Episode two of The Book of Boba Fett pulled me in more than the first one, which is essentially what I was expecting as we got deeper into the story. I want to find out where this story is going.
The episode starts in the "present" with Boba Fett as a crime lord. An assassin that was sent to kill him says that it was the mayor who hired him, so Boba Fett and Fennec Shand visit said mayor, who cryptically tells Boba Fett that he has other things to worry about. Sure enough, two cousins of Jabba arrive, wanting to claim Jabba's territory.
I'm curious how big of a threat both the mayor and Jabba's relatives will be. Are they both going to be equal threats as the season progresses? Or will one become more important over the course of the story? As of right now, I find myself more interesting in the mayor than the Hutts, but since we've only seen them each once, that's only a first impression. Who knows how I'll feel after a few more episodes.
After what I think was about fifteen minutes or so in the "present," we go back to the past and stay there for the rest of the episode, which was an interesting decision. The past must have something to do with what's currently happening, but I'm still not sure how. Both timelines take place on Tatooine, so I'm assuming that's part of the connection. I don't know if Jabba is going to show up in the past and do something that makes Boba Fett want to take over his territory or what. Or are the Tuskens going to show up in the "present"?
In the "past," Boba Fett helps the Tuskens take down a train that has been shooting at them. I find his dynamics with the Tuskens odd. I don't really understand why he's helping them when they were holding him prisoner and not even giving him water to drink. It just feels very strange, and I keep waiting to learn more about what his motivations are. Right now he seems to have developed some sort of fondness for them, but that feels very weird considering how they treated him at first.
The weirdest element of this episode is that the Tuskens give Boba Fett a lizard that enters his head and makes him hallucinate. This was...bizarre. A lizard of all things? I have no idea. I don't even know what to say about it.
This episode has drawn me further into the story. I can't say that I'm in love yet, but I am invested in finding out what happens next.
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