The Fall of Boba Fett 

One of the major problems with this show, is its tone. I hate how a Star Wars show about Bounty Hunters and the criminal underworld feels so tame and sanitised for a 'Disney' audience.

Book Of Boba Fett was basically "Hey remember THIS CHARACTER" the show imo. Like hey look Bib Fortuna! Hey look Ahsoka Tano! Hey look CAD BANE!!!!

Temuera Morrison deserved better. He's been a huge part of this franchise for 20 years!

They managed to make one of the coolest Star Wars characters a side character in his own show toy gotta respect that

It is concerning that temmura knows more about the fett's than the directors

I think Marcus from cosmonaut variety put it really well, everything that made Boba Fett cool was given to the mandalorian, so they couldn’t really do Boba Fett without it being like the mandalorian. He’s been replaced basically

Jon Favreau kickstarted the entire MCU during a writer's strike yet he has also given us Mufasa getting decked in the face by Scar

Im just glad we got two Mandalorin episodes.

I reckon that the show would have benefitted more from delving into an inner conflict of Boba perhaps trying to move beyond his brutal past and his near death experience at the Sarlacc Pit makes Boba want to change to become a more honorable man. However introduce Cad Bane earlier through flashbacks and set up the fact that he was Boba's mentor and reason Boba went down a brutal and malicious bounty hunting path, therefore you can have Bane be the physical manifestation of Boba Fett's past and provides a good conflict which would make the pay off of the final confrontation between the two more impactful and satisfying that Boba has defeated his past.

I really feel that the big mistake from that start was making him a crime lord cos that somewhat limits what you can do with the character and he essentially has to stay in one location. They should have kept him as a bounty hunter cos then you can travel to other planets, meet other characters and sure, we kinda already did that with Mando but you can then explore the idea of Boba being a much older and experienced bounty hunter who maybe needs to think his way out of things cos he can't fight like he used to. I dunno. What do you think?

Well bounty hunter had Jango actually hunting bounties, confronting his troubled past and deadly rivals and trying to shut down a deranged group of inter-planetary drug dealers/users led by an insane ex jedi. At the end of Bounty Hunter, Jango seems an even bigger badass than when the game starts when you consider all he accomplished and the impact his actions will have on the wider galaxy. Overall much more interesting in both character development and action than anything we see in Book of Boba Fett.

I never played that old Jango Fett game. But the thing that really bugs me about Book of Boba Fett is that they should have made Cad Bane the main villain from the very beginning. I think that could have fixed most of its problems, because while I enjoyed the flashback storyline, the present day storyline is to vague. But the presence of Cad Bane not only gives the show a potent threat, but one that is relevant to Boba’s underdeveloped quest to go semi-straight

I understand all the criticism for the book of Boba Fett but I really liked it. Anyway bounty hunter is really awesome and way better

Completely agree, I am so god damn sick of desert planets in Star Wars… and we’re going back there AGAIN for Kenobi. The characters themselves always say Tatooine is a back water shit hole, what does Disney keep going back there?

Dave Filoni, Jon Favreau, and the other "new hope of disney"s' formula, apparently, is to drown fans in the fanservice disney has starved them of, only to weaken and mar characters who would've been better off without.

I love TM as Boba and Jango Fett so it’s sad the the non-mando episodes were pretty embarrassing. It was a wasted opportunity not to touch on the Jango-Boba relationship more!

Uhp, didn’t think I’d have a reason to say it, but Duros look the same in literally every iteration. The way Cad Bane looks in The Clone Wars is the way every duros looks in every form of media. He looked good, but let’s not pretend the design didn’t lean into a practical applicability rather than being accurate, while the Trandoshan’s and Krrsantan look like real things that exist

Boba Fett from the expanded universe and his canon comic book version looking at the show version: pathetic

This music blending the Mandalorian theme with Bounty Hunter with the Empire is absolute gold. Love it.

Instead of a Boba show Mando S3 should have had some Boba Mando team up episodes. Because Boba at this point works better as a side character imo.

Really should’ve been a couple of boba-centric episodes of Mando season 3 than a couple of mando-centric episodes of the boba show

Bro my heart hurts knowing that even morrison wanted this show to be so much better than it was

I liked the show but I can see there are big problems with it and I understand and respect your opinion full fat vids and love your videos dude your the best video essay channel on the platform.

1. Despite having enjoyed the show myself, I couldn't agree more with you. Literally the only legitimately good things in the show are the show's insight into Tusken life, Fennec and Boba's first meeting, and the main theme. 2. I don't know enough about Ahsoka to know if she lived Luke's love-is-the-light-side-of-the-Force arc, so her anti-love rhetoric since Mando s2e5 made sense to me. I would really like your discourse on this point. 3. Cad Bane did not die. There are easter-egg videos about it. 4. I think you can blame the lack of George Lucas (though Dave Filoni does make up for that where/when it counts) for the sequels crap. Ah, what the hell, I'd like your thoughts on Star Wars: Visions.

So glad someone remembers Bounty Hunter. It was one of my favorite Star Wars games as a teen.

I just have to say - your linear timeline idea is simply sublime.

Everything about this analysis is right, but at the end of the day, I will still have a much easier time including this series in my personal Star Wars cannon than the Sequal Trilogy...I'm sure I'm not the only one...

Man, Cad Bane's death could've been something truly awesome - the character is the Duros version of a 100 years old at this point; he's long past his expiry date and he's clearly seeking a glorious death. Dying in a final showdown with Boba Fett could've been SO INCREDIBLY HYPE. Hell, the unfinished 'double headshot' animation of him having his shoot-out with young Boba was better than this. They did my man dirty. They did Boba dirty. They did Temuera dirty. So much dirt on this sandy-ass planet.

I feel like we can tell Luke sounds fake because Mark hamil actually had emotion, where as this one is just monotone

I’m happy I wasn’t the only person who noticed Luke’s robo voice

Tatooine has become the Green Hill Zone of Star Wars

You did notice that they really tried to avoid showing Luke's face when he was talking? The cgi looked fine because they didn't really animate his face moving.

book of boba fett is the definition of mediocrity, literally just thrown together for a quick buck inbetween mando seasons.

Thank you for basically touching upon everything I have been saying and feeling for a long time now. BoBF should have taken significantly more inspiration from SW: BH. You basically summed it all up perfectly. I'm just glad more people are appreciating how well put together SW:BH was.

Am I the only one who's sees a bit of parallels between jango and Sam along with boba and shand

“I don’t think every character in Star Wars needs to have a spiritual awakening and come out redeemed.” Your right, which is why Darth Maul was so awesome in clone wars 😁

This video sums up everything I have felt about this show. I don't understand how they could have missed the mark with the potential they had. If anything, this feels like the first draft of a book. They needed to revise it and give it more purpose.

Star Wars Bounty Hunter was such a hard game, but man do I feel nostalgic when you talk about it.

The Book of Boba Fett should have been about Boba becoming a mandalorian and achieving the goals that Jango set him to do, also carrying out Jaster's legacy like he did in the Legends.

I personally really liked the prequel and Mando elements of this series. Far more that the main plot. I actually really liked the vision quest elements of him building his gaffe stick. It felt like, after having been his father's clone for so long, Boba was finally making something for himself, through his relationship with the Tuskens. It's a shame that it wasn't revealed that the female warrior and child Tuskens hadn't escaped, and wound up rallying the other clans to help out in the finale.

Ironically I found the tusken raider mission the most difficult

It’s a shame we have such strong Taatooine burn out before Kenobi

Its funny reading the Legacy of The Force novels where Boba Fett becomes an almost reluctant Mandalor, dying because his cloned organs are failing, reunites with his grandaughter, learns about his father's Mandalorian culture and opens up a bit, little by little while still being a badass, I much prefer that over the Book of Boba Fett.

“Funniest” part of all this is that any “evolution/ progress/ development” ofBoba in this series is erased for no fucking reason. If his arc is becoming a respected Dynamo,(which kind of comes out of nowhere in the first place) it’s immediately erased at the end by him saying “it’s not a life for me” for no reason or anything, and then leaving with Fennec. What was the point of the series? Side note: just discovered your channel, you hit every poijt in Star Wars I have issues with

Disney tried to make a family friendly Mob boss show. That is all you need to know.

28:18 to note that "exaggerated cartoon visuals" is more inline with his live action species, than his live action counterpart. Exact same issue with the Grand Inquisitor, and Ahsoka. And yes robot Luke is also bad

Tf did yall think we were going to get trying to recreate a person and voice digitally? Of COURSE it's not going to sound or look like Luke from 40 years ago. Everybody is so excited to see Jedi Master Luke after Jedi, but then tears the depiction apart! Nerds can be so annoying. I guarantee you, everyone's experience wasn't ruined because of Luke's voice, as many chose not to focus on it.

They should have given him a Daniel Plainview arc when he fell into the pit with the Carlac. He gets out builds a little empire.

I wish the developers of this show had just filmed this Boba show like it was filmed right after the return of the jedi including storyline ,set and character design

It's really disappointing especially considering that bounty hunter was an episode 2 tie in game. You know the move that had Anakin say, "I don't like sand. It's corse, rough, irritating and it gets everywhere" 😂

each of those episodes needed to be an hour and a half and focused solely on a game of thrones style thing, where you have mafia vs mafia and fett actually has a real army

Part of me wonders if since Boba is a character from the movies, Disney was basically giving the director no choice. But since Djinn is a completely original character, he's got a lot more freedom

Disney just need to give me a Qui Gon story before Neeson gets too old. How is Taken-in-Star-Wars not the easiest fucking thing they could do and do well?

Boba never shoulda been an ally of Mando. He shoulda been the arch nemesis, the character foil, the bounty hunter he used to be.

His name isn't bobber, it's boba.

What annoyed the heck out of me is that we’re talking about an already short 7 episode series, and they decided to turn it into a 5 episode series On top of what you already mentioned that they seem to know more, what they want to do with Mando than Boba

The cad bane one about him looking like his animated appearance isn’t what it was about. It’s the fact we’ve seen his species in live action many times before. He looks cool but just doesn’t look like his species. Which is a problem these shows have been having is that the aliens look too human

The thing about the "redemption" with tusken raiders is thats still pre-mandalorian s2, where he threatens to murder a defenseless child...

Seeing Cad Bane show up in a Jango flashback in say, episode three, would’ve made his surprise return in the penultimate episode so much more interesting too. In the actually show Cad Bane showing up feels very disjointed, you’re not entirely sure why he’s there or why he has any personal business with Boba. Setting him up early on, making you forget about him, and then having him show up towards the end would have both set up Bane’s relevance in Boba’s life and made Bane’s appearance far less disjointed

I wish season 3 of Mandalorian had happened instead of The Boring Of Boba Fett. For season 3 you can still have Mando’s new ship, including Cad Bane, Luke, Ashoka, R2, and Grogu. First episode is a standalone with Mando doing a random mission, but trying to accept Grogu isn’t with him. From episode 2 - 8 is one story arc. The streets of Tatooine have been quiet, no life, nothing. The mechanic lady tells Mando there’s this gang who have taken over the town, and if anyone tries to get them, then they’ll send their greatest weapon. Mando goes after the gang, and in return they send their greatest weapon. Cad Bane. They pay Cad a lot of money. Mando and Cad have a duel, Cad shots first but Mando lives. Cad wants to challenge this younger bounty hunter, and see if in the future he’s ready for a rematch. Mando tries to do better than Cad in a duel, he learns his history. We see flashbacks of Cad. In one episode, we see the parallels of a young Mando and Cad how they were brought up, how they came to be. Mando fears he can’t win this one, so he melts the spear and makes a little bullet proof vest for Grogu, hoping to see him one last, and this plays out like what happened in episode 6, but longer with no Boba. I would call this episode “The Masters and The Apprentices”. What this title means is that Luke is teaching Grogu, but at the same time, Ashoka is teaching Luke how to be a good teacher. At some point the trio go to Ilum, to find Grogu’s lightsaber. When he returns from the cave he makes his own lightsaber the colour being yellow. Grogu overhears Ashoka and Luke talking what Mando said, this might be the last time he’ll see him and might die from Cad. Grogu becomes concerned and wants to help. Luke gives him a choice, the lightsaber or the vest. Grogu grabs both objects and pushes Luke back and jumps out of the temple. Ashoka holds Luke back and let’s Grogu go. The two Jedi Knights have a little duel. Grogu joins the fight with Mando, at some point Grogu gets shot, Mando is in shock brutally beats up Cad. Cad gets the upper hand removes Mando’s helmet, point and shots him, but the laser is being hold back from Grogu. He pulls it back and destroy Cad’s gun. Mando and Cad have one last face off. Cad pulls first, but Mando shots first. Cad is dead. Mando and Grogu have a an emotional, sweet reunion. He takes Grogu into the new ship and they fly off to the sunset.

Star Wars Bounty Hunter is criminally underrated. My fav aspect of it has to be the rivalry between Jango and Montross. It's not even the typical hero vs villain kinda rivalry that BoBF painfully recycles either, it's more of a conflict between two ruthless killers but one of them just does it for the money while the other simply enjoys the bloodshed.

Boba Fett is a great supporting character. I'd love to see Bo Katan or the Children of the Watch hire him as muscle to help take back their home planet, that'd be sick!

They should have had him try to take Mos Eisley like you said, fail, do the thing with the tuskan raiders and then not have him take his helmet off until Cad Bane rips it off in the last stand

This is what happens when the people in charge listen to the audience who say this guys awesome when’s their movie. Super cool character in small parts. There was literally no story for 70% of the show.

12 minutes into the video and I gotta say it, I’m GLAD that someone finally shares a dislike for the sand planets we have in Star Wars. At first I didn’t mind, but then we saw sand planets, mainly Tatooine, 400 million times and I can’t stand the sight of endless sand anymore. I practically turned into Anakin the way I hate sand now. In my opinion, Book of Boba Fett struggled from an ugly color palette mainly because your entire screen looks sandy brown the entire time.

For all the shows flaws, I still thought it was pretty fun. Here's to hoping a season 2 gets green-lit, and has some cleaner structure and story behind it.

I agree with everything except for your analysis on Luke in episode 6. I think the CGI isn’t in any valley at all. Sure some parts, but on the whole, it looked authentic %75-%80 of the time. Also, the voice sounds great. It’s exactly what I remember when watching the originals on VHS at the age of five. Now I might be biased because I happen to be a VFX artist for an advertising agency, but I also have some pretty reasonable friends, and they mostly said the same.

A flashback with Boba, Jango and Cad Bade would’ve been nice and it would have told people who haven’t seen clone wars who Cad Bane is

Instead of a Season 2 of The Book of Boba Fett, I’d much rather see a Jango Fett series. The Journal of Jango Fett! Based on The Bounty Hunter game and the Jango Fett Open Seasons comics. Just don’t let Robert Rodriguez anywhere near it. Bryce Dallas Howard and Dave Filoni can co-direct it.

The Book of Boba Fett is Star Wars' really long Amazing Spider-Man movie. There's a bunch of good stuff in it like characters, plot threads, and action scenes, but that story as a whole is all over the place. I love the Pykes, they're decent badguys, I liked seeing them. I've never read the comics with Black Krrsantan, but I knew of his existense, it was cool to see him show up. Boba shedding the life of a Bounty Hunter to become a Crime Lord (but actually just a defender I guess) is an interesting idea. That final episode has a lot of great action moments in my opinion. The Mods are not a terrible idea, they just feel out of place on Tatooine. Finally seeing Cad Bane in live action is great, and he's portrayed wonderfully, but despite my knowledge of the unfinished Clone Wars story with him and Boba, it does kind of come out of nowhere that they have beef with one another. All the stuff with the Mandalorian and Luke and Ahsoka and Grogu is the best, it just does not belong here in this show. A lot of this stuff is working on its own, but as a narrative, it's bouncing around the timeline, it's cramming in stuff that doesn't need to be there, and the focus is changing every episode on what the actual plot is. It's a really long Amazing Spider-Man movie. There's a lot of the right people involved, there was a lot of potential for greatness, but simultaneously, everything went wrong.

I don't think the fans wanted Cad Bane to look like an exaggerated cartoon. They only wanted him to look like the Duros who had already been established in the cantina scene of A New Hope. See also the Paoan Grand Inquisitor...!

Boba Fett was pretty much a buffoon in the Original films. Only things he ever does: follow a ship, NOT capture Solo, talk to Vader, and then die from his own incompetence. All the Mandalorian hype based only on “But hey, his suit still looked cool!” To paraphrase R Downey Jr., “He’s just a dude cloned from a dude who dresses like another dude.”

The worst part about the character of boba fett is that he's a clone. Why it just takes away from him being mor unique he should have just been Jangos son to space him apart from all the other clones.

Totally agree! A jango fett focused story/ episode would have been so much better!!

I feel like Cad Banes Death was left ambiguous and really hope he can come back for season 2 even as the main antagonist. And if their going to do flashbacks we should get more characterization on Jango. I'm just imagining how amazing the Boba vs Bane fight from the clone wars we never got would be in live action

One of the biggest problems I have Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett is the episodic story telling. Constantly adding new heros and villains makes each one feel dull because they mostly appear, talk and then die or disappear until a few episodes later where they appear, talk and then die or disappear.

They really gave boba the Loki treatment huh

I don’t want Sebastian Stan as Luke, he doesn’t really look as much like Mark Hamil as people think. You’d definitely be able to tell it’s a different person. Mark Hamil is Luke in Star Wars, there can be no one else. Either that, or he doesn’t show up . Also, they could always show the first time Luke and Ahsoka meet during the Ahsoka series .

I'm getting rumors that in the wake of Mando S2, Kennedy got very involved in the shows. They weren't Citizen Kane before, but this was quite the drop. I wonder if this has an effect.

I feel that the book of boba fett was basically mandolorian 2.5 which is a shame because they had an opportunity to make fett a character beyond his faceless and stoic badassery; I would have honestly preferred fett to have being the overtly ruthless foil to Din

bounty hunters deserve its own show with competent writers and a director who actually gives a fuck

Played Bounty Hunter a ton as a kid, love that you've covered it.

He also voiced the campaign in battlefront II. Also an infinitely more compelling story.

The mandalorian is fucking amazing and if john wick was in star wars he would be a fucking legendary Mandalorian

What? How does the Pyke syndicate NOT have a reason to wipe out Boba's Tusken family? Did you forget that they robbed the syndicate's train, stealing probably thousands of credits in goods? Boba even lets the survivors go, which is how they know which tribe it was. The only thing that wasn't 100% crystal clear was exactly why they marked it with the swoop gang's symbol. However, it can be pretty easily inferred that they did it for the same reason anyone frames someone else for a crime they committed, to throw any investigator (Boba in this example) off the scent and have them assume someone else did it, leading to retaliation by arrest or revenge, the latter of which Boba does the next episode. Like sure it wasn't a stellar twist. Boba already has plenty reason to oppose the Pykes, and finding out the big evil guy is slightly more evil isn't a great reveal. Not arguing against that, but the Pykes' reasons for massacring the Tusken tribe are beyond clear.

I think It would be a more interesting way to navigate bobba’s character on a diary like movie on how he escaped

Spice,desert planet,=DUNE? Disney are so original and inventive. But where are the giant worms.

ahhhh... sigh is just amazing how just ONE truly good Star Wars game can be BLLIONS of times much better and meaningful than the entire Corrupted and DOOMED to Fail Disney Wars Era

jango fett is like big boss from metal gear while boba fett is like solid snake i dont know what omega fett either solidus or liquid snake? because omega is super smart but yeah she’s basically liquid snake more superior gene

Super Frame did a video about an episode that should have been made with flashbacks of young Boba and Cad Bane showing their relationship. I think your idea about Temuera returning as Jango in a flashback could've easily tied into this episode idea. Book of Boba really needed 8 episodes instead of 7 and this theoretical episode could have happened between Episode 6 and 7. And if we bring back young Boba we can have Daniel Logan return to play him in live action.

Star wars fans go 1 minute without complaining challenge (impossible!)

As much as I loved seeing Luke, Mando and Ahsoka, most of that stuff should have waited for Mando s3 or Ahsoka’s show. Also Grogu DEFINITELY should not already be back with Mando outside of his own show. That should have taken a whole season.

If you want a sequel to Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, try Star Wars: Republic Commando. The main character, RC-1138 "Boss" is basically similar to Jango in more ways than one, and I'm not just saying that because he's a clone of the man. Attitude, badassery, respect, Boss is pretty much a solid copy of Jango who has his own epic tale.

I really thought that he'd see his father during his nose-lizard based spirit vision. But yes your ideas are really making me lament the show we got.

Genuinely the best video I've seen on The Book fo Boba Fett man. LOVED the idea of having a series that addresses the dynamic between Jango and Boba that allows Temeura to give a great two hander performance and then exploring how that relationship shaped Boba. Also your critique of the Ahsoka and Luke meet up is so fucking on point. Imagine wasting that moment. UGH frustrating doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about this show and the sate of Star Wars. Excellent work dude!

Omg the lnbetweeners “it’s not relevant” scene got me looool

I think they were tryna be a little poetic with the appearance of Cad Bane. Kinda like Obi-Wan being killed off his first appearance.

Ngl, that jango video game's graphics don't look that bad to me, it's aged well

22:04 okay, instead I will say that I hope that VFX team were well compensated and still employed. 25:00 they already hired an actor to do the stand in work, Max Lloyd Jones, just him let be Luke.

I basically agree with everything you said here, but I honestly hadn't even thought of a Jango flashback. What a phenomenal idea, especially if they tied it back to Bane. What a missed opportunity like the rest of this show. I had fun with it and seeing Cad Bane in live action was awesome, even if they wasted him too... Side note can we just appreciate that Clancy Brown has seamlessly played 3 characters in Star Wars, crossing all 3 mediums- video game, animation (Savage Oppress) and live action. What an absolute legend he is for stacking that onto his already monster catalogue as a live and voice actor.