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I loved that instead of hunting them down and having a fight, he just used his ship to kill all the biker dudes. Anti-climactic, but just right.
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Where did they get his armor from? I mean, Timothy Olyphant had it in Mando, but how did he get it?
Olyphant gave it to Mando for helping him and Mando gave it to Boba after he proved it was his.
IIRC the Olyphant character bought it from Jawas.
So they fished it out of the pit? Huh.
And I was asking how Olyphant got it.
Boba had the armor when he crawled out of the pit, the Jawas knocked him out and took it. All this was in episode one. I don’t know why he forgot this on the last episode.
He was half-dead from dragging himself out of the Sarlacc pit when the Jawas took it, and semi-conscious during the actual theft. It’s not a stretch that he’d have no memory of what happened to his armor.
I think this is the first mention on-screen in core canon, but in the Expanded Universe material, Slave I has been termed a Firespray-class since at least the late 80s. I think the original toy might even have specified it was Firespray-class ship.
It’s possible they’re retconning that, so Firespray is now the name of Boba Fett’s specific ship, not the name of the class. Or he might have been referring to his ship by the generic class name, like saying, “We need to get my Mercedes back”. I suspect the latter.
Yeah, he seemed more in character, and more consistent with his depiction in The Mandalorian.
I was actually genuinely starting to wonder if Favreau was deliberating tweaking Star Wars fandom, and making a sort of meta-joke. Like, Boba Fett has only a few minutes of screen time and couple of lines of dialogue, and gets chumped by a blind man by accident, yet fans, and the EU, have treated him as an uber-cool badass for decades. I really was starting to wonder if Favreau was playing with the idea that Boba Fett isn’t actually nearly as much of a badass as his reputation makes him out to be.
But this episode seemed to veer back to “badass”. Well, at least until the summit dinner, where he kind of meanders from asserting himself as the new Daimyo to just asking everyone to at least please stay neutral while he fights the Pykes and just please don’t stab him in the back.
Yes, he specifically called it “my Firespray Gunship” which is a description rather than a name.
But in The Mandalorian, Din Djarin calls his ship The Razor Crest, but that is also just its class, as the Rangers in the X-Wings refer to it as that when apprehending him.
In any case, it’s a decent enough way to distance itself from the name “Slave 1” without contradicting established canon.
So was it just me, or did they play a few notes of the Mandalorian theme when Fennec said “Credits can buy muscle, if you know where to look.”
No, it was just “Slave 1, Boba Fett’s spaceship”.
Yes indeed.
As an aside, I think the music on both the Disney+ Star Wars shows is superb.
I liked this ep more than the previous ones and I think it did work to reestablish Fett’s badassness (even though that has fluctuated all over anyway: baddass in Empire, goes out like a chump in Jedi, watered down further in the Special Edition when he ogles at a dancing girl…) and helped give better reasoning for him wanting to step in as daimyo. Temuera Morrison doesn’t seem as strong of an actor as Pedro Pascal, but he has his moments.
I had a chuckle when Shand called the biker gang “Mods.” Yeah, they’re patterned after mods, but they also MODify themselves with tech. Putting that together made me laugh.
When I saw the biker gang in the desert, I knew that they were going to be in a world of hurt. I also wondered if Fett was going to leave one alive to “tell the tale.” That last missile may have been a little overkill, but it was a fun scene.
Krrsantan was absolute badass in the casino. My son and I excitedly watch the build, waiting for him to start wrecking trandoshans. We weren’t disappointed. When Krrsantan hoisted up the last one, I was hoping to see him rip an arm off. Maybe we’ll see a Krrsantan series in the future. According to the Internet, he’s a popular dude now.
I thought it was a little silly to have the droid declare that Fett is “fully healed” after the bacta treatment. I thought that making Fett deal with the effects of being in the Sarlacc gave him a neat weakness to overcome and build strength.
How much does a bantha eat? Fett tossed his one little piece of food and was like “there you go, now you’re happy.” Cows and horses basically need to graze throughout the day. I guess banthas are more like camels, who can go days without water and months without food.
Has it ever been established how Bib Fortuna “betrayed” Boba Fett?
So apparently, the Sarlac survived a Boba Fett sized hole being burned through its stomach?
I guess I called it on Fett hiring the Wookie.
Anyone else having trouble keeping the timeline straight on this show? How many years did he spend with the Sandpeople?
But how long with poodoo?
I had a bit of a hard time with it, too, but in this episode, as they’re flying to the Sarlacc pit, Fett says something to Fennec along the lines of, “I was abandoned here for years.”
The Mandalorian (which is, more-or-less, contemporaneous with the “present day” parts of BoBF) is set 9 years ABY (After the Battle of Yavin, a.k.a. the time frame of the original Star Wars movie); Return of the Jedi is set in 4 ABY.
Fett fell into the Sarlacc in 4 ABY, and by late in the year of 9 ABY, he’s the self-proclaimed daimyo of Tatooine. So, there’s five years to account for. My WAG is that he was in the Sarlaac for about 4 years, then spent about a year with the Tusken tribe.
His rescue of Fennec (depicted during this past episode’s flashback) occurs at the end of “The Gunslinger” (Season 1, Episode 5 of The Mandalorian); Fett finally meets up with the Mandalorian in “The Tragedy” (Season 2, Episode 6), in which he gets his armor back, and at the end of “The Rescue” (Season 2, Episode 8), Fett and Fennec take over Jabba’s palace. So, the “present day” portions of BoBF are taking place shortly after the end of the second season of The Mandalorian.
Four years without food and water or, apparently air, since he had to borrow some from the Stormtrooper?
I was figuring he was only in there a day or two at most.
shrug Science works weird in the Star Wars universe; at least in the old, no-longer-necessarily-canon Expanded Universe stuff, it was explained that the Sarlacc’s digestive system would keep victims alive for years (reflected in Threepio’s speech about “you will find a new definition of pain and suffering, as you are slowly digested over a thousand years.”)
As far as using the air from the Stormtrooper’s armor, I could hypothesize that he was getting some air that wasn’t full of Sarlacc digestive fumes.
If you don’t like that explanation, then, he spent 2 days in the Sarlacc (despite his quote in this latest episode), and then 4+ years with the Tuskens.