This week gave us another episode with very little Boba Fett. He does actually make an appearance this time at least, even if it's for less than five minutes.
Instead of Boba Fett, we get to see some other characters we haven't in a while, including Cobb Vanth. I never expected to see him again in The Mandalorian, let alone in The Book of Boba Fett. It was kind of weird seeing him without his armor too. I'm kind of surprised he didn't make an attempt to make other armor himself after he lost the Mandalorian armor.
Another character we get to see in this episode is R2-D2! That was a fun surprise. Seeing Grogu was too. I'd missed him, even though him popping up in The Book of Boba Fett is still questionable to me.
We also see a bunch of other droids who are building Luke's future Jedi school. That bit felt kind of ominous considering what happens to the school later, and hearing that Grogu might be the first student there in the same episode where we saw his memories of the Great Jedi Purge was a little sad.
(Seeing those memories and being reminded that Grogu is actually older than Luke despite Luke being his teacher felt a little jarring too.)
CGI Luke was... Honestly, I don't know how I feel. I was worried they'd do it but didn't really expect them to because it seemed like such a bad idea. There were times in the episode where it wasn't too bad, but other times, it was very obvious that it was CGI, which took me out of the story. I'm just not a fan. It felt unnecessary, especially since this is The Book of Boba Fett and Luke doesn't seem very important to the story of Boba Fett himself. The series is just going off on tangents about other characters. But if we were going to see so much of Luke, they also could have recast him like they did Han Solo.
We get quite a bit of Grogu's training in this episode. It's the second episode in a row that feels like it should have been in The Mandalorian instead, and I'm still just as confused as I was then about why we're seeing this now.
At the end of the episode, Luke makes Grogu choose between the armor the Mandalorian brought him and Yoda's lightsaber. We don't see what choice he makes, but it's clear it's an important decision, which only makes it more baffling why we're not seeing him make it in The Mandalorian.
Meanwhile, the Pykes are causing more trouble. They kill Vanth and also plant a bomb that wreaks havoc. This part of the episode at least does connect with the larger story of The Book of Boba Fett. I'm hoping we'll see more of it in the next episode.
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