The Book of Boba Fett (SPOILERS possible)

[Chris M]

I knew the show wouldn't continue to drag, and this episode certainly did not disappoint.  I came into the series with very limited expectations but until this episode thought the show did nothing but drag and go on and on.  I'm glad it finally picked up and seems to be going somewhere.

I wonder if Disney is going to do with SW what they did with Marvel and ultimately have several of these shows tie together?  That would be pretty cool if they did.  I can also see how The Mandalorian might tie together with the Fett series.

[Rob]

Last night's was definitely the best one of the series so far.  Hopefully it's an upward arc from here.  I have to think a lot of what made it better was that Boba Fett was on a mission and ready to kill some mofo's. 

I'm a little worried that Respectful Boba Fett will be back when we get to present day, hopefully the ruthless parts of the character keep popping up.

[P-Siddy]

I can also see how The Mandalorian might tie together with the Fett series.

There was a hint at the end of the show that this is the case.

It would be interesting to watch the show done from a chronological standpoint/edit to see how it plays out from his escape from the Sarlacc to the "present".

[Chris M]

There was a hint at the end of the show that this is the case.

Yep.  That's what got me a little excited.  Lot's of Mandos out there to play around with.

[Matt_Fury]

Speculation time...who do you think Boba Fett is going to hire?

I'm going with Mando and Bo Katan, Cad Bane and Bossk.  Really hoping Bossk shows up in the CAP-2!

[JediJman]

No one has renamed Slave 1.  If you think that, watch the scene again.

Well, they changed the name on last year's Lego set to "Firespray" and the name of his ship in the canonical Marvel comics series is now "Firespray," so it sure feels like someone has renamed Slave I. 

[Matt_Fury]

No one has renamed Slave 1.  If you think that, watch the scene again.

Well, they changed the name on last year's Lego set to "Firespray" and the name of his ship in the canonical Marvel comics series is now "Firespray," so it sure feels like someone has renamed Slave I.

This all started with a bad press release that referred to the ship by its class instead of the name of Slave 1.  Boba Fett did the same thing last night.  It would be like Han Solo telling someone he just met that he needed to get his YT-1300 freighter instead of saying the Millenium Falcon.

[JediJman]

This all started with a bad press release that referred to the ship by its class instead of the name of Slave 1.  Boba Fett did the same thing last night.  It would be like Han Solo telling someone he just met that he needed to get his YT-1300 freighter instead of saying the Millenium Falcon.

I think its more than that.  The listing in the comics showed 6 bounty hunters along with their specific ship names, not the type of ship. 

Bossk and "Hound's Tooth"
IG-88 and "IG-2000"
Zuckess and "Mist Hunter"
Valance Beilert and "Broken Wing"
Dengar and "Punishing One"
Boba Fett and "Firespray"

Its not really that far fetched that in today's climate, Disney would opt to remove a name with "Slave" in.  They changed Slave Leia to "Hutt Slayer" and banned any merchandise of her in that outfit.

[Dave]

I could talk about what went wrong in the storytelling for me this week, but I am kind of over it.

I think this show just is not aimed at me, and I am okay with that.

I'm with you, and I do think the show is at least somewhat aimed at us.  Although my teenage kids like it a lot more than I do.

My biggest gripe is with the storytelling.  It seems people sent a bunch of emails that have driven the storylines from week to week.  This week it was:
- How did Boba get his starship back?
- How did Fennec Shand survive the gut shot from The Mandalorian?
- How did the Sarlacc die?  (I love that we spent five minutes on Boba looking for his armor in the Sarlacc and then we jump ahead in the timeline and he just has it, but we already know how he got it so why even bother???)

This show gets way in to the weeds about details that don't matter to the story.  This show is at its best when it moves the story along but doesn't try and explain every last detail about every odd question someone may have.  At least when they were showing Boba get his ship back it was kind of a fun set of scenes, even if the droid scene was probably aimed at young kids.

Its surprising to me because I think for the most part The Mandalorian is really well done and there aren't too many story clunkers.  I think its mostly the same crew doing BoBF, but it just feels a lot more cumbersome.

The good in this week's episode is when Boba meets with the local syndicates to plan on how to deal with the Pykes and when he sits around the fire talking to Fennec about his change in approach and why he wants to be a crime lord (I still think this could have been better, but at least it develops Boba's character).   I'm hopeful we've answered nearly all of the "what about" questions and can now get 100% in to new story telling.

Seeing all the Twileks in the casino and how they pull off Black Krrsantan make me hopeful that we might see a return of the crew of The Ghost at some point, maybe even in their own series.  My daughter was asking about Hera, Zeb, Chopper etc.  I don't think they fit in to BoBF or The Mandalorian, but it'd be great if they get their own series where they're running missions.  If they can do a Cassian Andor series they should find a way to do a Ghost series potentially in this general timeline.

[Jeff]

Its not really that far fetched that in today's climate, Disney would opt to remove a name with "Slave" in.  They changed Slave Leia to "Hutt Slayer" and banned any merchandise of her in that outfit.

StarWars.com still calls it Slave I in the Databank entry, but you'll notice the name in the link is to boba-fetts-starship.

I don't think they've "officially" officially renamed it yet... but Disney sure doesn't want "Slave" on any products to avoid any visits from the pitchfork mob on social media.  Disney/LFL have asked licensees to refer to it as "Boba Fett's Starship" or refer to it as a "Firespray starship" (in the old EU the model/make used to be a Kuat Drive Yards Firespray-31 Gunship) and I think some folks who are not as Star Wars savvy misunderstood "Firespray" as the new name.

My daughter was asking about Hera, Zeb, Chopper etc.  I don't think they fit in to BoBF or The Mandalorian, but it'd be great if they get their own series where they're running missions.  If they can do a Cassian Andor series they should find a way to do a Ghost series potentially in this general timeline.

If they choose to do that, I am guessing the Ahsoka series would be a great way for that to happen.  You could bring in Sabine to the Ahsoka show and then you could spin her off into a Ghost/Rebels TV show, especially if they are still following the "mission to find Ezra" thread.

[JediJman]

...Disney sure doesn't want "Slave" on any products to avoid any visits from the pitchfork mob on social media.  Disney/LFL have asked licensees to refer to it as "Boba Fett's Starship" or refer to it as a "Firespray starship" (in the old EU the model/make used to be a Kuat Drive Yards Firespray-31 Gunship)...

Thanks Jeff.  I get it, but if no one is using the name anymore then I'm not sure how that really differs from officially changing the name.  Its almost worse that they're just trying to secretly avoid using it versus either living with it or making a more official change. 

[Matt_Fury]

This all started with a bad press release that referred to the ship by its class instead of the name of Slave 1.  Boba Fett did the same thing last night.  It would be like Han Solo telling someone he just met that he needed to get his YT-1300 freighter instead of saying the Millenium Falcon.

I think its more than that.  The listing in the comics showed 6 bounty hunters along with their specific ship names, not the type of ship. 

Bossk and "Hound's Tooth"
IG-88 and "IG-2000"
Zuckess and "Mist Hunter"
Valance Beilert and "Broken Wing"
Dengar and "Punishing One"
Boba Fett and "Firespray"

Its not really that far fetched that in today's climate, Disney would opt to remove a name with "Slave" in.  They changed Slave Leia to "Hutt Slayer" and banned any merchandise of her in that outfit.

They haven't changed Slave 1's name.

In my rush to post, I hadn't read Jeff's post.  My bad.

[Jeff]

if no one is using the name anymore then I'm not sure how that really differs from officially changing the name.  Its almost worse that they're just trying to secretly avoid using it versus either living with it or making a more official change. 

Pretty much.  They are trying to ride a really fine line where they anger no one, which seems really hard to do these days.  They don't want to anger fanboys, so they can't change the name officially but they also can't use it in marketing for fear of angering pitchfork mob on Twitter.  There is no winning so they just decided to ignore it.

Maybe the best course of action is for them to blow it up in TBOBF.  Then he can get a new ship with a nice non-offensive name.  Or maybe he can give it to The Mandalorian, who will then rename it Grogu I 

[Dave]

Maybe the best course of action is for them to blow it up in TBOBF.  Then he can get a new ship with a nice non-offensive name.  Or maybe he can give it to The Mandalorian, who will then rename it Grogu I 

I was thinking about the same thing.  Or maybe with his change in profession from bounty hunter to crime lord he'll feel the need to rename it himself.

[JediJman]

I was thinking about the same thing.  Or maybe with his change in profession from bounty hunter to crime lord he'll feel the need to rename it himself.

I'd be okay with him changing it to Tusken I...