[REVIEW] BOOK OF BOBA FETT CHAPTER 5

I’ve got to say I wasn’t a fan of this episode, and here’s why:

The episode was nostalgia baiting, little more.  While some of the elements of the story were unique and held my interest (like the Dark Saber story arc), but they would happen at the same time as lame ones (like spending the first part of the show on a Halo Ring… would have been better if it were a shipyard).  The first world was new, but didn’t fit the world of Star Wars, and the meat-processing plant was a bit too odd, especially since they likely wouldn’t be raising livestock on such a world.  Then we’re presented a strange scene of seeing Mando’s clients at dinner, a sequence that could have been cut and we would have lost nothing.  As for the second half of the show, we’re presented a strange scene of restoring a Naboo fighter.  While visually appealing, the whole sequence didn’t move the story very far, yet it was packed full of callbacks, the same thing Disney has been doing for this whole decade!  Sure, it was a callback to the prequels which was nice, but not for the amount they did.  The reason for all these things is simple: Disney still doesn’t know how the Universe of Star Wars works because they’re not fans.  Here’s a better approach to this episode:

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Mando is still working jobs as a Bounty Hunter, but he’s having trouble focusing.  He nearly gets killed because of it, and realizes he has a weakness with the Dark Saber.  The weapon reminds him of Grogu and of the Jedi that took him away, but there’s something else.  He goes to the Armorer and and learns the saber is connected to the Force.  He’s unable to use it as he currently is, so he needs to find a teacher for how to use the blade.  But such training will need to wait, as he gets word that a craft has been found to replace his lost Razor Crest.  Mando uses the money from his last job to pay for a flight to Tatooine, but upon getting his ticket he realizes he’s short on the payment by a fair amount.  The Bounty Hunter has a bad feeling that something is coming for him, so he doesn’t have time for another job.  He must sell one of his weapons if he’s to get off-world soon, so he’s left with the tough choice of following his Order, or making a sacrifice.  For a moment, he considers selling the Dark Saber, after all, using it could get him killed.  Instead, he sells the Whistling Birds to a figure who will come back to haunt him later.  Upon reaching Tatooine, he learns the craft is out of his price-range.  He’s going to need a large payment for the craft, but Tatooine’s not going to pay him enough for any job that would even come close to the cost of the spacecraft.  It is at that moment he learns Boba Fett is looking for “Muscle.”  He goes to the ex-Mandalorian, whom the Armorer has told him to never see again for betraying their order.  And as he meets with his new employer, Mando gets the feeling he’s slowly becoming like Fett.  And like Fett, he will undoubtedly be cast out of the Order.

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While this episode was nice, it felt like a bandage on a failing series.  They’ve lost the original trilogy fans, now they’re looking to do the same thing with the prequel trilogy fans.  This is partially why these series feel like they’re completely different from each other, even episode to episode.  It’s like Disney has a collection of episodes on a scale from Nostalgia-t0-Woke, switching between them based upon what fans say week to week.  In the end, it’s the same tactic, and it will only become more realized as the series goes forward.  If you want to see more of these “Re-Writes,” I’m going to be making more of them in the near future.  Here’s one for the end of the Mandalorian Season 1:

Fixing the Mandalorian

Roas and LeaveIt with some great comments and points. Haven’t watched enough reviews, but Roas point about RingWorld was excellent. At first, when I saw Ringworld, it was an eye-roll and thinking about what a cheap hack it was, but at the same time, it’s a way to show that they have the capability to show things that exist out there in other sci-fi concepts. Showing they can go there if they ever want to pull it off. Not sure when cinema starting doing that, but I see these hacks in comic books all the time, just blatant stealing ripoffs to put in their own stories. “Good writers borrow; great writers steal.” I have seen this elsewhere. In Dune sequel book, Hunters of Dune, they basically have a cat race that is a little bit like the Kzinti from Larry Niven, who wrote Ringworld. It comes off a little cheap, but at the same time, it comes off like tribute and homage. As bad as it was, I thought the RingWorld was kind of cool. Just a nod to another sci-fi writer saying we see you. Larry Niven is still out there at 83 years old. Did not know that. No disrespect, as I have read some of his material and enjoyed it. BDH directed this and maybe she will do RingWorld or Kzin in the future?

Roas and Gary nerdrage is becoming a thing and I’m here for it.

The butcher thing is amusing because the way things are going, food and meat might come out of a 3-D printer soon. Same with the Hologram tech. It will probably look better than portrayed in Star Wars in our lifetime. I have no problem with what they do to make it work for the story. Overall, it’s sword and planet. I like how things overall kind of comeback to either metallurgy or religion in terms of “The Force” or that that Mandalorians have their slogans and laws like some kind of monastic order.

It does go noticed these days that they are making nostalgia for things that the fans would rather forget. Kind of funny, really.