i could have sword they were. but oh well. i am human
They're in solo too
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Mentioned this in the "How Was Your Last Session" thread but seems legit to drop this note here
So my Thursday game, I random encountered a desert chase scene where the characters had to defend themselves and their "sand ship" (fast moving cargo vessel, like a clipper on skis in the sand, with demonic ichor boosts) from raiders on Infernal War Machines that were basically speeder bikes with grapping hooks and raiding parties clad in head and body wraps to protect them from the sands wielding brutal weapons that were part hammer, part ax, part pike). Then I watched Book of Boba Fett Friday ... and none of my players believe that chronology, lol.
Thoughts of BoBF:
Series is decent, I mean a lot of the characters are sorta sub Rogue One wooden*, but I think making the underworld a little dreary at this point in the Star Wars timeline makes sense. I like the world building they're doing.
The lizard thing to me seemed to be a riff on IRL "vision quests" which are a thing but also over romanticized by industrialized folks, in some indigenous cultures you take some psychoactive substance, like milking the glands of a poisonous frog or in space opera have a lizard crawl into your nostril and hang out in your body cavities. Then you have an intense psychedelic dream type experience that "guides" you to some revelation, usually as part of some sort of ritual belonging to your community. But if the tree was a dream vision, I have no idea how the branch was substantiated ... I'm thinking maybe there's something about Force in the Dune Sea maybe and this ritual is how the Tuskan's commune with it or interact with it, being rewarded with their culture's survival tool. I mean it's entirely possible the Force dropping Anakin's birth into Tattooine, which also nurtured Luke to some degree was no accident. Might be something touched on in the Kenobi show. That'd be interesting if the BoBF actually connects to stuff that happened in the past in Kenobi than it does Mando Season 3. I'm not betting on it, but it'd be interesting. The whole Force thing may lead Fett to finally reconcile his anger with the Jedi.
We also debated whether those were Pykes for the whole train interrogation judgement section. The masks during the shoot out were pretty spot on but very different from what you saw in Solo. I don't know if I fully understand why the Pykes have a repuslorlift train running spice between who knows what points on Tattooine, but it was cool to see them as the interest behind the train, and Fett being both human and tarnishing their ego.
Episode 1, that symbol the raiders painted or marked into the homestead they had raided while Fett and juvenile Tusken watched ... do we know what that is?
Don't know what the symbol is, but maybe just the Pyke symbol? Amazing with your game, just about to start an SKT game, and I might add something from Solo.
EDIT: woops forgot spoilers
Yeah, Pykes are possible. I'm also thinking it was just some minor gang like the riders Fett beats up at the rest stop or wherever before he steals the bikes. Funny scene there, one of the Weequay(?) he knocks over the back of his vest/jacket is laid out exactly in the fashion of a "fully patched" IRL outlaw motorcycle gang member (Hell's Angels, Mongols, Pagans, etc) - I kinda want to do, or see if someone will do a screen capture of that guy's jacket and see if it can be translated into some sort of easter egg gag. Thought it was a fun detail.
Has everyone enjoyed the Book of the Mandalorian Book of Boba Fett episodes?
This thread has been dead for quite a while so I'm thrusting us into the bacta tank to revive. Just to recap what we've seen so far..
Boba found some robot kids and is starting an army
The pikes are messing with everyone's stuff and the huts and the mayor skiddadled under the pressure.
Boba hired Krysantan and the Mandalorian as his "muscle" for this new job (although the mandalorian did his for free. I guess Krysantan takes card).
We've been with the Mando for a while and gotten some dark saber lore (house of Vizla stuff and whatnot)
We got a really awesome terminator style animation of the Night of a Thousand Tears (very well done, thank you disney for actually DEVELOPING MANDALORIAN CULTURE AND BACKSTORY)
The mando got a NABOO STARFIGHTER
After that he vibed with Grogu for a hot minute, or at least, tried to, and we got to see Luke and grogu interact, as well as a cool live action order 66 moment
Luke is using his ant colony to build the same school we saw burn in the Last Jedi
Grogu will have to choose between the path of a Jedi, or the path of a Mandalorian (his chain mail, or friggin Yoda's lightsaber!)
CAD BANE! IN LIVE ACTION! so cool, very well animated, very excited to see him fight boba and rematch with Fenneck
( also those Pikes blew up that cantina, but MAX REBO is still alive somewhere in the galaxy...)
Theories:
Grogu might end up with the dark saber after choosing the chain mail, a force user, yet still a mandalorian foundling, similar to how Mandalore and others were like a mix of Jedi and Mandalorian heritage and culture. Just a thought but I think it makes sense, seeing as how luke doesn't really mention Grogu in the new cannon as one of his students (before these shows at least), and it would explain how he's so well hidden in the universe (Mandalorians are very good at hiding). It would also make sense because the Mando has such a hard time wielding it, and Grogu, as we've seen, is a very quick learner (Also you know he's hiding some muscles under those mysterious robes)
As much as I hate to say it, I think Cad Bane will die at the hands of Boba and Fenneck (at the very least, I think it will appear that way). I absolutely LOVE his character and would hate for it to happen, but at this point, it lines up. He's even animated to look older with wrinkles and some more grey colored skin, rather than the cobalt blue we're used to. I think since the clone wars are over and we're in this dead period with the empire, it wouldn't surprise me of they kill him off since he doesn't have as much of a purpose in cannon any more (sad). However, I would like to see him in other places in live action (maybe the kenobi show) and I also think it'd be cool if they did a bounty hunter show, focusing on the bounty hunter's guild and what all the hunter's did at the rise of the empire and fall of the republic. It's possible that Bane could die in a questionable way, and come back later, or that he just shows up for a quick fight cameo, and then leaves abruptly (which, yeah, also feels like something disney would do) but we'll see.
Didn't love CGI Luke as much as in The Mandalorian. He'll for sure choose lightsaber, Disney's plan is to make him a Jedi, not a foundling.
CGI is hard to do, especially in the mouth movements. If you look at it closely, Disney actually worked really hard to make it work and flow smoothly. Or did you just mean you didn't like luke in general? In that case, I'd half agree. I thought bringing him in at all was kiiiiiiiind of fanservice anyway, but he's way better than he ever was in the new trilogy, so I'm not complaining.
As for baby yoda, they could make him a Jedi, I'm just saying it's unlikely given the info in the current canon. Also, there are clues throughout the episode that grogu might associate a green lightsaber with that night of order 66, as a sort of call-back trauma. It's a fan theory that to me makes pretty good sense for why he wouldn't outright choose a lightsaber. His only memories of the Jedi are confusion and trauma. His time with the mandalorian has been, admittedly, still traumatic in ways, but he's also gained a strong bond. I think at the end of the day, it could go either way, and who knows, they might try to do both. We'll see....
Didn't love CGI Luke as much as in The Mandalorian. He'll for sure choose lightsaber, Disney's plan is to make him a Jedi, not a foundling.
CGI is hard to do, especially in the mouth movements. If you look at it closely, Disney actually worked really hard to make it work and flow smoothly. Or did you just mean you didn't like luke in general? In that case, I'd half agree. I thought bringing him in at all was kiiiiiiiind of fanservice anyway, but he's way better than he ever was in the new trilogy, so I'm not complaining.
As for baby yoda, they could make him a Jedi, I'm just saying it's unlikely given the info in the current canon. Also, there are clues throughout the episode that grogu might associate a green lightsaber with that night of order 66, as a sort of call-back trauma. It's a fan theory that to me makes pretty good sense for why he wouldn't outright choose a lightsaber. His only memories of the Jedi are confusion and trauma. His time with the mandalorian has been, admittedly, still traumatic in ways, but he's also gained a strong bond. I think at the end of the day, it could go either way, and who knows, they might try to do both. We'll see....
I have two words that are enough proof that the Book of Boba Fett is worth watching: Cad Bane.
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Didn't love CGI Luke as much as in The Mandalorian. He'll for sure choose lightsaber, Disney's plan is to make him a Jedi, not a foundling.
CGI is hard to do, especially in the mouth movements. If you look at it closely, Disney actually worked really hard to make it work and flow smoothly. Or did you just mean you didn't like luke in general? In that case, I'd half agree. I thought bringing him in at all was kiiiiiiiind of fanservice anyway, but he's way better than he ever was in the new trilogy, so I'm not complaining.
As for baby yoda, they could make him a Jedi, I'm just saying it's unlikely given the info in the current canon. Also, there are clues throughout the episode that grogu might associate a green lightsaber with that night of order 66, as a sort of call-back trauma. It's a fan theory that to me makes pretty good sense for why he wouldn't outright choose a lightsaber. His only memories of the Jedi are confusion and trauma. His time with the mandalorian has been, admittedly, still traumatic in ways, but he's also gained a strong bond. I think at the end of the day, it could go either way, and who knows, they might try to do both. We'll see....
I have two words that are enough proof that the Book of Boba Fett is worth watching: Cad Bane.
For the record I think there is a difference between BOBF and mando luke, mando luke looks like he was pulled from battlefront 2, BOBF luke look's better.
I thought episode 6 was great, cad bane was cool and I think baby yoda will chose the chain mail so that they can do mando season 3 and have people like it, boba feels like a side character in his own show now, but I hope he duels cad bane again,along with fennic. Mando is cool as ever and I hope he has a few more epic moments before the series ends.
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I thought Cad Bane was cool, and his live action is a good mix of his animated origins with the Duros you see in A New Hope. I'm wondering whether the showdown between Fett and Bane in Clone Wars that only got done as an animatic has happened in this world. Thought the whole "Fett was a murderer who worked for the Empire" was a bit of a weird way for Bane to trash on Fett since Bane was basically on retainer to Palpatine at one point in the Clone Wars and during the rise of the Empire I thought Bane was working for the Empire when he and Fennec squared off.
I say Grogru joins up with Mando ... maybe even has a dark turn and is the one who actually takes out Bane when things aren't going well for team Fett. Like maybe Bane uses his rocket boots (curious how that'll look in live action) and Grogru lethally force faceplants him ... I guess that's no more hardcore than turning the flametroopers flamethrower fire back on him. Grogru has to join up with Mando. They did not customizing a Naboo starfighter with a bubble hatch that's perfectly Grogru size to not milk that inevitable moment of them flying off together between the twin suns into action figure vehicles, legos, keychains, etc.
I just have to say it took the second episode of the scooter cyborgs and Fennec calling them Mods for me to get the joke. Their first appearance I was thinking "lame," but the second episode where (at least I first heard that) they're called Mods, that sold them on me. Plus they weren't all that bad in the fight with Krystantan. Kinda interesting in the old EU slicers were like critical thing and the most recent RPG makes a thing of both slicing and cybernetics ... but in live action and even the cartoons we haven't seen much of it outside DJ and maybe some stolen code cylinders. When Bad Batch and Mando both started bringing in chain codes more into the universe, I guess it'd be cool to see these mods, folks like DJ, and the chain codes and credit systems link up with slicers so we get some real Star Wars Cyberpunk.
With the Trandoshans on Tattooine (like when was that a thing? but moving on) I was kinda hoping Fett would call in a favor from Bossk, who may or may not still be around but ran with Fett during Boba's early Bounty Hunting Days (and was actually the one who with Embo I think let Fett take his shot at a showdown with Bane in the incomplete animation). That would've been a cool reunion, Bossk would finally do something in the live action franchise, and there could be even a cool tense moment where Bossk and Krystantan would have to like fight together at a key moment in the inevitable battle despite tradtional Trandoshan/Wookie animosity (trivia, did y'all know Trandoshans homeworld is in the same star system as Kashykk?).
I didn't see the bombing of the casino coming until the Pikes got up without their contanker ... that' whoahed me, I expected the manager had been in with the Pikes all this time.
Thanks Ghosteyy for boosting the thread, I meant to talk about the Mods on the show two episodes back but I never got around to it. Good catch up.
Last thing, I never read Aftermath so don't know how Cobb Vanth was portrayed prior to Timothy Olyphant picking up the role. I guess Chuck Wendig is groussing about not getting "credit" for creating Vanth ... something tells me Vanth was actually a product of Star Wars story team working with Wendig ... also the reason folks like the Mando/Fett Cobb Vanth is because Olyphant is just playing Star Wars Raylan Givens ... I was eh on him in Mando season 2 premier, but I totally dug the scene at the beginning of this most recent episode that was taken right out of Justified. I am a little confused why later Bane just shoots him in the shoulder while totally smoking the deputy, that seemed weird and I guess Vanth traded his Fett armor for plot armor. Or maybe Bane figures he needs Vanth the leader spooked and willing to keep the town out of the fight and the deputy was an expendable example.
Any gets on how the Book of Boba Fett finale is going to play out? Place in spoilers in reply.
I'm not sure if they're going to just introduce Cad Bane and let him get taken out one episode later, so I don't know how well old grudges are necessarily going to be. Mando's seasons both ended on uplifting moments. It'd be neat if they balanced that with a darker ending in Boba Fett. Like maybe he has to leave Tattooine and Season 2 he tries his hand in Bespin or something ... yeah, I know there's imperial remnant lore attached there, might be interesting how they work with it.
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I thought Cad Bane was cool, and his live action is a good mix of his animated origins with the Duros you see in A New Hope. I'm wondering whether the showdown between Fett and Bane in Clone Wars that only got done as an animatic has happened in this world. Thought the whole "Fett was a murderer who worked for the Empire" was a bit of a weird way for Bane to trash on Fett since Bane was basically on retainer to Palpatine at one point in the Clone Wars and during the rise of the Empire I thought Bane was working for the Empire when he and Fennec squared off.
I say Grogru joins up with Mando ... maybe even has a dark turn and is the one who actually takes out Bane when things aren't going well for team Fett. Like maybe Bane uses his rocket boots (curious how that'll look in live action) and Grogru lethally force faceplants him ... I guess that's no more hardcore than turning the flametroopers flamethrower fire back on him. Grogru has to join up with Mando. They did not customizing a Naboo starfighter with a bubble hatch that's perfectly Grogru size to not milk that inevitable moment of them flying off together between the twin suns into action figure vehicles, legos, keychains, etc.
I just have to say it took the second episode of the scooter cyborgs and Fennec calling them Mods for me to get the joke. Their first appearance I was thinking "lame," but the second episode where (at least I first heard that) they're called Mods, that sold them on me. Plus they weren't all that bad in the fight with Krystantan. Kinda interesting in the old EU slicers were like critical thing and the most recent RPG makes a thing of both slicing and cybernetics ... but in live action and even the cartoons we haven't seen much of it outside DJ and maybe some stolen code cylinders. When Bad Batch and Mando both started bringing in chain codes more into the universe, I guess it'd be cool to see these mods, folks like DJ, and the chain codes and credit systems link up with slicers so we get some real Star Wars Cyberpunk.
With the Trandoshans on Tattooine (like when was that a thing? but moving on) I was kinda hoping Fett would call in a favor from Bossk, who may or may not still be around but ran with Fett during Boba's early Bounty Hunting Days (and was actually the one who with Embo I think let Fett take his shot at a showdown with Bane in the incomplete animation). That would've been a cool reunion, Bossk would finally do something in the live action franchise, and there could be even a cool tense moment where Bossk and Krystantan would have to like fight together at a key moment in the inevitable battle despite tradtional Trandoshan/Wookie animosity (trivia, did y'all know Trandoshans homeworld is in the same star system as Kashykk?).
I didn't see the bombing of the casino coming until the Pikes got up without their contanker ... that' whoahed me, I expected the manager had been in with the Pikes all this time.
Thanks Ghosteyy for boosting the thread, I meant to talk about the Mods on the show two episodes back but I never got around to it. Good catch up.
Last thing, I never read Aftermath so don't know how Cobb Vanth was portrayed prior to Timothy Olyphant picking up the role. I guess Chuck Wendig is groussing about not getting "credit" for creating Vanth ... something tells me Vanth was actually a product of Star Wars story team working with Wendig ... also the reason folks like the Mando/Fett Cobb Vanth is because Olyphant is just playing Star Wars Raylan Givens ... I was eh on him in Mando season 2 premier, but I totally dug the scene at the beginning of this most recent episode that was taken right out of Justified. I am a little confused why later Bane just shoots him in the shoulder while totally smoking the deputy, that seemed weird and I guess Vanth traded his Fett armor for plot armor. Or maybe Bane figures he needs Vanth the leader spooked and willing to keep the town out of the fight and the deputy was an expendable example.
Which Aftermath book does Vanth show up in? I've only read the first one I think...
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I thought Cad Bane was cool, and his live action is a good mix of his animated origins with the Duros you see in A New Hope. I'm wondering whether the showdown between Fett and Bane in Clone Wars that only got done as an animatic has happened in this world. Thought the whole "Fett was a murderer who worked for the Empire" was a bit of a weird way for Bane to trash on Fett since Bane was basically on retainer to Palpatine at one point in the Clone Wars and during the rise of the Empire I thought Bane was working for the Empire when he and Fennec squared off.
I say Grogru joins up with Mando ... maybe even has a dark turn and is the one who actually takes out Bane when things aren't going well for team Fett. Like maybe Bane uses his rocket boots (curious how that'll look in live action) and Grogru lethally force faceplants him ... I guess that's no more hardcore than turning the flametroopers flamethrower fire back on him. Grogru has to join up with Mando. They did not customizing a Naboo starfighter with a bubble hatch that's perfectly Grogru size to not milk that inevitable moment of them flying off together between the twin suns into action figure vehicles, legos, keychains, etc.
I just have to say it took the second episode of the scooter cyborgs and Fennec calling them Mods for me to get the joke. Their first appearance I was thinking "lame," but the second episode where (at least I first heard that) they're called Mods, that sold them on me. Plus they weren't all that bad in the fight with Krystantan. Kinda interesting in the old EU slicers were like critical thing and the most recent RPG makes a thing of both slicing and cybernetics ... but in live action and even the cartoons we haven't seen much of it outside DJ and maybe some stolen code cylinders. When Bad Batch and Mando both started bringing in chain codes more into the universe, I guess it'd be cool to see these mods, folks like DJ, and the chain codes and credit systems link up with slicers so we get some real Star Wars Cyberpunk.
With the Trandoshans on Tattooine (like when was that a thing? but moving on) I was kinda hoping Fett would call in a favor from Bossk, who may or may not still be around but ran with Fett during Boba's early Bounty Hunting Days (and was actually the one who with Embo I think let Fett take his shot at a showdown with Bane in the incomplete animation). That would've been a cool reunion, Bossk would finally do something in the live action franchise, and there could be even a cool tense moment where Bossk and Krystantan would have to like fight together at a key moment in the inevitable battle despite tradtional Trandoshan/Wookie animosity (trivia, did y'all know Trandoshans homeworld is in the same star system as Kashykk?).
I didn't see the bombing of the casino coming until the Pikes got up without their contanker ... that' whoahed me, I expected the manager had been in with the Pikes all this time.
Thanks Ghosteyy for boosting the thread, I meant to talk about the Mods on the show two episodes back but I never got around to it. Good catch up.
Last thing, I never read Aftermath so don't know how Cobb Vanth was portrayed prior to Timothy Olyphant picking up the role. I guess Chuck Wendig is groussing about not getting "credit" for creating Vanth ... something tells me Vanth was actually a product of Star Wars story team working with Wendig ... also the reason folks like the Mando/Fett Cobb Vanth is because Olyphant is just playing Star Wars Raylan Givens ... I was eh on him in Mando season 2 premier, but I totally dug the scene at the beginning of this most recent episode that was taken right out of Justified. I am a little confused why later Bane just shoots him in the shoulder while totally smoking the deputy, that seemed weird and I guess Vanth traded his Fett armor for plot armor. Or maybe Bane figures he needs Vanth the leader spooked and willing to keep the town out of the fight and the deputy was an expendable example.
Which Aftermath book does Vanth show up in? I've only read the first one I think...
Haven't read it, but per Wookiepedia, it's the first novel, the third part (where he buys Fett's armor from the Jawas). I remember hearing about it when the book came out but forgot about it till Wendig started making noise. I guess his overall experience with Star Wars was not the best and Cobb Vanth being put into live action with no mention in Mando and Book has him further irked. Meanwhile the guy who did Newbacca Krystanthan or however you spell it seems stoked his character's now live action.
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I thought Cad Bane was cool, and his live action is a good mix of his animated origins with the Duros you see in A New Hope. I'm wondering whether the showdown between Fett and Bane in Clone Wars that only got done as an animatic has happened in this world. Thought the whole "Fett was a murderer who worked for the Empire" was a bit of a weird way for Bane to trash on Fett since Bane was basically on retainer to Palpatine at one point in the Clone Wars and during the rise of the Empire I thought Bane was working for the Empire when he and Fennec squared off.
I say Grogru joins up with Mando ... maybe even has a dark turn and is the one who actually takes out Bane when things aren't going well for team Fett. Like maybe Bane uses his rocket boots (curious how that'll look in live action) and Grogru lethally force faceplants him ... I guess that's no more hardcore than turning the flametroopers flamethrower fire back on him. Grogru has to join up with Mando. They did not customizing a Naboo starfighter with a bubble hatch that's perfectly Grogru size to not milk that inevitable moment of them flying off together between the twin suns into action figure vehicles, legos, keychains, etc.
I just have to say it took the second episode of the scooter cyborgs and Fennec calling them Mods for me to get the joke. Their first appearance I was thinking "lame," but the second episode where (at least I first heard that) they're called Mods, that sold them on me. Plus they weren't all that bad in the fight with Krystantan. Kinda interesting in the old EU slicers were like critical thing and the most recent RPG makes a thing of both slicing and cybernetics ... but in live action and even the cartoons we haven't seen much of it outside DJ and maybe some stolen code cylinders. When Bad Batch and Mando both started bringing in chain codes more into the universe, I guess it'd be cool to see these mods, folks like DJ, and the chain codes and credit systems link up with slicers so we get some real Star Wars Cyberpunk.
With the Trandoshans on Tattooine (like when was that a thing? but moving on) I was kinda hoping Fett would call in a favor from Bossk, who may or may not still be around but ran with Fett during Boba's early Bounty Hunting Days (and was actually the one who with Embo I think let Fett take his shot at a showdown with Bane in the incomplete animation). That would've been a cool reunion, Bossk would finally do something in the live action franchise, and there could be even a cool tense moment where Bossk and Krystantan would have to like fight together at a key moment in the inevitable battle despite tradtional Trandoshan/Wookie animosity (trivia, did y'all know Trandoshans homeworld is in the same star system as Kashykk?).
I didn't see the bombing of the casino coming until the Pikes got up without their contanker ... that' whoahed me, I expected the manager had been in with the Pikes all this time.
Thanks Ghosteyy for boosting the thread, I meant to talk about the Mods on the show two episodes back but I never got around to it. Good catch up.
Last thing, I never read Aftermath so don't know how Cobb Vanth was portrayed prior to Timothy Olyphant picking up the role. I guess Chuck Wendig is groussing about not getting "credit" for creating Vanth ... something tells me Vanth was actually a product of Star Wars story team working with Wendig ... also the reason folks like the Mando/Fett Cobb Vanth is because Olyphant is just playing Star Wars Raylan Givens ... I was eh on him in Mando season 2 premier, but I totally dug the scene at the beginning of this most recent episode that was taken right out of Justified. I am a little confused why later Bane just shoots him in the shoulder while totally smoking the deputy, that seemed weird and I guess Vanth traded his Fett armor for plot armor. Or maybe Bane figures he needs Vanth the leader spooked and willing to keep the town out of the fight and the deputy was an expendable example.
Which Aftermath book does Vanth show up in? I've only read the first one I think...
Haven't read it, but per Wookiepedia, it's the first novel, the third part (where he buys Fett's armor from the Jawas). I remember hearing about it when the book came out but forgot about it till Wendig started making noise. I guess his overall experience with Star Wars was not the best and Cobb Vanth being put into live action with no mention in Mando and Book has him further irked. Meanwhile the guy who did Newbacca Krystanthan or however you spell it seems stoked his character's now live action.
Are there two Aftermath series? The one I read, (also written by Wendig,) involved a plot to kill Sloane in the fallout from the Rebellion's victory.
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15th paragraph down from where the link lands on part three. From what I heard of the novel's make up, it's likely a sort of "interlude" or side story from the the main action involving the emerging Republic vs. Imperial remnant. Sorta like some of the Cult of Vader stuff.
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I watched BOBF ep 6 last night, IT WAS AWESOME! Cad bane VS boba was great, boba riding the rancor was awesome, the scorpion droids where cool and grogu and mando reuniting was great, generally a fun episode all around.
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Any gets on how the Book of Boba Fett finale is going to play out? Place in spoilers in reply.
I'm not sure if they're going to just introduce Cad Bane and let him get taken out one episode later, so I don't know how well old grudges are necessarily going to be. Mando's seasons both ended on uplifting moments. It'd be neat if they balanced that with a darker ending in Boba Fett. Like maybe he has to leave Tattooine and Season 2 he tries his hand in Bespin or something ... yeah, I know there's imperial remnant lore attached there, might be interesting how they work with it.
I'm hoping they save the redemption of Mando for Season 3 of the Mandalorian, I'm excited about that and don't want it to be rushed. I'm hoping Boba Fett actually does something, he's been fairly boring in the current timeline of BoBf.
I watched BOBF ep 6 last night, IT WAS AWESOME! Cad bane VS boba was great, boba riding the rancor was awesome, the scorpion droids where cool and grogu and mando reuniting was great, generally a fun episode all around.
Welp, guess I was kinda right on two counts. Bane is dead, Grogu is with the Mando, and the finale was a bit lacking. The spider droids were cool at first, but just felt really annoying after a while, like they had characters they didn't have anything to do with, so they gave them an overly-prolonged fight. I totally agree with @Goliath, Boba himself has been lacking this show (except for the second and third episodes). His developement has slowed, and he hasn't really been great over all. Writing is meh, and he doesn't fight as well as I would like. The fact that Cad Bane and Mando were the best parts of a show titled "the book of BOBA FETT" has caused me to lose a lot of faith in star wars. I know I sound like a broken record with my displeasure at some new star wars, but I long for some good stuff like we used to have, the old canon video games and the clone wars show (and Bad Batch honestly, that show was good). I really wish Disney would put the time into good writing and good story over all. I think they need to spread out their shows more and take it slower. They're trying to do too much at once. Maybe 30-40 minute episodes, with 10-12 per series? Clone wars mastered the art of the tv show. Where's the Dave we all remember and love?
EDIT: despite my criticism...
Three big takeaways:
1: we're not really sure exactly what went down between Luke and Grogu, or what Luke and Ahsoka are doing now (the exact scene may not matter, but I think it's interesting that there's no cut to Luke at all in the finale, maybe suggesting something happened that we're not supposed to know about...
2: Mando wielded the dark saber well, and flew off into the stars with Grogu at the end. Season three is pretty much up for grabs at this point, and I PRAY that Disney will do a better job than season 2
3: WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT ASSASSINATION SCENE WITH FENNECK AT THE END??!!??!? THAT WAS INSANE! what went down? Why? Holy ferek I have so many questions. My surprise may seem unwarranted, but the brutality of the scene, along with it's lack of connection to Boba, plus the fact that she slipped away mysteriously at the end leads me to think something else is going on.
Those are the three big takeaways and things left pretty unresolved at the end of the season. Also we got that glimpse in the end credit scene of Marshal Vanth in the Bacta tank, so that'll be interesting (to be perfectly honest, I thought it was gonna be Cad Bane at first, and I'm sliiiiiiightly sad it wasn't, but who can say no to Timothy Olyphant's rakish grin ;).
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Mentioned this in the "How Was Your Last Session" thread but seems legit to drop this note here
So my Thursday game, I random encountered a desert chase scene where the characters had to defend themselves and their "sand ship" (fast moving cargo vessel, like a clipper on skis in the sand, with demonic ichor boosts) from raiders on Infernal War Machines that were basically speeder bikes with grapping hooks and raiding parties clad in head and body wraps to protect them from the sands wielding brutal weapons that were part hammer, part ax, part pike). Then I watched Book of Boba Fett Friday ... and none of my players believe that chronology, lol.
Thoughts of BoBF:
Series is decent, I mean a lot of the characters are sorta sub Rogue One wooden*, but I think making the underworld a little dreary at this point in the Star Wars timeline makes sense. I like the world building they're doing.
The lizard thing to me seemed to be a riff on IRL "vision quests" which are a thing but also over romanticized by industrialized folks, in some indigenous cultures you take some psychoactive substance, like milking the glands of a poisonous frog or in space opera have a lizard crawl into your nostril and hang out in your body cavities. Then you have an intense psychedelic dream type experience that "guides" you to some revelation, usually as part of some sort of ritual belonging to your community. But if the tree was a dream vision, I have no idea how the branch was substantiated ... I'm thinking maybe there's something about Force in the Dune Sea maybe and this ritual is how the Tuskan's commune with it or interact with it, being rewarded with their culture's survival tool. I mean it's entirely possible the Force dropping Anakin's birth into Tattooine, which also nurtured Luke to some degree was no accident. Might be something touched on in the Kenobi show. That'd be interesting if the BoBF actually connects to stuff that happened in the past in Kenobi than it does Mando Season 3. I'm not betting on it, but it'd be interesting. The whole Force thing may lead Fett to finally reconcile his anger with the Jedi.
We also debated whether those were Pykes for the whole train interrogation judgement section. The masks during the shoot out were pretty spot on but very different from what you saw in Solo. I don't know if I fully understand why the Pykes have a repuslorlift train running spice between who knows what points on Tattooine, but it was cool to see them as the interest behind the train, and Fett being both human and tarnishing their ego.
Episode 1, that symbol the raiders painted or marked into the homestead they had raided while Fett and juvenile Tusken watched ... do we know what that is?
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Yeah, Pykes are possible. I'm also thinking it was just some minor gang like the riders Fett beats up at the rest stop or wherever before he steals the bikes. Funny scene there, one of the Weequay(?) he knocks over the back of his vest/jacket is laid out exactly in the fashion of a "fully patched" IRL outlaw motorcycle gang member (Hell's Angels, Mongols, Pagans, etc) - I kinda want to do, or see if someone will do a screen capture of that guy's jacket and see if it can be translated into some sort of easter egg gag. Thought it was a fun detail.
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Has everyone enjoyed the
Book of the MandalorianBook of Boba Fett episodes?This thread has been dead for quite a while so I'm thrusting us into the bacta tank to revive. Just to recap what we've seen so far..
Boba found some robot kids and is starting an army
The pikes are messing with everyone's stuff and the huts and the mayor skiddadled under the pressure.
Boba hired Krysantan and the Mandalorian as his "muscle" for this new job (although the mandalorian did his for free. I guess Krysantan takes card).
We've been with the Mando for a while and gotten some dark saber lore (house of Vizla stuff and whatnot)
We got a really awesome terminator style animation of the Night of a Thousand Tears (very well done, thank you disney for actually DEVELOPING MANDALORIAN CULTURE AND BACKSTORY)
The mando got a NABOO STARFIGHTER
After that he vibed with Grogu for a hot minute, or at least, tried to, and we got to see Luke and grogu interact, as well as a cool live action order 66 moment
Luke is using his ant colony to build the same school we saw burn in the Last Jedi
Grogu will have to choose between the path of a Jedi, or the path of a Mandalorian (his chain mail, or friggin Yoda's lightsaber!)
CAD BANE! IN LIVE ACTION! so cool, very well animated, very excited to see him fight boba and rematch with Fenneck
( also those Pikes blew up that cantina, but MAX REBO is still alive somewhere in the galaxy...)
Theories:
Grogu might end up with the dark saber after choosing the chain mail, a force user, yet still a mandalorian foundling, similar to how Mandalore and others were like a mix of Jedi and Mandalorian heritage and culture. Just a thought but I think it makes sense, seeing as how luke doesn't really mention Grogu in the new cannon as one of his students (before these shows at least), and it would explain how he's so well hidden in the universe (Mandalorians are very good at hiding). It would also make sense because the Mando has such a hard time wielding it, and Grogu, as we've seen, is a very quick learner (Also you know he's hiding some muscles under those mysterious robes)
As much as I hate to say it, I think Cad Bane will die at the hands of Boba and Fenneck (at the very least, I think it will appear that way). I absolutely LOVE his character and would hate for it to happen, but at this point, it lines up. He's even animated to look older with wrinkles and some more grey colored skin, rather than the cobalt blue we're used to. I think since the clone wars are over and we're in this dead period with the empire, it wouldn't surprise me of they kill him off since he doesn't have as much of a purpose in cannon any more (sad). However, I would like to see him in other places in live action (maybe the kenobi show) and I also think it'd be cool if they did a bounty hunter show, focusing on the bounty hunter's guild and what all the hunter's did at the rise of the empire and fall of the republic. It's possible that Bane could die in a questionable way, and come back later, or that he just shows up for a quick fight cameo, and then leaves abruptly (which, yeah, also feels like something disney would do) but we'll see.
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CGI is hard to do, especially in the mouth movements. If you look at it closely, Disney actually worked really hard to make it work and flow smoothly. Or did you just mean you didn't like luke in general? In that case, I'd half agree. I thought bringing him in at all was kiiiiiiiind of fanservice anyway, but he's way better than he ever was in the new trilogy, so I'm not complaining.
As for baby yoda, they could make him a Jedi, I'm just saying it's unlikely given the info in the current canon. Also, there are clues throughout the episode that grogu might associate a green lightsaber with that night of order 66, as a sort of call-back trauma. It's a fan theory that to me makes pretty good sense for why he wouldn't outright choose a lightsaber. His only memories of the Jedi are confusion and trauma. His time with the mandalorian has been, admittedly, still traumatic in ways, but he's also gained a strong bond. I think at the end of the day, it could go either way, and who knows, they might try to do both. We'll see....
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I have two words that are enough proof that the Book of Boba Fett is worth watching: Cad Bane.
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For the record I think there is a difference between BOBF and mando luke, mando luke looks like he was pulled from battlefront 2, BOBF luke look's better.
I thought episode 6 was great, cad bane was cool and I think baby yoda will chose the chain mail so that they can do mando season 3 and have people like it, boba feels like a side character in his own show now, but I hope he duels cad bane again,along with fennic. Mando is cool as ever and I hope he has a few more epic moments before the series ends.
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I thought Cad Bane was cool, and his live action is a good mix of his animated origins with the Duros you see in A New Hope. I'm wondering whether the showdown between Fett and Bane in Clone Wars that only got done as an animatic has happened in this world. Thought the whole "Fett was a murderer who worked for the Empire" was a bit of a weird way for Bane to trash on Fett since Bane was basically on retainer to Palpatine at one point in the Clone Wars and during the rise of the Empire I thought Bane was working for the Empire when he and Fennec squared off.
I say Grogru joins up with Mando ... maybe even has a dark turn and is the one who actually takes out Bane when things aren't going well for team Fett. Like maybe Bane uses his rocket boots (curious how that'll look in live action) and Grogru lethally force faceplants him ... I guess that's no more hardcore than turning the flametroopers flamethrower fire back on him. Grogru has to join up with Mando. They did not customizing a Naboo starfighter with a bubble hatch that's perfectly Grogru size to not milk that inevitable moment of them flying off together between the twin suns into action figure vehicles, legos, keychains, etc.
I just have to say it took the second episode of the scooter cyborgs and Fennec calling them Mods for me to get the joke. Their first appearance I was thinking "lame," but the second episode where (at least I first heard that) they're called Mods, that sold them on me. Plus they weren't all that bad in the fight with Krystantan. Kinda interesting in the old EU slicers were like critical thing and the most recent RPG makes a thing of both slicing and cybernetics ... but in live action and even the cartoons we haven't seen much of it outside DJ and maybe some stolen code cylinders. When Bad Batch and Mando both started bringing in chain codes more into the universe, I guess it'd be cool to see these mods, folks like DJ, and the chain codes and credit systems link up with slicers so we get some real Star Wars Cyberpunk.
With the Trandoshans on Tattooine (like when was that a thing? but moving on) I was kinda hoping Fett would call in a favor from Bossk, who may or may not still be around but ran with Fett during Boba's early Bounty Hunting Days (and was actually the one who with Embo I think let Fett take his shot at a showdown with Bane in the incomplete animation). That would've been a cool reunion, Bossk would finally do something in the live action franchise, and there could be even a cool tense moment where Bossk and Krystantan would have to like fight together at a key moment in the inevitable battle despite tradtional Trandoshan/Wookie animosity (trivia, did y'all know Trandoshans homeworld is in the same star system as Kashykk?).
I didn't see the bombing of the casino coming until the Pikes got up without their contanker ... that' whoahed me, I expected the manager had been in with the Pikes all this time.
Thanks Ghosteyy for boosting the thread, I meant to talk about the Mods on the show two episodes back but I never got around to it. Good catch up.
Last thing, I never read Aftermath so don't know how Cobb Vanth was portrayed prior to Timothy Olyphant picking up the role. I guess Chuck Wendig is groussing about not getting "credit" for creating Vanth ... something tells me Vanth was actually a product of Star Wars story team working with Wendig ... also the reason folks like the Mando/Fett Cobb Vanth is because Olyphant is just playing Star Wars Raylan Givens ... I was eh on him in Mando season 2 premier, but I totally dug the scene at the beginning of this most recent episode that was taken right out of Justified. I am a little confused why later Bane just shoots him in the shoulder while totally smoking the deputy, that seemed weird and I guess Vanth traded his Fett armor for plot armor. Or maybe Bane figures he needs Vanth the leader spooked and willing to keep the town out of the fight and the deputy was an expendable example.
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Any gets on how the Book of Boba Fett finale is going to play out? Place in spoilers in reply.
I'm not sure if they're going to just introduce Cad Bane and let him get taken out one episode later, so I don't know how well old grudges are necessarily going to be. Mando's seasons both ended on uplifting moments. It'd be neat if they balanced that with a darker ending in Boba Fett. Like maybe he has to leave Tattooine and Season 2 he tries his hand in Bespin or something ... yeah, I know there's imperial remnant lore attached there, might be interesting how they work with it.
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Which Aftermath book does Vanth show up in? I've only read the first one I think...
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Haven't read it, but per Wookiepedia, it's the first novel, the third part (where he buys Fett's armor from the Jawas). I remember hearing about it when the book came out but forgot about it till Wendig started making noise. I guess his overall experience with Star Wars was not the best and Cobb Vanth being put into live action with no mention in Mando and Book has him further irked. Meanwhile the guy who did
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Are there two Aftermath series? The one I read, (also written by Wendig,) involved a plot to kill Sloane in the fallout from the Rebellion's victory.
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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Aftermath_(novel)#Part_Three
15th paragraph down from where the link lands on part three. From what I heard of the novel's make up, it's likely a sort of "interlude" or side story from the the main action involving the emerging Republic vs. Imperial remnant. Sorta like some of the Cult of Vader stuff.
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I watched BOBF ep 6 last night, IT WAS AWESOME! Cad bane VS boba was great, boba riding the rancor was awesome, the scorpion droids where cool and grogu and mando reuniting was great, generally a fun episode all around.
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Welp, guess I was kinda right on two counts. Bane is dead, Grogu is with the Mando, and the finale was a bit lacking. The spider droids were cool at first, but just felt really annoying after a while, like they had characters they didn't have anything to do with, so they gave them an overly-prolonged fight. I totally agree with @Goliath, Boba himself has been lacking this show (except for the second and third episodes). His developement has slowed, and he hasn't really been great over all. Writing is meh, and he doesn't fight as well as I would like. The fact that Cad Bane and Mando were the best parts of a show titled "the book of BOBA FETT" has caused me to lose a lot of faith in star wars. I know I sound like a broken record with my displeasure at some new star wars, but I long for some good stuff like we used to have, the old canon video games and the clone wars show (and Bad Batch honestly, that show was good). I really wish Disney would put the time into good writing and good story over all. I think they need to spread out their shows more and take it slower. They're trying to do too much at once. Maybe 30-40 minute episodes, with 10-12 per series? Clone wars mastered the art of the tv show. Where's the Dave we all remember and love?
EDIT: despite my criticism...
Three big takeaways:
1: we're not really sure exactly what went down between Luke and Grogu, or what Luke and Ahsoka are doing now (the exact scene may not matter, but I think it's interesting that there's no cut to Luke at all in the finale, maybe suggesting something happened that we're not supposed to know about...
2: Mando wielded the dark saber well, and flew off into the stars with Grogu at the end. Season three is pretty much up for grabs at this point, and I PRAY that Disney will do a better job than season 2
3: WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT ASSASSINATION SCENE WITH FENNECK AT THE END??!!??!? THAT WAS INSANE! what went down? Why? Holy ferek I have so many questions. My surprise may seem unwarranted, but the brutality of the scene, along with it's lack of connection to Boba, plus the fact that she slipped away mysteriously at the end leads me to think something else is going on.
Those are the three big takeaways and things left pretty unresolved at the end of the season. Also we got that glimpse in the end credit scene of Marshal Vanth in the Bacta tank, so that'll be interesting (to be perfectly honest, I thought it was gonna be Cad Bane at first, and I'm sliiiiiiightly sad it wasn't, but who can say no to Timothy Olyphant's rakish grin ;).
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