The Book of Boba Fett

The Gladiator Wookie is from the Dr. Aphra comic line, which is one of the better liked modern SW comic series, but I ditched out of it after 20 or so issues. The good news is, that Wookie is pretty much a psychopath so fingers crossed they let him loose like he is in the comics. The bad news is he has a super stupid name.
Pretty certain he is the first character that originated in the comic series' to appear in a live action show/movie.

This is probably one of those times I'm over the line a bit. I don't understand how all this Tusken stuff isn't one of the best parts of all of this. And they dragged the Pykes into this with this episode so you've got to imagine Boba pissed off Crimson Dawn/The remnants of whatever the shadow collective was once Maul got Obi-Wan'd for the second time.

Fadaar said:

Darth Krayt, legends now I believe

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The idea of a Tusken Raider being a Sith made me do a WTF double take. Not trying to out nerd you but according to the internets Darth Krayt was a human that lived amongst the Tusken Raiders?

The idea sounds interesting, but this doesn’t look like the face of a species that yells out HONK! HONK!

As a side the lukewarm FoH reviews is a bit of a bummer. I was somewhat hopeful they wouldn’t fuck this up, but…yea that doesn’t seem to be the case.

And yes I do take a lot of recommendations from this forum when it comes to movies and series. If something is new I check here first. Better to let you fucks suffer through all the bullshit instead of me.

I think not hating the show depends on how much expanded universe bullshit you know before hand. Sure they are incorporating some of that stuff, but for the most part all that shit is officially fanfic. If you never read any of the extended universe books (which I haven't) so you dont have some preconceived notion about how much of a badass boba fett is supposed to be, well you probably wont have a problem with the show.

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If you were expecting him to be this bad ass guns blazing tony montana type crime lord then you could say the show is probably subverting your expectations. But I for one am expecting some kind of slow build, story driven, God father style payback crime lord so the show is unfolding how I expect it to. I think it will continue to be primarily flash back driven filling in the gaps and explaining how he ended up being the man he is now. I don't expect much forward progress on "current story" just a little build up per episode to add drama / tension then more flash backs connecting everything together. Final episode being the big bad showdown vs the hutt twins, not so much epic fight scene but again, God father esque get fucked nerd scene.

keep in mind a few caveats:
It's been 20 or so years since the actor filmed jango fett in the prequels, the dudes fucking old now. But the time line of this show is just after the fall of the empire. it's only been 5 years since we saw him fall in the sarlaac in Jedi. They kind of hand wave this away by playing up the injuries sustained while in the sarlaac, every night the dude sleeps in the medigel shit to recooperate, etc but reality is the actor just isnt young enough to be doing gay ass prequel yoda flips and shit.

We really don't know shit about Boba Fett from the movies. He has like 2 lines in Empire and then gets punked like a straight up bitch in Jedi. Gets his ass kicked instantly by a half trained luke skywalker and then immediately falls in the sarlaac benny hill style from a casual strike from a blind harrison ford. seriously just punked. He's got all of 45 seconds of screen time in that whole scene and he spends most of that either knocked down or flying blindly from a rogue jet pack activation. Seriously:



If you haven't read all the fanfic extended universe legends shit, then really the only thing you know about the guy you learned in season 2 of The Mandalorian. The point of this show is explaining the history and motivations of how Boba Fett came to be the guy we see in the Mandalorian.