The Book of Boba Fett Review | Nowstalgia Reviews
The Book of boba fett which
premiered this past wednesday
no more friday drops at least for right now for
disney plus star wars shows so yeah back to the
wednesdays just like the mc what do you think
about that yeah i mean i don’t mind i like stuff
in the middle of the week there’s less stuff
in the middle of the week take it over you know
own wednesday the way hbo owns sunday
night you know it’s it’s not a bad call
disney did not waste any time hawkeye finale
next week here’s boba fett no breaks and i bet
after boba fett ends we’re getting miss marvel or
something from marvel’s side of things you know i
i’m sure they’re gonna they’re gonna flood
the zone but yeah i like the wednesday call
no question yeah i do too and we knew this was
coming teaser at the end of mandalorian season two
temuera morrison and ming-na wen playing fennec
shand obviously it’s temuera morrison as boba fett
dave just like where were you at going into this
were you excited for this was this something you
wanted something you would even considered
prior to the teaser boba fett where you at
yeah well it’s it’s ultimately the culmination
of a
lest we forget the josh tranq boba fett
spin-off phil that died on the vine because
josh drank and also lucasfilm you know but
i’m sure this this had to be on the mind of
many as soon as we actually saw boba fett
in the flesh removed from the sarlacc pit
in fact alive once we saw that in mandalore
in season two this was definitely on the table
i really liked how they showed it to us at the
end of mandalore in season two as a stinger scene
and they had not announced it like the week before
at that disney investor day at the end of 2020
i thought it was a really cool way to introduce
the show i was like a spin-off of the mandalorian
while we wait for the next proper mandalorian
season that being said you know i i i think from
a storytelling perspective it’s probably not going
to be as ambitious and probably as interesting
as something like the mandalorian or even maybe
kenobi i don’t know but you’re finally seeing boba
fett be a protagonist something that has only been
done even briefly in comic form you know he boba
fett is someone who got so popular and so famous
because he looked [ __ ] cool with his armor not
because he had anything to say he has four lines
and six and a half minutes of screen time in the
original trilogy boba fett is truly a cipher and
that is no more demure morrison reprising his role
obviously with mandalorian season two jango fett
the clones now boba fett here he is so i i don’t
think there’s like i wouldn’t say there’s a
lot riding on it i really wouldn’t because
it’s just boba fett you know he’s yeah we we i
think i think we got it like there’s nothing like
there’s nothing to learn there’s nothing to to
get it’s just kind of having fun seeing boba fett
people with it i think yeah just a a mini series
telling a i think a small story it’s supposed to
be seven episodes i believe seven or eight so it’s
it’s not gonna be it doesn’t seem like it’s gonna
be something that’s ongoing i think there’s
a piece of this story that will most likely
be continued in other stories moving forward
at least written in and that’s fennec shand
just seems like a character that is gaining a
lot of traction a lot of fan love so far was
in the bad batch earlier this year so definitely
going to be seeing more of her but what did you
think of just this premiere in general did you
like it where were you pleased with what we got
yeah i liked it again i don’t have like high
demands for the show though like seeing boba
fett burst out of the sarlacc bit something
people have thought about for for decades
cool to see a manifest gotta be honest you
know patton oswalt called this on an episode of
parks and rec pretty great look that up he
did yes that’s being widely circulated and
i am quite interested in seeing him with the
tuskens notably when we see him reveal at the
end of mandalorian season 2 episode 1 armor-less
boba wielding a gaffy stick suggesting that he has
been accepted in some manner into tusken culture i
like the nod we got in the premiere of season two
to tusken culture as well so just kind of seeing
boba fett interact with the tusken raiders i think
is going to be pretty cool and you know the
present-day timeline taking over jabba and bib’s
you know criminal enterprise i think
that probably has more potential as for
for fans of star wars lore for people looking
for those easter eggs and references because i
think we could maybe see a crimson dawn qi’ra
reference a la solo or even something even
more hardcore like prince xizor or black sun
and stuff from shadows of the empire so you know
we’re not going to get anything groundbreaking
but yeah again for the lower heads i think that
there’ll be some fun stuff to be to beat with you
know on the other hand it’s more time on tatooine
i think we know tattooing for the most part at
this point hate sand just hate it gets everywhere
you know i was a lot less interested in the stuff
with the tusken raiders than i was with the you
know seeing him and infect walking around meeting
the different people on tatooine interacting with
them kind of seeing what the setup is going to
be i think i guess what i’m hoping is that the
tusken raider stuff is less and less as we go
forward and that’s where kind of storyline gets
resolved and we’re more in the present because
i think the the criminal enterprise of it all is
much more interesting to me and seeing
how those like relationships interplay
seems like stuff with the mayor of that city on
tatooine i’m freaking the name of it brother yes
but that’s water that’s watto’s hometown i wonder
seems like that’s going to be something that we’re
you know spending some time with or that’s
going to be a main point of contention
but yeah i think the the scene that probably
stood out most to me outside of them just
sitting in jabba’s palace and greet you know
having people come and offer them gifts was
ming-na wen just that chase scene with the
the assassins was just awesome i really
i’m really looking forward to seeing how fennec
as a character just continues to to grow in this
story it feels like the most exciting thread
that will have a lasting effect from this
this mini series for me but anything else
that you’re excited for or expect to see
yeah it’d be cool to see crimson dawn it’d
be less cool if you’re not seeing emilia
clarke’s cure though i suppose in a sense
this show is set up for a long runway because
your the present day timeline you’re looking at
five years after returning the jedi meaning you
have 25 years till force awakens it’s a lot of
time to do criminal underworld stuff and you know
it doesn’t seem like boba’s gonna be
bounty hunting all that much anymore but
i think that that that side of star wars has
long been something under explore the underworld
the smugglers the the bounty hunters
the scum and villainy of it all
that you know it’s a little grimier and darker
and thus probably not as appealing to lucasfilm to
make but if they went there you know it would be
cool i it is nice to see a mainstream property led
by two older actors temuera morrison 60 ming-na
wen is 58 and there are two leads he’s that old
she is yeah still so crushing it and actually
another thing i think is exciting the mandalorian
sorry the book of boba fett trailer only features
material from episode one of the show so sounds
like they’re gonna be hiding some stuff and in
general just that unknown is cool robert rodriguez
co-showrunner following some directing he did
on season two yeah so i’m looking forward to
you know seeing seeing what they do this was
film pandemic end of 2020 but because they
film with the stagecraft technology in manhattan
beach they can can nail it you know so i don’t
yeah again i don’t think it’s going to be anything
to too groundbreaking but i just think it’ll be
fun and i think this this is something i find more
fulfilling even if it’s lower stakes and something
like like like hawkeye which i just feel way less
invested in so i guess it depends what you want
currently we’ll we’ll be talking about the
book above that when we wrap up the season
