I think this is the worst episode of book of boba fett by a long shot.
First of all boba is completely eradicated from this episode and we don’t even see fennec until the last 3 minutes of the episode it’s not even a real Book of boba fett episode it’s more like a continuation of mandalorian so this episode felt really weird and out of place.
Secondly I felt a huge amount of time was wasted this episode first of all with the opening scene where mando is fighting all the aliens for a bounty and the only purpose of that scene is to show off the darksaber and show us what mando is doing but it isn’t entirely necessary when we see the training scene with the armourer later in the episode which could’ve been a lot cooler and of course we want to see what mando is doing but why take up so much of the episode doing it! Secondly The whole 10 minuet scene where mando and peli is fixing it felt extremely unnecessary as well as the fact as they where using half real word to talk about engine parts for example “turbonic venturi assimilator” which to anyone is just a made up phrase which I understand a spaceship will have sci-fi sounding parts but again to the extent it is used it just feels like I’m sat at a kids table for lunch listening to the adults talk and not understanding a single word of it not really a good scene. Lastly I think it is utterly ridiculous when mando is testing the nano starfighter and essentially just gets pulled over for speeding and to get a ticket which ruined a good fast paced scene and brought it to a grinding halt for a scene that is trying to be comical? It just felt so out of place and on top of that it was the exact same guy in the x-wing the new republic has so much space to police and it is the same guy on Mandos tail again it just felt to unnecessary to reuse a character for what reason?
Thirdly the whole scene in the mandalorin hide out has a lot of unneeded scenes first the bit where din just immediately without protest gave up his coolest weapon the beskar spear gets destroyed albeit for grogu’s gift but considering it was the only remanent of the razor crest it’s a bit silly it was destroyed the razor crest was mando transport his home his ability to be a bounty hunter and it was destroyed and the only keepsake he had left of it was the spear and now it’s gone! Secondly the scene where Paz vissler duels with him feels like a really lazy way just to get the armourer to say the creed and ask mando “have you ever removed your helmet” and he says yes and is thus exiled which just creates another story line to explore the issue I have with this is it just feels like an unintuitive way of going about getting to this scenario and feels forced/out of place. As well as the fact that the armourer says the only way to redeem mando is “in the living waters beneath the mines of mandalore” and mando reply’s with “but the mines have all been destroyed” so they have created a problem with no resolution so is mando permanently banished? As far the episode tells us there is no way to redeem himself.
Lastly I felt it played into the prequels a bit too heavily mainly episode 1 with the naboo starfighter (I do actually like the inclusion of this but I don’t think it’s a reasonable replacement for the razor crest) and then mando practically following the pod racing track though beggars canyon which if it isn’t the pod racing track from episode 1 it certainly looks like it.
In conclusion it’s not an awful episode but not a great one either and it definitely could’ve been a lot better than it was especially considering it is the second longest episode so far definitely weird and definitely not a book of boba fett episode considering he wasn’t even in it at all
I dislike how it now seems like the new episodes will be half book of boba fett and the other half will be mandalorian season 3 seriously Disney pick a lane a stick with it obviously I don’t mind seeing more of mando I think he is an excellent character with a good story but not when it consumes one and a half episodes of BOBF I assume next weeks episode will be the same and it’s just stupid that boba has less than 5 minutes of screen time in the whole episode and I don’t think he has any lines possibly some but not that any I can remember and that’s the problem book of boba fett has morphed into mandalorian season 3 all this tells me is how Disney can’t even do a series properly and the worst thing is no one seems to see this everyone just seems to be blinded with stupid love for grogu and the amount of fan service I don’t mind a bit of fan service but not when two whole episode are shaped around it yes maybe re-introduce some old characters but not when it takes up an entire episode and forcing mando into these episodes is just sickening I think they shouldve just left well enough alone lastly I have to mention how bad Luke’s face is and his voice just sound so abnormal the whole time I am looking at him it is just so uncanny valley it looks real but it also really doesn’t also the puppet for grogu looks so bad not the head just the body the whole time I am looking at him I’m just thinking what his actual body looks like because of how misshaped it is finally I actually audibly gasped when I saw cad bane as he is one of my favourite characters and seeing him come back is so awesome but again the face is bad first of all it’s the wrong colour and the nose area is to fat and the mouth is too high and the teeth are wrong and he never closes his mouth which is just awkward looking and I’m not sure how Disney did this I am constantly baffled as how Disney is always making these live action characters characters look bad Ashoka is the only live action character that actually looks half way decent!
