Still has the potential to be better than Book of Boba Fett.
Aside from the random 90s power rangers cameos, I didn't have a problem with it. I liked how they gave the Tusken Raiders nuance, and no story would have been enough to satiate the decades of contradicting lore around Boba Fett.
And you can't beat them making part of Patton Oswald's iconic star wars rant/filibuster canon.
Stuff I liked in BOBF: The Tusken Raider flashbacks and Boba’s spiritual journey. That could have been the whole show.
I liked Cad Bane. I don’t really have an attachment to the cartoons, but I thought he was efficiently and effectively introduced into the show.
Stuff I didn’t like: The mod gang. Low hanging fruit, but needed to be mentioned.
I didn’t like how dreadfully boring the action sequences tended to be, especially the shootouts. Shootouts in shows between groups should have some goals each group is trying to achieve in order to be exciting. In BOBF the shootouts were so flat. They felt like that Naked Gun shootout.
I didn’t enjoy the overly comical nature of so many side characters. Comedy in Star Wars is good, but extended scenes that feel like cosplayers doing improv are not. A lot of the new Star Wars content feels increasingly like watching cosplayers in a weird uncanny valley themepark of Star Wars. A setting that was once the example of a grungy and lived in setting now constantly has a layer of gloss varnish on everything.
Boba Fett himself seemed like a big dummy. His plan at the end to split up his few people to just kind of stand around was confusing. Boba Fett never seemed much interested in actually doing crime as a crime lord. I get that he is being redeemed as an anti-hero, and thus Disney wants him not to be too dark, be he easily could have become the new canon version of Talon Karrde and brokered in information. Boba Fett would know a lot of dirt. In any case he seemed to have little agency or decision making as the boss. Even the choice to hire mercenaries was suggested to him.
My comment was a bit tongue in cheek because it did have some good parts, but there was a lot of missed potential. The sand people part I actually liked a lot, it was something cool and new. The power rangers I could have maybe looked past even though it was ridiculous, if they hadn't tried to turn Boba into some kind of noble gangster. You can't be a good guy AND run a criminal empire on Tatooine, sorry. Star Wars can be really dark sometimes but they didn't want to go dark here? Makes no sense.
The worst part was the terrible action sequences and the lack of attention to detail, like the big ass droidekas not managing to kill anyone running in a straight line, just so bad, not to mention stuff like Boba's back rocket reappearing magically for the final fight after being used a few scenes before. etc.
just very stupid low quality stuff.
the first 3 episodes that mostly had tuskens were the tits.
I couldn't work out what I hated most about Book of Boba Fett until a character from the other series turned up and immediately sliced somebody in two.
And then I was like "why is Boba Fett such a massive fanny all of a sudden?"
Even Darth Vader had to tell the guy to chill the fuck out a bit.
Only saw one other person mention it but in the EU/Legends they find Luke's hand and use it to make an evil clone of Luke that's named.... Luuke. So this could've been a legit story with a meme headline lol.
Wow is that stupid.
Fanboys like to talk about the extended universe like it was amazing. For every one good thing in it, there were a dozen turds including a Jedi R2 unit with force powers. I'm glad Disney killed it, and just like I figured, they're taking the good bits and characters and adding them in anyways
they find Luke’s hand and use it to make an evil clone of Luke that’s named… Luuke
And suddenly, completely unbidden, the name "Joruus C'Baoth" springs into my head.
A quick look at wookieepedia shows me that he's the dude who created the clone.
I'm actually kinda shocked that I remember that from a single reading of the thrawn trilogy back in the 90's.
If adding u make it evil does adding e make it good? So if we take luuke hand and make a good clone with it and name it luukee does it just becomes a regular luke because it has the same length of u and e?
Had to check the source for a moment
Coming next fall to Disney+, Owen: A Moisture Farmer's Tale.
Although frankly it still can't be as bad as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Just get Star Wars away from Jedi and the entire extended Skywalker family. Just never fucking mention any of them ever again. In fact, just get all the rest of the cast of Narcos in, and make fuckin' Narcos in Space. Narcos is the key to good Star Wars.
That is what I don't get you have a whole galaxy and infinite timeline to choose stories. But for some reason they all have to be tied to the skywalkers.
So what Solo should have been?
I only watched it once, but I think I'd enjoy it more if I just pretended the main character is not supposed to be Han Solo.
The biggest problem with it is the character they chose was supposed to be a bad guy at the time which they can’t do because it’s Disney so changing the character would work
There are other issues but for a Star Wars it would be fine
They joke but they already did a comic about his hand being some magic gateway to Exegol and empowering tbe Emperor
So who will they get for the main character? In other words, who gets the hand job?
The beauty is the actor simply has to play a disembodied hand....ergo, a hand job that feels like it's from someone else. I call it The Stranger. I can feel the force tugging at me.
Obviously the doctor picks it up and uses it during regeneration to turn into a Jedi.
I was 100% ready for a decapitated hand as a protagonist to a 7 episode show. The story of a hand trying to make it's way back to it's master through the ways of The Force. Then realizing it can make a family with other decapitated hands and that it doesn't have to be bound by it's place if origin. The more I think about it, the more I want it.
The finale can segue into an origin story for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(The_Addams_Family)
As George Lucas loves amputation so much (Top 10 hand amputations in Star Wars) there's a lot of potential for limb-based team-ups if this works.
You could have a story where a mad scientist Sith goes around collecting them and then stitches them all together to create a force-sensitive limb-ball of terror
Just another soulless cash grab that won't have the creative fortitude to delve into the hand's dream to play Kloo horn at the Galaxies Opera House.
Figures we get this before we get a series on the true hero, Willrow Hood /s
Personally, I'm waiting for the Spinal Tap-like movie about Max Reebo and his band.
Will it use the force to connect with Luke or will it have a failure to communicate.
Disregarding the onion layers of hard drive, Luuke Skywalker is an existing thing
I'll watch it if it's directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell. Otherwise, nah.
There's a joke to be made but I can't quite put my hand on it welp neither can Luke
Oh balls I got snookered, good one
So like Thing, going from planet to planet performing various jobs only it can do.
Suddenly a princess Left Hand needs rescuing but Thing is a hand short to be a mouse droid.
Well we were told it was "a good story, for another time"...
adams family?
This new hand, it’s a fightin’ hand!
again with the boundless universe and we get more skywalker shenanigans... this time 5% of one
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