I will have to look it up but is this going to be Canon or standalone? Almost seems it has to be standalone unless it's some sort of outer rim but even then the empire is present.
I will have to look it up but is this going to be Canon or standalone? Almost seems it has to be standalone unless it's some sort of outer rim but even then the empire is present.
I figured standalone. Just short films with Star Wars filtered through an anime lens. There has been debate about this online, since Lucasfilm previously said everything in the Disney era going forward is canon. But then this has been called a unique and culturally diverse vision of the franchise. I’m guessing they won’t do anything mad with a character like Boba Fett, but I don’t see this being anywhere near as interconnected as the Clone Wars-Rebels-Bad Batch run which weaves around the films and The Mandalorian.
So it appears to be Canon but doesn't have to adhere to the timeliness.
First episode of Boba Fett dropped today. I thought it was okay. Didn’t grip me in the same way as the first episode of the Mandalorian, which also had a very pared down style but used action really well to establish the character. This was slower. I think I expected to see more of the present day and not so many flashbacks. I’m keeping an open mind, but I feel like Tatooine has been done to death now. But I think Fett and Shand could have good chemistry going forward.
You are going to have to answer the big questions first when it comes to Boba's own series. There are way to many for the majority of fans for them to sit back and just buy into Boba being all present day.
I thought the episode was good. It's a slow burn but you also have to remember that there is absolutely no back story to Boba really so we are going to get that while it establishes a better part of his entire lore
If we are going to have some flashbacks I wouldn't mind , at the very least, some insight to a bit of his lost years. Something has made Boba go from one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy to a man who respects life in general. I guess you could say.
We will probably get a few good action scenes in the first few episodes but I don't expect the story to really start picking up until mid-season. There's a lot, and I mean a lot, to cover on what Boba has been doing and what has changed him. I'm guessing the sandperson youngling will be a big part of that.
There has also been some stories in star wars about the sand people being misunderstood and I think this is going to play out to show they aren't the savages we think they are. After all, there was a member on the Jedi Council that was from the sand people tribe.
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I thought it was a good first episode. Interested to see where things go.
I'm kind of struggling to find anything I really liked in episode 1, the flyover shot of Mos Espa and the streets were nice I guess. I can't get over how much I dislike the main/ending credits theme. As a fellow swede I can appreciate Ludvig getting inspiration from old swedish/norse style music but I doesn't fit SW or Boba Fett at all. I do love his Mandalorian main theme though and the Boba Fett theme from the Mandalorian is boss.
Maybe the show will pick up later.
I won't judge too hard off episode 1 but I found it to be quite below average so far. But it has the goodwill of Mandalorian to get 3 episodes from me.
Speaking of the main theme being inspired by old Swedish folk songs.. I knew I recognized it from somewhere, and yeah..
Hilarious that Ludwig pretty much snuck in a song from Ronja Rövardotter (1984) into Star Wars in 2021. Watch from about the 4:18 mark.
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Man, didn't really enjoy episode 2 either. It started to get slightly interesting with the hutt twins and Black Krrasantan, and then it was back to A Man Called Horse for 45 minutes. Maybe the show will get better when/if the flashbacks are done.
I thought Episode 2 was a big step up in quality.
Episode 2 was fucking awesome. More humanizing the tuscans, fucking Krrasantan, Boba learning more of being with a family, the list goes on.
Big step up in terms of storytelling for me. I liked the first one but this ramped things up. I also loved the mayor's translator. I need to watch it again for more detail but I loved this episode.
I think we got enough humanizing of the tuskens in S2E1 of the Mandalorian, not a fan of seeing it again here for an hour or so over the first two episodes. I get the feeling the creators wants to make their own little version of Dances with Wolves or A Man Called Horse.
I would have done the flashback in episode 1 like this:
-Boba escapes the Sarlacc.
-Gets robbed by Jawas who in turn gets chased off by tuskens.
-Tuskens takes Boba as a slave just like they did to Shmi Skywalker.
-Boba challenges the tusken raider tribe champion (ninja lady) to a 1-vs-1 duel to the death with Bobas freedom on the line should he win. Make it some sort of honor/blood challenge that can't be refused.
-Boba wins but spares the life of ninja lady to the amazement of the tusken tribe. He get his freedom back and is gifted the weapon of his opponent, signifying he is now the tribe champion and an honorary tribe member.
-Boba leave the tuskens under mutual respect to look for the jawas and his armour.
/Flashbacks and on to the current plot.
This could have been done in 15 or so minutes.
Oh well..
Sounds terrible. No offense.
Episode 2 was much much better. Boba’s character was properly fleshed out, some nice humour with him training the Tuscans on how to use speeders and the action was better shot and choreographed than the brief street fight in episode 1.
Episode 3 thoughts:
No problem.Originally Posted by virms
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I don’t understand where they’re going with this show. This is not the Boba Fett we saw in The Mandalorian. Not in the present day of the show at least, where he’s being overwhelmed and bailed out by others in every fight. It’s been quite repetitive with him demanding respect when he’s done nothing to earn it and has no way of intimidating his subjects with such a small band of followers. That might change with a Rancor and I assume a Wookie later in the season.
Why is Fennec Shand hanging around with him? We’ve had no dialogue scenes to establish their relationship - she continually urges him to be more ruthless and he ignores her. There was the chance to give her an action scene with Krrsantan and yet it was the kids who did all the fighting. The Power Ranger colours of those bikes were so out of place and it must have been one of the slowest and least thrilling chases of all time.
Episode 4 Thoughts:
I haven't watched Boba Fett yet. Is it as good as Mandalorian so far?
I saw a report that they are targeting May the 4th for Obi Wan's premiere. Makes sense. That date happens to fall on a Wednesday this year so it lines up perfectly with Disney+'s Wednesday release schedule.
That would be good. Of all the shows, Obi-Wan is the one I'm the most excited for.
Boba Fett is good, but is a different pace than Mandalorian. I didn't have the same love as other fans, but where they are taking him is fun. Might be more satisfying to wait a few more weeks until the whole season is out.
Episode 4 of tBoBF was pretty good, best by 12 parsecs so far, and I really liked
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Episode 4 of tBoBF was pretty good, best by 12 parsecs so far, and I really liked
I agree. Good episode but out of place.
Episode 6 was pretty damn cool.
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Pretty amazing episode:
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Great episode with many mark-out moments, but the choices made in the past two episodes are so odd.
Excellent post. About your second to last point:
Fantastic points.
My thoughts as I just got up to date -
I'm no expert on the particular era but wasn't
/Oh, and some rumors say that
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First Spoiler:I'm no expert on the particular era but wasn't
/Oh, and some rumors say that
Second Spoiler:
I agree with the second spoiler.
Yeah,
Continuing
A very good finale:
So, I felt the finale was pretty damn awful, I could almost hear Benny Hill music playing in the background. Doesn't even feel like going into too much specifics but not surprising since the only episodes of "Boba Fett" I enjoyed were episode 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian season 3. I hope we never, ever see the vespa kids anywhere in Star Wars again, I'd rather watch a three hour special of three stooges slapstick starring Jar-Jar Binks.
Oh..
So, I felt the finale was pretty damn awful, I could almost hear Benny Hill music playing in the background. Doesn't even feel like going into too much specifics but not surprising since the only episodes of "Boba Fett" I enjoyed were episode 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian season 3. I hope we never, ever see the vespa kids anywhere in Star Wars again, I'd rather watch a three hour special of three stooges slapstick starring Jar-Jar Binks.
Oh..
Well,
And I've seen some rumors that the filming of BoBF was a complete disaster due to covid and all the restrictions they had to deal with during filming and that there originally were 8 episodes planned for the show. Instead they could only scrape five together and threw in episode 1 and 2 of Mando season 3, doing some editing and work-arounds to stretch it out to 7 episodes. Not sure if it's true but it would explain the disjointed feel of the show and the out of left field Mandalorian episodes.
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Speaking of the X-1 Viper droids.. Here is where I think they got the idea that only the brute, physical force of the Rancor could work against the Roidekas, the exact same thing happened in Dark Empire where the Viper's energy shields deflect every weapon thrown at them, so the emperor unleashes his dark side beasts that use their brute power to tear the X-1's to bits. Sure seems familiar.
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This looks awesome! Excited to see more, especially more Inquisitors!
Goosebumps.
looks fine. tbh, the way everyone was freaking out about the trailer, I expected more. it was a trailer with obi wan. I guess people would have freaked out about it no matter what.
They desperately need a change in location for future series. Tattooine has been done to death now.
I’m liking the Rebels vibe with the Inquisitors. But the real curiosity is what they do with Vader.
It starts on Tattooine but moves to Daiyu (the Coruscant underworld'esque looking place in the trailer) by the second, third episode or so.
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New trailer. Looks solid.
That’s a great trailer. Ooof, actually stoked for this.
Upside to my job, nobody says shit when you put on Star Wars for May 4th.
No spoilers, but a pretty solid first two episodes of Kenobi I thought.
This is everything I have wanted from live action Star Wars.
Really enjoyed the first two episodes. Great stuff.
Even though I'm not much of a Star Wars guy, I had goosebumps watching the first episode of Kenobi. It got me thinking though. Back when the prequels came out they were widely criticized and disregarded as pure caca. They were caca. They sucked. Anakin was a beta and the movies were uninteresting, CGI messes. But why do I feel so much comfort and nostalgia seeing Ewan & Hayden returning to Star Wars? I think it's because the new movies were so bad that when you compare them to the prequels, they just don't feel like Star Wars at all. But that could be said about the prequels 20 years ago. Disney wanted folks to look forward to the future, but missed the mark so much that they kinda Forced folks to look back. My question is... will we look back at Episodes 7-9 with the same nostalgia as how we look at the prequels now? I can't tell the future, but I doubt it.
Is it crazy to say that the recent offerings of mandalorian/Book of Boba fett/Obi Wan are the best Star Wars content since the original trilogy? I loved the first two episodes and it seems like they barely scratched the surface.
Rewatched episodes 1 and two. The 3rd sister actress is just not very good. Just not convincing or menacing in any way.
It’s not crazy but through 2 episodes I’m not putting Obi Wan on the level of Mandalorian. It’s been solid so far but not amazing.
That's fair
Yea I agree, she is a pretty bland villain so far. Grand Inquisitor is cool, though.
Leia is good, I like the young actress and her demeanor. It's cool to see a little Leia. However the way she acted in episode 2 was very annoying and stupid given the circumstances, culminating in her basically killing herself (lol you know what I mean). The entire chase sequence was pretty cringe worthy IMO. I kept thinking why the hell - in a planet where everyone looks like freaks and aliens - doesn't Obi Wan just buy a mask or put on something to cover his face?
Good point, yeah there have been quite a few memes going around about Ben not doing a good job of staying under the radar. Dude's walking around in a brown hoody and that's it. Eh... not a big deal since I've been enjoying things so far.
Man that was good.
Very very good episode.
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I think all 3 are a little too fresh to be considered the best Star Wars content since the OG movies. It's not crazy to think they are because they're really fuckin good. Obi Wan, jury is still out we're only 2 in and I can't say it's better than every movie but Ep 4-6. I was actually a pretty big fan of the 7-9 movies as well. Movies v. tv series arguments are tough because you can stretch out things in a tv series that movies don't allow.
Mando is pretty incredible though I would definitely put that up there with the original trilogy.
Three in with today’s episode.
I thought episode 3 was not great. Here is a meme I made to sum up my feelings
Stormstrooper: "It's a long ride.."
*Gets off the ride one minute later
I noticed that too lol. The script definitely has holes.
Like in episode 2 when Ben asks Leia how old she is. Wouldn’t he already know that?
And how did Reva get to the end of the tunnel before Leia?
Who gives a shit?=the answer.
I’d do it by checking the heading of the tunnel and a map to see the most likely exit for a smuggling tunnel. But that’s just me using the most basic method available to someone without the force,
I figure we're going to get an episode of Ben re-training and refamiliarizing himself w/ the Force yeah? There's a fine gap between Ben now and Ben when we meet him in New Hope.
There's about 10 years between this show and New Hope. I definitely see him getting his powers back to full force.
Not that I care about the timeline to this specificity, but he definitely looks more than 10 years younger than Alex Guiness did in Star Wars.
Probably because mugs 40 years ago looked older than people do in the modern era. Someone just pointed out to me that Ben Stiller is now the same age as Robert DeNiro was in Meet the Parents. Does Ben Stiller look even remotely as old as Bob did?
What's funny is that McGregor is 51. Guinness was 62 when New Hope was filmed. So 10 years from now McGregor will be the same age as Guinness was in the timeline. I doubt he'll age that much in 10 years but you never know.
Or like how Ralph Macchio was actually a few years older than Thomas Ian Griffith despite Griffith supposedly being a Vietnam vet lol.
this guy is a little more harsh than he needs to be but his points here are good examples of why I think the show has been pretty mediocre so far.
I want to love the Obi Wan/Leia duo but their scenes have really not been good IMO. And I blame the writing not the actors.
Putting it on par w/ Battlefield Earth is inaccurate as fuck. Passing on that vid.
I'll save you some time, I think this guy is a troll. A lot of youtube is filled with this stuff. It is also easy to judge a show at the halfway point, so we don't know where things end up. Maybe some of the decisions will be justified, maybe not.
I think I get what he is saying about "And Then" storytelling, but that is always going to occur in movies in a shared universe.
I don't think he's a troll since I agree with his criticisms, with the exception of re-adjusting the timeline (based on the original trilogy scenes) because on that point I agree with you about how it's not even an incongruency.
The Mandalorian set a nice bar for how a Star Wars show can be really well executed. This show is well below that bar, with too many scenes that are cringingly bad, including some of the ones pointed out in that video.
But I hope the second half of the show is better.
I've agreed with trolls that doesn't mean they're not trolling. And I also think sometimes people assume trolls do nothing but lie, so I'm not saying this guy is wrong.
I just think people need to stop trying to compare everything. Is it as good as a show with 2-3 seasons already lead by a much cooler type of character than Obi Wan ever was? IDK.
And yeah Battlefield Earth, that comment is some lame troll shit lol.
Yeah my troll comment was more about the Battlefield Earth and all the stand up comedy bits cut in the video.
There are things that I am critical of too, but I'm waiting until the show is done.
Don’t get me wrong, Mandalorian is great……. But there was plenty, at least half the show, which was all the same. Mando gets somewhere, someone needs a favor, he helps them, and Grogu does something cute. They got into a great groove the second season, but even that took half the episodes to get to a spot that wasn’t the same formula. First season took until the last two episodes as well.
There’s plenty of places to find fault in entertainment, and you’re always gonna find more if something isn’t to your personal expectations or taste.
Critical views aside, I'm curious what the climax of this show will be. Obviously we know the main characters all make it out alive, we know Darth doesn't discover Leia or Luke are his kids, we know Obi Wan's residence on Tatooine is not compromised. This is the tough part of a prequel - making it interesting without much in the way of stakes. Maybe Reva will have the big arc - people have suspected she will turn back to the good side and I could see that coming to fruition.
When we get to A New Hope there really aren't any Jedis around (IIRC) so maybe even though Darth won't kill Obi Wan, he will kill some other Jedis and break the underground railroad, further leaving Obi Wan as one of the lone Jedi survivors. I expect Tala will get killed.
Curious about how the series plays out as well. I wonder if they tie it together with a younger Yoda sending a child Grogu (who is supposed to be 50 when the Mandalorian starts) to be hidden.
I think the Jedi safeway passages will remain in take, maybe not the one in the previous episode. I think this lays the groundwork for Mando to explain how Grogu escaped Order 66. The motivations of Reva are also something I am looking forward to seeing play out. Is she mad at Obi-Wan because she saw him and Yoda at the temple and saw them do nothing to rescue her and the other younglings in the first scene?
You just need to wait lol. If you're already trying to predict everything so you can be right about your fantasy booking of how we get to what we see in Episode IV, I can see why this shit is getting to you.
You didn't have that luxury with The Mando or Boba's shows. There is no Boba Fett in the new movies despite him surviving in Jedi. There's no Baby Yoda.
Ultimately I think what's going to happen with some of these shows like Obi Wan is the same as the Marvel shows. For example, I wasn't a fan at all of Loki. I loved the others. But it seemed like most people enjoyed Loki's show the most and I just thought it was very average. So we're going to get a lot of people thinking Obi is the shit, and others looking at any little thing to nitpick to make it seem "less than".
I don't think it's unusual to discuss the plot of a show and predict what's going to happen on a message board. That happens with every popular weekly drama show, even prequel shows. We got TS saying not to discuss the quality until it's over, you're saying don't make predictions about the plot until it's over... I mean what are we doing here? I know this is a precious piece of IP but come on.
I'm trying to stop talking about the negative and steer the conversation back to the plot/story but I disagree with you and Caito that I'm nitpicking, or that everyone has their favorite shows and it's just a matter of preference or expectations. I mean sure that's true to an extent but you could say that to literally any critique of a show/movie. If you think the quality of this show is as good as Mandalorian or that it's been everything you've wanted from live action Star Wars, then that's fine.
And if you wanted to talk about how you thought Loki was average and not as good as other people were saying, you could have done that too (maybe you did, I don't remember).
I did speak on Loki. Nowhere in my post did I say I didn't get a chance to voice my opinion about the show.
What I didn't do is sit there after every episode and dissect, nitpick, and try to predict how it was going to turn out. That's why people are saying, let's wait and see.
Generalizing doesn't help. "You could say that to literally any critique of a show/movie" Well there's the end of the discussion lol. No doubt you could say this and that about any show and no doubt people discuss shows....But that's a very generic way of getting around what you're doing.
You should go to a die hard Walking Dead forum/FB group and see how awesome it is listening to some of these fucks bitch and complain about how the show isn't comic book accurate and how are they going to explain this now that this guy is dead when he wasn't dead in the comics. Oh and now there's like 8 spinoffs, holy fuckin shit....
I kind of see that in the way you and some others are approaching this. Nitpicking things about Obi Wan asking Leah how old she is....Really?
And like someone said, Mando was the same concept almost every episode. It's a great show but let's not pretend it had a banger every episode. And I don't remember too many people wondering how it all connects with future movies-why? Because barely anyone in those shows were in other movies that come after the time line.
You are free to critique and predicting as the show goes on, I just said I was waiting on my concerns until the show is over. But things like "this is Battlefied Earth levels of bad" definetly need to wait until the series is over.
The age line does not bother me. It could be read as either.
A) She is acting more mature than her age
B) A good cover for Obi-Wan to not reveal he was at her birth.
Shit I don't think it's that deep I don't even remember the scene. That's just some cornball nitpicking. HOW COULD HE NOT KNOW HOW OLD SHE IS??
Ever forget how old some of your friends' kids are and you see/hear them do some shit and you're like how old are you again? lol
You seem to think I'm being harsh on Obi Wan due to how it will connect to A New Hope as opposed to what I'm really doing which is being harsh because of the sometimes embarrassing writing, directing and performances. I really don't care about the continuity barring some glaring contradiction. I'll leave that to the Star Wars fanboys. Yes I mentioned the challenges of being a prequel but you're conflating that with my criticisms of the show.
As for Mando - I personally love it and think it's top quality. While not every episode is a banger it never dropped to Obi Wan's level from what I recall. To Caito's point, it's a different format since it's very episodic (mission of the week) and it leans completely into being a Western. And to me that's no better or worse than a serialized, less-Westerny show like Obi Wan. In fact I generally prefer serial dramas to episodic ones. I just think Favreau and Filoni are far better filmmakers than whoever is running Obi Wan and it's obvious from watching each show (so far). Favreau is a hall-of-fame level filmmaker who has succeeded in multiple genres and Filoni is the Star Wars guy to end all Star Wars guys so it's not a fair fight but I still call it like I see it. If Mando didn't exist and Obi Wan came on the heels of the sequel trilogy, I would still be like "okay more mediocre Star Wars output" and the only difference is I wouldn't have something better to compare it against. Mando proved Star Wars can be legitimately great again, not just mid-level fan service (and if you want to say Rogue One did that as well, feel free).
And yes I agree the video I posted was over the top with the Battlefield Earth comparison and talking like Obi Wan is the worst thing ever. I said he was overly harsh when I posted it so I'm not cosigning everything that guy said but he went over some of the scenes that made me cringe in real-time so I thought it was a good summary of the downside of this show.
Only things I’ve found “cringey” is the two Leia chase scenes. Other than that, I’m really not understanding much of the nitpicking ppl are doing, as it is easy enough to suspend your disbelief.
No I've clearly said you are nitpicking and mentioned various examples that were more than just you wondering how something connects to Ep IV.
I mean, you say you're going to leave things to Star Wars fanboys....but you sound like a Star Wars fanboy--to the point you're nitpicking the writing, making memes about it. It's no different than wrestling fans bitching about the writing, especially when there's no credibility from their end to even discuss what is or isn't good writing.
The finale was good.
I'm glad Kenobi was overall fine. But yeah... the finale was really good.
It was everything I wanted it to be.
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