Again, that’s not on the actors themselves, but on the roles they’re being asked to play. I’m not sure if this is me being more jaded on Boba than I am on Mando, but these felt like lesser versions of bringing in Timothy Olyphant and Amy Sedaris. Both do exactly what is asked of them, and do so better than a cheaper version of them would do without the budget to just go hire them, instead of looking for ‘Danny Trejo’ types on Backstage or whatever. Let me be fair: Stephen Root and Danny Trejo are good in their roles here. It might’ve been cheaper to just get Stephen Root and Danny Trejo to do Cameos on the app But hey, they look cool-ish, and give Boba some scouts, which may lead to some interesting scenes.ģ. These characters are given only the briefest of introductions and motivations (notice a theme emerging?), and come to work for Boba because they’ve got no place else to go. In this episode, Boba hires a cyberpunk scooter gang to work for him, and they quickly show how inept they are at stopping a single speeder without taking out residences and businesses in Mos Espa. There are good parts of this show, but so far, Boba’s characterization isn’t one of them. I was interested in this show, initially, because I was hoping that it would give Boba some more depth and motivation, but all it has done is make him even more unknowable and poorly written. The reason he wants the power just seems to be because he thought he could take it without too much incident. It’s also not like Jabba killed his dad or something (that would be Mace Windu) or that he felt that Jabba did his minions wrong and wants to save them. But his two predecessors were both killed in their palace, so its not like this is a job you ride out until retirement. This line of work, at least now, doesn’t appear to be much safer than being a bounty hunter, though I suppose you can look ahead and see that if he destroys his enemies, the mayor, and the other vying for his position, how it could be slightly more cushy. If he wants money, he can be a bounty hunter again we’ve seen how rich that can make someone based off of Din Djardin’s successes. Did the Sarlac pit excrete some sort of morality into him? It isn’t even like the experience with the Tuskens can be credited with the change in him, as he came to them, more or less, a changed man.īut even if we can squint and believe that Boba is a changed man because ‘reasons,’ there’s nothing really clear about why he wants to be daimyo. This is a changed Boba, but we don’t really know why or how he changed. The Boba we saw pre- Mandalorian was a bounty hunter who wanted to make money and had no qualms about doing terrible things to achieve that goal. The first, and most important question is about what Boba Fett’s motivations are in becoming the daimyo of Mos Espa are. There are a few questions at the heart of this show that, if answered by the producers going in, would have made the show a much easier one to write about or, at the very least, enjoy. I’m not really sure either, but I’ll do my best. This is a profoundly weird – and I don’t mean artistically daring – show that isn’t really sure what it is. Three weeks in, and I’m still not sure if I have a better sense of The Book of Boba Fett than I did at the start of the series.
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