Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
 

So yes, it is a separate show from The Mandalorian (for a while I thought "The Book of Boba Fett" spoke to the new story arc going forward, kind of how "The Child" has been the story arc of season 1 and 2... well, not so). But also, according to Favreau, season 3 of Mandalorian won't even start filming until they wrap on Boba Fett season 1.

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news...ions-answered/

https://deadline.com/2020/12/the-man...tt-1234660041/

I love these shows, they feel exactly like the same stupid EU stories we used to get from books/comics/video games and Boba Fett makes the most sense since he pretty much built a lot of the EU with his stories. This is the dumb fun Star Wars we used to get, not to be taken too seriously but cool nonetheless since it showed stuff George Lucas would've never allowed.

But it'll be weird having two "mandalorian" shows, the can be different enough but perhaps not to the average person? Then again that didn't stop all the CW DC shows. Im hoping we get some flashback Boba Fett stories set before ROTJ.

I'm dying to see the difference between the shows being helmed as Kennedy tries to get her mits into this with Leslie Hedland and the shows coming out of the Favs/Filoni camp.

I suspect something will happen in "The Book of Boba Fett" season 1 with Grogu to where he gets repositioned back with the Mandalorian in season 3. i.e., they'll find a way to rub some "Baby Yoda" magic on Boba Fett season 1 before returning him to where people are going to expect to see him by the end, which is with the Mandalorian. That might explain the wait for season 3.

It's too bad they can't have Boba Fett meet Han again, unless you want to see a CG young Harrison Ford, or...even worse, using the actor who played Han in the Solo movie.

Weren't you the primary naysayer to Luke Skywalker's return when we were contemplating that in the Mandalorian thread?! :lol:

How is Han any different?

I hope this series will explain how Boba Fett got out of that sarlacc pit from Return Of The Jedi.

"The Book" aspect of it makes me think that yeah, probably. It may even go forward and backwards in time.

It could be something where he meets up with some character and he or she says. "I thought you were dead." and then it flashbacks to when he got out of the sarlacc pit.

The guy has a jetpack. How is it a mystery? :lol:

Meh, Jango is a lot cooler and have more screen time than Boba.

Boba died a silly death hitting the side of a ship mid flight and rolling to his death into a sand pit mouth.

I don’t see what’s so appealing about Boba, he failed at his job lol.

The new series might improve that.

Since the other dude had his whole armor and jetpack, it doesn't seem that he used it.

Putting 2 and 2 together, it seems like he was digested for a little while (the scarring, damage to armor) and probably slipped out of his armor somehow to escape, leaving it behind to be found by the jawas. So... probably a lot like his escape story from Tales from Jabba Palace, I think it was.

Eh, maybe.

I never really "needed" an elaborate explanation for it. I never paid much attention to the various EU stories of how he managed to escape. In my head I always just figured that like, two minutes after he fell in there, dude was like "F*ck this sh*t! I have a jetpack!" and just zoomed away off-camera.

That's really all they NEEDED to do. But if there's one thing you can always count on Star Wars for, it's to make simple sh*t complicated for no good reason. :lol:

Given how Mandalorians are able to get out of a sticky situations. Boba Fett will be out of that in no time. It happened off camera. They could just flashback moments after the barge scenes from ROTJ and show him flying right out of it.

And then he gets jumped by Jawas who take all of his armor and jetpack? Highly unlikely.

That's what I mean, though. It didn't need to be A Whole Big Thing. They made it one, but it wasn't necessary.

Star Wars has this habit of making every mundane event into something worthy of its own movie or mini-series. But you don't always have to do that.

Go up to anyone who only knows Star Wars from the movies, and say "Hey! Did you know Boba Fett didn't actually die in the Sarlaac Pit? He actually got away! Now how d'ya suppose THAT happened?" And every single person would say, "Well... didn't he have a jet pack? I assume he just blasted himself out and went along his merry way." Because that's literally as complicated as something like that needs to be. :trazz:

But no. It's "Star Wars", so of course it has to be a Whole Big Thing. Meanwhile, they drop bombshells like Midichlorians and then never mention them again. Sh*t's bananas.

If Palpatine survived I don't think Boba needs an explanation, it's so easy to explain "he climbed out", also there's this book and I'm sure a comic explaining it.

I agree Jango was cooler but technically because of the prequels Boba is a better Jango. Jango exists since Lucas wanted to have Boba Fett have "more of a role" in the story. I hope we get a re-release of that Bounty Hunter Jango Fett PS2 game, so much fun.


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Isn't it ironic how the old Legends "non-canon" EU has slowly become canon now, The Emperor was revived, cloned, Boba Fett Survived, Darth Maul survived and fought Obi Wan in Tattooine and more and more stuff from the EU is being introduced not in comics but in actual "shows" and movies. I'm hopeful writers will find a way to polish the Sequel Trilogy turd into something that makes a little sense, not asking for much, just make it a little bit better. Imagine if Star Wars had gotten the Sequel trilogy we were promised.

The only crazy gap is that it seemed that the Crate Dragon from the Mandalorian is what ate the Sarlaac. So there's an order of events there that are a little off - did the Crate Dragon eat the Sarlaac and it allowed Boba Fett to escape? But if so - hasn't it been six years since Jedi? How did Boba Fett survive for six years? If he climbed out of the Sarlaac on his own, how did he lose his armor?

We did! I actually have two physical, factory sealed copies of it for the PS4. It was a Limited Run Games physical release AND it was included digitally with some new PS4's that had Battlefront in them.

https://i.imgur.com/50cSaWdl.jpg

5 years. But the Marshall guy said he got Boba's armor from the Jawas like 5 years ago... so Boba couldn't have been in there very long at all.

"Crate Dragon". :lol: It's Krayt Dragon! :trazz:

Also, Darth Revan and Bastila Shan or I completely don't give a sh*t. :trazz:

Anyone ever read Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction? Pretty cool comic, I wouldn't mind seeing adapted, although they may have already used it as light inspiration for season 2.

Basically, someone is wearing a copy of Fett's armor and claiming to be him in order to acquire bounty work. Fett hunts him down. It works.

My nerd cred just took a hit..... :)

Yeah, I took that AS a semi-adaptation of "Twin Engines of Destruction." I don't see them doing Boba Fett imposter a second time.

Not sure what to make of this:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/boba-fe...big-surprises/

Sounds like... a big Star Wars supporting character shows up and hangs out? About the only character that would have the level of "Whoa!" factor they seem to be insinuating and be relevant to Boba Fett would be Han Solo. It's been a few years since "Solo" and now Alden Ehrenreich is right about the right age for a post-ROTJ Solo... might be him.

I'd rather have a deep faked Harrison Ford honestly but that's just me

Yes, I've read there's going to be a de-aged Han in the series somewhere, as Harrison has done some filming.

Imagine for a second. Boba Fett and Han, forced to awkwardly go on some adventure together. That could be gold.

Boba Fett should be one of those guys that any face reveal would be a disappointment based on all the pre face stories he had. Despite that Temuera Morrison always felt right in the role. This is also inspite of Jango Fett also acting as a jobber in Episode 2

Decent first episode I enjoyed the flashback scenes Jawas are still assholes. Loved finally seeing Boba escape the Sarlacc pit. good present day stuff too.

Is it really only 30 minutes? I wasn't thinking this would be a Cobra Kai-sized series.

38 minutes is what it said on the screen before I played the episode didn't feel like that.

Don't these shows have really long credits sometimes? I know the MCU ones do.

I'm going in with low expectations. Boba Fett is easily my favorite Star Wars character, but his appearance in Mandalorian, nor that show in general, have really done much for me.

I want to think this show will be something different. So far the reviews seem pretty mixed on episode 1.

38 minutes which includes the credits.

I never got the hype of Boba from RotJ; to me he’s always that useless bounty hunter who died so quickly. Weird that he has such a huge following.

Thanks to this new series (and even Mandalorian which had his armor worn by someone else) I’ve found a new appreciation for him. He actually survived and now rule the planet replacing Jabba. Props to Disney for making him interesting, I look forward to the next episodes.

Fennec Shand was pretty bad ass in the first episode.

I think it's probably his appearances in the Marvel and Dark Horse comic books, along with other tie-in material, that made him popular. Which would be ironic now that none of that stuff is considered canon anymore. Even if it isn't the comics or other tie-ins that made him popular, he still looks really cool, so maybe that's enough? It might be the reason he was even given any attention in those comics to begin with.

Regardless, yes, Boba Fett in the Original Trilogy is a total nothing character. His only real contribution to the plot of those movies was tracking down the Falcon to Bespin so he could deliver Han to Jabba, he didn't do or say anything noteworthy beyond that. But again, standing around and looking cool might just be enough...

It's more the mystery, I think. "Who is he under that helmet?" And people were throwing fuel on the fire after Empire about, "Yoda said there is another! I bet it's Boba Fett! Boba Fett is a Jedi!" and so on. Or a relative of Han, or this or that.

Watched the first episode, it's fine for what it is so far. Basically showing how Boba Fett escaped the pitt, then got taken prisoner by jawas/tusken raiders, etc. Also what's the name of the big monster with the 4 hands and looks like Motaro from Mortal Kombat? I've never seen that creature in Star Wars before and they're from Tatooine.

Which is funny because Boba essentially has no relationship to any other character in the Original Trilogy. Vader and Jabba hire him but there's no implication either of them had history with him, he just seemed to be a hired gun.