Boba must deal with two very different threats.Boba must deal with two very different threats.Boba must deal with two very different threats.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the bikers gang pursues the mayor's Twi'Lek majordomo, one of them crashes through a painting of Jabba the Hutt. This is art by Ralph McQuarrie created for his Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) portfolio, but edited so Luke is not present in the picture.
- GoofsAs the red speeder goes by, at the 33:10 mark, the inside of a hollow building made of wood can be seen at the bottom of the screen.
- Quotes
8D8: And here you see the businesses that were under the protection of the name that should not be spoken.
Boba Fett: You can say "Jabba."
8D8: Under the protection of Jabba the Hutt.
Boba Fett: He's dead. He can't hurt you.
8D8: I was concerned that you would feel insulted.
Boba Fett: Why would I feel insulted?
8D8: Because you felt threatened.
Boba Fett: Well, now I am insulted.
- Crazy creditsThe concept art seen during the end credits, in order of appearance:
- Bantha Riders by Christian Alzmann
- Meeting with the Pykes by Christian Alzmann
- Returning to camp by Erik Tiemens.
- Bacta Tank by Christian Alzmann
- Streets of Mos Espa by Christian Alzmann
- Biker Alley by Anton Grandert.
- Black Krrsantan by Christian Alzmann.
- Wookiee Fight by Christian Alzmann
- A gift from the Hutts by Christian Alzmann
- Rancor by Christian Alzmann
- Mos Espa Chase by Ryan Church
- Cityscape by Anton Grandert.
- Arrival of the Pykes by Ryan Church
- ConnectionsEdited into Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett: Episode #1.1 (2022)
Featured review
Poorly conceived, under-written and excruciatingly padded
Oh dear. After such a strong episode 2, this series is already flailing and fumbling around with a frankly dull and dragging filler episode.
It's not unwatchable, but only because of Morrison and Wen, who do their usual purposeful best with the meagre material. Danny Trejo is in it too, but get just a few lines of cookie-cutter dialogue that he can't do much with. There are a couple of the welcome callbacks to the original movies, including a spider-droid that's animated to look like 1980s stop-motion, a nice little touch.
But everything else is pretty much a hovertrain wreck. The writing feels like a bare outline that never got fleshed out with detail or dialog, and every scene is dragged out far beyond its content. Very little actually happens beyond introducing new characters and plot points, and oh dear, those characters.
Say hello to the Hover Scooter Cockney Cyborg Teens, and yet, that's exactly as awful and cringe-inducing as it sounds. Even the rancor is a moody teenager. Sure, there's an imposing wookie bounty hunter but he only gets one plodding, insipid and mild action scene.
In that vein, the character of Fett has been so bowdlerised here as to be almost unrecognisable. Mercy taken to extreme is just weakness, and that's what we see here. Has Boba taken some sort of vow not to kill that we missed?
The lowlight of the episode though has to be a genuinely awful "speeder" chase scene that fails on multiple levels. It's clearly intended as a homage to 1970s car chases, and does have some callbacks to those, but it's dreadfully badly implemented. Slow, dragging, with shockingly shoddy effects and zero excitement or peril. Oh dear, and I think that was meant to be the big showcase of the episode.
When it all thankfully came to an end and we got the storyboard art, I was left wondering how they'd managed to fill so much time with so little content. It's a poor advert for continuing to watch, although I'm sure we all will anyway.
It's not unwatchable, but only because of Morrison and Wen, who do their usual purposeful best with the meagre material. Danny Trejo is in it too, but get just a few lines of cookie-cutter dialogue that he can't do much with. There are a couple of the welcome callbacks to the original movies, including a spider-droid that's animated to look like 1980s stop-motion, a nice little touch.
But everything else is pretty much a hovertrain wreck. The writing feels like a bare outline that never got fleshed out with detail or dialog, and every scene is dragged out far beyond its content. Very little actually happens beyond introducing new characters and plot points, and oh dear, those characters.
Say hello to the Hover Scooter Cockney Cyborg Teens, and yet, that's exactly as awful and cringe-inducing as it sounds. Even the rancor is a moody teenager. Sure, there's an imposing wookie bounty hunter but he only gets one plodding, insipid and mild action scene.
In that vein, the character of Fett has been so bowdlerised here as to be almost unrecognisable. Mercy taken to extreme is just weakness, and that's what we see here. Has Boba taken some sort of vow not to kill that we missed?
The lowlight of the episode though has to be a genuinely awful "speeder" chase scene that fails on multiple levels. It's clearly intended as a homage to 1970s car chases, and does have some callbacks to those, but it's dreadfully badly implemented. Slow, dragging, with shockingly shoddy effects and zero excitement or peril. Oh dear, and I think that was meant to be the big showcase of the episode.
When it all thankfully came to an end and we got the storyboard art, I was left wondering how they'd managed to fill so much time with so little content. It's a poor advert for continuing to watch, although I'm sure we all will anyway.
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- RogerBorg
- Jan 12, 2022
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