The Book of Boba Fett reveals his time on Tatooine and building his power as the crime lord of Tattoine! It is created by Jon Favreau and he is also the writer similar to The Mandalorian. The director is Robert Rodriguez who also directed “The Tragedy” (2020) episode of The Mandalorian. The title was based on a line from Exodus and directly a title from the Robert Heinlein novel. Boba Fett is familiar with Tatooine, the world may have changed without Jabba, but Boba may still be known there. The show begins with the double sunrise of a morning on Tatooine and dark sand dunes as we see Jabba’s Palace. We didn’t see Jabba’s Palace, just the Hutt himself, in the prequels so the only live action appearance was Return of the Jedi (1983) and the end credits in The Mandalorian, “The Rescue.” There is the round entrance hall that was in Jedi, empty. The same with the throne room, some alcoves are still lit, and finally we see the throne.
Next, we see a new room, a medical container is in the center with a droid attendant and curtains. Inside, is Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison), wearing a breathing mask. It looks like a horizontal bacta tank, but it is blue liquid not pink, a different function for bacta? We focus on Boba Fett. He flashes back to the rainy night at Tipoca City. We see Slave-I on its platform, these are new shots. Then, the Geonosian arena where young Boba (Daniel Logan) picks up the helmet of his father, Jango Fett (Morrison). This shot is of course from Attack of the Clones (2002). In the bacta tank, Boba is increasingly troubled by these memories. Then, we peek into the belly of the Sarlaac with Boba Fett, his armor wet with the Sarlaac’s fluids, wedged in between its stomach. He wakes up coughing. Boba activates his helmet’s glowlamp and sees a dead stormtrooper with corroded armor. The stormtrooper may have been part of the group that was searching for the droids!
He pulls free a cable from the stormtrooper to breathe and then activates his wrist flame projector. We see the ruined sail barge, the Sarlaac pit, and then suddenly Boba’s fist breaks through the sand. He forces himself free, covered in sand, and the Sarlaac fluid clinging to patches of wet sand. Boba crawls, but then collapses. It looks like he has a white suit underneath the armor, which looks like the prototype Boba Fett suit. A Sandcrawler rolls up and then a Jawa pulls off Boba’s helmet. In Star Wars #81(1983), Boba Fett escaped the Sarlaac Pit, he was burped out, covered in sand only to be found by Jawas, so this is now canon?! They begin taking off his armor, Boba wakens to grab a Jawa’s ankle, and is rifle butted unconscious. A little vicious for a Jawa, usually they are scared away. Cobb Vanth in "The Marshall" (2020) had said he bought the armor from Jawas.
Morning, the desert winds in the morning reveal Tusken Raiders who find Boba’s body. His bald head has some scarring. They prod him and then tie up his hands before one gives him a tiny carrot that dispenses some water. The Sand People start off on Banthas with a rope pulling Boba wearily behind them. Out of the storm and into the blazing suns, Boba still walks with his vision getting blurry. He collapses and then is dragged by the Bantha. They finally reach some tents and stop their travel. A young Tusken Raider with black clothes prods Boba awake tied to a post. Other join him and begin striking him with sticks, younglings who are testing their strength against a stranger? An elder (Xavier Jimenez) with black robes just watches, takes a drink, and leaves. Another Tusken Raider knocks him unconscious.
He wakes at night, there is a red-skinned Rodian (Dawn Diniger) prisoner next to him, a dog-like Massiff is asleep on guard duty. They first appeared in Attack of the Clones and The Mandalorian saw one in “The Marshall” (2020). Boba begins to saw at the ropes with the post as the Massiff wakens and approaches. This reminds me of Woola in John Carter (2012). Freed, Boba takes hold of it and knocks it out, then cuts the bond around his hands with the Massiff’s teeth. He offers to free the Rodian who babbles loudly. The first time Boba has spoken. A Tusken Raider runs at him with a stick, but Boba takes it and throws him down, and the youngling whimpers. He starts to run and the Massiff chases after him as well as some Tusken Raiders. Boba fights off the creature with the stick and the others halt to watch the battle. The Massiff is called back and the Tusken Raider chief takes out his gaderffi stick. He strikes first, but is knocked down by his opponent. The other Tusken Raiders surround him and Boba is kicked down.
Boba in his bacta tank hears the voice of Fennec Shand (Ming Na Wen) reviving the boss and he turns to see her. He removes the fluid from the chamber and the medical droid says that the healing session is stopped. We were introduced to Fennec in season one episode of The Mandalorian, “The Gunslinger” (2019) where the bounty hunter was seemingly killed. She returned in season two’s “The Tragedy” (2020). Fennec took on Cad Bane, one of the deadliest bounty hunters in The Clone Wars, in the Bad Batch episode, “Bounty Lost” (2021). Fennec wants Boba to follow the old, merciless ways, but he has changed. He tells her about the dreams, but Fennec is more interested in the meeting to pay respect. Boba starts to be outfitted in his armor with assistance by the droids and lastly his helmet, a very knight in armor scene. He takes his throne with Fennec at his side and an Aqualish, Garfalaquox (Barry Lowin) with wizened hair brings him a box of coins.
Boba asks Fennec what he said, she mentions something about friendship and he adds that they need a protocol droid. 8d8 (Matt Berry) introduces Dokk Strassi (Robert Rodriguez), leader of the Trandoshan family. Berry like fellow British comedian actor, Richard Ayoade as Zero in The Mandalorian, also provides a droid voice. They were both in The IT Crowd. The smelter droid was an assistant to EV-9D9 in Return of the Jedi. Strassi says he honors the Daimyo, the lords under the shogun in feudal Japan. Boba mentions to Fennec that he had worked for Strassi, possibly his bounty hunter group in Clone Wars? He has brought a hairy pelt and says he hopes Boba will always stay in Mos Espa. 8D8 then announces the arrival of Mok Shaiz, mayor of Mos Espa, this is actually his majordomo (David Pasquesti). He is an Ithorian in green robes and brings no tribute. Fennec explains that instead he wants Boba Fett to pay the major! This is cleared up by Fennec who wants to kill him. 8D8 then brings in two Gamorrean guards who worked for Jabba and Bib Fortuna.
Boba Fett has them swear loyalty to him. We get the city of Mos Espa clustered inside a rocky canyon. Boba, Fennec, and the guards walk the streets. They reach a cantina, a much brighter and livelier place from what we’ve seen before. There is music by a friendly, familiar face, and two Twi’leks offer to clean their helmets. Then, we have the arrival of Garsa Fwip (Jennifer Beals), a pinkish skin Twi'lek. He says her business will thrive and she in return gives him ownership of the cantina. It seems word about Boba Fett taking down Bib Fortuna may not have spread. Their helmets are returned filled with coins. The duo walk out without helmets on and several assassins in red clothes and black hoods leap from the buildings with energy shields, sent by the mayor? They shock the duo with stun batons and close in. They intend to capture the duo and not kill them like the meaning of the term “assassins.” This is when a Gamorrean guard rushes in and kills one of the assassins. It is a brutal fight and the surviving assassins try to scale the walls. Fennec chases after the others as Boba says he wants them alive.
The chase across rooftops ends with Fennec capturing an assassin. The Gamorreans take Boba back to the healing pod. A flaw for the bounty hunter? He starts dreaming again, Boba again is tied to the post with the Rodian, a Tusken youngling (Wesley Kimmel) takes them out to the desert with the Massiff. He has black robes just like the leader, a son of the chief? They watch as a gang attacks a moisture farmer and leaves their sign on his walls. The youngling has them dig for circular gourd-like pods used for drinking. The Rodian digs up some scales and out of the sand rises a creature that is almost identical to the Kraken in Clash of the Titans (1981); reptilian head, clawed hands, and four arms. Boba Fett has to defeat the sand creature and prove his worth to the Sand People tribe. I wonder if we will see Boba Fett's group, Krayt's Claw from Clone Wars; Bossk, C-21 Highsinger, Dengar, and Oked, probable with Dave Filoni as executive producer. The pilot is Star Wars quality, but what is needed is the direction of the series, it seems like this is the making of a more calm bounty hunter. The Book of Boba Fett fills in the back story of the infamous Boba Fett as a crime lord!
Four Thrones of Boba Fett out of Five!
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