The Mando season 3 thing makes sense now though…the fact they put the year gap in between should have tipped us off..
Filoni, for all his genius, does sometimes set up things that just aren't well-explained or integrated. For example, Clone Wars arc for the all-powerful, all-important Mortis, the One family home planet. Still waiting for that one (pun intended) to know how it all fits in. Perhaps in Ahsoka?
True, but the story's not over yet (may never be). Patience is important in long-form storytelling. People take an episode or even a season as a beginning, middle, and end without realizing these are just chapters in a book of unknown length. They've shown they can delay a payoff. I'd love some hints of Mortis and honestly, every time Ahsoka's owl shows up, I take it as a reminder. I'm sure we'll get more on that someday (possibly in the Ahsoka series.) With Boba now in control I'd like to see him reconnect with the remaining Tuskens- something that can absolutely be addressed in the future.
I agree to a point. You do have to be careful when dragging stuff out. All you do is make people mad if there isn't a payoff and you stop doing the show. The vast majority of people don't want to read a comic, novel or watch an animated series to find out an answer. It's a delicate balance for sure. Any main plot points should really be resolved by the next season at worst.
See "Caprica".
Well since it was Mando Season 2.5…that seems like they’re forcing it, doesn’t it?
Maybe they have an actual plan for this character in future seasons of Mando and other series. So you call it forced, I call it a potential plan.
At this point in time, should you have faith in the story group? I know I don't. Who knows what Kennedy will do to sabotage any momentum that Mando built up. I trust Jon, but there's always Kennedy lurking in the shadows.
I have enough faith in Jon and Dave to see where they take this. If it ends up in a flop, well then I'm sure the usual scapegoat will be used for the blame.
Who says anything about “favorite characters”? I’m quite on the record as identifying boba fett as the ultimate bit/throwaway character. What did someone identify his as? “A cool looking dude that stood quietly in the shadows and died in a slapstick moment?”
I’d watch out more for filoni than kennedy. I don’t think kennedy is that involved in what we’re seeing…she seems to be in her lane of just fighting/firing directors as it stands.
I agree. I think the issue with enigmatic characters like Boba Fett is that people have had years to map out their view of them and the screen view is never going to match up to the toy box dreams from 40 years ago.
This guy is critical of the Book of Boba Fett for being too focused on classic storylines and places. “Why can’t Star Wars just move on from fan service and make something new?”The desert thing is so played out. Varied environments are the key to Star Wars.
and they’re not spending a dollar more on those lands. Though I’m sure there are “insider rumors” already boiling about “secret” expansion plans
I think you need fan service in a franchise like star wars. As I have said many times before. It's not fan service that is the problem, it's how it's implemented. Mando season 1 and 2 did a great job with fan service. The use of classic aliens, nods to the holiday special, biker scouts on the forest moon speeders and Baby Yoda... All give you the star wars feels. At the same time it had new characters, planets and ideas that felt natural. Book of Boba felt like a sub thread for Mando season 3 that was expanded into its own thing. So it never really had the chance to move into something new with how short the series was. That's why the takeaway from it by most was, yea it was fine.
I disagree. First, I don't think galaxys edge should have been OT. Nor do I think it should have been the sequels. It should have been a celebration of star wars as a whole. Focusing on one era, and to make it worse one moment, was a bad choice. Would I have loved a star wars land that was tatooine with mos eisley, the cantina and docking bay 94... And down one path you had Jabbas palace with a ride inside. And down another path you had the moisture farm with a giant sand crawler out front. Of course I would. The issue with Batuu is no one cares about it. And why would we? Because Disney made a comic book that explains it? You had 5 movies to integrate it into peoples star wars mindset. And the best they could manage was a one off line in Solo. Disney and Kennedy were so focused on moving on and pretending that the OT and prequels didn't exist that they forgot to build a cohesive plan for what the next era of star wars was going to be. They just figured, star wars, everyone will love it no matter what.
I think this is all Book of Boba Fett was supposed to be: an small expansion of the Mandalorian to explore and develop a character's backstory.
I think fans would get really bored with everything themed after the originals. I get that's what you think you would like, but Disney is trying to create branches off of the main storyline and make those branches as independent as possible. They don't want one big story, but lots of smaller, interconnected stories that can take on different tones, perspectives, and storytelling approaches.
You're right. He didn't say, "theme it after OT." But since all of his examples were from OT, that's what I took him to mean. Didn't mean to misrepresent.
It does seem like that. But I think it's more like the way they handled Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s relationship to the MCU. If they tied them together too closely, there isn't as much creative space. Nobody knows how cannon accurate Disney's Batuu is, because they made it up. It can have its own rules and story and such without running afoul of what's already out there.
Exactly. Had Disney just retreaded OT, they would have been accused of bringing nothing new. Where they have tried to bring something new, fans evaluate it against the beloved OT.
