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vvitchering · 2 years

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Tbobf finale thoughts real quick:

I have like 5 mins to write this before I have to get up for work so let’s go

I can’t figure out if I hated this or not

Like yeah they did end up with the same “oh they’re going to have to wrap this up REAL quick and dirty” pacing issue I’ve been worried about

But they didn’t even give us much good character stuff to smooth over the plot/pacing

Liked Din being loyal to Boba to the point where he’s willing to die but it would have been nice to have acknowledged WHY that is.

There were a lot of emotional gut punches in this episode that ended up being more emotional love taps due to lost or forgotten context and that’s….bizarre for a show as obsessed with flashbacks as this one is.

Like the only reason I even knew Cad Bane and Boba had previously established beef is because I glanced at a tumblr post about their unfinished duel from the clone wars show. That’s not the kind of fan knowledge you should be working off of…

Genuine question: how many of y’all even knew who Cad Bane was? If my brother hadn’t forced me to watch a few seasons of the clone wars I’d have had absolutely no goddamn clue who this joker was. (And I think a good percentage of Mando / TBOBF viewers may also be like me and aren’t big Star Wars buffs outside of these shows, so they’d have zero context for this interaction)

Lost opportunity to have the Tusken lady in black and the kid come back to help Boba. Yes I’m still upset about that, I was planning on dying mad about it.

Just…so very little of any of this finale made reasonable sense……..I’m gonna have to watch it again and do a play by play because it’s so jumbled in my head after one viewing

Luke really did put that infant in a ship and send him off to god knows where care of who the hell knows because he was angry he picked the beskar huh

Who’s the true baby here mr skywalker

This has been and will remain a “Luke Skywalker can fight me in the Denny’s parking lot and I’d win” house

Pacing aside since there’s not a lot to be done about that, this ep could have still been good if they’d given us even an ounce more context for some of these interactions.

It really feels like the writers were just stalling for time with this while finishing up Mando S3 which is a huge shame because this could have been GREAT as like an hour Boba Fett special or something. Trim the fat, do better with the Tusken story line, get rid of those GOD AWFUL mods, focus on what these events mean to BOBA (and Fennec), we could have had a real tight and punchy story.

Seriously fuck the mods everyone here hates the mods who’s idea we’re they

Blah blah other stuff happening I don’t even care about this nonsense at this point beyond watching my favorite little imaginary people run around on screen

Grogu should have taken the lightsaber too. Just for extra “piss off Luke” points.

I know Din didn’t take his helmet off this entire time because Pedro couldn’t actually be there to film, but I would have liked a nice helmet-less reunion scene with Grogu. Or a face reveal with Boba. I just miss Pedro’s handsome face ):

Boba did look really good this ep though 👌 and we’re almost back to his Mandalorian s2 levels of badassery in combat which was nice to see.

Bobadin shippers we won today

IM SO FUCKING GLAD COBB ISNT DEAD HOLY SHIT this was really the only thing I ever cared a little bit about djskdjsjjd

How’d he get there though

Did the townspeople bring him in? And for what? Did they know Boba had a bacta tank????

Or did Boba and co swing by and pick him up after the fight and bring him back? How’d he survive that long if it was an injury bad enough to take him out/keep him out/require the use of a bacta tank????

Oh god please don’t give him a whole ass robot arm like the fuckin mods I’ll scream. Give him a nice discreet job like Fennec’s. Please don’t make my boy cringe.

Anyway see y’all at Christmas time for Mando s3 💀

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jyndor · 2 years

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yeah what a mess. what a MESS.

they took two episodes away from:

1. establishing relationships between boba and the people of mos espa, boba's stated reason for caring about the city and not running away from the fight

2. fennec shand and her relationship with boba, her loyalty is clear and we see how they meet but we also don't get a whole lot of HER and her motivations apart from appreciating boba saving her and thinking he is kind of neat

3. boba actually fighting the political fight (taking out the other leaders in a sort of godfather-esqe manner would have been cool, instead of making fennec do it off camera and focusing on a random rivalry with cad bane - someone not related to this planet boba apparently cares about)

4. maybe more tuskens, it would have been cool to explore THEIR intratribal relations, instead of just killing them off to turn boba into a hero lmao

5. BOBA LEARNING TO RIDE AND TRAIN THE RANCOR LOL

in order to:

1. resolve what needed to be resolved in mando s3, because I'm sorry not only did that 2 episode break from boba disrupt the tension of the show, it was rushed and will almost certainly confuse viewers who haven't watched boba fett

2. sell shiny toys - I cannot fathom why anyone would have thought that those speeder bikes make any sense in context. aren't the mods sort of broke??? how would they afford what are clearly fancy ass speeder bikes? also not for nothing, they broke an important rule in star wars, which is that everything has to be lived in. the ships, even the fancy ass ones, are imperfect and a little beat. these speeder bikes look too shiny and new for star wars anything, let alone broke ass tatooine. and lbr grogu being there is just gonna sell merch, that is the point and that is such a shame because MANDO S3 IS COMING RIGHT UP LMAO

3. honestly... fan service, which I normally give zero fucks about but there really is not a good argument for inserting the grogu stuff into a show that clearly didn't have a high enough budget and wasted it all on A SIDE CHARACTER

idk man. to me, someone who didn't even really care about boba fett until mando s2, this show felt like a messy waste of potential and an insult to fans who have waited literal decades to see boba's story. there is a lot of good in tbobf, but it doesn't save the show because that good stuff is the tusken stuff (more offensive for the time they spent giving them better representation because of how they were massacred off screen to be the motivation of an offworlder) or the mando s3 stuff which doesn't belong or the fennec origin stuff, which absolutely does belong and if anything is a little rushed.

hopefully this is an unfortunate misstep from a team that has otherwise done a lot of good for disney star wars.

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