The Book of Boba Fett is the 2nd live action Star Wars Series to release on Disney Plus and is a successor to The Mandalorian Season 2. The Book of Boba Fett follows Boba Fett and Fennec Shand as they try to gain power on Tatooine. After the first two seasons of The Mandalorian were borderline universally praised, how did The Book of Boba Fett do with audiences? Well letâs just say most people werenât happy. In this video essay, we discuss Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett 1 Year Later
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0:00 â The Book of Boba Fett⊠1 Year Later
1:29 â The Book of World Building
13:00 â The Book of Characters
26:01 â The Book of Story
37:25 â The Book of Apathy
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-Star Wars The Book of Boba Fett Theme EPIC ORCHESTRAL VERSION (Samuel Kim)
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-My White Daisy
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Back in 1983 when Return of the Jedi released in theaters. Nerds across the word screamed in pain and disappointment when they saw their favorite bounty hunter fall into the sarlacc pit and die. According to Jabba the Hutt, he would be devoured and suffer for a thousand years. Over the decades Boba Fettâs backstory was explored and he was given more depth, but everyone still knew his inevitable death. In the old expanded universe, Boba Fett actually climbed out of the sarlacc pit and survived. So once the canon was rebooted, fans speculated if Boba Fett would still crawl out of the sarlacc pit and survive in the new canon. Flash forward to October 30th 2021, in the premier episode of the mandalorian season 2, we got our first look at boba fett alive and well after the return of the jedi. And then 7 weeks later we were teased to the book of boba fett, the show that would center around the bounty hunter. So not only after all these decades did we learn Boba had lived, but he was also getting his own story that so many people had wished for. The Book of Boba Fett was the 2nd show to come out in the mandoverse. When this show finally wrapped up, how did fans view it? Was it the show of their dreams? Did it match the quality of the previous 2 mandalorian seasons? Was Boba Fett the badass we all thought him to be? Hello everybody and welcome to another video, my name is the gold man and today weâre gonna talk about the book of boba fett.
To begin this video essay, I want to discuss worldbuilding. An aspect of Star Wars I feel isnât discussed enough these days anymore. To no oneâs surprise, there are two different sides to worldbuilding in this series. Firstly thereâs the main part of the series that takes place on tatooine, and then thereâs the worldbuilding that focuses mostly on Mando and his journey. So letâs begin with Tatooine. The worldbuilding here is interesting because Tatooine is already the most prominently shown planet in the Star Wars saga. Btw, Iâm just talking about the live action stuff here. You guys know how much I love the clone wars and rebels, but a good portion of the people who are watching this series havenât watched those shows, only the movies and the mandalorian. So how well does this show build on the world that is tatooine? Before we answer that, what did we already know about tatooine going into this series? Based on the movies, there were 3 different sides of tatooine that we saw. Thereâs mos eisley and the kinda the wilderness of tatooine that we saw in a new hope, then thereâs the criminal aspect of tatooine that we saw in return of the jedi, and then thereâs mos espa that we saw in the phantom menace and attack of the clones. Tatooine was known for mostly having a variety of different species, none that were really native to the planet. The ones that are mostly native to tatooine are the jawas and the tusken raiders. The jawas get a little bit more fleshing out in the mandalorian season 1, but not much. But the tusken Raiders on the other hand, that is where this series really excels. From the movies, the tusken raiders were literally seen as savages. A New Hope treats them as such, and attack of the clones treats them even worse because they are responsible for brutally murdering Shmi Skywalker. And Anakin ended up committing genocide against them which doesnât help things either. The Mandalorian took small steps to humanize the tuskens.
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I love Star Wars for what it is. Lucas era or Disney era. No project is perfect, but I understand what the makers are trying to do. Star Wars is impossible to kill.
I think there's a lot of things in this show that go a lot deeper than we give credit for and we've seen the badass – and we get more in rancor riding, beating cad bane, being shot 60 times and surviving. Plus the renewal of green, red and black in his repaint is a sign of doubling down on Duty, Justice and honoring his father.
All that said there's two things that help me enjoy shows like this. F and F are building a larger universe here in which Boba Fett is one character. Because of what happened in bobas canon backstory, there's a limit to what they can do with that character.
But when you think about what we saw in the 6 mins of OT from boba… Never see his face, always gets his mark, can be a badass but is kinda clumsy… The Mandalorian is Boba Fett… And through the mandalorian they can do so much more to expand the universe and what it means to be mandalorian.
Boba Fett is now once facet of mandalorian culture, as is bo katan, the armorer and the many other elements we are going to potentially seeing in season 3.
What I donât understand is how prominent fennec is in Star Wars. To my knowledge sheâs only appeared in mando bad batch and bobf, with less then an hour of development. If she does have a comic, please tell me where to find it because I really want to like her character but just cant
When the series was still coming being released, I heard a lot of people talking about how episode 5 was the best one. I went in not knowing what to expect, and then Mando showed up. "Oh ho, this is gonna be guuud."
Boba did nothing that entire episode. "Ok, I guess it's just a reeeeally long setup for Mando being in the team?"
Then people started saying about how episode 6 was even better.
Another Mando episode. That was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. The show could have been called "The Mandalorian Season 3" and it would still've made sense, as Boba is one as well. If not that, this series could've been shrunk into a movie and that would probably be enough.
This was a Tiresome SW based series!!!!
They never should have changed his armor look. The classic look is just so much better.
This review was leftist bullshit! The reviewer is overjoyed that they fleshed out the Sand people when even Obi Wan said they are mindless savages that can't be trained with. When did this shit change? it was all Bullshit and the whole show sucked. Even Teumera Morrison (Boba Fett)was pissed in an interview. He said he didn't want to do it. Boba Fett is a bad ass, not a simp.
This guy doesn't even realize Favreau and Feloni were barely any part of it. They handed it off to other people. The show was so bad half the viewership was gone by week 2-3.
The 2 episodes with the mandalorian, were from season 3 of the Mandalorian, Favreau put it in Boba Fett to try to salvage it
Robert Rodriguez came up with the Vespa bikes. Favreau said don't use them, they don't fit. Rodriguez then went to Kathleen Kennedy and she said put them in. It's well known she did that to piss Favreau off. This guy reeks of a Lucas film employee praising this garbage!
If you want a real review on this trash, look up the Critical drinkers review of this. You'll get the real story.
The fact this guy probably liked the sequel trilogy loses all credibility!
At least the series has the best theme of all the live action Star Wars series
Here's a little fun fact about the lore of Tuskins and Jawas they are evolved from the original inhabitants of the people who live in tatooine
Due to centuries of war and conflict tatooine went from a beautiful blue and green planet into a desert wasteland and evolution of the two tribes in tatooine morphed them into the two natives we see now. Tuskins believe themselves to be the true and superior people of tatooine act hostile to others due to the fact. They have a supremacist mentality but Disney star wars would obviously not like to go into that due to modern political climates
I know you want to ignore the cartoons due to not a ton of people watching them least not the mainstream audience and that's fair but I argue that these shows need those shows to help flesh them out. They rely on the audience to have watched them to understand the characters
Love that mando basically stole the MC from boba when he shows up
Maybe the REAL Bounty Hunter was Fennec Shand who've we met along the way
This show was a mess. Super unfortunate. Honestly when you get to a sequence that's like a slow speed chase of rainbow colored speeders piloted by a bunch of hoodlums who couldn't seem less appropriate to the Star Wars universe, you really have to wonder what somebody was thinking.
The Vespa crew were not teenagers lmao they looked 30
This was a fair, balanced, & considered review, and a great retrospective. Thank you! Subbed. Personally, I liked TBOBF, I thought it had some fun ideas and some much-needed world-building, but it's not my all-time favourite SW offering.
22:36 — "Anyone can be your family" — Heh. That's the entire focus of Karen Traviss' superlative five-book "Star Wars: Republic Commando / Imperial Commando" series, which is essentially the motherlode of Madalorian culture. In fact, the central tenet of the series is five words (three in Mando'a): Aliit ori'shya tal'din — Family is more than bloodline. Best. "Star Wars" novels. EVER. Anyone who hasn't read them should definitely check them out. The first book starts everything off a little slowly, but from then on, it's all amazing. Action, intrigue, raw emotional rollercoasters . . . cannot recommend them enough.
33:30 — "How's a casual viewer supposed to know that they need to watch a show called "The Book of Boba Fett" between "The Mandalorian" Seasons 2 and 3?" Because Disney is arrogant enough to believe that they have no casual viewers — only rabid, adoring cultists who are voracious consumers of ALL their content. đ
I liked it, I just thought it was a fun watch.
You really messed up in saying Boba had no flaw to overcome. That was the entire point of his story with the tuskin raiders. We already know Boba through his armor and his status of being a lone bounty hunter. The armor and that way of life was given to him and forced upon him by his father, never knowing the importance of having a tribe. At the VERY beginning of the show, he is stripped of his weapons and armor, the things he and the audience ties to his identity (because the fandom is shallow), and heâs helpless without it. Until he proves himself and saves the tuskin boy. Then his story involves gaining their trust, learning to work with others, and the power and meaning there is to be had in a group, a family, a tribe, whatever you want to call it. That echoes into the âpresentâ where he takes these lessons and succeeds where all the other former bounty hunters are failing. He builds a community out of trust and genuine respect, something the old Boba Fett would never do. He gains the loyalty of former Jabba servants by sparing their lives, from the youth by sympathizing with their struggles, from Black Krrsantan by sparing his life, from the towns folk by not making his servants carry him. Everything in the âpresentâ section is the results of the lessons he learned from the Tuskin Raider tribe. And in the end, when he defeated Cad Bane, he was not just killing an old rival. He was defeating his past, a past that was forced on him from an early age. But he doesnât defeat Cad Bane with a blaster or his explosives or his armor, he defeats him with the gaffi stick, something that represents a life he actually chose, and one he earned. Everything in the show was symbolic of Bobaâs growth from the selfish, lonely, merciless bounty hunter we all knew him to be. Itâs even pretty obvious if you paid any attention to the dialogue between him and Fennec. All of it is obvious to anyone who paid attention.
Nothing in this show worked. Iâd probably have like it if I saw it in middle school though.
This mini-series was mislabeled. The mini-series was never really about Boba Fett.
Disney described the show as âThe Mandalorian, Season 2.5â. It was always about Din Djarin.
If you have ever read any of the recent novels, some of them include âInterludeâ chapters.
âInterludesâ describe concurrent events occurring elsewhere in the galaxy, events that are only loosely related to the main storyline.
The âAftermathâ trilogy is a perfect example. The entire back story of Cobb Vanth is told through âInterludeâ chapters.
Well Morrison isnât giving up on the idea of there being a second season.
Anakin didn't "do a genocide" on the Tuskans, that was an attempt at best.
I still can't quite comprehend how Boba Fett became a fat old man after only a few days in the Sarlacc?! đ€
I will always remember The Book Of Boba Fett as The Mandalorian Season 2.5.
The thing that annoys me the most about this show is that they gave Ming na wen absolutely nothing to work with, her character was never particularly interesting but her relationship with boba really had a lot of potential
what a shame
If this show focused more on Tusken and badass Boba then it would've been great
They made Mando a flashed out Boba Fett in season 1, then introduced Boba in season 2 and we now had 2 boba Fetts. Both silent, calculating, wearing bad ass armor and saying cool things. Having 2 shoes about The Mandalorian wouldnât have worked so they changed Boba, not Mando, and then made the last 3rd The Mando Season 2.5 anyway. They should have just made a show about boba being a cartel crime lord and gave us a villain protagonist where he kills the Pikes because he doesnât like drugs and because he doesnât want anyone threatening his power.
This is a well laid out and articulated Essay. It's not negative and does a good job constructing points from A to B on subject matter and theme.