The Mandalorian (TV series)

[el toro]

Wasn’t Boba missing his eyebrows at the end? I guess the saarlaac’s gastric juices burned them off along with the paint on his helmet and armor as evidenced by the additional silver splotches - and apparently all of the red paint on the back bent of his helmet. Not sure how the red paint was so cleanly burned off though, but I guess that’s a story for another day.

Also the mystery guest probably isn’t one of the clone troopers because they should be approaching senior citizen status by the time of this show.

 

[Psab keel]

This is the danger of bringing in known characters... the second they show up there are built in expectations. It's a slippery slope.

 

[neophyl]

Take it how you will but Temura is listed as Boba on IMDB for this episode.

 

[CessnaDriver]

So Fett is back? Not a clone or something, Actual Fett?

 

[harrisonp]

Have you seen the episode?

 

[CessnaDriver]

Have you seen the episode?

Nope. I'm vetting it first.
No problem on spoilers for the Fett return though.
Fett is actually back? Legit? Or is this something else. Flash back or some mystery to it?

 

[Strikerkc]

So Fett is back? Not a clone or something, Actual Fett?

Fett appears back. The actor that plays Jango and the clones is in the sting at the end of the episode. Jango is dead, and the clone troopers would be older.

and the story involved mando recovering fett's armor.

 

[harrisonp]

Nope. I'm vetting it first.
No problem on spoilers for the Fett return though.
Fett is actually back? Legit? Or is this something else. Flash back or some mystery to it?

Like Strikerkc said it appears to be Boba and not a clone, that said we don’t FULLY know that yet as it’s still a mystery at this point how he would have returned.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Fett appears back. The actor that plays Jango and the clones is in the sting at the end of the episode. Jango is dead, and the clone troopers would be older.

Thanks.
Maybe they spin it different somehow he's still dead.
I know I'm not popular with this view, like Satan and Hitler combined not popular, I get it.
For me a legit Fett return just screams fan service with a nuclear powered megaphone and my eardrums have exploded.
Cant I get over it? Honestly I don't know. If it's just an episode or two. IF they stay way from sequel connections.
Hoping it's not actually him somehow.

 

[Strikerkc]

He's been alive after ROTJ for most of the EU's existence. It's nothing new.

I won't sugar coat it; if you're this on the fence about if you should watch the show, or that worried something from a version of star wars you don't like will be referenced, then you should just Not watch the show. There is not enough joy in this show to overcome the blood pressure damage you will do to yourself worrying that at any moment something distasteful will appear. lol

 

[CessnaDriver]

He's been alive after ROTJ for most of the EU's existence. It's nothing new.

I won't sugar coat it; if you're this on the fence about if you should watch the show, or that worried something from a version of star wars you don't like will be referenced, then you should just Not watch the show. There is not enough joy in this show to overcome the blood pressure damage you will do to yourself worrying that at any moment something distasteful will appear. lol

OH I know about EU. In comics Chewie is bigfoot and Indiana Jones found Han Solo's skeleton so there is that. LOL
So those are chosen to follow things outside of big productions. I'm good with those choices.
I utterly reject the death of Newt and Hicks for that matter. So stories about them can ring true for me.
It's not so much about blood pressure as disappointment. Can I watch being disappointed with this aspect?
They almost compartmentalize episodes sometimes. As in you can watch some out of order. I can toss a few eps
if needed. I'm trying to make this work! LOL I thought the first season was brilliant.
An imposter would be an amazing angle. I'll hope for that.

 

[JoeG]

This could be a good way to add some real depth to the Boba Fett character. Since Boba was never a true Mandalorian, he just wore the armor because Jango did, maybe now he could actually earn it. What if, instead of it being an adversarial relationship with Din, they team up and at the end of it Boba becomes a Mandalorian like Din did. I'd prefer something like that over just making Boba the baddie of the week or something.

 

[Strikerkc]

...An imposter would be an amazing angle. I'll hope for that.

well, you KNOW that's not the direction this would go, so... keep watching if you want but you're just not going to be happy no matter what way this goes.

This could be a good way to add some real depth to the Boba Fett character. Since Boba was never a true Mandalorian, he just wore the armor because Jango did, maybe now he could actually earn it. What if, instead of it being an adversarial relationship with Din, they team up and at the end of it Boba becomes a Mandalorian like Din did. I'd prefer something like that over just making Boba the baddie of the week or something.

Yea. I half suspect they're going to come at it from an angle that fett followed similar rules to mando, and that he really is mandalorian (remember, it was pacifist mando leadership that disowned jango, and mostely to try and keep the clone troopers from considering themselves mandalorian). Maybe he see's mando as his way back in, maybe there's atonment, maybe he's making his own rules up, and killing a real mando to take his armor back makes him "square" in his mind.

They're already taking fett in a new direction than he went in the EU, so all bets are off until he actually shows up and explains a little.

 

[harrisonp]

I bring it up again and again, but the potential for his return to have value is there, it’s the execution that will determine if it’s fan service.

 

[CessnaDriver]

I bring it up again and again, but the potential for his return to have value is there, it’s the execution that will determine if it’s fan service.

I'm open to knowing their reasoning, was there a compelling reason? Did they hit a point and said you know this really is the way to go for.... reasons. Reasons that truly matter as in the story arc of our anti-hero was truly on a trajectory towards it. ??? I'd like to know if
they know bringing back the dead is a big deal.


And as I write this my black series Mando action figure just showed up. LOL

 

[harrisonp]

I'm open to knowing their reasoning, was there a compelling reason? Did they hit a point and said you know this really is the way to go for.... reasons. Reasons that truly matter as in the story arc of our anti-hero was truly on a trajectory towards it. ??? I'd like to know if
they know bringing back the dead is a big deal.


And as I write this my black series Mando action figure just showed up. LOL

They havent given any yet, but for me there’s value because there’s an opportunity to not only finally answer the “no true Mandalorian” thing from The Clone Wars but give some depth to Boba as a character.

When he was young he watched his father die at the hands of the Jedi, then watched as those same Jedi led thousands of clones of his father through a war that eventually brought the Empire into power. At the same time he was shunned the culture he was raised to see as his own.

Now Din Djarin (a foundling, no blood of Mandalore) is not only accepted by the people Boba wasn’t good enough for, but is ALSO helping a Jedi.

I realize I’ve said this like 5 times in this thread but I’ll keep defending that angle until they waste the potential and just make it member berries

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

Well, I loved the whole episode.

My favorite part was when we learn that the back end of a gaffi stick actually is what it looks like--a gum massager!!

I don't know why, but I just got such a kick out of that.

Great episode. Definitely not easing into the new season. One of the things I love about the show is how they get to expand on what little we know about various aspects of the SWU and revisit various elements.

 

[alluvial damper]

One knock and Boba is off to the pit .. another knock and Timothy is send flying. Is that just a crappy jetpack, or is it just Boba's? If so, how did Mando know? Seems, rather stupid to have a fat big "ENGANGE" button on the back, no?

Love this show!

 

[alluvial damper]

Also, I was half expecting The Child to bail them out with a Force thingy to beat the Krayt. Good thing that didn't happen

 

[Rich D.]

I enjoyed the episode a lot. The reveal at the end was satisfying. Seeing Temuera Morrison got a "holy ****" out of me, just because the show runners made an effort to have continuity with the "cinematic universe". If that was the entirety of the Boba Fett storyline in this series and they never revisit it after this episode, I'd be perfectly fine with how they treated it.

Even if Fett becomes a recurring character in the series, I'm hopeful that they'll take time to better explore the character than if Disney had just pushed out an opportunistic standalone "angsty young Boba" film like Solo.