Sort of? The last scene is Djin and Grogu flying off to their Season 3, complete with The Mandalorian theme song playing.
The decision to include important plot points of The Mandalorian in Boba Fett's show sure is... something. Anyone who never saw T Bo BF is going to be so confused when Grogu is just back with Din like the S2 finale has never happened.
And yeah, count me in as another who thought this was a toothless finale. Action scenes are nice, but the writing is just abysmal. The show ultimately ends with a whimper.
It's such a weird stupid choice to treat the Pykes' killing of the Tuskens as the episode's Big Reveal when everyone and their mother knew it already. It's so fucking obvious, and Boba should be smarter than this. Fennec literally said the Niktos couldn't have killed the Tuskens, but she was ignored. What was the point of that?
Also, I deadass expected Cad Bane to be in the Bacta tank, but it turned out to be Cobb Vanth, lol.
Tbf its unlikely most people weren't watching both. So I can kinda understand why they thought it was a good idea
Not sure why we didn't have a season of Din versus the Mandalore stuff in his own show . And than do this stuff at the end With a reunion a big thing at the end of 3
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Fuck it. If they bring in Walter Goggins as the main villain I'm in. Space Justified here we go.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."The fact the mighty Pyke synicate/Cad Bane managed to kill off was a nameless deputy, two nameless gamorrans and the bar lady (a waste of a good actress in that case, Jennifer Beals deservd better) is unto itself hysterical, as is the fact Fennec Shand just casually annihilated the entire enemy faction with 0 effort after all is said and done. It's a comical misunderstanding of how stakes work.
I said last page that I found the desperate notion that Cad Bane is still alive somehow a bit of wishful thinking, but in hindsight maybe it's just ahead of the curve. Given Boba survived a Saarlac, Fennec Shand a shot to the torso and Cobb Vanth a shot to the shoulder with 0 repercussions even in Tattooine (the ass-end of nowhere) all you need is a bacta tank and/or some Back-Alley Doctor of mechanics. The tension of death truly means nothing anymore in this franchise, so I won't even be surprised by now if Cad Bane is alive and kicking next season. Having your lungs impaled by a spear is tantamount to a scratch.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
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To be fair, I did think it was the bikers, because I wanted the parallel to work. Boba was clearly planning to kill them all so the Pykes would pay him. Them getting to the stab first was a 'not so different' moment I thought might play into his change of heart. But that was my mistake. I thought they wanted to a story about Boba Fett becoming a crime boss with a heart, when they didn't want a show about Boba Fett at all.
ETA: I also thought the Mayor was going to be a more grey figure (and I guess he was like 1% grayer as he opposed blowing up bits of his town), but nope, he was just another Pyke dupe/lackey (and hey, what happened to all his guards?).
Next time I need to make a full list of my predictions as I go so I can actually score myself, but based on the two that stick out to me, I did not predict well here. I'd also have put chance of Tuscan massacre at like 10-15% because it was such a cliche and chance of the warrior woman returning at the climax (for instance, Fennec finding the leaders already dead because the Tuscan had taken advantage of the army's departure) at like 75%.
ETA: The lack of stakes/consequences is getting pretty painful in these shows, especially with the comparison to Clone Wars. Maybe it's easier in animation (especially if you aren't firing anyone as there are still plenty of clones to be voiced)? Mandalorian season 1 had the droid and it's reprogrammer. But since then?
Edited by ECD on Feb 10th 2022 at 6:07:02 AM
Overall, this show's writers seemed to make the most boring and most uninspired choices possible for the story.
Also, is anyone gonna talk how Boba has to ask the Twi'lek for the Pyke leader's whereabout, whilst he has been in the exact same place he was the last time, when Boba went to collect protection money from the Pykes?
Edited by Nightwire on Feb 10th 2022 at 6:14:02 AM
Yeah, put me down for "nice action, felt hollow" too.
Din has a bit of a similar problem to Boba in that he's invulnerable. Not, like, thematically. Most protagonists are thematically invulnerable. I mean that in a franchise already famous for antagonists that can't hit the broad side of a space barn, they wade around in the open dressed in armor that bounces away blaster bolts. Even the rare direct hit are no big deal because they're invincible to all incoming fire.
So I was actually kind of chuckling when Din and Boba were inside the burned-out bar fretting over how many Pykes are out there. I was like, "Just walk out there in your Total Invincibility Armor and shoot them all." And when the master plan indeed became walking out there in their Total Invincibility Armor and shooting them all, I cracked up. These guys were in absolutely no danger at any point during the initial siege, but they sure talked like they were screwed.
This isn't usually a problem for The Mandalorian because a) we're more invested in Din's emotional journey than his badass credentials anyway, and b) he often finds a way to wind up fighting someone or something who isn't just trying to shoot his blaster-proof Armor with blasters.
Cad Bane's duel had a similar problem for me. Ooh, he's the quickest draw in the Space West. That's somehow going to change the fact that Boba is completely invulnerable to blaster shots. Get real, Cad Bane. There was never a chance of you winning this duel anyway.
The only characters I felt were ever genuinely threatened were the Mods and Freetowners. For basically the same reason but in reverse. The upgraded Droidekas have invulnerable bubble shields, and we spent a lot of time shooting blasters pointlessly at them. I loved that moment when they made all that fuss about the sniper going up on the roof to get a clear shot, and then the payoff for that was that she had a clear shot at the invulnerable bubble shield.
Apparently nobody in this show, on either side of the conflict, actually understands the concept of "invulnerable to blaster fire". They just keep throwing good lives after bad. I thought maybe this would be the thing that finally justifies all this time spent bringing Grogu here. He'd use the Force to rip out something powering the bubble shields, and then the Droidekas would be vulnerable. But no, he barely does anything at all. The answer winds up being to hit them with the Rancor and its invulnerability-shredding super-claws.
So, yeah, the action felt wanting for me because someone was explicitly invulnerable for 90% of the fighting. And yet the fighting. Kept. Happening? Despite that. And there's only so long I can watch people fire pointlessly at invulnerable people and bring in more guys to fire pointlessly at invulnerable people and find new angles from which to fire pointlessly at invulnerable people before it stops being engaging.
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x4That did stand out to me. Maybe it was intended just as confirmation 'they haven't moved?' But Boba shouldn't need to do that. He's good at two things. Finding people and killing people. Him needing help with larger strategy, or managing people, or making deals, or whatever is fine, but...geez.
Basically. But on the shields particularly, I'm confused. Is it no longer the case that slow movement lets a grenade or person step through? That was certainly the case in clone wars? And Din flat out says something like 'none of our kinetic weapons are slow enough' but then Krrsantan can't get through? Is this new tech, or did they forget how these shields work?
Edited by ECD on Feb 10th 2022 at 6:25:22 AM
To be fair, he assumed they'd keep out of it for their own self-interest - as he pointed out after the negotiations, the Pykes would likely come after their territory next as soon as Boba's out of the picture.
In other words, he didn't expect them to be Stupid Evil.
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyThe guy has literally been doing this since childhood, mentored and raised by the biggest scumbags in the galaxy (reminder that Aurra Sing was the closest thing he had to a mother and she was as bad a person as Bane).
Hell Jabba was a frequent client of his who has betrayed him a couple times most recently in the War of the Bounty Hunters comic event.
He should know more of how things are run. Did they really not know what to do with Fennec than just giving Boba exposition he should already be aware of?
Edited by slimcoder on Feb 10th 2022 at 6:41:12 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Listen guys, I don't think Boba Fett knows what being a crime boss means. Boba wants to be a crime boss the same way Kiryu wants to be a Yakuza.
If anything Boba's little Ragtag Bunch of Misfits actually helped the image of a ruler that led with respect rather than fear. His forces are a mishmash of people who actually live on Tattooine and are people trying to protect their homes. Considering Boba's whole thing is sustainable tribute and keeping the peace while allowing activities that don't cross a certain line (hence why he was fine with everything up until the Pykes started up with the spice trade). Instead of a mob of criminals, he has actual people working under him, alongside employees who actually respect him instead of just working under him for pay or so that they can do what they want.
