First off, that ending battle was one of the worst action sequences I've seen Rodriguez do. He really doesn't seem to get the Volume virtual set in the way that Bryce Dallas Howard or Peyton Reed do.
I have to think RR and Temuera Morrison weren't particularly happy with Favreau and Filoni completely hijacking the plot to their own forthcoming series to the point ep 5-6 Boba only appeared once, and spoke zero.
How was Boba a "Crime Lord?" He didn't do any crimes. Since slavery and procurement are legal on Tattoine even in the Republic Era as we know from the Prequel Trilogy, patronizing the Sanctuary was not a "crime" per se crime. And most of Jabba's business was spice, which Boba commits to the people of Freetown to push off the planet if they will send help. Boba's right at the end when he tells Fennec, "we're not suited for this".
And tactically the battle is a mess. Dividing your forces when inferior in numbers isn't a good idea as is shown. One Wookie or two Gamoreans is hardly enough to surveil an entire Mos Espa city district. The mods could have made themselves more useful by planting surveillance devices. The droids could have spied. Lots of what-ifs here.
The good guys have two first rate warships and pilots, that alone would have turned the battle.
Or just hole up in the palace while Fennec goes and assassinates the enemy leaders. QED.
Why leave the palace, a defensible fortress with a bacta tank, the mod doctor, and the Boba Fett's Firespray Gunship(tm)?
Luke rescuing in Mando season 2 was cathartic. Grogu showing up as a deus ex machina, not so much. Does everything have to end with a Jedi saving the day?
Bringing Cad Bane only for him to get Worfed by Boba was curiously undramatic.
I'd like it better if Boba got his ass kicked by Cad and then Cad said, I owed your father, Jango, a debt. Consider it paid, and just walked off.
Come down to it, I'd rather have seen Boba go all John Wick on all the asses. Nobody wants "nice Boba" but Disney.
2 of 4 stars
"The Book of Boba Fett" is like a fallen soufflé—all the cooks and all the ingredients, but it just failed to come together. Boba's gone soft.
Boba Fett episode 7 is an unsatisfying climax to an uneven and abbreviated season.
"The Book of Boba Fett Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor" review.
Well, that could have gone better.
First off, that ending battle was one of the worst action sequences I've seen Rodriguez do. He really doesn't seem to get the Volume virtual set in the way that Bryce Dallas Howard or Peyton Reed do.
I have to think RR and Temuera Morrison weren't particularly happy with Favreau and Filoni completely hijacking the plot to their own forthcoming series to the point ep 5-6 Boba only appeared once, and spoke zero.
How was Boba a "Crime Lord?" He didn't do any crimes. Since slavery and procurement are legal on Tattoine even in the Republic Era as we know from the Prequel Trilogy, patronizing the Sanctuary was not a "crime" per se crime. And most of Jabba's business was spice, which Boba commits to the people of Freetown to push off the planet if they will send help. Boba's right at the end when he tells Fennec, "we're not suited for this".
And tactically the battle is a mess. Dividing your forces when inferior in numbers isn't a good idea as is shown. One Wookie or two Gamoreans is hardly enough to surveil an entire Mos Espa city district. The mods could have made themselves more useful by planting surveillance devices. The droids could have spied. Lots of what-ifs here.
The good guys have two first rate warships and pilots, that alone would have turned the battle.
Or just hole up in the palace while Fennec goes and assassinates the enemy leaders. QED.
Why leave the palace, a defensible fortress with a bacta tank, the mod doctor, and the Boba Fett's Firespray Gunship(tm)?
Luke rescuing in Mando season 2 was cathartic. Grogu showing up as a deus ex machina, not so much. Does everything have to end with a Jedi saving the day?
Bringing Cad Bane only for him to get Worfed by Boba was curiously undramatic.
I'd like it better if Boba got his ass kicked by Cad and then Cad said, I owed your father, Jango, a debt. Consider it paid, and just walked off.
Come down to it, I'd rather have seen Boba go all John Wick on all the asses. Nobody wants "nice Boba" but Disney.
2 of 4 stars "The Book of Boba Fett" is like a fallen soufflé—all the cooks and all the ingredients, but it just failed to come together. Boba's gone soft.