Spoilers Book of Boba Fett [Spoiler Discussion]
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Fun seeing a LEP servant droid as a live action puppet. Indeed, one thing this show has been doing very well is not drawing any real distinction between prequel era material and the OT favourites; it makes it feel much more like a coherent world.
Case in point: the Sarlacc! Introducing it in it's classic open maw design while it was dormant, then utilising the beak for a jump-scare. Indeed, as with the LEP I'm pretty sure the beak effect itself was achieved practically; The same basic "sock puppet" approach as the space slug unless I'm mistaken. As soon as I saw they were taking Slave One to the pit of carkoon, a seismic charge was inevitable. Though why they didn't just send a remote down there to look for the armor is beyond me. I mean yeah, it would melt, but no faster than Boba's face, surely?
The holoscan of the hangar really helps to drive home just how huge the Palace complex is. I roughed up a 3D model of the area a few weeks back to try and get a sense of the layout and scale, and while the main keep is gigantic, the underground tunnels are also extensive. Honestly, I think Boba would struggle to hold even such a fortified position without a LOT more muscle to cover all that ground.
Nice to see BK is on the payroll, and in his defence: that arm will grow back . . .
While we still don't have a solid sense of how much time passed, it has been "years" plural since RotJ. The five they've been saying seems a little excessive though. Two or three maybe? He seemed to hatch the train job plan fairly early on, probably within the first year or so. IIRC as per the BF games, the Empire in Mos Eisley were defeated well before Jakku, and those helmets looked freshly spiked. Meaning the massacre would have been at the end of the first year, or thereabouts.
I can't imagine he was camped out at Jabba's palace for more than a few months before 'The Gunslinger' started happening in the background, so that puts it at maybe two years at a stretch?
One point I'm not exactly clear on though: in what sense did Bib double-cross Boba? Boba chose to jump into close combat over a Sarlacc ,against a Jedi. It's his own damn fault he got knocked into it's gullet! Was it for leaving him there? Max made it out of that wreck too and I don't see him on the receiving end of Boba's vengeance, and besides, he'd been swallowed! He didn't break out until at least a few hours later, by which point any other survivors would be long gone.
Unless of course he somehow thinks Bib had that deck gunner fire on him on purpose? Seems a little convoluted.
I assume from that last music cue that they're about to bring Dyn back into the story? Maybe hire a few more familiar faces? Maybe hire a whole damn covert of Watch Mandos as muscle?
Case in point: the Sarlacc! Introducing it in it's classic open maw design while it was dormant, then utilising the beak for a jump-scare. Indeed, as with the LEP I'm pretty sure the beak effect itself was achieved practically; The same basic "sock puppet" approach as the space slug unless I'm mistaken. As soon as I saw they were taking Slave One to the pit of carkoon, a seismic charge was inevitable. Though why they didn't just send a remote down there to look for the armor is beyond me. I mean yeah, it would melt, but no faster than Boba's face, surely?
The holoscan of the hangar really helps to drive home just how huge the Palace complex is. I roughed up a 3D model of the area a few weeks back to try and get a sense of the layout and scale, and while the main keep is gigantic, the underground tunnels are also extensive. Honestly, I think Boba would struggle to hold even such a fortified position without a LOT more muscle to cover all that ground.
Nice to see BK is on the payroll, and in his defence: that arm will grow back . . .
While we still don't have a solid sense of how much time passed, it has been "years" plural since RotJ. The five they've been saying seems a little excessive though. Two or three maybe? He seemed to hatch the train job plan fairly early on, probably within the first year or so. IIRC as per the BF games, the Empire in Mos Eisley were defeated well before Jakku, and those helmets looked freshly spiked. Meaning the massacre would have been at the end of the first year, or thereabouts.
I can't imagine he was camped out at Jabba's palace for more than a few months before 'The Gunslinger' started happening in the background, so that puts it at maybe two years at a stretch?
One point I'm not exactly clear on though: in what sense did Bib double-cross Boba? Boba chose to jump into close combat over a Sarlacc ,against a Jedi. It's his own damn fault he got knocked into it's gullet! Was it for leaving him there? Max made it out of that wreck too and I don't see him on the receiving end of Boba's vengeance, and besides, he'd been swallowed! He didn't break out until at least a few hours later, by which point any other survivors would be long gone.
Unless of course he somehow thinks Bib had that deck gunner fire on him on purpose? Seems a little convoluted.
I assume from that last music cue that they're about to bring Dyn back into the story? Maybe hire a few more familiar faces? Maybe hire a whole damn covert of Watch Mandos as muscle?
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Chef Grevious! 
While I liked the flashbacks, I'm glad we've hit an endpoint and can keep the focus to the present. We got a bit more insight into motivations, which was appreciated.
Slave I descending on the biker gang and mowing them down was impressive.
Pretty solid entry.
While I liked the flashbacks, I'm glad we've hit an endpoint and can keep the focus to the present. We got a bit more insight into motivations, which was appreciated.
Slave I descending on the biker gang and mowing them down was impressive.
Pretty solid entry.
Oh dear, I think I just spotted a VFX error! In the shot where the Slave One is backing out of the pit after the charge went off, you can see what looks like the tip of one of the sarlacc's tentacles clipping out the back of the ship, between the engines. Collision mesh must have glitched.
Yeah, that seemed fairly obvious in the previous episode. One wonders why Boba didn't think that first. I mean, he's fought alongside the Tuskens and knows their capabilities. And he beat a half dozen of those those swoop bikers with nothing but a stick. It'd take a whole lot more then just a dozen of them to wipe out the whole tribe. Maybe he's just blinkered by revenge?
Ain't no such thing.
Not impossible, but not a character one can easily introduce without causing problems. Talon Karrde on the other hand is very doable . . . and if his right hand enforcer just happens to be a nameless, grumpy redheaded human woman with suspiciously fast reflexes, and a thing for tiny, tiny blasters (I never understood that part) then that's fine too.
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Bring on Mando.
I'm still expecting Qi'ra and Crimson Dawn to show up by the season finale.
The series continues to throw me in its embrace of the juvenile side of Star Wars. Much more so than The Mandalorian this seems like the one that the kids would want to watch (well, other than the old bald guy being the lead...). Silly droids, monsters and creatures, the youth gang with their mods from Spencer gifts, badass wookiees that aren't too badass and so on.
You would think Fennec would have chosen not to get the LED mods on her stealth drone.
You would think Fennec would have chosen not to get the LED mods on her stealth drone.
It definitely looks more like beskar when it was painted in Jango's colors. With the dents in it Boba must have run into some REALLY tough competition between The Clone Wars and the Original Trilogy.
I wouldn't put money on it. There's currently a Qi'ra centric story going on in the comics, (supposedly telling the fall of Crimson Dawn) set between tESB & RotJ.
Generally speaking, and for largely logistical reason; that's the kind of thing they do when they know live action media won't be needing a certain side character. (same basic reason why Phasma got so much tie-in material between TFA & TLJ; the movie people had no real plans for her character, so the publishing people could basically go nuts.)
If Qi'ra were set to appear then show then she likely would have been ring-fenced.
Star Wars was always and should always be appealing to kids. If there's something for us grumpy old farts to enjoy too, that's a bonus, not the other way around.
Clearly, they're made by the same people that make tracking beacons and covert listening devices with little blinky lights.You would think Fennec would have chosen not to get the LED mods on her stealth drone.
I get it from a production standpoint though. The audience has to be able to see the things after all, or else they'd just be dark smears zipping through a scene.
Most of the damage is to the paint job, which is kind of the point of it in the first place. Only one real dent in the whole thing is the one of the helmet, and there is a story behind how it got there . . .
I'd have kicked their asses.
Oh, you meant the biker kids. I think I finally figured out where I'd seen them before.
Oh, you meant the biker kids. I think I finally figured out where I'd seen them before.
I'd have kicked their asses.
Oh, you meant the biker kids. I think I finally figured out where I'd seen them before.
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