The Book of Boba Fett 1x07
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tori_reviewsTBoBF 1x07
I don’t think there was a single moment of that episode that wasn’t stupid, or where I don’t have at least 100 problems with it. It only occasionally crossed over to the point of being so bad it was funny, but I did laugh at it a few times.
From the first moment of the episode (and I mean, in the previouslies) I had already thought of a more interesting story than this show would give us. Because Freetown had not agreed to fight for Boba until Bane showed up and gunned down Cobb…so what if Boba sent Bane to spur Freetown into action? That is the kind of underhanded and wily thinking that one would need to be a freaking CRIME LORD; but of course that was never going to happen.
I actually think that making sure Boba is the good guy may the most insulting part of this show. And just this episode we have bad guys who are incompetent, ‘good guys’ we know nothing about but can shoot really well apparently, stupid decisions made by every character, including someone bringing a baby to a war zone. Oh and no sense that even the few people who maybe died will stay dead…also the fact that way more people should be dead because if anyone had even brought a knife against the Wookie, he’d be dead…also even all the speeder bikes are suddenly fine again at the end of the episode, no consequences whatsoever. Plus not a single sense of geography to the extremely long fight scene nor any idea what anyone is fighting for. And of course, just no logic at all.
But Boba being the good guy is the dumbest writing/production choice that makes this show feel like it was written for children, but what children actually like on this show? Maybe the big dumb fight scenes, but as much as the show always insists on action, the kind of big explosion action hasn’t really been the norm like you could count on for most of the animated shows. You want to tell a child friendly story, don’t make it about establishing a crime empire. If you want to make a story about establishing a crime empire, don’t write it down to five year old level.
I maintain that this should be Peaky Blinders with aliens. When people no doubt compare it to Sopranos or Breaking Bad, I’m sure there’s a valid point there, but using PB as a model gives a little more freedom. The other shows are set in the modern day, while PB gives one a little of the…wild and disconnectedness that applies to this show. But really, I think I’ll just go watch PB, where Tommy Shelby is 100x smarter than Boba Fett, the show lets him be a sympathetic terrible person, I actually believe he can win a fight, and there’s not nearly so much (often literal) plot armor.
Okay, so the fight basically lasts for 35 minutes and…what did it actually accomplish? I don’t understand the choices that anyone makes or what anyone is fighting for or what their victory conditions are. Tatooine…is a planet. Yes, not being able to operate in Mos Espa is a setback, but it’s apparently like 20 minutes from Mos Eisly, considering Boba sends Fennic there in the middle of the fight thinking it would make some kind of difference. There’s 99% of the planet out there they can work with. And Boba does not have anywhere near the forces to keep an eye on more than 3% of the planet, with his crew of…eight? Ten maybe if you count a couple of droids and one is a ratcatcher. I’m sure if there’s another season they’ll suddenly give him more people to not be developed; but if it lets them write this as an actual organization then I might…well not forgive it (especially since I probably won’t watch it), but it might give them the chance to write more interesting stories.
The fight scene is just badly designed. Even ignoring the fact that I don’t know where anyone is, or understand how any of it counts as ‘having their flanks covered,’ it’s just badly written. It doesn’t know when to end. The fight with the droids is the closest it comes to being a teamwork save; but then it treats Bane as a final boss, commenting on how you should only look out for yourself…and then not contradicting it if that’s supposed to be the theme; but it still doesn’t end there because it tacks on the fight with the Rancor, with no one who has any connection to the Rancor, and it being taken down by Grogu who has no place in this storyline.
Like with my opening idea to make Boba more ruthless, I want there to be something wonky going on with Fennic. Because she seems not exactly on board with the choices Boba is making for their long term goals, and her takedown of the Syndicate leaders would be a lot more interesting if we weren’t quite sure about her motivations. She doesn’t want the Syndicate around either, so she’s allying with Boba for now, but she could have her own goals. Not that I think that the show thinks she does, she’s just there to be easily convinced of how wise Boba is, because this show has no room for complex dynamics or characters with more than half a dimension,
I could have sworn at a dozen points that they wanted to drop the ‘the Spice must flow’ line. The dialog in this episode was terrible, it has been all along I suppose, but it really hit me here.
So like I said, not planning to watch a s2 if they get one. Unless in the meantime I have some reason to believe this production team is learning how to write more interesting plots. And I haven’t been given any more confidence about Mando so far, so I don’t know what I’m going to do about that. I will do Kenobi (next) and I’m not completely writing off TBB s2, but probably not right as it’s coming out (or even immediately after). Anything else in the works…I worry the Ahsoka show is going to have Ezra in it and I don’t to see anything with Ezra in it, but we’ll see I guess. And beyond that I don’t know, except that I have almost no faith in this creative team, so it’s going to take some convincing to give it any more chances.
And Marvel isn’t far behind.
I don’t think there was a single moment of that episode that wasn’t stupid, or where I don’t have at least 100 problems with it. It only occasionally crossed over to the point of being so bad it was funny, but I did laugh at it a few times.
From the first moment of the episode (and I mean, in the previouslies) I had already thought of a more interesting story than this show would give us. Because Freetown had not agreed to fight for Boba until Bane showed up and gunned down Cobb…so what if Boba sent Bane to spur Freetown into action? That is the kind of underhanded and wily thinking that one would need to be a freaking CRIME LORD; but of course that was never going to happen.
I actually think that making sure Boba is the good guy may the most insulting part of this show. And just this episode we have bad guys who are incompetent, ‘good guys’ we know nothing about but can shoot really well apparently, stupid decisions made by every character, including someone bringing a baby to a war zone. Oh and no sense that even the few people who maybe died will stay dead…also the fact that way more people should be dead because if anyone had even brought a knife against the Wookie, he’d be dead…also even all the speeder bikes are suddenly fine again at the end of the episode, no consequences whatsoever. Plus not a single sense of geography to the extremely long fight scene nor any idea what anyone is fighting for. And of course, just no logic at all.
But Boba being the good guy is the dumbest writing/production choice that makes this show feel like it was written for children, but what children actually like on this show? Maybe the big dumb fight scenes, but as much as the show always insists on action, the kind of big explosion action hasn’t really been the norm like you could count on for most of the animated shows. You want to tell a child friendly story, don’t make it about establishing a crime empire. If you want to make a story about establishing a crime empire, don’t write it down to five year old level.
I maintain that this should be Peaky Blinders with aliens. When people no doubt compare it to Sopranos or Breaking Bad, I’m sure there’s a valid point there, but using PB as a model gives a little more freedom. The other shows are set in the modern day, while PB gives one a little of the…wild and disconnectedness that applies to this show. But really, I think I’ll just go watch PB, where Tommy Shelby is 100x smarter than Boba Fett, the show lets him be a sympathetic terrible person, I actually believe he can win a fight, and there’s not nearly so much (often literal) plot armor.
Okay, so the fight basically lasts for 35 minutes and…what did it actually accomplish? I don’t understand the choices that anyone makes or what anyone is fighting for or what their victory conditions are. Tatooine…is a planet. Yes, not being able to operate in Mos Espa is a setback, but it’s apparently like 20 minutes from Mos Eisly, considering Boba sends Fennic there in the middle of the fight thinking it would make some kind of difference. There’s 99% of the planet out there they can work with. And Boba does not have anywhere near the forces to keep an eye on more than 3% of the planet, with his crew of…eight? Ten maybe if you count a couple of droids and one is a ratcatcher. I’m sure if there’s another season they’ll suddenly give him more people to not be developed; but if it lets them write this as an actual organization then I might…well not forgive it (especially since I probably won’t watch it), but it might give them the chance to write more interesting stories.
The fight scene is just badly designed. Even ignoring the fact that I don’t know where anyone is, or understand how any of it counts as ‘having their flanks covered,’ it’s just badly written. It doesn’t know when to end. The fight with the droids is the closest it comes to being a teamwork save; but then it treats Bane as a final boss, commenting on how you should only look out for yourself…and then not contradicting it if that’s supposed to be the theme; but it still doesn’t end there because it tacks on the fight with the Rancor, with no one who has any connection to the Rancor, and it being taken down by Grogu who has no place in this storyline.
Like with my opening idea to make Boba more ruthless, I want there to be something wonky going on with Fennic. Because she seems not exactly on board with the choices Boba is making for their long term goals, and her takedown of the Syndicate leaders would be a lot more interesting if we weren’t quite sure about her motivations. She doesn’t want the Syndicate around either, so she’s allying with Boba for now, but she could have her own goals. Not that I think that the show thinks she does, she’s just there to be easily convinced of how wise Boba is, because this show has no room for complex dynamics or characters with more than half a dimension,
I could have sworn at a dozen points that they wanted to drop the ‘the Spice must flow’ line. The dialog in this episode was terrible, it has been all along I suppose, but it really hit me here.
So like I said, not planning to watch a s2 if they get one. Unless in the meantime I have some reason to believe this production team is learning how to write more interesting plots. And I haven’t been given any more confidence about Mando so far, so I don’t know what I’m going to do about that. I will do Kenobi (next) and I’m not completely writing off TBB s2, but probably not right as it’s coming out (or even immediately after). Anything else in the works…I worry the Ahsoka show is going to have Ezra in it and I don’t to see anything with Ezra in it, but we’ll see I guess. And beyond that I don’t know, except that I have almost no faith in this creative team, so it’s going to take some convincing to give it any more chances.
And Marvel isn’t far behind.
