Tear Jerker / The Book of Boba Fett

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Chapter 2: The Tribes Of Tatooine

• The funeral really got to Boba. You can see his contained bereavement over the dead bodies he carries to the pyre after the speeder train drive-by slaughter. It's likely what motivated him to plan out the train raid to put an end to the slaughter.
• Luke’s friends from deleted scenes, Camie and Fixer, are shown at the mercy of gangsters, their lives still being miserable years after Luke left to follow his destiny. It’s a grim omen of how Luke’s life would’ve been wasted on a Crapsack World like Tatooine, and how his friends failed to escape such a life. The novelization of The Last Jedi even had a hypothetical future where Camie was Luke’s wife, making it even more poignant that she and many other people are simply trapped on their awful home planet.

Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa

• The Tusken Raider clan massacre. After returning to do business with the Pyke Clan, Boba finds himself in the ruins of the Tusken Raider camp with the symbol of the same group of raiders he beat up for their bikes just an episode ago.
• Boba burns the remains of the clan while contemplating on what to do next. He tosses their gaffi sticks into the fire as well... including the pretend gaffi stick of the Kid.

Chapter 5: Return of the Mandalorian

• Din is put through the wringer in this chapter. First, he injures himself with the Darksaber, which he has kept following his fight with Moff Gideon. Then, when he meets the covert again, the Armorer learns that he has removed his helmet before and banishes him, after Paz challenged him to a duel to retrieve the Darksaber from Din, thus creating a rift between them. When he prepares to leave the Armorer and Paz, a viewer can hear him either pant or cry underneath his helmet. Finally, it is revealed that Din still hasn't moved on from his parting with Grogu and still misses him very much.
• The Great Purge of Mandalore, known to the Mandalorians as the Night of the Thousand Tears. The Galactic Empire completely glassed the planet, or at the very least completely destroyed all major cities on Mandalore, including its capital Sundari, killing millions of Mandalorians and scattering the survivors all across the galaxy. In the span of one night, almost the entire Mandalorian civilization was reduced to rubble. Everything the heroes had accomplished throughout the Clone Wars and the Rise of the Empire, all the blood shed through its destructive civil war, the peace that the Kryze sisters were trying to achieve — it was All for Nothing thanks to one genocidal Moff's campaign. The few survivors that were off-world at the time are all that remains of the Mandalorian culture, and were forced into hiding or became wandering nomads with no place to call home — the same fate that befell the citizens of Alderaan after it was blown up by the Death Star...
  • It's a Blink-and-You-Miss-It moment, but the first cities that are hit by the TIE Bombers aren't domed or contained within cubes, but can be seen spread out across the surface, their lights shining clearly in the night before being blown away. After centuries of barren inhospitality, Mandalore's ecology was finally starting to recover enough for the people to start resettling the plains, only for the Empire to set them right back to square one, if not even worse.

Chapter 6: From The Desert Comes A Stranger

• Grogu's memory of Order 66 shows his Jedi protectors being cut down by Anakin’s 501^st Legion Clone Troopers, who then turn their attention onto him. The poor kid was utterly helpless, and it's no wonder he apparently doesn't want to remember any more of that part of his life.
  • This can remind viewers of what Din Djarin said to Cobb Vanth when they nearly got into a shootout in front of Grogu: "He's seen worse." Watching three Jedi gunned down by an army of Clone Troopers is definitely worse.
  • Similarly, seeing the 501^st Legion clones act so cold and detached when slaughtering the Jedi also counts given the added context of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: The Bad Batch. What once were the most loyal, charismatic, and friendly clone troopers under Anakin and Captain Rex’s leadership, are now ruthless enforcers of the Empire thanks to their inhibitor chips being activated by Order 66. It counts as a major Gut Punch seeing them shoot the Jedi on the ground again just to make sure they’re dead. Death of Personality indeed.
• Ahsoka convinces Din that it's in Grogu's best interest not to see his adoptive father during his training. All Din can do is ask for her to see his gift gets to Grogu before leaving, knowing it's for the best. Just to rub salt in the wound, as his N-1 starfighter lifts off, Grogu is seen watching, reaching out as if he can sense the presence of his father.
  • Seeing Din struggle with the decision to leave is heartbreaking to watch as well. You can hear the utter hurt in his voice when he sees Grogu from afar and wants to visit him so badly, despite what Ahsoka tells him.
    Din: Well, either way, this armor will protect him.
    Ahsoka: If you're set on it, then allow me to deliver it
    Din: (long pause) I came all this way... he's right there.
    Ahsoka: Grogu misses you a great deal. If he sees you, it'll only make things more difficult for him.
• Luke insisting on reviving the old Jedi requirement of cutting off all attachments, even though it's what led to his father falling to the dark side, and rejecting it is what allowed Luke to redeem him. Even worse knowing how it will end, and how Luke will feel about himself for it.
• When Cad Bane comes walking out of the desert towards Freetown. After all these people have gone through, and Cobb Vanth's attempt to keep both the stranger and his trigger-happy deputy from drawing on one another, fans of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will know that this isn't going to end well for the Marshall.
  • For those that watched Star Wars: The Bad Batch, it also invokes fear for what is to come, considering what happened to Hunter when Cad Bane dueled him in the ending of the eighth episode, and the fact Bane has a personal score to settle with both Boba Fett and Fennec Shand for previous encounters.
• Likewise, at the end of the episode, seeing two members of the Pyke Syndicate carry a camtono into Garsa Fwip's bar. With as quickly as they leave, you know it won't be good.
• Luke reveals to Grogu the gift that Din left for him — a beskar chainmail shirt, as well as Yoda's old lightsaber that he is willing to pass onto him. However, the former has him make a choice: either take the armor and return to Din, but forsake the ways of the Force, or take the lightsaber and master the Force, but never get to see Din again.
  • To twist the knife further, Luke reminds him that what could be considered a short time for Grogu is a lifetime for someone else.

Chapter 7: In The Name of Honor

• During the first confrontation at the Sanctuary, Cad Bane tells Boba Fett that the Pykes were the real culprits behind the massacre of his Tusken family and he killed the wrong group all along. Boba flashes back to the site of the massacre with the Kintan Strider symbol sprayed on the the tarp, and while his face covers his expressions, you know that he's both distraught that he didn't really avenged his family and angry that the Pykes barging into his territory are the same bastards who murdered the Tuskens.
• When the families turn on Boba's forces, his Gamorrean guards are left cornered and outnumbered by a crowd who push them to the edge of a cliff. The last we see of the duo is them falling over the edge of the cliff to what's almost certainly their doom. It's especially heartbreaking given their Undying Loyalty to Boba up until this point, and unlike the Mods who were saved by timely intervention from Fennec, the poor Gamorreans had no backup.
• After the Freetown militia arrives and Din offers his condolences about Cobb Vanth, you can hear the heartbreak in Taanti's voice when he says Cobb was "gunned down in cold blood."
• As Din hugs Grogu, the baby reaches out towards Din's helmet. Unlike when he made this motion in The Mandalorian Chapter 16, Din doesn't let him see his face, not willing to risk a safety precaution should Peli's chariot crash. Considering that his banishment from the Children of the Watch still hasn't convinced him to give up the Way, he could also feel uncomfortable with the chance of Peli seeing his unmasked face.
• While Grogu and Din are clearly happy to be together again, Luke's lost his first student. While he may have respected Grogu's decision, even trusting R2 to send him to Tatooine, he probably was disappointed that his first attempt to rebuild the Jedi didn't work out, especially since Grogu was of the same species as Yoda, his old master. If you consider the timing, this is actually his second attempt, not his first. He had trained Leia for a while, only for her to quit as well. Between her and Grogu abandoning their training, followed by his later failure with Ben Solo, it’s less and less surprising that he became so bitter and hopeless by the time of the sequel trilogy.
• Also simultaneously Heartwarming and Nightmare Fuel, that Grogu chose to leave Luke and remain with Din instead, means that it likely saved him from becoming one of the victims of Ben's future purging of Luke's school, or spared Grogu from being a traumatized survivor of a massacre of Jedis for a second time.