The Book of Boba Fett

If they introduce Thrawn in live action, they'll also have to bring in Ezra Bridger and Sabine of course, since both of those characters were important to the Rebels animated story. Plus, Ezra disappeared WITH Thrawn, so there's that. :)
Sabine has already been cast for the AHSOKA show, & I believe Lars Mikkelson being cast as live-action Thrawn was the prevailing rumor last summer.
 
So if Din shows up next episode or so with a new ship, without a 'follow the numbers' explanation of where or how he got it, will that be acceptable or just considered more lazy writing?
IMHO, "I" think the getting a new ship could be an engaging plot side quest. While doing whatever he's doing like helping reclaim Mandalore, picking out new linens at Bed, Beskar and Beyond, or whatever. :D Maybe doing bounties to help pay for a new ship to replace the "loaner" he's flying?

I found it interesting that Razorcrest toys for example were still being made right up to the Tragedy episode. Hard to sell toys when you blow up the hero spaceship. :)

The new Haslabs Razorcrest will come with an M-80 firecracker to recreate the pivotal scene in season 2 : Episode 6! Comes with bonus Haslabs special edition ship shrapnel kit!
 
Someone suggested recently (I don't remember who or where) that Boba Fett (or The Mandalorian?) could steal the Millennium Falcon. It goes missing sometime between ROTJ and TFA which is this time period.
I was only discussing this earlier on another forum..
It would help yo tie it into the trilogy...but I guess it would mean whoever had it didn't fair well..or lost it gambling..
 
IMHO, "I" think the getting a new ship could be an engaging plot side quest. While doing whatever he's doing like helping reclaim Mandalore, picking out new linens at Bed, Beskar and Beyond, or whatever. :D Maybe doing bounties to help pay for a new ship to replace the "loaner" he's flying?

I found it interesting that Razorcrest toys for example were still being made right up to the Tragedy episode. Hard to sell toys when you blow up the hero spaceship. :)

The new Haslabs Razorcrest will come with an M-80 firecracker to recreate the pivotal scene in season 2 : Episode 6! Comes with bonus Haslabs special edition ship shrapnel kit!
I guess that's where I'm seeing a lot of disconnect between the fans, for something like getting a ship.

If he shows up with it, like the Razor Crest, some will roll with it, & some will want to know the where's & why's. Then if it's explained or shown, some will say, "Ok, cool. Now I know", & others will rake every bit of it over the coals because they don't like what happens in a story that someone else is telling.

Most seem to enjoy head canon MUCH more that what's presented, which isn't a condemnation. So I was wondering which would be safer, IF the goal is to present a satisfying 'product' instead of just telling a creator's story?
 
I guess that's where I'm seeing a lot of disconnect between the fans, for something like getting a ship.

If he shows up with it, like the Razor Crest, some will roll with it, & some will want to know the where's & why's. Then if it's explained or shown, some will say, "Ok, cool. Now I know", & others will rake every bit of it over the coals because they don't like what happens in a story that someone else is telling.

Most seem to enjoy head canon MUCH more that what's presented, which isn't a condemnation. So I was wondering which would be safer, IF the goal is to present a satisfying 'product' instead of just telling a creator's story?
I think it would beneficial for all of us fans to just admit we are all hypocites. There is so much supposition built into each show and movie that we cherry pick what to use in our discussions. Honestly, i can't stand the argument over "was it seen or said in the movie" or is it deductive reasoning and inferred because the writers change, correct, uproot story lines and character developement all the time. Of course, we as fans, want our cake and eat it too and we aren't wrong for that because let's face it and be truthful...whether it's head canon "believed" or actually seen and heard makes no difference in the spectrum of "intent" and context". Perception, direct or indirect, is reality to the viewers who are paying to see it. We've seen it a million times folks where we banked on what was actually said to lead in a direction we all expected and it doesn't happen. We have all banked on inference and supposition to do the same thing and as Jake Skywalker said, "This isn't going to go the way you think"...lol
 
I guess that's where I'm seeing a lot of disconnect between the fans, for something like getting a ship.

If he shows up with it, like the Razor Crest, some will roll with it, & some will want to know the where's & why's. Then if it's explained or shown, some will say, "Ok, cool. Now I know", & others will rake every bit of it over the coals because they don't like what happens in a story that someone else is telling.

Most seem to enjoy head canon MUCH more that what's presented, which isn't a condemnation. So I was wondering which would be safer, IF the goal is to present a satisfying 'product' instead of just telling a creator's story?
I have to agree. Some claim they aren't bound by the story they created in their heads about these characters over 40 years, and yet feel compelled to rip everything apart. I admit, I'm open to the story and seeing where it goes, but sometimes things are done that make me question reality, like the Vespa gang disconnect with them being clean and "unlived in" while the rest of this setting is worn and gritty.

I didn't have any issue with them being cyborgs, or how they participated in the story (okay, I admit the "fast paced" pursuit seemed... slow, compared with how we've seen speeders in the Original Trilogy, or even an episode earlier. People were off put by the "Western" music in the Mandalorian, and now people like it.

I'm interested in seeing where the BOBF story goes. "Boba seems weak." I hear the complaint, but now that he's out of the Bacta, maybe we'll see him kicking butt and taking names... in the name of profit of course. Or revenge. Even though he killed the swoop gang, we don't learn who was behind them, other than the Pykes paying them "protection" money.

I thought an opportunity was missed when Boba just wiped the gang out, rather than landing (after blowing the most of them up) and interrogating one of them. But I'm not the showrunner. :) There's still mysteries to be revealed, and aliens to blast.

The "safe" bet is to crank out product that takes no risks. Everybody has seen in 5 minutes of screen time over 3 films, that Boba "looks" like a badass. It would have been safe to show him regain his armor and go on a bounty hunting rampage and be the Vin Diesel-action Hero of Star Wars. They took a risk by not following the action hero cliche, and have given him unexpected depth and a different way of looking/doing things.

It wasn't expected, and wasn't safe, but it is interesting at least to me. It's not perfect storytelling (or continuity/editing at times) but it is interesting and provides a twist on what's expected.

Sorry, I just realized I wrote a novella-rant. :D
 
good points i just don't want it to be like TLJ where everything has to be an unexpected twist...let's get some balance back to the force...lol
 
For the show itself, I predict the muscle to show up. That's a pretty safe bet, but after, I guarantee a level of pissing & moaning not heard since the last time a 13-year-old girl was taken on a device-free vacation with her family & she had to sleep between her little brother who wets the bed & her grandma.

Anybody want to bet?

LOL


I'm only kidding.




.. I don't gamble.
To be fair. I’d be pretty cranky too if my little brother wet the bed and his grandma.
 
I'll be curious about this now...

There seems to be some division as far as 'backstory' goes in SW.

Some don't like it when, say, in SOLO, you see Han get almost every item he owns in the OT, his name, ship, friend, etc.

Then some don't like when story elements are left to the imagination, like how Maz got Luke's saber, or Palpatine returns.

So if Din shows up next episode or so with a new ship, without a 'follow the numbers' explanation of where or how he got it, will that be acceptable or just considered more lazy writing?
Yes but you're drawing a false equivalence between the examples you mention. Han's blaster didn't advance the plot of SW '77. He had one, yes, but it was in no way a mcguffin. So who cares where he got it.

Luke's saber was absolutely used to advance the plot of TFA, and was a mcguffin. To wave away the explanation of why Maz had it as if it shouldn't matter is lazy writing.

So no, I don't think we SW fans are hypocrites. We're just appropriately discerning as to which story elements lend themselves to explanation, vs. those that don't.
 
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Yes but you're drawing a false equivalence between the examples you mention. Han's blaster didn't advance the plot of SW '77. He had one, yes, but it was in no way a mcguffin. So who cares where he got it.

Luke's saber was absolutely used to advance the plot of TFA, and was a mcguffin. To wave away the explanation of why Maz had it as if it shouldn't matter is lazy writing.

So no, I don't think we SW fans are hypocrites. We're just appropriately discerning as to which story elements lend themselves to explanation, vs. those that don't.
I gotcha, but your last point about being appropriately discerning was what my question was referring to.

Both my examples were answered in either a comic or some ancillary material that has come out after the films. The valid point has been made that one shouldn't have to read EVERYTHING SW related to understand the plot of a movie, but with the lightsaber example, going all the way back to Joseph Campbell, we don't need to know HOW Excalibur got in the stone to get the Arthur legend.

With Palpatine returning, to me & in my opinion alone, the guy was a Sith, he had been manipulating cloners for years, he said his Master had known how to create life & that he & Vader were going to study how together, & said the line about how the Dark Side being the path to things "unnatural". Combine all that with the 'energy' or whatever was released when he died & although I DID NOT LIKE TROS, I didn't feel like I had to be walked step by step as to HOW it could've happened.

(both explanations have been derided since they've come out as well)

I know the meme of Poe saying "Somehow, Palpatine has returned" or whatever he actually said, is used as an example of bad writing, but from that moment in the story, all her knew was that he was back & would've had no idea how, so I thought it fit.

Anyways, I'm not trying to defend a movie I didn't like or debate the merits of the ST, I was just wondering as a fan of this particular franchise, knowing that probably every possible story will be mined at some point, do fans prefer to have EVERYTHING eventually told, with the very real possibility of being disappointed, or do we like using our imagination?
 
Yes but you're drawing a false equivalence between the examples you mention. Han's blaster didn't advance the plot of SW '77. He had one, yes, but it was in no way a mcguffin. So who cares where he got it.

Luke's saber was absolutely used to advance the plot of TFA, and was a mcguffin. To wave away the explanation of why Maz had it as if it shouldn't matter is lazy writing.

So no, I don't think we SW fans are hypocrites. We're just appropriately discerning as to which story elements lend themselves to explanation, vs. those that don't.
So, is Boba himself one of those story elements that need explanation or not? This is rhetorical of course because everything about him lends to the advance of the plot...the armor, his ship, taking his helmet off or not. Because it's "his book" the audience wants explanation. Deep down we all use imagination and supposition and we want both to work in our advantage all the time, which really is what film makers and storytellers are expecting the audience to do to some level. When it doesn't fit our requirements we point the finger. When it fits we cling to the canon, but ignore all the other problems that exist that we are okay excusing. We are all guilty of it so, we should get off our high horse. We strain at a gnat and swallow a camel as long as it fits our "vision" of what we "wanted" it to be. Usagi Pilgrim proposes a great question here...
 
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I've said it twice, now thrice. No one(or place) is ever really gone. Cloners are shifty shady secret little bastards. You know they have back ups of their back ups somewhere.
:lol: And it is true, we saw the Kaminoan (sp?) "cloning city" destroyed, who knows if other cities don't exist. But also having said that, just because other cities exist, it doesn't mean they're also a cloning center. But "anything is possible" in fiction. Heck, dead, dead characters in Marvel comics/media (as opposed to mostly dead...) still keep getting resurrected through technicalities. And like you said, who knows, maybe Taun We took her work home on the weekend and had her own server in another city? :)
 
My son wanted to watch TFA ...after much deliberations i gave in...lol. While watching(suffering) through it i noticed a line that stuck out to me that never has raised an eyebrow(Thanks to TBOBF).

Rey , after just meeting Han Solo goes, "you're Han Solo"

Han replies, "I used to be".

You see, they already set a precedent for Boba Fett.

Boba: "I am Boba Fett"
Robot Rat Catcher: "You used to be" lol...just kidding

I personally believe He is(will be) the same Boba (we thought he was)we think he is..lol
 
:lol: And it is true, we saw the Kaminoan (sp?) "cloning city" destroyed, who knows if other cities don't exist. But also having said that, just because other cities exist, it doesn't mean they're also a cloning center. But "anything is possible" in fiction. Heck, dead, dead characters in Marvel comics/media (as opposed to mostly dead...) still keep getting resurrected through technicalities. And like you said, who knows, maybe Taun We took her work home on the weekend and had her own server in another city? :)
Kamino-oians maybe cloned the planet, or maybe even the galaxy, they cloned reality, they creatied the multiverse. It's all their fault.
 
You know what would be interesting...
For Boba to say "This isn't worth All the hassle and wipe out All of Mos Espa and ride off into the sunset with Garsa..


And Max Rebo of course :D
But, of course, typical of his Bantha travels, it will be verrrry slowly on the back of the baby Rancor and take up the last 5 minutes of the episode.
 
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