Corvinus85 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Not a bad start. I expected the episodes to be short like The Mandalorian's and that's what we got. All the background stuff was good, with Boba getting out of the Sarlacc pit, the Jawas and the Tuskens. The present day stuff was fine, too. The Gamorrans were the highlight, finally looking like worthy bodyguards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 Yup, that was solid. Low-key, small stakes but I'm okay with that for now. Matt Berry as the torture droid promoted to majordomo but who can't stop thinking about torturing was entertaining. And the return of the Max Rebo Band was way more awesome than it had any right to be. I'm wondering if it's too much to hope for for a cameo from a very ancient Watto? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Werthead said: I'm wondering if it's too much to hope for for a cameo from a very ancient Watto? Why would anyone want that??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mormont Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Werthead said: I'm wondering if it's too much to hope for for a cameo from a very ancient Watto? No. A hundred times no. Let's forget that particularly unpleasant bit of racism was in the movies, please. This was a pretty good episode, not outstanding. Temuera Morrison is the best thing about it, I felt. He avoids the pitfall of playing Boba Fett as a one-dimensional emotionless badass (helped by the writers, of course). But if you've read, seen or imagined even one version of Boba Fett escaping the Sarlacc (and most of us have), that stuff feels pretty familiar. No interesting twists. The modern day stuff has more promise but is mostly setup. I'd have preferred more of that and less of the flashback for the first episode, but a certain amount of table-setting had to happen, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom 1974 Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, mormont said: No. A hundred times no. Let's forget that particularly unpleasant bit of racism was in the movies, please. This was a pretty good episode, not outstanding. Temuera Morrison is the best thing about it, I felt. He avoids the pitfall of playing Boba Fett as a one-dimensional emotionless badass (helped by the writers, of course). But if you've read, seen or imagined even one version of Boba Fett escaping the Sarlacc (and most of us have), that stuff feels pretty familiar. No interesting twists. The modern day stuff has more promise but is mostly setup. I'd have preferred more of that and less of the flashback for the first episode, but a certain amount of table-setting had to happen, I suppose. Can you honestly do more with the escape from the Sarlacc though? Whether it's canon or not, everyone knows the basic premise of the escape, as you say. So trying to do something new might have just been a too difficult? Maybe spend a few moments less on it though? OR...fun idea...the original Boba Fett did actually die after the Pit...and this current one is just another Clone Trooper who found him and took on his identity...yeah...let's get THAT rumor started... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 The part with Boba finding a dead stormtrooper that was there for who knows how long and using the respirator to give himself a bit of clean air was definitely a cool moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Jaxom 1974 said: Why would anyone want that??? I'd be interested to see if they could redeem him, but I vaguely recall the character seemed a lot more aged in Clones even though it was only 10 years later, so I assume he'd be dead given it's now what, 28 years further down the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 7 minutes ago, Werthead said: I'd be interested to see if they could redeem him, but I vaguely recall the character seemed a lot more aged in Clones even though it was only 10 years later, so I assume he'd be dead given it's now what, 28 years further down the line. Also, as Mormont says, he’s a horrible Jewish stereotype. The flashback sections seemed a little slow paced to me, but I liked the present day stuff. Nice to see Gamorreans are actually useful when they’re not up against a Jedi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 It was fine. Another in the line of mandalorian where it doesn't do anything really to expand anything, isn't super challenging and the fights don't make any sense. Definitely smart to send a bunch of assassins to kill people in broad daylight and at close range with shields and atabby bits. The show does know that people have blasters set to stun, right? Mos Espa is cool at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jurble Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 i didn't enjoy it, not enough happened. Those assassins were clearly Hand ninjas, though. We need the IMMORTAL IRON FIST to team up with Boba. I'm also curious how Boba seemed to survive several days as a prisoner-slave of the Tuskens with apparently no water ration and why pods of water grow apparently 5 inches under the sand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Patrek Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 53 minutes ago, Kalsandra said: It was fine. Another in the line of mandalorian where it doesn't do anything really to expand anything, isn't super challenging and the fights don't make any sense. Definitely smart to send a bunch of assassins to kill people in broad daylight and at close range with shields and atabby bits. The show does know that people have blasters set to stun, right? Mos Espa is cool at least. Have to agree. I wish Favreau wasn't involved. This first episode had nothing to set it apart from the Mandalorian. I wish another writing crew and production team were in charge of this new series. Visually, it's cool to be back on Tatooine and have all these throwbacks to the original trilogy. But it looks as though this is another show that will be devoid of substance. Also, how cut-throat can a PG Star Wars meets the Godfather truly be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog-days Posted December 29, 2021 Share Posted December 29, 2021 What Lord Patrek and Kalsandra said. Plus, although I like Temuera Morrison a lot, the writing behind the character feels fuzzy. I never paid much attention to Fett in the films, and didn't follow any of the books, comics etc. but he was a clever and competent if apparently excessively violent bounty hunter ("no disintegrations") fond of flirting with party aliens in the palace of a mafia slug boss, though I have a feeling the latter might be one of George Lucas's later inserts. I assume that the Sarlaac and imprisonment are meant by the show to be our hero's Damascene conversion. We've now got someone that automatically winces when he sees someone beaten, wants to rule (as opposed to grab the money and go), wants to rule by respect not fear, and seems about as stable and decent as Star Wars characters are able to be. In fact, he seems kind of bland - even more so than Mando. All that being said, I'll still watch the next episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted December 29, 2021 Author Share Posted December 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Lord Patrek said: Also, how cut-throat can a PG Star Wars meets the Godfather truly be? Well, the Trandoshan guy came with a tribute of a Wookie pelt so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Patrek Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said: Well, the Trandoshan guy came with a tribute of a Wookie pelt so... Seriously? Come on! If this is cut-throat, then no wonder we can't really expect any level of cunning, mercilessness, and violence that go beyond what you'd expect from a kids show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, Lord Patrek said: Seriously? Come on! If this is cut-throat, then no wonder we can't really expect any level of cunning, mercilessness, and violence that go beyond what you'd expect from a kids show. Personally I would never hold a Star Wars movie or show at the same standards as Godfather or The Sopranos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 the only question i had after i finished watching this was - "why?". Did we really need to see any of that? Total retread of a million other things, except skinned as Bobba Fett. Very meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 who were the graffiti biker gang? i'm sufficiently unsophisticated to be pleased if a new monster appears in every episode, kinda like in mandalorian for a while there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Patrek Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 46 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said: Personally I would never hold a Star Wars movie or show at the same standards as Godfather or The Sopranos. Of course not, but it's sold as this cut-throat criminal underworld story. Coming from Disney, how cut-throat can it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 14 minutes ago, Lord Patrek said: Of course not, but it's sold as this cut-throat criminal underworld story. Coming from Disney, how cut-throat can it be? It's sold as a Star Wars series, a franchise that has been aimed at kids pretty much from the very start. In as much as it's going to be about building a criminal empire, it's always going to be in that context. I was going to say if you're expecting to see severed bantha heads, this is not the show for that, then remembered Mr. Six Limb's head got cut off anyway, so there we go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 29 minutes ago, Lord Patrek said: Of course not, but it's sold as this cut-throat criminal underworld story. Coming from Disney, how cut-throat can it be? That remains to be seen. I don't expect it to go beyond The Empire Strikes Back or to be darker than Revenge of the Sith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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