The Book of Boba Fett is finally here!
I admit that I wasn't as excited about this series as countless other people probably were. Boba Fett was never a character who I had many feelings for one way or the other. He was just a character who was there in a few scenes of the movies.
From the way that the series was introduced in The Mandalorian, I was more interested in Fennec Shand than anything else in this series, and after the first episode, that remains true.
So far, this show is very similar in tone to The Mandalorian. It almost feels like it's an extension of that show, but while The Mandalorian felt new, in a way, this just feels like more of that. I'm not sure if it's doing it any favors. I read an article on Pajiba about how Boba Fett is really just another Mandalorian, and at this point, I really feel that too. This is a lot like watching an alternate version of The Mandalorian.
A lot of this episode doesn't have dialogue at all or it's in Tusken with no subtitles, which I do think it an interesting decision.
Half of this episode takes place in the "present" when Boba Fett is a crime lord while the other half are the nightmares he has while in a bacta tank. In the nightmares, he's been captured by Tusken Raiders. The Tusken Raider nightmares don't really get resolved in this episode either. By the end of the episode, he's earned respect from them for killing a creature, but it's up in the air whether they consider him a prisoner or not.
We also don't get a reason why he's having these nightmares. Presumably, he could have them just because being a prisoner and essentially treated by a slave is traumatic, but for them to take up half of the episode, I'm going to expect that they have something to do with the show's larger story. We don't get much information about what that is yet though.
In the end, I wasn't blown away by this episode. I definitely still prefer The Mandalorian, but I was intrigued enough to keep watching and see how it goes.
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