereby they just “did as they were told,” vs. pushing back on the crap dialogue?

Also, I’m going to throw in Ian McDiarmid there as another PT actor who could spin straw into gold. Once he became the Emperor, there was some pretty goofy scenery-chewing, but up until then, some really great work.

To add to that, George was still relatively fresh from film school and had directed two big movies previously before taking on ANH. Fast forward a couple of decades and he decides to do the Prequels but during the time between Jedi and The Phantom Menace he hasn't directed anything of note. So not only has developed this rep and the people around him are too in awe of him to tell him when he has a bad idea or doing something wrong, but he's also rusty as hell and probably has forgotten a lot about how to direct as well.

 

[Riceball]

When 4 teenage power rangers have to bail you out… you know your not crime lord material…

I'd argue the opposite. Granted that I did not like the space Vespa gang, I had no problems with how Boba used them. What he did was very crimelord like, instead of doing all of the dirty work himself, he sent his minions to do it for him.

 

[Wolfsburg]

Change isn’t bad in and of itself but it’s more than that. What has he changed into? It goes beyond him becoming a “kinder and gentler” Fett.

Whether he was ever this or not, I think fans at least want a guy that is clever and cunning, cold and efficient. A guy a few steps ahead of the game. The guy we’ve got can’t seem to do much without his handlers and helpers and seems to need everything explained to him. He seems to be constantly on the defensive and off-balance, merely reacting. Even in regard to fighting prowess, he seems clumsy and has been beaten up in the majority of the fight scenes we’ve seen in the show, outside of Tosche Station. I don’t think his fans wanted to see Fett in that way. He seems to have a shocking ignorance of how the underworld works, for having been neck deep in it for decades at this point. Is he senile? Is something wrong with him? If that’s an intentional plot point, I can more readily accept this but otherwise, it’s odd. If he’s been “dumbed and watered down” just for the sake of introducing some shoehorned character arc, that doesn’t really work for me.

Also, I totally thought the rancor was some sort of trick. Maybe it had a bomb in its belly. Actually, for a second, I thought we were gonna see something shocking and horrifying when the Twins said they had a “gift” for him. Like the mutilated corpse of someone we knew or somesuch. Seems more Huttlike but not very Disney.

 

[Riceball]

That alien race has great stamina

Which race, there were multiple races carrying the litter, at least 2 that I could see.

 

[squirk]

Notice, the group that gets killed all have masks on...you can't verify either way who or what they are. You aren't gonna see Boba collect DNA to prove it. Have we addressed the fact in his lizard trip he sees Jawa eyes everywhere and in the end credit art

I'm not sure I am following you. Are you saying the Jawas attacked the tribe, or were working with the swoop gang and/or the Pykes?

Or are you saying that the Tuskens killed the swoop gang, swapped clothes to make it look like the Tuskens were killed, and went back into hiding, possibly with the Jawas?

If so, what did the Tuskens use for new rebreathers if they left them on the dead Nikto?

 

[CopperRevan]

The sneaky Buggers!
They killed that Speederbike Clan and swapped their garb!

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I aint pickin up what cher puttin down...lol

i didn't say that...but let's be real...anybody can get a can of rustoluem flat black and make symbols on a hut..lol

 

[Riceball]

Also, I totally thought the rancor was some sort of trick. Maybe it had a bomb in it’s belly. Actually, for a second, I thought we were gonna see something shocking and horrifying when the Twins said they had a “gift” for him. Like the mutilated corpse of someone we knew or somesuch. Seems more Huttlike but not very Disney.

If they had done that then they would have gotten a bunch of angry tweets from PETA.