Id watch the fuck out of that
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.)
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.
Bossk: “Achhdrrr sss brtt kchhh ssst.”*
- “Boba Fett, you sunava bitch…I’m in!”
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?
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.
I get the impression of a Diaspora, a people scattered in Exile.
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.
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.
Not really EU (Expanded Universe). 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.
And was in Bad Batch where he fought Fennec.
This was a turducken of an 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.
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.
Yeah, I keep expecting Lucas to give us a villain named Darth NutPunch.
A this point I don’t think Boba makes the top ten coolest characters in his own show.
Imperial Officer: Your offer is tempting, but can I trust you?
Darth Betrayu: Oh, yeah. I’m totally trustworthy.
The visual for this episode:
Fan-wank: that’s the reason the Imperials, First Order, etc persist–there is an actual need for law and order in the galaxy.
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.
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…
That one bad ass Tusken raider.