The Book of Boba Fett

[Usagi Pilgrim]

Boba said years..I dont remember five mentioned but about to rewatch it..
The Tuscan kid died though? (Assuming he did)
They are a bit free and easy with the dialogue..thats the problems with Flashbacks.
Is it linear or just his synapse firing all over the place..
But by what we saw are we to imagine he was asleep in the Sarlaac for years..The Sailbarge was still smouldering in ep 1 I thought ?


Ooh this Ep is certainly a divisive one dividing the Thread posts today..

My personal view was this...

(SPOILERY RECAP)




He was in the Sarlacc, maybe, anywhere from a few hours to a day. He spent the majority of those 5+years with the Tuskens. They get slaughtered & he spends a fair amount of time, just him & the Bantha, based on what he said when he released it. During that time of just the 2 of them, he begins planning revenge, but doesn't feel like assaulting the Palace alone, so he keeps checking back, looking for an opportunity. He rescues Fennec, recognizes her skill, & decides that now's the time. He gets his ship as step one, with step two being getting his armor. That leads to the side quest that was Mando season 2. He goes back & kills Bib with the idea of taking over, & the show is giving us what he goes through to get where he wants to be. That is, assuming what he really wants is to be the head of a crime family, which I'm not totally convinced of.

 

[squirk]

I agree to a point regarding the episodes pacing & length, but I told myself that this is INDEED chapters in an overall story. We're so used to traditional TV, where every episode had to tell a act story. If it didn't, ratings would fall & there's a chance of cancellation. These D+ shows, including the MARVEL ones, sometimes so away with that to use an episode to just give another piece of the puzzle. That's just how I'm personally looking at them, with the idea that I'll judge the whole.

I hear what you are saying, and I agree. It is quite fun when you feel like the story is leading you down a trail but you have no idea where. It's even more fun when a story is leading you down a trail and you don't even realize you were being led anywhere until the very end.

The intentional vagueness, the deliberate gaps, are all well and good. For example, when Fennec noted that it was unlikely that a swoop gang took out an entire Tusken tribe, that was a clear indication that another shoe was going to drop in that regard.

So I am willing to see how Favreau/Rodriguez pull it all together in the end (or what things they deliberately leave open-ended). And maybe we'll get explanations as to how BK got to Boba undetected, why the Hutts allowed Bib to usurp even a piece of Jabba's territory for so long, why Boba decided to summarily execute Bib when he (Boba) treats literally everyone else a little more even-handedly, why we never saw any sign of the Warrior Woman at the site of the slaughter, etc.

But I willl not be 100% surprised if the season ends and we will still be scratching our heads about one or more of these things, meaning it was just sloppy writing after all.

 

[CopperRevan]

Missed it... Do share.

Spoiler: Spoiler

when Boba approached the droid cook and he started spinning his utensils like Greivious did the lightsabers against Kenobi

 

[CadetTK2386]

I’m serious I’m done..

You can 100% tell this was written from the hip.. now they have a timing issue… 5 years passed and the tusken kid never aged..

I don’t even have the effort anymore, let it burn

But, nowhere do they explicitly state that Boba was with the Tuskens for the entire 5 years before they died and he went off on his own, found Fennec, and then got back Slave 1. The timeline is being left a little open to interpretation, but, I think that's more of a "Show, Don't Tell" thing and allowing the audience to still have some room for imagination into what happened.

We see Boba get taken by the Sand People, we see him transition from prisoner, to Friend, to Guide, to Member of the Tribe, to trusted aide to the Chief in dealing with the Outlanders. I assume that is over the course of at most two years, but maybe only one, or several months. After their slaughter he goes Nomad, which is where I think we are meant to believe he spends most of his time.

Spoiler

We see him looking at Jabba's palace and say "Still too many guards." Implying he has been checking multiple times in hopes he would catch them understaffed or Bib would fail and the palace would be abandoned. When he frees the Bantha he calls her "Old Girl" and implies they have spent a lot of time together, just the two of them. He tells Fennec the Tuskens took him in and taught him he needed a Tribe to make it, but it's not like he says "The Tuskens took me in for the past 5 years."

Plus, how do we know that Tuskens age, mature, and grow at the same rate as Humans? Look at Grogu, 50 years old and still with the attitude and behavior of a toddler.

I'm just saying, if you want to stop watching the show because of pacing or writing or characterizations, I understand and respect that, but would still urge you to circle back around in a bit after the show has wrapped and you can binge it. But to give up because of a possible misunderstanding on the Timeline?

 

[squirk]

Boba said years..I dont remember five mentioned but about to rewatch it..
The Tuscan kid died though? (Assuming he did)
They are a bit free and easy with the dialogue..thats the problems with Flashbacks.
Is it linear or just his synapse firing all over the place..
But by what we saw are we to imagine he was asleep in the Sarlaac for years..The Sailbarge was still smouldering in ep 1 I thought ?


Ooh this Ep is certainly a divisive one dividing the Thread posts today..

I think Boba tossing the kid's training gaffi into the pyre was supposed to telegraph that the kid was dead. Still, that pile of bodies didn't seem large enough to be the whole tribe. And it's weird that they showed the Chieftan, and made an allusion to the Kid, but absolutely nothing about the Warrior Woman.

And I don't think he could have been in the Sarlacc for years. The armor doesn't cover every square inch of his body, and today's ep showed that a few hours of spelunking inside a dead Sarlacc was still enough to start eating away at his robes and skin.

 

[Usagi Pilgrim]

I hear what you are saying, and I agree. It is quite fun when you feel like the story is leading you down a trail but you have no idea where. It's even more fun when a story is leading you down a trail and you don't even realize you were being led anywhere until the very end.

The intentional vagueness, the deliberate gaps, are all well and good. For example, when Fennec noted that it was unlikely that a swoop gang took out an entire Tusken tribe, that was a clear indication that another shoe was going to drop in that regard.

So I am willing to see how Favreau/Rodriguez pull it all together in the end (or what things they deliberately leave open-ended). And maybe we'll get explanations as to how BK got to Boba undetected, why the Hutts allowed Bib to usurp even a piece of Jabba's territory for so long, why Boba decided to summarily execute Bib when he (Boba) treats literally everyone else a little more even-handedly, etc. But I willl not be 100% surprised if the season ends and we will still be scratching our heads about one or more of these things, meaning it was just sloppy writing.

Agree 100%, but I think some of those points, in my mind anyways, have been answered.

I think either BK just came in through a window in the bedroom, since he's a Wookie & can probably climb like no one's business, or it's just visual shorthand to show that he's skilled.

As Boba said, he thinks he was betrayed, therefore, no discussion.

I'm thinking that since we're dealing with the direct aftermath of the fall of the Empire, & the establishment of the New Republic, I think a lot of the crime syndicates probably laid a bit low to see who was going to win out & then what was going to be allowed. The Hurts just let Bib be a placeholder so they didn't have to move or give up anything. When the dust settled, they could just take it back, but Boba arriving & laying claim made them HAVE to make a move.

 

[Wolfsburg]

We know he wasn’t in the sarlacc for years because Cobb Vanth got his armor shortly after the DSII blew up.

 

[Treadwell]

See, I read that totally different. Trandoshans and Wookiees hate each other, due to the Trandoshans’ history of capturing Wookiees and selling them into slavery.

They haven't established that in the show though, have they?

 

[CopperRevan]

It was a good thing Fennec knew that by deploying that bomb that it would actually fall into the pit and not on top of the sand because....well, the show would have been over then and....well, we wouldn't have to worry about the name of the ship anymore

 

[Treadwell]

these are just nitpicks:

Who designs a cockpit where your big bad bomb button is unreachable when you're in harness?

Who designs a stealth drone that has super bright LEDs giving it away?

 

[CadetTK2386]

They haven't established that in the show though, have they?

Dokk Strassi gave Boba a Wookiee pelt as tribute in the first episode.

 

[squirk]

They haven't established that in the show though, have they?

Dokk Strassi gave Boba a Wookiee pelt as tribute in the first episode.

He did. And the slaver angle was already established in The Clone Wars. I'd have to go back and watch that story arc with Ahsoka and Chewbacca, but I am pretty sure there were references to Trandoshans targeting Wookiees specifically.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

these are just nitpicks:

Who designs a cockpit where your big bad bomb button is unreachable when you're in harness?

Who designs a stealth drone that has super bright LEDs giving it away?

Action adventure writers are the worst cockpit designers.

Then again, we need the drama.

 

[Mottrex]

First you're talking "circles being complete" now you say"dividing" ....Are you trying to teach Geometry ?lol

Trig next...

 

[CopperRevan]

Trig next...

No...i'll stick with Geometry, thank you very much

 

[Riceball]

i should've figured someone would but i applauded Boba for resisting the wink of those beautiful eye's

Beautiful eye's what?

 

[Mottrex]

My personal view was this...

(SPOILERY RECAP)




He was in the Sarlacc, maybe, anywhere from a few hours to a day. He spent the majority of those 5+years with the Tuskens. They get slaughtered & he spends a fair amount of time, just him & the Bantha, based on what he said when he released it. During that time of just the 2 of them, he begins planning revenge, but doesn't feel like assaulting the Palace alone, so he keeps checking back, looking for an opportunity. He rescues Fennec, recognizes her skill, & decides that now's the time. He gets his ship as step one, with step two being getting his armor. That leads to the side quest that was Mando season 2. He goes back & kills Bib with the idea of taking over, & the show is giving us what he goes through to get where he wants to be. That is, assuming what he really wants is to be the head of a crime family, which I'm not totally convinced of.

You know that sounds spot on...
Contact Disney and ask if you can sum up the...oh hang on instead of a recap.

What we really need is the SW opening scrawl..it could explain so much and tie in with a SW vibe!

 

[Mottrex]

We know he wasn’t in the sarlacc for years because Cobb Vanth got his armor shortly after the DSII blew up.

I am sure Timothy Olyphant was seen on set..unless it was for Mando ?

 

[Mottrex]

No...i'll stick with Geometry, thank you very much

There goes my next set of Gifs down the pan

 

[Mottrex]

Beautiful eye's what?

Its a Garsa thang...