# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/121 "2022-01-13T09:35:06Z")
Ah. That was my mistake. Whenever I took HK, I would have him kill everyone, since I was playing dark side. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/122 "2022-01-13T17:08:43Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > That was exactly my thought when I saw the Space Mods and their scooters all tricked out with mirrors. Am I the only one who thought they looked like the kind of thing you would ride on a mid-70s carnival ride? ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/123 "2022-01-13T17:27:54Z")
All I know, is if you just had a droid eye implanted in the back of your head, you wouldn’t need all those mirrors. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/124 "2022-01-13T17:36:25Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Am I the only one who thought they looked like the kind of thing you would ride on a mid-70s carnival ride? I was thinking repuslorlift Vespas. I kind of get what the show was going for there, with the not-quite-serious local “biker gang” (in contrast to the very serious Nikto biker gang in the flashback timeframe). But I also thought it didn’t quite work. I think a big part of the problem is that the series was created by Jon Favreau, who’s also credited as the writer for the three episodes so far, but the show runner, who also directed the first episode, is Robert Rodriguez. And I don’t think their visions are fully compatible, so we’re getting kind of a hybrid that doesn’t quite work. I think maybe Favreau and Filoni were hoping for the Robert Rodriguez who directed _Desperado_ and _Sin City_, and instead got the Robert Rodriguez who directed _Spy Kids_. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/125 "2022-01-13T17:38:20Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > Robert Rodriguez who directed _Spy Kids_ Those were entertaining movies! ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/126 "2022-01-13T17:38:25Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Am I the only one who thought they looked like the kind of thing you would ride on a mid-70s carnival ride? I thought of the iDaleks. > **[Doctor Who Faces The iDaleks](https://www.cultofmac.com/38657/doctor-who-faces-the-idaleks/)** > > Mid-way through what turned out to be be a pretty weak episode, the third in the latest series of Doctor Who broadcast by the BBC this evening, we were Others thought of Power Rangers. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/127 "2022-01-13T17:42:25Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Those were entertaining movies! I liked the first one, but thought they declined as the series went on. Regardless, I don’t think the issue is the _quality_, it’s the _tone_ and _style_. We’ve gotten The Mandalorian as the Man With No Name crossed with Lone Wolf and Cub. The Robert Rodiguez who directed _Desperado_ could do an _amazing_ job with Boba Fett as Yojimbo, which I think is maybe what Favreau and Filoni were originally aiming for. The Robert Rodriguez who directed _Spy Kids_ is still a very good director, but he’s making a _very_ different kind of movie. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/128 "2022-01-13T17:43:21Z")
They’re clearly mods, which makes the vicious bikers rockers. Whose side will the deaf, dumb, and blind Rancor take. ---
**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 13, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/129 "2022-01-13T18:02:48Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > but the show runner, who also directed the first episode, is Robert Rodriguez. It’s interesting how the episode that everyone has universally praised out of the three was the only one **not** directed by Rodriguez. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/130 "2022-01-13T18:32:45Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > They’re clearly mods, which makes the vicious bikers rockers. Whose side will the deaf, dumb, and blind Rancor take. He’s a mocker. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/131 "2022-01-13T18:36:44Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Others thought of Power Rangers. They looked very similar to the Power Rangers’ motorcycles, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/132 "2022-01-13T21:42:17Z")
Props to Carey Jones as Black Krrsantan; with just body language and looks, he radiated menace. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/133 "2022-01-13T22:07:54Z")
Certain parts of Twitter appreciate him. > **[Everyone Has the Hots for This Wookiee From The Book of Boba Fett](https://www.themarysue.com/black-krrsantan-book-of-boba-fett-hot-wookiee/)** > > There was a new hot Wookiee that caught our eye in 'Book of Boba Fett' and now we all want to know more about Black Krrsantan. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/134 "2022-01-13T23:34:56Z")
I concur with the view that the show doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Because basically Boba Fett is 1) a badass former bounty hunter who kicks ass, Mad Max style, and who 2) just wants everyone to be nice to each other, just because. Which, really, is the theme. Fett adopts Fennec, the Gammoreans, the kid gang, the rancor, the Tusken Raiders, and eventually probably our new Wookie friend too, in an attempt to usher in a kinder, gentler dystopian hellscape. And everyone else in the show is as baffled by this as we are. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/135 "2022-01-13T23:47:53Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Fett adopts Fennec, the Gammoreans, the kid gang, the rancor, the Tusken Raiders, and eventually probably our new Wookie friend too, in an attempt to usher in a kinder, gentler dystopian hellscape. Sounds like a genre of anime. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/136 "2022-01-13T23:56:28Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > and eventually probably our new Wookie friend too If the modern comics are considered canon (and I’m pretty sure that they are) they have already worked together before. > **[10 Things Only Star Wars Comic Book Fans Know About Black Krrsantan](https://screenrant.com/star-wars-black-krrsantan-comic-books-boba-fett/)** > > Black Krrsantan is a Wookiee bounty hunter who appeared in The Book of Boba Fett, but comic book fans know he came from Marvel Comics. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/137 "2022-01-14T06:19:03Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Whose side will the deaf, dumb, and blind Rancor take. That deaf, dumb and blind Rancor sure plays a mean Pazaak! ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/138 "2022-01-14T12:33:37Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > Also, someone mentioned upthread anticipating Boba Fett pulling a Yojimbo, and playing various factions off against each other. So far, though, it seems like the whole series is an inverse Yojimbo, with various factions aiming Boba Fett at their rivals: > > - the Tuskens don’t use him, he’s the instigator, but he winds up being a Tusken weapon against the Pykes > - the Pykes point him at the Nikto Sand Riders > - the Night Wind Assassin points him at the Mayor > - the Mayor points him at the Hutts > - the Hutts point him at the Pykes > - some Random Water Merchant points him at the cyborg swoop gang > - the cyborg swoop gang points him back at the Random Water Merchant At one point I expected Fett to check his quest log to remind himself what he should be doing. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/139 "2022-01-14T12:37:05Z")
Or to say to Black Krrsantan “I used to be a bounty hunter like you, then I took an arrow in the knee”. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653/140 "2022-01-15T01:29:07Z")
Agree with the complaints about that chase scene. It was 4 vespas chasing a reliant robin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-book-of-boba-fett/953653.md?page=8)