The Book of Boba Fett

[Galactican]

No more RR for me… I don’t know how they can too todays episode for me

Well at least RR made use of Boba and gave him something to do.



Like getting beaten up, walking from A to B, walking from B to A, dusting off the jetpack and swooshing all abandoned bird nests out of the boosters, using the home spa, having sweet dreams about a family, dancing around the fire, sniffing lizards, etc., etc., etc. ...

 

[Mottrex]

Even if Vanth didn’t have armor, it’s going to be hard for them to justify him dying that easily after they brought Fennec back from the dead.

Off to "The Chop Shop" with him!

Que more Scooter kids and Techno beats!

 

[Kylash]

Yeah they sure nailed that deepfake this time! Man... it would be nice if they go back and fix the Mando finale.

 

[Eruonen]

Off to "The Chop Shop" with him!

Que more Scooter kids and Techno beats!

 

[Joek3rr]

So apparently Lucasfilm is very much aware of Yoda's lightsaber.

https://imgur.com/jXXXYv9

Also from Wookieepedia

The 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations depicts the lightsaber as being stored in a box in Yoda's Hut by the time of the events of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back.[14] However, the 2017 comic Darth Vader (2017) 1 states that it was destroyed during a celebration of the eradication of the Jedi Order.[3] When asked about this, writer Charles Soule mused that perhaps Yoda built a new one, that he had more than one or that Darth Sidious built a fake to make a point.[15] Lucasfilm Story Group's Matt Martin then stated that they are aware of that but that it isn't an error as Yoda likely had more than a few lightsabers during his lifetime.[16]

 

[Galactican]

Does anyone know if they pushed back the second Mando art book to have the art from this season of Book in it? It was supposed to come out in December.

Probably. By now we have so many books out there that I'm slowly losing track of them. Thank Goodness they are all in this thread:

The Book of Boba Fett

Thank God for Motown!

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The Book of Boba Fett

Thank God for Motown!

www.therpf.com

The Book of Boba Fett

Thank God for Motown!

www.therpf.com

...

Even this thread is a book. The title proves it.

 

[Eruonen]

So apparently Lucasfilm is very much aware of Yoda's lightsaber.

https://imgur.com/jXXXYv9

Also from Wookieepedia

The 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations depicts the lightsaber as being stored in a box in Yoda's Hut by the time of the events of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back.[14] However, the 2017 comic Darth Vader (2017) 1 states that it was destroyed during a celebration of the eradication of the Jedi Order.[3] When asked about this, writer Charles Soule mused that perhaps Yoda built a new one, that he had more than one or that Darth Sidious built a fake to make a point.[15] Lucasfilm Story Group's Matt Martin then stated that they are aware of that but that it isn't an error as Yoda likely had more than a few lightsabers during his lifetime.[16]

Hmmmm. Sounds like no one was keeping track of details and they came up with a cover story after everything got published. Classic.

 

[squirk]

Vanth is definitely pulling a Clint Eastwood Beskar under his outfit and Bane looks so much like Lee Van Cleef ...
"From a certain

Vanth was clearly winged in the shoulder. He’s down, but not out.

He was just lazing about town; he wasn’t expecting a showdown. So unless he always walks around armored, I don’t think he was wearing any in this ep.

Even if he had armor on his chest like Eastwood, a.) again, shoulder; and b.) it wouldn’t be beskar. Boba‘s entire armor set seemed intact when he recovered it in “The Tragedy,” and I think he’d have an issue if something large enough to admit a chest was missing.

Bane got the drop on Vanth, probably in large part because the latter was distracted by/worried about the deputy. One wonders how that gunfight would have gone down if the deputy went inside as ordered so Vanth could focus solely on Bane.

That said, I would not be surprised to see another Vanth-Bane quick-draw showdown later on where Favreau does crib from “Fistful of Dollars” and Vanth does wear a chest plate.

 

[Kylash]

Cant believe we saw Bane before Dengar, Bossk, 4-LOM, or Zuckuss..

 

[Elevader]

I also appreciate that they aren’t holding back. The stuff in the past two episodes could have been teased and held for another year, but they are giving it to us now.

 

[CelticRuins]

Being that it was Filoni's episode, Bane showing up was highly rumored and expected. Bossk was only rumored, and he still might show up.

And honestly, Bane's pretty formidable and could far out gun the others.

All I want is for him to make mention of the dent still being in Boba's helmet, if they're still going that route, even though Boba technically killed him in that pre-viz.

 

[squirk]

And honestly, Bane's pretty formidable and could far out gun the others.

Fennec kind of handed him his ass in that episode of BB, though. He didn’t come out of that looking good.

 

[CelticRuins]

Fennec kind of handed him his ass in that episode of BB, though. He didn’t come out of that looking good.

This is true. The only ones I can see taking him on are Boba, Fennec or Din (Din might even get his ass scuffed up a bit though). But there is a reason why big bads hire him to do the high up dirty work. I still think they might stick with Boba being the one who takes him out, officially.

 

[HMSwolfe]

Once again, haven’t caught up totally with the thread, but here goes.

Sigh. A lotta things right in this episode. Maybe more wrong.

Spoiler

First off, when it was first rumored in S2 of the Mandalorian that Asohka would appear, I said that I didn’t like the idea, but that if they’d pulled off the character better than the cartoons, I’d eat my words. Well, that time has come…for Cad Bane. Yep, still think Rosario is actually worse than the cartoon by virtue of being totally bland and talking like a prequel Jedi. But, Bane was realized really well and had a very menacing presence. To me, big improvement. His face was super expressive and disturbing in a great way. The parts involving Mos Pelgos, Vanth, and Bane were some of the better parts of the episode. Very Sergio Leone.

On to…the not so great parts.

To start off on a high note, Luke’s face doesn’t just look better, it looks astoundingly better. It’s not even that it looks necessarily “exactly” like him, but it looks like a real human face the whole time. His voice is still flat and robotic, which turned me off quite a bit. The training felt very amateurish and underwritten. “Look, Luke runs through the woods like Dagobah! He does a flip!” I wish he’d had a more interesting outfit as well. It felt very low-effort. I’ll swing back around to Luke in a second, because I have bigger problems.

The kid…I feel should have grown and maybe even starting speaking, if even just a little. Furthermore, I really don’t appreciate being reminded of some of the worst changes made to Yoda in the prequels. I don’t want to see Baby Yoda flipping around like AOTC, and I don’t think Yoda would have had a lightsaber. But it’s all worse than that.

Everyone cried over TLJ, saying Luke was ruined, and how he wasn’t the same character, and yet I haven’t seen anyone say the same thing here, despite him being ruined far worse. Of all things they could have had him say, in my opinion the worst was to reinforce the dogmatic view of prequel Jedi towards attachment. He, of all people, would accept that the least. I’m very frustrated that no one seems to care that they’ve replaced literally the hero of an entire generation with another bland, sterile, cardboard cutout prequel Jedi with no personality, humanity, individuality, warmth, or any other quality he had in the OT. People are just “so happy to see him do what he did in their headcanon/fanfiction”.

 

[squirk]

Of all things they could have had him say, in my opinion the worst was to reinforce the dogmatic view of prequel Jedi towards attachment. He, of all people, would accept that the least. I’m very frustrated that no one seems to care that they’ve replaced literally the hero of an entire generation with another bland, sterile, cardboard cutout prequel Jedi with no personality, humanity, individuality, warmth, or any other quality he had in the OT.

I was thinking the same thing at first, but then I thought:

1.) Luke is very powerful but still very “green” in terms of his studies of the history of the Jedi. That is to say, maybe he really hasn’t come to appreciate the (arguably) core failings of the Jedi dogma yet.

2.) Is it possible that he’s testing Grogu? Giving him this binary choice to see how he responds - e.g., he wants Grogu, 100% of his own accord, to reject the two choices given to him and come up with a third.

 

[Kylash]

Maybe Grogu's choice will start making him rethink that view of attachment, we havent seen the whole story yet. Clearly Luke is not living by his own teachings yet, he has yoda's lightsaber and other artifacts, R2 etc.He's still very attached to many things.

 

[Psab keel]

Once again, haven’t caught up totally with the thread, but here goes.

Sigh. A lotta things right in this episode. Maybe more wrong.

Spoiler

First off, when it was first rumored in S2 of the Mandalorian that Asohka would appear, I said that I didn’t like the idea, but that if they’d pulled off the character better than the cartoons, I’d eat my words. Well, that time has come…for Cad Bane. Yep, still think Rosario is actually worse than the cartoon by virtue of being totally bland and talking like a prequel Jedi. But, Bane was realized really well and had a very menacing presence. To me, big improvement. His face was super expressive and disturbing in a great way. The parts involving Mos Pelgos, Vanth, and Bane were some of the better parts of the episode. Very Sergio Leone.

On to…the not so great parts.

To start off on a high note, Luke’s face doesn’t just look better, it looks astoundingly better. It’s not even that it looks necessarily “exactly” like him, but it looks like a real human face the whole time. His voice is still flat and robotic, which turned me off quite a bit. The training felt very amateurish and underwritten. “Look, Luke runs through the woods like Dagobah! He does a flip!” I wish he’d had a more interesting outfit as well. It felt very low-effort. I’ll swing back around to Luke in a second, because I have bigger problems.

The kid…I feel should have grown and maybe even starting speaking, if even just a little. Furthermore, I really don’t appreciate being reminded of some of the worst changes made to Yoda in the prequels. I don’t want to see Baby Yoda flipping around like AOTC, and I don’t think Yoda would have had a lightsaber. But it’s all worse than that.

Everyone cried over TLJ, saying Luke was ruined, and how he wasn’t the same character, and yet I haven’t seen anyone say the same thing here, despite him being ruined far worse. Of all things they could have had him say, in my opinion the worst was to reinforce the dogmatic view of prequel Jedi towards attachment. He, of all people, would accept that the least. I’m very frustrated that no one seems to care that they’ve replaced literally the hero of an entire generation with another bland, sterile, cardboard cutout prequel Jedi with no personality, humanity, individuality, warmth, or any other quality he had in the OT. People are just “so happy to see him do what he did in their headcanon/fanfiction”.

I said it at the end of Season 2 of the Gondalorian and the same applies to any future content concerning Han, Luke, Leia, or ANY Jedi characters. As long as the ST is still canon, all that they suffer and die for is rendered meaningless. So unless they retcon that trilogy out of existence, there is no redemption. Continuity matters.

 

[Elevader]

Once again, haven’t caught up totally with the thread, but here goes.

Sigh. A lotta things right in this episode. Maybe more wrong.

Spoiler

First off, when it was first rumored in S2 of the Mandalorian that Asohka would appear, I said that I didn’t like the idea, but that if they’d pulled off the character better than the cartoons, I’d eat my words. Well, that time has come…for Cad Bane. Yep, still think Rosario is actually worse than the cartoon by virtue of being totally bland and talking like a prequel Jedi. But, Bane was realized really well and had a very menacing presence. To me, big improvement. His face was super expressive and disturbing in a great way. The parts involving Mos Pelgos, Vanth, and Bane were some of the better parts of the episode. Very Sergio Leone.

On to…the not so great parts.

To start off on a high note, Luke’s face doesn’t just look better, it looks astoundingly better. It’s not even that it looks necessarily “exactly” like him, but it looks like a real human face the whole time. His voice is still flat and robotic, which turned me off quite a bit. The training felt very amateurish and underwritten. “Look, Luke runs through the woods like Dagobah! He does a flip!” I wish he’d had a more interesting outfit as well. It felt very low-effort. I’ll swing back around to Luke in a second, because I have bigger problems.

The kid…I feel should have grown and maybe even starting speaking, if even just a little. Furthermore, I really don’t appreciate being reminded of some of the worst changes made to Yoda in the prequels. I don’t want to see Baby Yoda flipping around like AOTC, and I don’t think Yoda would have had a lightsaber. But it’s all worse than that.

Everyone cried over TLJ, saying Luke was ruined, and how he wasn’t the same character, and yet I haven’t seen anyone say the same thing here, despite him being ruined far worse. Of all things they could have had him say, in my opinion the worst was to reinforce the dogmatic view of prequel Jedi towards attachment. He, of all people, would accept that the least. I’m very frustrated that no one seems to care that they’ve replaced literally the hero of an entire generation with another bland, sterile, cardboard cutout prequel Jedi with no personality, humanity, individuality, warmth, or any other quality he had in the OT. People are just “so happy to see him do what he did in their headcanon/fanfiction”.

It makes sense to me that he would become more introspective, calmer, and more “monk like” with his time alone meditating. I’d expect he’s spent this time connecting with the force. Even if he ultimately rejected some advice from Yoda and Obi-Wan to save Anakin, it also makes sense that their core teachings are still ingrained in him. He feels a responsibility to pass on what he’s learned and be a leader. It’s such a common and human thing to “act more mature” by reverting to an image of what you’ve seen. So Luke having to go through the struggle of not just being a Jedi, but learning how to teach others and not be how he ”thinks” he should be, feels like a very relatable challenge.

 

[squirk]

This is true. The only ones I can see taking him on are Boba, Fennec or Din (Din might even get his ass scuffed up a bit though). But there is a reason why big bads hire him to do the high up dirty work. I still think they might stick with Boba being the one who takes him out, officially.

I’d like to see Boba take him out, too, in a manner that squarely pegs Boba as the better, smarter BH.

But to mottrex ’s point, Favreau loves him an homage, and I feel like today’s ep really is setting up the idea of “unfinished business” between Vanth and Bane, along the lines of the Stranger and Ramon.

 

[Eruonen]

I, too, don’t like that Luke espouses the prequel era teachings, and I did hate to hear that from him. But I do think from a character perspective it’s correct for him to believe that still. I don’t think there’s been any real reason for Luke to reject that teaching yet. Luke was trained by Obi-Wan and Yoda, both masters in the old order, and enforcers of the old teachings, and both very blind to the problems those teaching create. Luke would have no cause to doubt them until he learns Anakin’s side of the story. Which could be a really fun character moment for both Luke and Ahsoka (and maybe an opportunity for Hayden to show up).