Who is the man beneath the armor? I still don't know...
The Book of Boba Fett Season 1
The Book of Boba Fett, the spinoff Star Wars show starring the famed bounty hunter on DisneyPlus, has all the ingredients of an entertaining show with its action set pieces and fan service moments. However, the script never finds proper footing with its lead character and never finds anything beneath the armor.
The issue with Boba Fett is he has no official lore to speak of. The character's popularity stems from his rad-looking armor and vertical-standing spaceship, which has set fans' imaginations on fire through the years in games and Expanded Universe novels or made up their own stories with their action figures.
The Book of Boba Fett attempts to build that lore. The story jumps back and forth between the time Fett escapes the Sarlacc Pit on Tatooine post-Return of the Jedi to his quest to be the gangster lord of Tatooine in the present post-Mandalorian Season 2.
This non-linear structure does the story a disservice by cutting up Boba Fett's crucial character development during his time with the Tusken Raiders. We are given Fett's motivation to become a crime boss at the midpoint of the show and it comes far too late for the audience.
The show's highlights included the action sequences, the development of the Tusken Raiders and Cad Bane, a mean blue gun-toting villain reminiscent of Lee Van Cleef from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, who steals every scene he is in.
However, the audience is never given a reason to care about Boba Fett. We're never shown who he is, what matters to him or a glimpse into his soul. Without a genuine story hook or a reason to care, this is just a bunch of stuff happening.
Temuera Morrison's Boba Fett is super straight-laced and honorable to the point of being short-sighted at times. The character is meant to be dealing with scum and villainy all the time. There's more dimensions to the character that are not being tapped into. Where is the cunning behind the bounty hunter who tracked down the Millenium Falcon in Empire Strikes Back?
I feel closer to the Mandalorian as a character than Boba Fett and that is problematic, who cameos towards the end and completely steals the show away from Boba Fett and serves as an epilogue for The Mandalorian Season 2.
By the end of it, Boba Fett remains what he always was: a very cool-looking action figure who I don't know anything about.
The Book of Boba Fett, the spinoff Star Wars show starring the famed bounty hunter on DisneyPlus, has all the ingredients of an entertaining show with its action set pieces and fan service moments. However, the script never finds proper footing with its lead character and never finds anything beneath the armor.
The issue with Boba Fett is he has no official lore to speak of. The character's popularity stems from his rad-looking armor and vertical-standing spaceship, which has set fans' imaginations on fire through the years in games and Expanded Universe novels or made up their own stories with their action figures.
The Book of Boba Fett attempts to build that lore. The story jumps back and forth between the time Fett escapes the Sarlacc Pit on Tatooine post-Return of the Jedi to his quest to be the gangster lord of Tatooine in the present post-Mandalorian Season 2.
This non-linear structure does the story a disservice by cutting up Boba Fett's crucial character development during his time with the Tusken Raiders. We are given Fett's motivation to become a crime boss at the midpoint of the show and it comes far too late for the audience.
The show's highlights included the action sequences, the development of the Tusken Raiders and Cad Bane, a mean blue gun-toting villain reminiscent of Lee Van Cleef from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, who steals every scene he is in.
However, the audience is never given a reason to care about Boba Fett. We're never shown who he is, what matters to him or a glimpse into his soul. Without a genuine story hook or a reason to care, this is just a bunch of stuff happening.
Temuera Morrison's Boba Fett is super straight-laced and honorable to the point of being short-sighted at times. The character is meant to be dealing with scum and villainy all the time. There's more dimensions to the character that are not being tapped into. Where is the cunning behind the bounty hunter who tracked down the Millenium Falcon in Empire Strikes Back?
I feel closer to the Mandalorian as a character than Boba Fett and that is problematic, who cameos towards the end and completely steals the show away from Boba Fett and serves as an epilogue for The Mandalorian Season 2.
By the end of it, Boba Fett remains what he always was: a very cool-looking action figure who I don't know anything about.
- ObsessiveCinemaDisorder
- Mar 4, 2022