The Book of Boba Fett - Star Wars Series (Disney)

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Gerard said:
Really starting to think some people are watching a different show, this episode had a lot going on and yet still not enough, seemingly.
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It's not so much not having enough going on, it's more what is going on serves less purpose than the amount of time given to it. And then it gives pause when you think about it. Again, I liked it enough, but even I could count the ways where it could have served the whole Star Wars better in general if done differently. Not just this episode, but the whole series as a whole.
 
smokedog said:
It's ok, Boba is a grown man. You don't have to keep fighting his battles.
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But apparently whinging about anything possible is entirely fine.

smokedog said:
Anyway, the finale ended like how the season started... a disappointment. Final episode presented us with a set of poorly paced fight scenes which came across very cartoonish.
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Cartoonish fight sequences in a universe that the creator has said was made for kids? Well i never. I take it you've never watched the original movies thay have action sequences that make the three stooges seem serious by comparison? Small furry teddy bears taking on fully armed and armoured soldiers and winning, and not just a few soldiers, 6000 of their best vs 30 or 40 ewoks and a few rebels. A feared bounty hunter taken out by a blind man in a comical sequence.

Think you're putting far too much thought into a part of a universe that's dripping with cheese and cornball moments.
 
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Meddling-Monk said:
It's not so much not having enough going on, it's more what is going on serves less purpose than the amount of time given to it. And then it gives pause when you think about it. Again, I liked it enough, but even I could count the ways where it could have served the whole Star Wars better in general if done differently. Not just this episode, but the whole series as a whole.
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You're never gonna please everyone nomatter what was things are done in an episode, there's always going to be people saying they could have done it this way or that way, or this would have ade more sense etc. You can't really cover all the options as the episodes would need to be 2 or 3 times the length.
 
I think the argument "movies made for kids" is so old i think it is becoming redundant and in a lot of ways, don't hold any water anymore.

Marvel has shown that movies for kids these days can have good action that passes "just for kids" test. Just because your target audience ranges from 10 to 40, it doesn't mean you should still cater for the 10 year old, 40 years later. In a lot of ways you should cater towards those 40 year olds because they are the ones paying for it and the ones with the nostalgia factor.

There is no reason to have silly fight scenes, if you make it less clumsy it won't raise the age rating. I am not asking for blood on screen, just less stupid cannon fodders.

Just my opinion, people are free to disagree.
 
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The big droids - they actually felt menacing.

Rancor - it was nice to see how much destruction it could lay down

The plot twist showing all the groups turning on Boba. That was well done, even if the build up was tiny… I mean, they said “something feels wrong… pew pew pew”

Grogu - Showing that size matters not. That end scene in the star fighter made me smile

Fat Boba in his armour.

Boba and Mando standing in the open getting peppered with fire when they’ve both got jet packs.

Cad Bane’s death - they blew their load too soon. I felt he should have found a way out of that with some critical damage, but we got introduced to him just to see him die.

Over-reliance on Mando and Grogu. They’re great characters but when you’ve got them doing most of the leg work, then you know your title character is weak. I’d have preferred if Mando had left to go visit Grogu in episode 6 and we didn’t see them again.

Fennec - Did she even have 5 minutes of screen time? It felt like she showed up at the start, did some background sniping and vanished. Remember when she was a fearsome sniper? :p

The mods - completely pointless bantha fodder. Was hoping the Rancor would smash those stupid Vespa scooters and splat them.

Dark saber - it looked weak compared to the big droid but more importantly, Mando had full control after the big deal they made in episode 5. Would have been nice to see him get inside the shield then struggle with the blade causing him to get his ass whipped.
 
Gerard said:
You're never gonna please everyone nomatter what was things are done in an episode, there's always going to be people saying they could have done it this way or that way, or this would have ade more sense etc. You can't really cover all the options as the episodes would need to be 2 or 3 times the length.
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Whilst that may be true. I saw the bind they were in the moment the last episode finished. Basically, whislt we have hindsight over it all, it's still fairly easy to see that they went down a particular path, but were unoriginal with it. And then the direction of this last episode was... Too concentrating on things that were easily stuff that could have been cut down or removed. Again largely because they wrote themselves into a corner (much like the Doctor Who Timeless Child bit, a better set of writers and commited crew would have walked off that with heads held high instead of the heads hung in shame they are in now), and we could see they could only go so far with the remaining time left in the series (it should have been paced better). So someone messed up badly, I don't know who, but there's definitely someone who did a Mass Effect 3 ending (and reduced the point of previous stuff in the past to pointless stuff as well, like
Grogu's supposed choice
invalidating Seasons 1 and 2 of Mandalorian virtually and the big whoop of Luke's return at the end of Season 2).

It can still be recovered I would say, but again, it gets harder to do each time you muddy the waters unnecessarily. And they kinda did here with this series and last episode. Will continue to watch any future stuff as it's not dead in water like Doctor Who at moment, but they need to be careful. Again, they got a lot of good will back after Season 2, don't squander it so easily. Because there won't be a second revival after that.
 
EVH said:
The big droids - they actually felt menacing.

Rancor - it was nice to see how much destruction it could lay down

The plot twist showing all the groups turning on Boba. That was well done, even if the build up was tiny… I mean, they said “something feels wrong… pew pew pew”

Grogu - Showing that size matters not. That end scene in the star fighter made me smile

Fat Boba in his armour.

Boba and Mando standing in the open getting peppered with fire when they’ve both got jet packs.

Cad Bane’s death - they blew their load too soon. I felt he should have found a way out of that with some critical damage, but we got introduced to him just to see him die.

Over-reliance on Mando and Grogu. They’re great characters but when you’ve got them doing most of the leg work, then you know your title character is weak. I’d have preferred if Mando had left to go visit Grogu in episode 6 and we didn’t see them again.

Fennec - Did she even have 5 minutes of screen time? It felt like she showed up at the start, did some background sniping and vanished. Remember when she was a fearsome sniper? :p

The mods - completely pointless bantha fodder. Was hoping the Rancor would smash those stupid Vespa scooters and splat them.

Dark saber - it looked weak compared to the big droid but more importantly, Mando had full control after the big deal they made in episode 5. Would have been nice to see him get inside the shield then struggle with the blade causing him to get his ass whipped.
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Yeah, pretty much all this I agree with. Identical thoughts whilst watching it.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I think the argument "movies made for kids" is so old i think it is becoming redundant and in a lot of ways, don't hold any water anymore.
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For star wars it does, the rotj final battle was basically entirely made for kids. A legion (6000) of their best soldiers taken out by a few dozen ewoks and a few rebels. :cry:
 
EVH said:
The big droids - they actually felt menacing.

Rancor - it was nice to see how much destruction it could lay down

The plot twist showing all the groups turning on Boba. That was well done, even if the build up was tiny… I mean, they said “something feels wrong… pew pew pew”

Grogu - Showing that size matters not. That end scene in the star fighter made me smile

Fat Boba in his armour.

Boba and Mando standing in the open getting peppered with fire when they’ve both got jet packs.

Cad Bane’s death - they blew their load too soon. I felt he should have found a way out of that with some critical damage, but we got introduced to him just to see him die.

Over-reliance on Mando and Grogu. They’re great characters but when you’ve got them doing most of the leg work, then you know your title character is weak. I’d have preferred if Mando had left to go visit Grogu in episode 6 and we didn’t see them again.

Fennec - Did she even have 5 minutes of screen time? It felt like she showed up at the start, did some background sniping and vanished. Remember when she was a fearsome sniper? :p

The mods - completely pointless bantha fodder. Was hoping the Rancor would smash those stupid Vespa scooters and splat them.

Dark saber - it looked weak compared to the big droid but more importantly, Mando had full control after the big deal they made in episode 5. Would have been nice to see him get inside the shield then struggle with the blade causing him to get his ass whipped.
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Yep, very similar thoughts just watched it. Had great potential alas.
 
Still better than the latest Skywalker movies. Yes it was far from perfect but at least it was in the same ball park. Not the complete garbage from Rian and co.
 
Si. said:
Talk about bad guys not being able to hit a barn door.. Hero armour was strong this Episode..
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******* hell you weren't lying. Abysmal.

Series felt like a bang average filler episode of Mando made much worse by being 5 episodes long.
 
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I suspect with Marshal Vanth in the tank at the end waiting to get mods, that he'll take over from Fett. He was never meant to be the guy protecting the town forever, it was about revenge for the Tuscans.
 
Si. said:
Talk about bad guys not being able to hit a barn door.. Hero armour was strong this Episode..
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Tell me about it. The Wookie only has a couple of strips of ammo around him, but it looks like all the shots hit them?!

Raymond Lin said:
Just because your target audience ranges from 10 to 40
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Honestly, I think this target audience is 6 to 12 though. It's so simple and basic I feel like I'm watching Panto almost.

An example of what I find annoying and feels like it was written by two 6 year olds -

"Can you snipe them? I'll distract the droid" - pew pew

Now, the droid was already distracted, shooting at people in the the opposite direction. You, standing next to the sniper and shooting at the droid actually attracted it's attention and drew it's fire... Really?

Tbh, even just the continued shooting at the force field annoyed me. Guys, it's having no affect, think of something else to try... nope, pew pew...
 
Don't analyse these shows because they are technically simplistic garbage with a few feels and nostalgia.

Comic book circus levels of stupidity.

It is what is. Just appreciate what is good about them.

.wasted opportunity maybe?
 
The series was disjointed.

Great visual effects let down by poor action scenes.

Overall story arc acceptable but again let down by execution. Fragmented with the way they had 2 mandalorian episodes.

Some popular characters intermixed with some very poor ones like the biker gang.

Overall, I did enjoy it but I hope they learn from this for the next season.
 
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