YMMV / The Book of Boba Fett S1E6 "From the Desert Comes a Stranger"

• Broken Base: The moment in which Luke makes Grogu choose between him and the Mandalorian earned some praise for letting the Child choose his own future, considering both he and Mando both seemed to regard Jedi Training as something Grogu must do, rather than something he would like to do. On the other side of the base, viewers who find it unwise of Anakin's teachers to treat attachments as harmful disagree with Luke requiring Grogu to sever his ties with Mando in order to continue training.
• Fan Nickname: "The Book of Everyone but Boba Fett".
• Ho Yay: Meeting for the first time since "The Marshall", Din Djarin/Mando and Cobb Vanth continue their pattern of friendly interactions that feel very flirtatious. Mando immediately offers to buy Cobb a drink, and in the bar Cobb jokes that Mando's "big smile" lets him get away with everything.
• Special Effects Failure: While the digital de-aging effects for Luke Skywalker have improved significantly for this show compared to The Mandalorian, the application used to synthesize Mark Hamill's younger voice is noticeably shoddier, with many fans pointing out how it sounds rather lifeless compared to Hamill's true voice. This may have happened if much of the dataset used to train the AI voice model came from an audiobook that Hamill narrated, which would have required him to use a neutral voice. It doesn't help that unlike The Mandalorian, Luke has a significantly bigger presence in this show, thus making the flaws of using an AI to replicate his voice significantly easier to hear.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • In theory, Ahsoka Tano meeting Luke Skywalker should be an absolutely pivotal moment, considering Luke is eager to learn more about his father and how to run a Jedi order and Ahsoka has a lot to share to her old master's son and her perspective on the prior Jedi after they failed her. Instead, their first meeting is offscreen and their only conversation boils down to a few generic aphorisms before saying goodbye. It doesn't help that Luke is voiced by an AI so it can't actually react to anything Ahsoka is saying, or that their meeting takes place in an episode of a show not about them. Somewhat downplayed in that the dialogue implies that this is not their first meeting chronologically, just the first time the audience has seen them together.
  • When Grogu starts to regain his memories of Order 66, it seems to be building up to Grogu remembering the clones' faces and having a traumatic reaction causing him to attack Boba Fett at an inconvenient moment. As of the finale, Grogu is yet to remember what the clones looked like.
• Unexpected Character: We get a bevy of appearances from characters that fans had already guessed ahead of time such as Cobb Vanth, Luke Skywalker and even the live-action debut of Cad Bane (though perhaps not all in one episode). Ahsoka Tano was not one of them, and she even visits Luke's future Jedi academy and even shares a scene with the son of her former Master.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The Digital De-Aging technology used to recreate young Luke Skywalker has improved significantly since the last attempt in The Mandalorian, to the point where it almost completely averts the Unintentional Uncanny Valley.

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