Meh, I'll be honest, this show needs to pick up the pace and be less formulaic.
My youngest boy likes it so I will watch it with him but otherwise I would pass on this show based on the initial quality. Hopefully it gets better but I find it pretty unremarkable and the writing and acting is cringeworthy bad.
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My youngest boy likes it so I will watch it with him but otherwise I would pass on this show based on the initial quality. Hopefully it gets better but I find it pretty unremarkable and the writing and acting is cringeworthy bad.
I'm pretty forgiving as a Star Wars fan but to me this series is way off of what I want from a Boba Fett centric show.. But we're only 2 episodes in.
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I agree it's not the most interesting start from my viewpoint - but virtually no one in Star Wars has any "benefit of the doubt" left, except for Favreau and Filoni. So I'm giving this more time to develop. I know Filoni wrote episode 6 of BoBF, so I'll probably hang on to see how that one turns out.
this show might not be the top of the live action space fantasy genre based on what we've seen so far, but trust me it could be so much worse. just ask a Star Trek fan.
Enjoying it, but can definitely see why some aren't. IMO the major issue is that the show is always focused on the same actor, who has a very morose attitude. The Boba Fett character is also way too good and vanilla. This is the same guy, who just before going into the Pitt, had to be warned by Vader not to disintegrate people. Now, the only concern he has is showing mercy towards his rivals? After the way he dispatched of Bib Fortuna, I was hoping for a little more spice.
I don't know the exact reach of Jabba's old crime empire, but if its the Star Wars universe, a lot of it has to be pretty evil. Not sure how he reconciles Jabba's vast network of evils with his newfound code of conduct.
We were supposed to have a series from a villain's point of view, but Boba Fett is somehow the most moral character yet.
Still enjoying the series, but it could have been more. Maybe it will be.
Enjoying it, but can definitely see why some aren't. IMO the major issue is that the show is always focused on the same actor, who has a very morose attitude. The Boba Fett character is also way too good and vanilla. This is the same guy, who just before going into the Pitt, had to be warned by Vader not to disintegrate people. Now, the only concern he has is showing mercy towards his rivals? After the way he dispatched of Bib Fortuna, I was hoping for a little more spice.
I don't know the exact reach of Jabba's old crime empire, but if its the Star Wars universe, a lot of it has to be pretty evil. Not sure how he reconciles Jabba's vast network of evils with his newfound code of conduct.
We were supposed to have a series from a villain's point of view, but Boba Fett is somehow the most moral character yet.
Still enjoying the series, but it could have been more. Maybe it will be.
Yeah, there's entirely too much Rex in this Boba Soup.
This does not feel like Boba Fett, it feels like a Commander Rex show with Boba armour.
Yeah, there's entirely too much Rex in this Boba Soup.
This does not feel like Boba Fett, it feels like a Commander Rex show with Boba armour.
Boba Fett was a ruthless bounty hunter who spent his spare time hanging out in Jabba's palace hitting on scantily clad women with strange head appendages.....not quite the same now.
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Boba Fett was a ruthless bounty hunter who spent his spare time hanging out in Jabba's palace hitting on scantily clad women with strange head appendages.....not quite the same now.
It's just the further Disnification of Star Wars, gotta make it kid friendly. I'm guessing we see Boba rescue some small animatronic alien creature in the next few episodes so that they can try to cash in on Baby Yoda v2
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Did Boba lose some weight for this new show? Because he was looking a little plump in the Mandalorian. When he first put on his armour he reminded me of Bobby B from GoT season 1. Thought he might need the breast plate stretcher.
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Boba Fett was a ruthless bounty hunter who spent his spare time hanging out in Jabba's palace hitting on scantily clad women with strange head appendages.....not quite the same now.
Maybe it's an issue of an R rated character being softened down for a Disney family audience. My kid likes it so it's hitting on a large portion of its intended audience. Hopefully they introduce a compelling villain soon as the show is lacking for interesting characters.
I guess I'm enjoying the Book of Boba Fett because I didn't really have an opinion of Boba Fett. I've watched the original movies many times, but I've never watched any animated TV or read a single Star Wars book. All I knew about Boba Fett was his 2 minutes of screen time in Empire and 1 minute in Jedi.
He seemed like a bad-ass in Empire, with a cool ship and cool armour and Vader seemed to respect him. But other than that? What was he really like? I dunno, I never really thought about it. So for me, the Book of Boba Fett is the first fleshing out of the character.
They could have gone in an R-rated direction where he's a ruthless killing machine, and I probably would have liked that too. I'd probably bet that side of him will come out by the end of the series. But I doubt it would have been a good story if he was 100% ruthless killing machine 100% of the time.
For me, Boba Fett is coming across like Jules in Pulp Fiction. A bad-ass m*********er when he needs to be, but otherwise more measured and thoughtful.
Maybe for Boba Fett, the Sarlacc pit was the equivalent of the miracle or divine intervention that Jules insists saved his and Vincent's lives. A near death experience can change even the baddest m*********er, Jules or Boba.
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I guess I'm enjoying the Book of Boba Fett because I didn't really have an opinion of Boba Fett. I've watched the original movies many times, but I've never watched any animated TV or read a single Star Wars book. All I knew about Boba Fett was his 2 minutes of screen time in Empire and 1 minute in Jedi.
I have no pre-conceived notions of what Boba Fett's personality is "supposed to be", because outside of the couple minutes onscreen in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi... what is there? I haven't watched any of the cartoons (although I know vaguely of, say, Ahsoka Tano) nor read any of the books (although, again, I know vaguely of Grand Admiral Thrawn, Mara Jade, Jacen, etc.), so... to me Boba Fett is an almost-completely blank slate. He had—what, two lines of dialogue in two movies?
I can't find much common ground in the argument that this "R-rated character" has been "Disney-fied" and it has resulted in a, so far, horrendously slow and boring show. If anything the problem is that our titular protagonist from The Mandalorian and Boba Fett are basically one and the same in characterization: the "bad-ass bounty hunter with a heart of gold". It is somewhat formulaic and clichéd.
I thought Boba Fett was terrible in The Mandalorian and was the only part of season 2 I didn't like. This thread has soundly convinced me to pass on this one.
I have this feeling that the whole Rule with respect, benevolent leader tact is going to fall flat on its face due to the Hutts, and Boba is going to have to go full on kill mode with them.
I also have a feeling that Fennec has already sold him out.
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