Spoilers Book of Boba Fett [Spoiler Discussion]
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I think 3 episodes of flashbacks didn't help the show. They were interesting but could be a little shorter. They could have spent less time in the present walking around talking to crime bosses too. The framing of the flashbacks in the bacta tank was a bit uninspired when repeated numerous times, also repeating young Boba staring out the window.... The episode I really liked was Boba getting his ship back, blowing the bikers away, fighting the Sarlac pitt. That's what I was hoping the show would be more about with some gaps between ROTS and ANH filled in...
Or if you're going to do three episodes of flashbacks make your season longer than seven episodes. I get it, "this is the way people view shows now" or whatever but the least they could have done is give us a ten-episode first season so that we'd have had three more to wrap up the Pyke Syndicate threat and show more things happening.
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I am generally against going in with expectations about what a story will be and just letting the filmmaker tell the story they want to tell, but after the teaser at the end of Mando season 2 I would be lying if I did not acknowledge I was hoping for something closer to "Sopranos set in Star Wars." A bad guy taking over a crime family and the drama that comes from that. 2 excellent episodes of the Mandalorian here, though.
That was my favourite show in the 80's! I've read that Deep Fake also had some uncredited roles in V and Dynasty. Dated Pamela Anderson before she was featured in Playboy magazine.
^ The crossover episode with The Master was epic!
Me, too. If anything I feel like the flashbacks ended way too soon. It was implied that Fett spent years with the Tuskens but it didn't feel like that at all.
In retrospect I wish they'd spent this first season strictly on Fett settling into his new role as a daimyo and figuring out a new and better way to do things (creating tension between him and the other local daimyo), while extending his flashback storyline across all seven seasons and ending that with the tribe being destroyed in the season finale, and save the big conflict with the Pykes for next season. And I wish the Mando/Grogu storyline had also been saved for The Mandalorian season 3.
Because then the episode would have been over a lot faster. 
Sometimes the length of a story is determined by how stubborn, shortsighted and/or dumb the characters are.
Sometimes the length of a story is determined by how stubborn, shortsighted and/or dumb the characters are.
There was some really great, top-notch Star Wars content there, but it was like it was part of a stew of random elements thrown together.
Same reason he didn't break out the Rancor until he was out of options and the Pykes had escalated with the destroyer droids; no sense in destroying the city to save it.
That would be a good way to cover all their bases, and then they could release both versions, that way the people can get whichever actor they prefer.They should use Ehrenreich on set and then deep-fake Harrison Ford's face on him .
I hadn't really thought about it until people on here pointed it out, but I guess they never really did explain exactly why Boba Fett was doing all of this.
And there is a rather drastic change in tone from the Mando post-credits scene to the actual series itself.
I think the time with the Tuskens is supposed to be where he learned to believe in the value of others and ruling through respect but it's clumsy. You can read into it but it's not really made clear. If you were being generous you could say they were being subtle but that's debatable.
Similarly, I think they could have had Cad Bane be the one who carried out the slaughter on behalf of the Pykes which would've kept the story beats but added to the personal nature of their final conflict. Again, maybe that would be considered too heavy-handed.
I don't think it would be too heavy handed. I think it is better that way. The story is very strange in that the good guys and the bad guys are all cold blooded killers. How do we really differentiate them? We have Boba being resurrected by the Tuscans and if Cad Bane had killed them, you would have a true personal conflict with good and evil being clearer. As the story plays out, it all seems like business and even Cad Bane is surprised and a little stunned by the ruthless step by the Pykes. But he accepts it as a valid business strategy, just as Boba would have done years ago,