Still has the potential to be better than Book of Boba Fett.
Aside from the random 90s power rangers cameos, I didn’t have a problem with it. I liked how they gave the Tusken Raiders nuance, and no story would have been enough to satiate the decades of contradicting lore around Boba Fett.
And you can’t beat them making part of Patton Oswald’s iconic star wars rant/filibuster canon.
Stuff I liked in BOBF: The Tusken Raider flashbacks and Boba’s spiritual journey. That could have been the whole show.
I liked Cad Bane. I don’t really have an attachment to the cartoons, but I thought he was efficiently and effectively introduced into the show.
Stuff I didn’t like: The mod gang. Low hanging fruit, but needed to be mentioned.
I didn’t like how dreadfully boring the action sequences tended to be, especially the shootouts. Shootouts in shows between groups should have some goals each group is trying to achieve in order to be exciting. In BOBF the shootouts were so flat. They felt like that Naked Gun shootout.
I didn’t enjoy the overly comical nature of so many side characters. Comedy in Star Wars is good, but extended scenes that feel like cosplayers doing improv are not. A lot of the new Star Wars content feels increasingly like watching cosplayers in a weird uncanny valley themepark of Star Wars. A setting that was once the example of a grungy and lived in setting now constantly has a layer of gloss varnish on everything.
Boba Fett himself seemed like a big dummy. His plan at the end to split up his few people to just kind of stand around was confusing. Boba Fett never seemed much interested in actually doing crime as a crime lord. I get that he is being redeemed as an anti-hero, and thus Disney wants him not to be too dark, be he easily could have become the new canon version of Talon Karrde and brokered in information. Boba Fett would know a lot of dirt. In any case he seemed to have little agency or decision making as the boss. Even the choice to hire mercenaries was suggested to him.
The series started out good as him literally being reborn as a new person via the Raiders way of life. Then it seemed to go into him seeking a retirement plan with passive income using the open spot Jabba left. That Mando’s cameo stole the show showed how dull it had become. I actually loved the idea of him injecting purpose into the vandals by hiring them, but did they have to be so campy? Jesus, I hadn’t thought of that spin-shot in a while…why?
The slower than walking speed chase.
It is burned into my head forever how ridiculous that looked. So many people have seen that scene before it aired and no one said enough to stop it from going out like this. Weird.
My comment was a bit tongue in cheek because it did have some good parts, but there was a lot of missed potential. The sand people part I actually liked a lot, it was something cool and new. The power rangers I could have maybe looked past even though it was ridiculous, if they hadn’t tried to turn Boba into some kind of noble gangster. You can’t be a good guy AND run a criminal empire on Tatooine, sorry. Star Wars can be really dark sometimes but they didn’t want to go dark here? Makes no sense.
Yeah… but character assassination
I couldn’t work out what I hated most about Book of Boba Fett until a character from the other series turned up and immediately sliced somebody in two.
And then I was like “why is Boba Fett such a massive fanny all of a sudden?”
Even Darth Vader had to tell the guy to chill the fuck out a bit.
Had to check the source for a moment
Me too. Was certain it was one of those TheOnion-like things…doesn’t look that way though.
doesn’t look that way though.
That’s exactly what it is, though. It’s satire, and tells you as much right in the first paragraph of the “About” page:
Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.
What a relief!
Obviously the doctor picks it up and uses it during regeneration to turn into a Jedi.
Jedi/time lord metacrisis!
They joke but they already did a comic about his hand being some magic gateway to Exegol and empowering tbe Emperor
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I still remember the extended universe book about one of Vader’s gloves infecting the wearer and taking over their body.
I still laugh anytime someone tries to tell me how the expanded universe was just amazing and brilliant, and how the sequel Trilogy was a complete insult to it.
“The expanded universe would never bring back Sidious or have a girl like Leia be a Jedi!!11”
I will however admit that the extended Universe would never have made Boba Fett look like the world’s most naive and unassuming Grandpa.
The Handalorian
The Book of Boba Fingers
Hand Solo
That’s the one
Just another soulless cash grab that won’t have the creative fortitude to delve into the hand’s dream to play Kloo horn at the Galaxies Opera House.
Kloo horn is super funny to me as German. Klo means loo in German, so he’s playing a toilet… horn?
I’m sure the name was made by some authorized Star Wars dictionary author well after it appeared on screen.
There’s a joke to be made but I can’t quite put my hand on it welp neither can Luke
Figures we get this before we get a series on the true hero, Willrow Hood /s
Personally, I’m waiting for the Spinal Tap-like movie about Max Reebo and his band.
His organ goes to 11
That’s more than I wanted to know about Max Reebo.
Phrasing!
Without knowing his name, I knew this was going to be the ice cream machine guy
Oh balls I got snookered, good one
Disregarding the onion layers of hard drive, Luuke Skywalker is an existing thing
Luuke Skywalker is an existing thing
“Existing,” sure, but hasn’t been canon for nearing a decade now.
Yeah. It makes a fun twist for the article. Disney could pull it into canon in reality.
Thrawn’s back, Palpy-clone is back, Witches of Dathomir have intergalactic space whales now. Fingers crossed for an after the credits teaser in Asoka featuring Joruus Cbaoth.
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Thing is born.
Thing plus light saber! Don’t let him get impatient anymore!
I recall reading somewhere that an early draft of The Force Awakens opened with a shot of Luke’s hand floating through space.
‘How did it get into space?’
‘The Force!’
‘That’s not how the Force works!’
Which doesn’t make any sense as it was cut off in the atmosphere of a gas giant. Not that logic or details would get in the way of JJ.
Oh it was a planet, I always thought it was some gas clouds in space
Somehow Luke’s hand has returned.
Will it use the force to connect with Luke or will it have a failure to communicate.
What sort of temperature will the hand be kept in?
Maybe half a Hoth, so pretty cool.
adams family?
Well we were told it was “a good story, for another time”…
In some other universe where the sequels had continuity in both plot and directing, it ended up making a lot of sense once revisited. As did Rey’s history and path she took.
