# 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:** 29
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/561 "2022-02-16T20:49:26Z")
I liked how he went looking in the Sarlacc for his armor, apparently forgetting what happened to it. We’ve all been there. Torn up a living room looking for a phone…then remember where it is. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/562 "2022-02-16T20:54:16Z")
Solo sorrrrrtaaaa has a redemption arc…I mean if by arc you mean…“Ohhh fuccckkkk OK Chewie stop bugging me, turn the ship around. Damn where is everyone? Is that Luke?” Btw, the Rebels had to immediately abandon their base, am I to believe someone got a bug up Solos ass and made him turn the money back to the Rebels?? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/563 "2022-02-16T21:07:11Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Aka, how George wrote the prequel trilogy. I actually disagree with this kind of strongly. I think Lucas had a pretty good plan for the prequels. There’s the bones of a pretty good story there with a beginning, middle and end. His problem was that he a) didn’t know how to write it, b) started bolting extraneous stuff on that made it feel kind of convoluted. ---
**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 16, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/564 "2022-02-16T22:27:53Z")
I mean…that sounds kind of exactly like _The Book of Boba Fett_. There’s the bones of a pretty good story there. There’s a beginning (Boba Fett takes Jabba’s throne, and tries to establish himself as the new Daimyo of Tatooine), there’s a middle (Boba struggles to establish himself as the legitimate successor and fight off rivals and challengers for Jabba’s empire from within and without), and an end (Boba rallies the allies he’s made along the way, with a guest appearance by The Mandalorian!, defeats his foes, and establishes himself securely as the new Daimyo of Tatooine). The problem was that Favreau, et al, a) didn’t know how to write it, b) bolted extraneous stuff on that made it feel kind of convoluted. ---
**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 16, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/565 "2022-02-16T22:47:41Z")
The bit at the end, where all the sub-bosses who betrayed Fett get murdered by Fennec Shan - that absolutely should have been Boba Fett pulling the trigger on them. Instead, I’m guessing that they’re setting up a rift between Boba and Fennec for the next season, where he gets all butt-hurt that she murdered a pack of disloyal criminals. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/566 "2022-02-16T23:08:02Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I doubt very much Disney+ would have tolerated that. More’s the pity. Well, that was kind of my point - they didn’t want a villain as a protagonist, and so they nerfed him, to the detriment of the story. ---
**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 17, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/567 "2022-02-17T00:29:53Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The bit at the end, where all the sub-bosses who betrayed Fett get murdered by Fennec Shan - that absolutely should have been Boba Fett pulling the trigger on them. Instead, I’m guessing that they’re setting up a rift between Boba and Fennec for the next season, where he gets all butt-hurt that she murdered a pack of disloyal criminals. I thought Fett ordered Shand to do a decapitation strike. ---
**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 17, 2022, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/568 "2022-02-17T00:35:01Z")
Hopefully, but him getting angry at Fennec for killing them would fit better with the generally toothless way they portrayed him in the series. ---
**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 17, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/569 "2022-02-17T02:14:44Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I think Lucas had a pretty good plan for the prequels. If he had, I doubt that there would have been 16 years between releasing ROtJ and TPM. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/570 "2022-02-17T02:18:05Z")
Fennec was more badass at the end of the finale than Boba was the entire rest of the series. On the other hand, they did good cop, bad cop pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/571 "2022-02-17T02:18:32Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > If he had, I doubt that there would have been 16 years between releasing ROtJ and TPM. My understanding is that that much time passed because: - By 1983, Lucas was burned out after doing nothing but Star Wars films for nine years - In interviews around the time of the announcement of the prequels, he said that part of the reason he had waited until then was that he finally felt that CGI technology had advanced to the point where he could finally tell the stories the way he wanted to tell them ---
**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 17, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/572 "2022-02-17T02:18:34Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The bit at the end, where all the sub-bosses who betrayed Fett get murdered by Fennec Shan Anyone else think that was partially inspired by _Leon_? Especially with hanging the mayor from above. ---
**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 17, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/573 "2022-02-17T02:19:50Z")
Yeah, if you don’t like one of Lucas’s explainations of why he did something, wait 5 minutes. There will be a new version. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/574 "2022-02-17T20:18:48Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Solo sorrrrrtaaaa has a redemption arc…I mean if by arc you mean…“Ohhh fuccckkkk OK Chewie stop bugging me, turn the ship around. Damn where is everyone? Is that Luke?” > > Btw, the Rebels had to immediately abandon their base, am I to believe someone got a bug up Solos ass and made him turn the money back to the Rebels?? There is absolutely no “sorta” about it. His redemption is the core of his character. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/575 "2022-02-18T18:12:00Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Fennec was more badass at the end of the finale than Boba was the entire rest of the series. On the other hand, they did good cop, bad cop pretty well. It absolutely felt like she could overthrow Boba at any point in the season. She’s smarter and stronger. It’s actually sad how they did Boba in this series ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/576 "2022-02-18T18:42:24Z")
Seriously, everyone was more badass than Boba. He seemed like the kind of old man who carries caramels in his pocket and would rather sit with his legs under a blanket doing his crosswords than one of the most ruthless bounty hunters in the galaxy now sitting atop Jabba the Hutt’s criminal enterprise. Maybe, perhaps, Boba Fett was just never as cool as our imaginations led us to believe he was. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/577 "2022-02-18T18:47:47Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Maybe, perhaps, Boba Fett was just never as cool as our imaginations led us to believe he was. That’s been pretty obvious since his “demise” in _Return of the Jedi_. What a stupid way to die. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/578 "2022-02-18T18:54:52Z")
Yeah. When did we see Boba being the badass that everybody expected in this series? What movie was that in? The myth of Boba Fett way outgrew the reality of the character in the actual movies. That’s the trouble with making new Star Wars stuff. The mythology and emotional attachment/investment to the SW universe over the last, well, 40+ years has made it almost impossible to live up to for new content for much of the fan base. Of course the quality varies, some shows/movies are better than others. Everybody’s opinions are valid and all that. But I try to remove my pre-existing expectations as much as I can and just enjoy what is in front of me. Not that my method is right, or right for anyone else. It’s just how I do, and why I have been able to enjoy the prequels, sequels and the Disney plus shows for what they were. Again ymmv. This is just about my personal way of engaging SW content these days. ---
**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 18, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/579 "2022-02-18T19:06:36Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > When did we see Boba being the badass that everybody expected in this series? He outsmarted Han Solo, and was apparently so hard-core that _Darth Vader_ had to tell him to tone it down. That’s a pretty strong intro. ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/580 "2022-02-18T19:19:51Z")
I don’t think that’s enough to account for the legendary inflation of him into what he became perceived as just based on that short amount of screen time. Plus the way he “died” kinda affects things too. He was almost a blank slate in a cool costume that all us kids could make up whatever stories we wanted to while playing with his action figure. It’s hard to make a film about that character for us as adults with all of that baggage that will still satisfy everyone. I give the series 8 out of 10. Not perfect. Had its flaws, but I had a good time watching it. That’s enough for me, and really what I think this stuff is all about. Fun. Again ymmv. We aren’t all looking for the same thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653.md?page=28) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653.md?page=30)