• SSTF@lemmy.worldM
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    Stuff I liked in BOBF: The Tusken Raider flashbacks and Boba’s spiritual journey. That could have been the whole show.

    I liked Cad Bane. I don’t really have an attachment to the cartoons, but I thought he was efficiently and effectively introduced into the show.

    Stuff I didn’t like: The mod gang. Low hanging fruit, but needed to be mentioned.

    I didn’t like how dreadfully boring the action sequences tended to be, especially the shootouts. Shootouts in shows between groups should have some goals each group is trying to achieve in order to be exciting. In BOBF the shootouts were so flat. They felt like that Naked Gun shootout.

    I didn’t enjoy the overly comical nature of so many side characters. Comedy in Star Wars is good, but extended scenes that feel like cosplayers doing improv are not. A lot of the new Star Wars content feels increasingly like watching cosplayers in a weird uncanny valley themepark of Star Wars. A setting that was once the example of a grungy and lived in setting now constantly has a layer of gloss varnish on everything.

    Boba Fett himself seemed like a big dummy. His plan at the end to split up his few people to just kind of stand around was confusing. Boba Fett never seemed much interested in actually doing crime as a crime lord. I get that he is being redeemed as an anti-hero, and thus Disney wants him not to be too dark, be he easily could have become the new canon version of Talon Karrde and brokered in information. Boba Fett would know a lot of dirt. In any case he seemed to have little agency or decision making as the boss. Even the choice to hire mercenaries was suggested to him.

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      The series started out good as him literally being reborn as a new person via the Raiders way of life. Then it seemed to go into him seeking a retirement plan with passive income using the open spot Jabba left. That Mando’s cameo stole the show showed how dull it had become. I actually loved the idea of him injecting purpose into the vandals by hiring them, but did they have to be so campy? Jesus, I hadn’t thought of that spin-shot in a while…why?