I expressed reluctance for more backstory, but I enjoyed this episode. Did the Hutts care when Bib was in charge?
In a galaxy of space ships, not sure the practicality of a sand train — possibly cheaper to run / can go places a space ship can’t.
It sure what territory a Daimyo controls — the whole planet? Mos Espa and surrounding territory?
Brian
Doesn’t seem like it. Maybe he was paying them tribute, or maybe the Twins are taking advantage of an uncertain succession to stake their claim to their cousin’s empire. Like the rest of the Daimyo plotline, it’s not at all clear how any of that works.
It seemed like the set-up was that the spice is delivered from the mines of Kessel to the local spaceport, then transported on the speeder train. The economics of transportation in the Star Wars universe are at best murky, but if the train is making multiple deliveries, it seems plausible that it’s more economical to use a speeder train to do that than to make a series of short hops in atmo with a starship. The Empire also uses speeder trains for on-planet transport in Solo.
And, of course, whether it makes sense if you try to analyze it is really beside the point. The point is to have a tropey Wild West adventure, with a train encroaching on the traditional territory of the local indigenes, and a train heist.
I may be misremembering, but I thought when Boba was talking with the Twins, he said he was the Daimyo of Tatooine. According to Wookiepedia, Mos Espa is the de facto capital of Tatooine.
My theory is, sarlacc poisoning affects your personality.
Temuera has some Maori heritage. I’m wondering if this is kind of an homage to that.
If we meet Bossk later in his home and he doesn’t ask Boba to take his shoes off…Ill be very dissapointed.
Maybe they had been preoccupied with the debauchery of Hutta. (Band name.)
The wookiee is who I thought it was:
Also, I noticed that the dude Hutt was using a small furry animal with an anglerfish thingy as a handkerchief, but I had forgotten these guys from the original comic run.
So far, the tale of Boba Muad’dib is more interesting than the “present day” story.
So answering my own questions, it sounds like the Hutts were too busy dealing with internal matters to deal with Bib (and hearing news of Boba taking over renewed interest?), and yes it sounds like Boba is Daimyo of Tatooine. I’m not sure how he, or for that matter Jabba or Bib, could control the planet – maybe with the underbosses(?) we see in the trailers.
FYI Cammie was in the Star Wars radio play.
Brian
I think you mean gdave’s theory:
It wasn’t clear in the first episode, but after watching the second, I’m convinced the flashbacks are the primary story this season and the “present day” is mostly an incidental “day in the life” story of him trying to secure his new position.
It’s not my fault he copied me before I wrote my post!
I think there’s a good chance the flashbacks are going to be tied to the “present” story at the end of the season – at some point Fett will be in big trouble, but will be saved by his Tusken allies (who may even now be armed with “modern” weapons and equipment thanks to Fett). If done well, it could be a fun plot point, even if it won’t exactly be a surprise.
You would think that a desert people having to work for every drop of water would be the least likely to punch a hole in a big tank of it and let most of it drain into the sand.
I don’t think these shows care about plot surprises (other than which EU character shows up next). They are being so obvious with their movie plot lifting that they must realize that the audience is in on it. For example, I think there is a good chance that this season there will be a Yojimbo episode where Fett plays two of his enemies against each other.
I think Tatooine is pretty lightly settled, possibly with all the large settlements being relatively close together, with most of the planet being trackless wilderness. Being “Daimyo of Tatooine” might not involve being in charge of much more territory than, say, controlling mob activity in the Chicago area.
Still seems he’d need a larger crew than Fennec, two Gamoreans, and a torture droid, of course.
Yeah, that was dumb.
I had a few ideas about them wasting the water. Maybe it is a matter of Tusken ethics or culture? They are aware that Tatooine once had oceans, and they apparently revere the occasional trees. Maybe they don’t think it is right to horde large quantities of water in an artificial tank, and feel any water you don’t use immediately belongs in the environment? They seem to get most of their water from black melon milk, and might look down on those who can’t dig for water themselves?
Perhaps the simplest motive would be that they couldn’t take all of it themselves and they didn’t want to leave it behind for their enemies to benefit from it, so they would rather dump it out, like a scorched earth policy?
Or it just looks really cool on television.
I thought the water scene was reminiscent of the Fury Road scene when Immortan Joe just showered the peasants with thousands of gallons of water, mostly wasted in the ground. Instead of just opening a faucet and letting each person have a quart.
Or maybe the Tuskens are just used to breaking things (like the speeder bikes), so knocking the cap off the water tank came naturally to them.
Did anyone else notice the speeder guys had gang colors on the back of their jackets? Nice touch.
I don’t hate this but I am getting kind of bored. I am tired of Tatooine. I get that that is his Turf now but can’t they take a trip to Nal Hutta or something so we can see different environments?
And while I appreciate the examination of Tusken Raider culture, those scenes consistently go on too long. Way too long.
I have started to think the entire premise of this series was a mistake. To paraphrase something I saw on Twitter. It is as if they had a series called THE STORMTROOPER and with the entire universe of Star Wars at their disposal they decided for a follow-up to create a show called ANOTHER STORMTROOPER.
I like it and I am still watching but this needs to get better.