# The Book of Boba Fett **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [November 1, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653 "2021-11-01T20:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/261 "2022-01-29T05:49:17Z")
Id watch the fuck out of that [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ahR3JYqkJCk/hqdefault.jpg "José Feliciano - Chico And The Man Theme") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahR3JYqkJCk) ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/262 "2022-01-31T13:59:15Z")
So next ep? Fett’s continued story is waiting on D’jin finishing his quest to visit Grogu? Or does he show up having had that visit and we only find out what happened sometime later? (His developing skill at using Dark Saber or not will be pushed off, given that it is a manifestation of his lack of desire to rule or unite all Mandalorians or any clear direction at all and that is the next show.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/263 "2022-01-31T18:57:37Z")
I think we have an episode without Din Djarin while he’s away, and instead we see them recruit others. That’s my best guess. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/264 "2022-01-31T21:40:27Z")
Bossk: “Achhdrrr sss brtt kchhh ssst.”\* - “Boba Fett, you sunava bitch…I’m in!” ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/265 "2022-02-01T15:13:36Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Well, he’s not a Child of the Watch anymore, but it seems pretty clear that he still considers himself a Mandalorian (as per his insistence when asked to surrender his weapons). Din has learned that not all Mandalorians are as conservative as the sect that raised him, and seemed pretty skeptical of the Armorer’s insistence that Bo-Katan was a failure. Well…he is holding that Dark Saber that Bo-Katan isn’t leading Mandalore with. Also, who are they “leading”? Does anyone still live on Mandalore or are they all scattered across the galaxy in their inconspicuous indestructible armor? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/266 "2022-02-01T15:24:35Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Does anyone still live on Mandalore As far as I recall the lore, Mandalore was already uninhabitable except for the domed cities, and the bombardment cracked those open, and the droids hunted down stragglers _a la_ Terminator, so if there’s anyone still there it wouldn’t be very many and I don’t know where they’d be. Maybe in Chekhov’s mines, since they mentioned them so prominently in the episode. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/267 "2022-02-01T19:41:49Z")
I get the impression of a Diaspora, a people scattered in Exile. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/268 "2022-02-02T09:25:41Z")
Just when I think “I’m sure they wouldn’t go to the effort to do something as complicated as that” they prove me wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/269 "2022-02-02T10:07:46Z")
A lot to unpack about this episode, so I’ll just mention one thing I noticed - in Grogu’s flashback to Order 66, he’s wearing the same coat as he has on now, so apparently he’s been dressed the same for 28 years now. I really hope Luke was able to get a chance to wash it. Also, the Man in Black who shot down Cobb Vanth (which is either a Johnny Cash song or something from the Dark Tower series) is apparently an EU character named Cad Bane, a bounty hunter who was a contemporary of Jango Fett and worked for Palpatine during the Clone Wars and has fought Fennec in the past. I assume there’s going to be a climactic fight between him and Boba at some point. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/270 "2022-02-02T10:18:12Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > is apparently an EU character named Cad Bane Not really EU (Expanded Universe). He was introduced within the _Clone Wars_ animated TV show, which was executive produced by George Lucas personally. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/271 "2022-02-02T11:54:11Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > He was introduced within the _Clone Wars_ animated TV show, which was executive produced by George Lucas personally. Well, that explains why his name is “Cad Bane”. George was never big on subtlety when it came to naming characters. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/272 "2022-02-02T13:01:02Z")
And was in Bad Batch where he fought Fennec. This was a turducken of an episode. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/273 "2022-02-02T14:39:09Z")
> [@TwoCarrotSnowman](#): > > More generally, I thought this was a great episode of the Mandalorian. Like others in the thread, I was surprised that they took a whole episode away from the main BOBF characters, but I’m not complaining. I loved Fargo, and that was a show that wasn’t afraid to branch off from the main story for an odd episode. It is a bad sign, though, that the best episode of this show, by a very wide margin, was the one in which Boba Fett never appears. I note Bryce Dallas Howard directed the episode, too, and the higher quality of direction shows. She has an eye for Star Wars. > [@Miller](#): > > Sure, but there’s a difference between bounties set by a legitimate government or law enforcement agency, and a bounty set by a crime lord. The universe of Star Wars is clearly one in which there is very little law enforcement at all, and might makes right. People seem to just accept that it’s a sort of feudal world where being a crime lord isn’t all that far from being a legitimate authority. Tatooine is an extreme example, as @Smapti points out - it’s basically the wild west - but even elsewhere, you don’t see much law enforcement. In “Attack of the Clones” you have scenes of hideous violence in the middle of Coruscant and no one runs up and asks the Jedi to show some ID and why there’s a dead person there. It’s like having a gunfight in the middle of Paris and no cops showing up. Granted that movie is awful and makes no sense, but this sort of thing seems true EVERYWHERE in Star Wars, in all the media. In “The Last Jedi” when Rose and Finn get in trouble for parking their ship in the wrong place it’s an odd, standing-out moment. And I got the sense casino security did that, not any sort of sovereign authority. Even the Empire had fairly limited local powers; they’d come in to do a smash-shit-up type operation but unless they had an immediate interest in what was happening locally there didn’t seem to be much law enforcement going on; even in “Star Wars” Tarkin outright says they’re relying on the local governors for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/274 "2022-02-02T14:48:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Well, that explains why his name is “Cad Bane”. George was never big on subtlety when it came to naming characters. Yeah, I keep expecting Lucas to give us a villain named Darth NutPunch. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/275 "2022-02-02T18:16:56Z")
A this point I don’t think Boba makes the top ten coolest characters in his own show. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/276 "2022-02-02T21:59:41Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Yeah, I keep expecting Lucas to give us a villain named Darth NutPunch. Imperial Officer: Your offer is tempting, but can I trust you? Darth Betrayu: Oh, yeah. I’m totally trustworthy. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/277 "2022-02-02T22:14:18Z")
The visual for this episode: [![](https://i.imgur.com/DtpoqFu.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/DtpoqFu.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/278 "2022-02-02T22:22:09Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The universe of Star Wars is clearly one in which there is very little law enforcement at all, and might makes right. People seem to just accept that it’s a sort of feudal world where being a crime lord isn’t all that far from being a legitimate authority. Tatooine is an extreme example, as @Smapti points out - it’s basically the wild west - but even elsewhere, you don’t see much law enforcement. In “Attack of the Clones” you have scenes of hideous violence in the middle of Coruscant and no one runs up and asks the Jedi to show some ID and why there’s a dead person there. It’s like having a gunfight in the middle of Paris and no cops showing up. Granted that movie is awful and makes no sense, but this sort of thing seems true EVERYWHERE in Star Wars, in all the media. In “The Last Jedi” when Rose and Finn get in trouble for parking their ship in the wrong place it’s an odd, standing-out moment. And I got the sense casino security did that, not any sort of sovereign authority. Fan-wank: that’s the reason the Imperials, First Order, etc persist–there is an actual need for law and order in the galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/279 "2022-02-02T23:24:16Z")
The return of Marshal Raygun Givens! RIP 😥 (Or maybe not. Cad Bane just shot him once, as opposed to the poor deputy who got a half dozen or so blaster shots to the chest. And it looked like one of the locals was rushing to his side with a medkit. He _might_ still turn up alive and gunning for revenge in the finale…). After getting a stealth _The Mandalorian_ Season 3 episode last week, we got a stealth _Jedi Academy_ pilot this week. _The Book of Boba Fett_ is only seven episodes, and of those the title character was virtually entirely absent from two. I’m really not sure what the heck Favreau is trying to do here. It’s like he thought it would be a super-cool premise to show Boba Fett as King Conan…and then just had no idea what to do with that beyond the iconic shot of him on Jabba’s throne, but he was committed to delivering _something_ to D+ at that point. So we get this. > [@DigitalC](#): > > A this point I don’t think Boba makes the top ten coolest characters in his own show. Mando Marshal Raygun Givens Ahsoka Tano Jedi Master Luke Black Krrsantan Cad Bane Fennec Shand Mandalorian Armorer Baby Yoda ? I don’t know. I think he might make the top _ten_… ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/280 "2022-02-02T23:30:57Z")
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