Bull Shannon
Well-Known Member
Boba Fett is fan service and the entire episode was forced plot device after forced plot device to give all the Boba Fett Stans hard-ons. It was a fun episode, but it was disappointing. Having a Bounty Hunter with every reason to hate the Jedi and no reason to follow any "honour" codes, and an Imperial Assassin who is inexplicably honour bound to the Bounty Hunter for turning her into a cyborg, all of a sudden team up with Din, because "they promised" It's nonsense,
It's very interesting seeing the different types of Star Wars fandom get their due in this show; I did not watch any of the Filoni cartoons, so I have no attachment to Ashoka. I did read the Thrawn books, and yet dropping him into this show feels a little shoehorned (though I'd love to see a blue John Hamm come at the role). Same with Fett; I read Tales from Jabba's Palace (or was it Tales of the Bounty Hunters?) and am no stranger to postulating how he may have survived, but I just don't need it in this show.
It feels like The Mandalorian itself answers the question "what if there was a Boba Fett show?", so it feels a bit indulgent to double down and straight up serve us some Fett, not because the story calls for it, but rather because the fans do.
I know people love Dave Filoni, but I feel like that's because he's good at franchise maintenance. Which can be good, I guess. But it feels more like he's trying to make the prequels cohesive with the OT (and probably making the sequel trilogy of a piece with those, gauging how The Mando is trying to answer how the First Order came about). In an era where nothing is sacred and everything is up for remaking/rebooting, I'd rather see someone try to break it, try to probe the edges rather than seal the cracks.
It feels like The Mandalorian itself answers the question "what if there was a Boba Fett show?", so it feels a bit indulgent to double down and straight up serve us some Fett, not because the story calls for it, but rather because the fans do.
I know people love Dave Filoni, but I feel like that's because he's good at franchise maintenance. Which can be good, I guess. But it feels more like he's trying to make the prequels cohesive with the OT (and probably making the sequel trilogy of a piece with those, gauging how The Mando is trying to answer how the First Order came about). In an era where nothing is sacred and everything is up for remaking/rebooting, I'd rather see someone try to break it, try to probe the edges rather than seal the cracks.