Nightmare Fuel / The Book of Boba Fett

Will I dream?

Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land

• We finally learn more about Boba Fett's escape from the Sarlacc after the events of Return of the Jedi, including his experience inside the Sarlacc's stomach. Not only is the stomach dark, disgusting, and claustrophobic, we get to see one of the Sarlacc's other victims in the form of a partially-digested Stormtrooper.
• Boba Fett's encounter with the Sand Beast, only known in the closed captions as the "Behemoth". The creature itself looks scary (imagine a reptilian centaur which can walk on two legs), but it also kills the Rodian captive by snapping its neck (and tries to do the same to Boba and the Tusken child).

Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine

• Black Krrsantan makes his official live-action appearance, and he's exactly as terrifying as you could imagine Chewbacca's Evil Counterpart being. His Death Glare is particularly intimidating.
• The Mushroom Samba quest for Boba Fett to find wood for his Gaderffii stick involves a small lizard burrowing into his nostril, and, if what the Tusken chieftain says is true, hijacking Boba's brain to guide him to the tree. That in of itself is an unpleasant ritual, but the visions that Boba sees while the lizard is in his head are a horrifying acid trip that barely makes sense in context. At one point, a tree in the middle of the desert wraps its branches around Boba and tries to suffocate him in the same manner as the Sarlacc when he was trying to escape.

Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa

• Krrsantan attacks Boba out of nowhere, ambushing him while he's healing in his bacta tank. He then fights him, half-a-dozen cybernetically enhanced gang members, and two Gamorreans at once, and it still takes Fennec dropping him into the Rancor pit to stop him. Krrsantan is bad, bad news. To top it off, Krrsantan's body language, black pelt, and use of roars far more brutal than Chewie's make him seem less like a Wookiee and more like a Predator.
  • It has to be emphasized how much damage Krrsantan takes during this fight. He's repeatedly stabbed, shot, burned and sliced up by Boba, the Mods, the Gamoreans, and Fennec during the fight. Even with the gadderfi stick in his back, Krrsantan still has enough strength to try and crush Boba to death with his bare arms. Mere seconds after Boba stabs him in the back of the knee with his gadderfi, Krrsantan charges the Gamoreans at full speed down a flight of stairs, and he gets back up first. Even after all that, when he's contained in the rancor pit, Krrsantan is still roaring at his captors in a clear "Come down and finish it if you can" challenge. What in the name of the Force does it take to stop him?

Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm

• Boba and Fennec return to the sarlacc pit to look for Boba's armor. They lower the ship over the pit to get a closer look, only to discover the sarlacc is still alive. It grabs hold of the ship and tries to pull them in. Fennec tries to reach the controls for the seismic charges, but she's too short to reach. Unbuckling her seatbelt drops her onto the windshield directly over the sarlacc's beak, which snaps up at her.
  • There's also the fact that Boba, in a clear instance of Honor Before Reason, actually dove back into the Sarlacc under the misguided notion that his armor was left behind there, adding further to his acid burn scarring.
• Krrsantan once again reminds people of his terrifying nature by attacking the Trandoshans in the cantina, and then ripping a limb off from one unfortunate Trandoshan caught in his grip. While Trandoshans do not have good relations with the Wookiees, they did nothing to provoke Krrsantan beyond gambling in his presence. Krrsantan simply attacks them because they're Trandoshans, even if they didn't do anything to Krrsantan personally. The fact that Garsa Fwip's promise of clearing his debts fails to stop the Wookiee bounty hunter from completing his rampage makes you realize you don't want to put him under a life debt. There's no telling what Krrsantan would do to you to get out of it.

Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian

• Din's fight with Kaba Baiz's crew is technically the first time we see him "bring a bounty in cold". While Din has been no stranger to killing or harming his bounties before, Kaba Baiz ends up stabbed and bisected with the Darksaber, with his head severed and then presented to the client (thankfully covered in cloth). Later scenes in the episode do suggest that Din's innate kindness, honour and Character Development is intact, but the brutality of this particular assignment does help sell how Din is not in a good place emotionally and psychologically after parting with Grogu.
  • Adding to the above, Din accidentally injuring himself with Darksaber. That painful burn on the leg forces him to limp all the way through the city before finding the other survivors of the Nevarro covert.
• We see the first view of the Empire's purge of Mandalore. TIE bombers darken the skies, flattening every city, while KX-series droids follow in the wake of the destruction, gunning down any survivors.
  • The imagery of what's left from that event is haunting: the entire landscape of Mandalore looks like it's been hit by a goddamn nuke. Because it has been hit by goddamn nukes. Hundreds of them.
  • The KX droids marching across the ravaged landscape as they hunt for survivors resembles the Bad Future scene out of The Terminator. It's even more striking because of how they contrast to The Comically Serious K-2SO.

Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger

• Luke looks into Grogu's memories and treats the audience to the sight of Order 66 from Grogu's point of view. The poor kid has to watch helplessly as the Clone Troopers of the 501^st Legion cut through the Jedi who are trying to protect him. The memory ends with the last of the Jedi falling and the lead Trooper turning his attention to Grogu.
• CAD BANE is back, and he looks terrifying in live-action, with visible sharp teeth, a pale skull-like face, expressionless red eyes, and the monotone voice of Corey Burton. The moment he walks in from the horizon, you can feel the dread from Cobb Vanth. The bounty hunter is also working for the Pykes, and he makes it clear that he will not hesitate to kill anyone who dares interfere with the Pykes. He's also very fast at drawing his weapon, coldly and efficiently gunning down Cobb Vanth and his deputy before they can retaliate.
• The bombing of Garsa Fwip's bar is terrifying for how abrupt it is. Two Pykes enter, sit for a few minutes rebuffing all attempts to speak to them, and then leave without their camtono. When a droid finds the camtono, Garsa gets a few seconds to react in horror before it explodes. The Pykes are pretty much the Cartel of the galaxy.

Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor

• The Pyke Syndicate's ace in the hole — the Scorponek Droids. Think Droidekas, but bigger. Much bigger. If they're anything like the ones from Legends, they're designed as anti-tank droids, capable of wiping out multiple AT-TEs.
• The Rancor destroying two massive gun droids is awesome. But then Fett is taken out by Bane, and now the beast is very angry, on the loose in town, and apparently immune to blaster fire. Thank the Force Grogu was there to calm it down.
• Fennec's Decapitation Strike is a pure Mook Horror Show, and it shows that her reputation as a master assassin is nothing to sneeze at. She guns down the other bosses who betrayed Boba, hangs Mok Shaiz from the rafters and breaks his neck, and finishes by shanking the Pykes' leader In the Back. The Pyke leader doesn't even see her coming before he finds the blade in his back (and neither does the audience). The entire sequence comes off like a very well-planned mission in an Assassin's Creed or Hitman installment (no wasted moves whatsoever), to Fennec's credit.