The Book of Boba Fett

⭐ 5.0/10

(Originally written by Tim)

This show was actually terrible, and this score accounts for two absolute 10/10 masterpieces in the middle of the season. That's how bad the other episodes were.

Boba Fett is just straight up boring. Everything cool about him was his mystery, and The Mandalorian is basically the exact same character, only now we have spent way more time with Mando and love him. This show uses janky flashbacks to let you know what happens after the sarlac pit, but it is all so empty, with basically none of it being paid off.

The action is trash, in particular a speeder bike chase with steam punk kids that feels like it was made for children but even they wouldn't like. The final episode is a battle episode that uses every trope in the book, and feels totally inert. Honestly, even the fact that they squashed two perfect episodes in the middle makes me mad.

The reason for this is that they are just Mando episodes that are crucial to that story. Why not just make Mando season 3 with 2 episodes of Boba? Instead we get way too much boring stuff on a boring character that becomes critical to watch to learn more about the characters we love. Even the finale features a crucial reunion that falls kind of flat because it is wrapped in the Boba nonsense.

The Mandalorian promises new Star Wars content with new ideas and faces and overall feel, where as this felt like a bad Marvel TV show. Watch episode 5 and 6 and save yourself the boredom. Oh, they also introduce a beloved villain from Clone Wars and the proceed to kill him off the next episode. I don't care that that is spoiling stuff, because if you are mad you know that happens you would have been mad when it happened anyways.

I don't want to sound like a spoiled and toxic Star Wars fan, but Mando was so promising and this just feels like a Rise of Skywalker step backwards. Just baffles me that it was this bad, and was setup around 2 episodes of an entirely different show.