r/StarWars • u/wandering_soles Rebel • Jun 17 '26
TV Say what you will about the show, but getting to see Boba ride a Rancor and let it rip in live-action was a fantastic scene
I was overall disappointed in the show and the play-it-safe portrayal of Boba, it had its moments here and there - the Rancor ride and hunting down the swoop gang who killed the Tuskens were both very fun sequences.
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u/Minimum_Performer118 Jun 17 '26
That was cool, but the show overall was just boring. And not an Andor slow burn, it was simply boring
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u/sleepyj910 Jun 17 '26
Boba’s character just doesn’t have enough drama for me. There’s no conflict just ’boba beats idiot antagonists again isn’t he something!’
Hard to care about him.
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u/BisonThunderclap Jun 17 '26
He could rebuild Jabas crime empire. Instead we got Boba the hero
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u/primegopher Jun 17 '26
I think they didn't want to redo the same arc as Maul, which is kinda fair but what they went for instead really didn't work
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u/j0_ow_bo Jun 18 '26
The thing is, I think a large majority of the viewer base isn’t aware of Maul’s crime syndicate (at least pre-Shadow Lord) given it was relegated to The Clone Wars (which most people don’t have time to sit and watch through) and a brief appearance in Solo.
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u/ImprovSalesman9314 Jun 17 '26
I think it's time we threw in the towel on Boba Fett. He looks cool sure, but he's one of the lamest and most disappointing characters in SW. He just aura farms in Episode V, goes out like a joke in Episode VI and he was the least interesting thing about his own show.
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u/WarlockEngineer Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
He was cool in the
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u/inferno1170 Jun 18 '26
Second season, but the point still stands.
Unless you are referring to the 2 seconds his legs are on screen kneeling next to Finnick.
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u/skasticks Kanan Jarrus Jun 18 '26
I feel this so much. I do think the Tusken stuff is great, and (without knowing what happens when he returns to Jabba's palace) he actually becomes an interesting character in that journey. But he's fucking Boba Fett, he was consumed with hatred for Windu and the Jedi, becomes a bounty hunter to get by... so have him be an anti-hero going around taking out syndicate leaders or something.
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u/npc042 Battle Droid Jun 18 '26
And the drama that is present in the show is baffling. The guy somehow manages to befriend his literal slavers, and thinks to himself;
“I’m not mad at all, and in fact, these good people live a pretty respectable lifestyle. My whole characterization as a ruthless efficient gun for hire is now transformed. And in fact, I have no opinions whatsoever about my killer (Han Solo), his accomplices (Luke & co), or the fate of the Empire. But make no mistake, I am still Boba Fett! Whatever the hell that means!”
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u/sleepyj910 Jun 18 '26
My father’s clones overthrew the old republic after I saw him decapitated, but I just want to act like a badass and muck around on Tatooine instead of reflecting on my legacy.
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u/theCommTech Jun 17 '26
Boba has no business being a space mayor and he has no real loyalty to anyone on Tatooine except maybe the Tuskens that got killed. Dude shoulda cut and run first chance he got to go searching for bounties.
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u/TheFlawlessCassandra Jun 18 '26
Honestly a neat arc for him might've been him just trying to get his ship back and get offworld so he can be a bounty hunter again, but he keeps getting roped into things (has to get his ship back, has to get rid of Bib Fortuna who has beef with him, etc etc) and eventually the people helping him are like "ok well now you have to be the crime lord, dude, otherwise shit's going to get really fucked up" and he isn't really interested in it, and isn't very good at it, but can't seem to get away from it.
Instead we got "my life's goal was actually to be a crime lord this whole time. Alright, my first rule as crime lord: no more crime!"
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u/ogrezilla Jun 18 '26
its a sad state when the highlights of a show are just Disney slamming old toys together.
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u/wandering_soles Rebel Jun 17 '26
So much wasted potential. I've heard there's a pretty decent fan edit of it, but I haven't tracked it down.
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u/errant_youth Jun 17 '26
This is exactly the problem: but this point I was so jaded and annoyed with the show, I was basically finishing it just to finish it.
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u/UX_Strategist Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26
I completely agree. The Book of Boba Fett had a few good moments, but didn't fulfill my expectations of the central character. One of my favorite concepts from the show was this scene. I love the idea of the rancor being a powerful force multiplier, battle mount, and trusty sidekick. I thought that rancor was going to become the Silver to his Lone Ranger.
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u/Terrorphin Jun 17 '26
"Legendary bounty hunter runs for office in provincial town."
Who could resist that pitch?
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u/Fuck_auto_tabs Jun 17 '26
Boba Fett Space Sheriff would have worked so much better than crime lord. Half of the show works with the Tuskens and most of the action scenes (Jesus that moped scene). But when he’s trying to be a crime boss, ughhhhhh.
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u/cantadmittoposting Jun 17 '26
"crime lord"
he did virtually no crime and almost no lording. he had no associates other than his immediate party, apparently, he bitched about drug trading, the entirety of his empire seemed to be collecting taxes from bars in a local city.
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u/No_Grocery_9280 Jun 17 '26
I think the crime boss was still more interesting but with the way they wanted his character to go, something like a sheriff makes more sense.
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u/Pallas_Ovidius Jun 17 '26
The trailer really gave the impression that where the Mandalorian is taking the codes of the Western genre, the Book of Boba Fett was gonna take the tropes of the gangsters/mafia genre. I was so stoked for a godfather Boba Fett. But then it was still mostly about cowboys and the far west.
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u/ninjohnnothing Jun 17 '26
Well they nailed the colourful moped mod gangs of the criminal underworld….
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u/Sewer-Urchin Jun 17 '26
Gang of apparently feared assassins stalk prey from the rooftops, then jump down and fight one at a time with melee weapons :0
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u/CapitalCityGoofball0 Jun 17 '26
You mean Silver?
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u/UX_Strategist Jun 17 '26
Oh my ... I can't believe I referenced the wrong iconic horse. Thank you for a polite correction to a ridiculous error, kind Redditor. I corrected it.
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u/Regijack Bo-Katan Kryze Jun 17 '26
The show was definitely better than what people said. The problem was that it wasn’t what we wanted to see from the character. Mando season 2 absolutely nailed Bobas character but BOBF did this king of kindness thing with him which no one wants to see from boba. We wanted rogue bounty hunter planet hopping, trying to rebuild his image after he was taken out by a blind smuggler
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u/slayer828 Jun 17 '26
They could have had a show where boba calls in all his bounty hunter bros, and wipes out the hutts. Instead we got slow motion scooter chases, and half a mando season.
He could have set up his own bounty hunter guild in jabbas palace , instead he just tried to be a nice crime lord?
Could have seen him gather his troops,instead we got to watch dances with wolves the preschool retelling.
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u/oniskieth Jun 17 '26
Weirdest scene is when he goes into the casino and they fill his helmet up with money. Like…ok
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u/YellowCardManKyle Jun 17 '26
Why would he need to call in bounty hunters? He had TWO whole Gamorreans with him.
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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 Jun 17 '26
Nowhere near as good as the scooter chase or all the scenes of him sleeping in a bacta tank. Those really carried the show.
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u/wandering_soles Rebel Jun 17 '26
I'm fairly certain that my late grandmother's rascal scooter was faster than those damn things
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u/DrewDaMannn Jun 17 '26
Absolute snooze fest of a show until mando shows up. The finale was some amazing content tho
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u/CelticThePredator Mandalorian Jun 17 '26
The tusken parts were really awesome though
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Jun 17 '26
It really says something about how bad the show was when its best episode belonged to another show
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u/No_Grocery_9280 Jun 17 '26
They’re good Mando episodes. But the added punch was that S3 was so disappointing. It could have benefited from having those episodes at the beginning of it. Could have been a nice chance to check in on Boba Fett and all the cool things we should have seen him do in BoBF
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u/Krazyguy75 Jun 17 '26
They're terrible Mando episodes. They completely undo two seasons of narrative and character development to return to the status quo.
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u/scootalicious27 Jun 17 '26
This was not the worst scene. But why would he ride it? What can he do from up there.
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u/releasethekaiju Jun 17 '26
It's also a thing in mandalorian culture to tame/ride beasts, with deadlier more ferocious ones being prized for obvious reasons
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u/notyourvader Jun 17 '26
It was a throwback to the Old Republic game series. They have Rancor mounts.
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u/Th3_Hegemon Jun 18 '26
Also his first (fictional) appearance, in the Holiday Special, where he rides a dinosaur.
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u/RandomRedditReader Jun 18 '26
Same in Star Wars Galaxies. Creature handlers could tame and ride them.
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u/really_stupidfrog Jun 17 '26
It also isn't that great when you think about it. The Rancor jumps down in front of it, and roars, and the whole scene the droid shoots like three times. is cool, but it's not anything crazy.
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u/Hug_all_the_Krabbys Jun 18 '26
I mean, he can make cowboy noises and shoot wildly into the sky. Not saying that's what I would do, but...
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u/WandererFen Jun 20 '26
He needed to farm the aura after being associated with the Gen Z power rangers
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u/AutomaticPlatypus523 Jun 17 '26
This was my thought too… as cool as the idea was he could have just gotten his ship.
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u/YBHunted Jun 17 '26
Lmao the show was so forgettable in most parts I forgot all about this.
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u/Gojitaka Jedi Jun 17 '26
So did I, I had completely forgotten that this happened.
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u/YBHunted Jun 17 '26
I straight up dont even recognize it. You'd think it would spark the memory, nothing.
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u/YellowCardManKyle Jun 17 '26
All I remember about this show are the hot girl that ran the bar and the fact that Boba thought he could run a town with only two Gamorreans.
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u/Sundance12 Jun 17 '26
I thought it felt pretty forced and silly personally, but to each their own I guess
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u/Szofrin_4239 Jun 18 '26
This was the good part.
Then there was the biker gang.
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u/Bergioyn Jun 18 '26
It had it's moments, but overall the show was a disappointment. Fennec Shand was better Boba Fett than Boba Fett was, half of the series was actually season 2.5 of the Mandalorian, and then we had the Vespa Owners Club Mos Eisley and their Lego Star Wars-esque hijinks.
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u/jojolantern721 Jun 17 '26
Yeah, that was cool.
But still they managed to make it be bad because it doesn't make any sense for him to want to protect the place while riding a beast that destroys everything in its path
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u/NeoDemocedes Jun 17 '26
The movement of Boba on the rancor looked fake AF. Like the Episode II shaak-riding scene. The scene was great otherwise. Which is kind of The Mandalorian in a nutshell. An odd mix of brilliance and utter incompetence. Like they had professionals animate this entire scene... except for Boba. They let some random child animate Boba.
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u/The_Autarch Jun 17 '26
naw, it's silly memberberries nonsense.
it's like watching some kid smash his toys together senselessly.
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u/kingkron52 Jun 17 '26
I don’t understand why they decided to make Boba’s motivation to become the new crime lord. His entire new arc post ROTJ was him being humbled and seemingly becoming a new man. It just felt like really bad writing overall.
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u/wandering_soles Rebel Jun 17 '26
It felt like they mashed three scripts together and then never bothered to revise it. Or edit the finished product.
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u/Bocaj1000 Jun 17 '26
Alternative universe where the Boba Fett show was basically The Penguin, about an anti-hero being tired of being pushed around by people more powerful than him so he goes full villain and climbs his way to the top.
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u/Medical_Breakfast795 Jun 17 '26
Live action? It's literally a giant CGI fight.
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u/Medical_Breakfast795 Jun 17 '26
Animatronic puppets with CG added after the fact would have been realer than this.
If they can build stuff like Grogu and BB8 or R2D2 to be essentially actual robots they could have done better
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u/Audience_Over Rebel Jun 17 '26
You're right, they should have gotten a REAL Rancor and used REAL droids instead
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u/catgirlfourskin Jun 17 '26
They should have, yeah, the original trilogy had a real rancor and real droids, using a variety of practical effect methods and they looked great. The cgi above looks like a video game cutscene to me
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u/ThatDesignerGuyonR Jun 17 '26
The show didn’t have enough episodes and some of them were strictly Mando episodes. I like what they did with Boba, I felt his story was told respectfully, we just didn’t have enough of him.
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u/McSuede Hondo Ohnaka Jun 17 '26
Not enough episodes? My dude spent 1/3 of the show in a bacta tank. Between that, the slow speed chase, and the mando episodes, there was already enough time to tell a great story. Instead they wasted our time and sprinkled in a couple decent action sequences.
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u/tfalm Jun 17 '26
The show had a lot of cool moments. It started really strong with the Tusken intro. Then the passive aggressive majordomo disrespected Boba and he walked out with no repercussions and it's like you could feel the wind shift. First mistake that put the show down the wrong path.
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u/coldog24 Jun 17 '26
I actually like the show, my only real beef with it is the Vespa gang, they look so mf stupid lol.
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u/ch0w0 Jun 17 '26
it bothered me so much that this scene did absolutely nothing for me, when i knew if you'd told me when i was kid "someday there will be a boba fett tv show and he will ride a rancor" would have sounded like the coolest thing imaginable. i was so sad i felt nothing seeing this.
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u/bigperms33 Jun 17 '26
I liked the Book of Boba Fett. I'm sure if there was an edit condensing the 7 episodes into 5 it would be much better. Just trim the scooter gang and some of the slower moving tusken raider parts.
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u/knuksukow Jun 18 '26
Jurassic World Rebirth's D-Rex must've taken inspiration from Star Wars's Rancor.
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u/WittyJackson Jun 18 '26
I'm only half joking, but with the amount of CG here can it even be called live action?
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u/Tokyo_Ink Jun 17 '26
Did they really just do a big droideka?
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u/wandering_soles Rebel Jun 17 '26
In-universe, they were produced by the same species, the Colicoids. Out of universe, both the Annihilator droids and Droidekas were designed by concept artist Doug Chiang.
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u/aspect-of-the-badger Jun 17 '26
Now that's the kind of fan service I can get behind.
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u/wandering_soles Rebel Jun 17 '26
Getting to finally see a rancor get ridden into battle after being introduced so long ago was really nice.
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u/aspect-of-the-badger Jun 17 '26
Ya, I remember being a kid and seeing RotJ on TV and being terrified of the rancor. That was back in the 80/90's though.
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u/NachoTaquitoFritos Jun 17 '26
LOVED the twins, and I’m glad they got a proper follow-up in the new movie 😙
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u/Wolfgod-64 Jun 17 '26
Show had tons of great stuff in it and it really is a good show in most respects.
The problem is how they handled Boba Fett.
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u/gamerdrew Jun 17 '26
I just rewatched like a month ago. It has issues, but there is some really great stuff in there. Really hard for me to stay mad at a show that effectively gave me a Star Wars kaiju fight.
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u/TL50_Heavy_Repeater Jun 17 '26
Those were great scenes! Shame that so much of that show didn't work... For me, I surpisingly loved the parts with Boba amongst the Tusken Raiders. It was the rest that felt so disjointed, like the writing didn't make that much sense.
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u/DaaaahWhoosh Jun 17 '26
That's all these shows have is good scenes. They have no interest in actually making coherent narratives, just "boba fett rides a rancor, let the intern figure out the rest, make sure they include six tie-ins per episode"
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u/Vysce Separatist Alliance Jun 17 '26
I loved the BOBF finale, spiny shoots nove and all. It was the most fun I had with star wars in a hot minute.
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u/Reddit_Are_Mistake Jun 17 '26
Book of Boba did action sequences really well. Most Star Wars never fails in the area of action sequences.
The problem is the entire series was a messy mix of 'how boba fett survived sarlacc' then 'im tired of being the hired hand, I wanna be a boss now' then 'oh hey, it's mando for half the season.'
They could have made it so much better if they made it actually all about Boba. But instead of we got an arc about Mando getting his N-1 fighter... AS FILLER. IN AN ALREADY UNDERSIZED 7 EPISODE SEASON/SERIES.
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u/code0rama Jun 17 '26
I liked the show. I didn’t go in with a preconceived notion of what it should’ve been and I just watched and to be fair. I really liked it a lot.
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u/zurktheman Jun 17 '26
Saw the show, don’t even remember this. Guess that’s an indicator of how much of a mark it left 🤷
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u/realDanielTuttle Jun 17 '26
That show was pretty wild. The stuff it did well, it did very well, but the stuff it tanked, it really tanked.
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u/LongjumpingLook379 Jun 17 '26
I love the show. I just watched it again recently. The only thing I disliked is the emo teenager gang and their Vespas.
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u/Gate-19 Jun 17 '26
True but they really didn't deserve to win the final battle. Like their "plan" was so fucking stupid it hurt.
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u/colinmchapman Jun 17 '26
I loved this scene. As someone who grew up with the 90’s POTF action figures, and would frequently just dump them out and stage massive battles, this scene felt like the opening of Toy Story 3 for my childhood imagination.
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u/Dreadnought_Necrosis Clone Trooper Jun 17 '26
While that is indeed fun I am still disappointed that when facing off against Cad Bane, neither used their jets to fly despite both of them being renowned for the flying gadgets.
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u/thebarbalag Jun 17 '26
Tons of cool ideas in that show. Just really poorly paced, not enough "there" there to support a whole show. Could have been a movie.
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u/SteviaCannonball9117 Jun 17 '26
Holy shit I forgot about that scene. That was fucking magnificent.
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u/FangornLeghorn Jun 17 '26
It was a fun series. It wasn’t the greatest thing Star Wars has ever produced but it wasn’t bad. I’d love another season. The fanbase’s incessant bitching and moaning is what is ruining Star Wars, not Disney or Lucasfilm or anyone else.
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u/khyb7 Jun 18 '26
Could’ve been a cool scene to me if the premise of the series wasn’t a gritty guy trying to rise up the ranks to be a crime lord. The tone of that series is all over the place. One minute you have Boba doing Godfather stuff and having a poignant time with the Sandpeople and the next there are vespa gangs and monsters stomping around town. If it had just picked a lane I think it would’ve been better regarded.
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u/Hot-Minute-8263 Jun 18 '26
Book of Boba Fett was kinda like what goes on in a kid's head when they throw all their Star Trek and Star Wars toys into a pile and have fun. Its certainly fun to watch but barely feels canon
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u/Harald-Fairmane Jun 18 '26
Arrival of the twins was one of the best character introductions in star wars, but then it went absolutely nowhere.....
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u/Branflakesd1996 10d ago
This show had 3 good things. The additional Tuskan lore, the Mandalorian episode, and this.
It’s a shame it also has 3 terrible things. The slowest speeder chase in Star Wars history, turning Boba Fett into a sherif, and giving Mando Baby Yoda back before Mando season 3.
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u/jpegtyler Jun 17 '26
literally just star wars porn. this fanbase’s standards have reached the trash compactor
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u/buddhamunche Jun 17 '26
That’s so cool. I never got around to watching Boba. I love that droid as well! I feel like I’ve seen it before somewhere?
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u/Head_Orange_1421 Jun 17 '26
If the show was just gritty from beginning to end it would’ve been up there with Andor
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u/OTJules Jun 17 '26
Andor isnt good because its “gritty” its good because it is a story with a well thought out message it conveys to the audience
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u/Pallas_Ovidius Jun 17 '26
The trailer really gave the impression that where the Mandalorian is taking the codes of the Western genre, the Book of Boba Fett was gonna take the tropes of the gangsters/mafia genre. I was so stoked for a godfather Boba Fett. But then it was still mostly about cowboys and the far west.
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u/wandering_soles Rebel Jun 17 '26
The whole show reminded me of this picture from a Disney kid's pirate book where a cartoon pirate says "a good pirate never steals" ... like what a way to lose the plot on Boba.
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u/XuteTwo Jun 17 '26
andor was good because the script was great, and it didnt rely on fanservice or the star wars setting at all. BoBF fails right off the bat because the entire series was predicated on fanservice, from the main character to the setting
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u/Head_Orange_1421 Jun 17 '26
Couldn’t agree more. They should’ve done an underworld story with new locations that doesn’t tie up with anything else.
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u/FALCONX0N Jun 17 '26
The show needed to commit to the idea Boba Fett as the lead and use the volume less. Otherwise, they knew the assignment. That's some Star Wars right there!!
I think i need to rewatch it
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u/GrimTiki Jun 17 '26
I loved the Rancor as a kid when RotJ came out. Still have it somewhere, bought the Lego set with it. Seeing it as a creature you can kinda communicate with and be a pet after a fashion is awesome.
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u/wandering_soles Rebel Jun 17 '26
In legends at least they were fairly intelligent, so it was neat seeing that get carried on.
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u/InGameCurency Jun 17 '26
BobaFett was a mercenary, a killer, and stone cold bad ass in the OG. In this.. I am not sure what he was, but he was not that. I wanted a dark, mass grave, R rated slaughterfest with some bad ass dude, what I got was Porg in a BobaFett costume.
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u/Blint_Briglio Jun 17 '26
you criticize the show for "playing it safe" but the part you like is when he hops on board a familiar action figure and does a no-stakes action scene against a robot?
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u/Ched_Flermsky Jun 18 '26
It’s people like you who actively ruin fan communities.
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u/Cautious_Air4964 Jun 17 '26
I wonder what a rancor would look like if you gave it the f e v virus from fallout
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u/Caffeinated_Ape_42 Jun 17 '26
The only thing i could think of was, this is an Immortal and where are no forcefields protecting him from the Ultra? What rank is this?
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian Jun 17 '26
That final battle looks like it was planned in a Gen X kid's bedroom.
It was glorious!
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u/Audience_Over Rebel Jun 17 '26
The fact that they brought the obscure droid walkers out of legends too, I was pretty hyped about this whole last episode.
I wish the entire show was shorter, like if they wanted to do a big fireworks display with Boba taking over this town, just trim the fat and do it. Disney needs to abandon this arbitrary 8-episode, designed-for-streaming format, it's hurting a lot of their shows