Disney+ The Book of Boba Fett (December, 2021) (1 Viewer)

[NeilO]

Also do some of you guys in here not have pause and rewind capability for this show?

To tell the truth, rewind does not work very well streaming from Disney+ on our Fire TV stick. If I was watching on a DVR it would be a lot easier. It took about 5 tries to start watching this episode with this stick this week. I kept on getting a Disney+ error. So, I was in no mood to play around with rewinding.

 

[SamT]

It was the question that sprung to mind for me, too. I was glad I wasn’t the only one!

Seriously? That's a question that comes to mind when someone doesn't recognize someone? Something that happens to everyone and also could be because of many things including medical. You have not met family members, friends, people who don't recognize faces well? Who have a declining memory?

If someone doesn't recognize a face, it never comes to my mind to tell them why are you asking who that is, don't you have rewind? Imagine this outrageous thing that happened. Yes I do have rewind, I did rewind and I didn't recognize him. Otherwise I wouldn't ask the question.

 

[TonyD]

Sam I don’t know why you’re so bent out of shape about this.
Making a big deal out of a simple question.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Neil gave a response that helped me understand without going on a rant.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Some of us need to relax as we’re only talking here and we’re talking about watching a TV series.

 

[Neil Middlemiss]

Seriously? That's a question that comes to mind when someone doesn't recognize someone? Something that happens to everyone and also could be because of many things including medical. You have not met family members, friends, people who don't recognize faces well? Who have a declining memory?

If someone doesn't recognize a face, it never comes to my mind to tell them why are you asking who that is, don't you have rewind? Imagine this outrageous thing that happened. Yes I do have rewind, I did rewind and I didn't recognize him. Otherwise I wouldn't ask the question.

Yes, seriously. It was so obvious to me that I found it strange that anyone wouldn't recognize who that was. As in, if you're able to see and enjoy the show at all other times, then seeing who that was shouldn't be a stretch.

You also didn't mention declining sight, attempts to see via rewind, suffering from prosopagnosia, anything. So, Tony's question was more than fair.

Moving on.

I am curious what the plans might be for the fella in the bacta tank. Wondering if we'll see that play out in the next season of The Mandalorian, hold for the next season of Boba, or somewhere else in the expanding slate of series. He's a terrific actor and a great character, so I am all for seeing more of him.

 

[questrider]

Love this thread. Agree with a lot of what everyone's discussing, both the giddy excitement and slight disappointment. However, I thoroughly enjoyed Chekhov's rancor!

 

[Edwin-S]

All I can say is that I thought it might have been Cobb Vanth, but I had to back up and look again to confirm it. Of course, I wasn't really paying close attention and had to also confirm that it was Doc Mods about to start working on him.

 

[Edwin-S]

The Last Jedi was, by far, the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back.

I keep wanting to respond when I see this, but I have to keep biting my tongue since this is about Boba Fett's series. I might bleed to death though.

 

[TravisR]

All I know is that I was caused to spontaneously and completely geek-out by the sight of

Spoiler

Boba Fett riding a freaking RANCOR into battle!

It just doesn't get much more Star Wars than that.

And ever since they introduced the new rancor, I knew that moment had to be coming at some point and it was still pretty great.

 

[TravisR]

As a fan of the comics, seeing Black Krrsantan brought to live action was pretty cool but in this episode, seeing him getting all shot up and still going like he was The Terminator was f-ing awesome.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

 

[Tino]

A decent finale of a mediocre Star Wars series somewhat redeemed only by the return of Grogu and Mando. Sloppily directed by Rodriguez by the way. They really ruined the mystery of Boba Fett and turned him into a dull chubby old bald guy….kinda like me.

Ok. Enough Boba. Bring on new Mando adventures with fresh characters.

 

[Clinton McClure]

A decent finale of a mediocre Star Wars series somewhat redeemed only by the return of Grogu and Mando. Sloppily directed by Rodriguez by the way. They really ruined the mystery of Boba Fett and turned him into a dull chubby old bald guy….kinda like me.

Ok. Enough Boba. Bring on new Mando adventures with fresh characters.

What we wanted



What we got

 

[Clinton McClure]

I’m a Robert Rodriguez fan and I was really expecting some crazy over the top ultra violent action like what we would get in Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, etc… We ended up with a dull crime “war” with about 20 people fighting against a village of maybe a dozen people and the strangely out of place mod squad on Vespas. Throw in two droids that look like they were jerked straight out of the prequel trilogy and it’s a hot mess. It’s funny how we got better action and a more cohesive plot from Bryce Dallas Howard who obviously has a much better grasp of how to make an entertaining and engaging story now than Rodriguez. It makes me wonder if this was THE Robert Rodriguez or just some intern who happened to be named Robert Rodriguez…

 

[Johnny Angell]

The action with the Rancor brings a new definition to “It’s just a flesh wound. He’ll get over it.” I mean he was taking some real serious punishment. I thought they were going to kill him off. Did I imagine it, or are they breeding bigger rancors these days?

 

[Josh Dial]

Sloppily directed by Rodriguez by the way.

I agree 100%. I would even say the directing was amateurish.

Bryce Dallas Howard should just direct every episode. She's terrific. The shots she chooses, the way she frames those shots, and how she moves the camera all remind me of the best parts of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Her episodes have this nice kinetic energy moving us through each shot and scene, and yet we stop now-and-then to just look at beautiful Star Wars frames.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Watched the finale yesterday.

I was underwhelmed. I even scanned through some of the final action sequences because, as has been brought up, it just seemed rather ridiculous with the Rancor, the shots of a small handful of townspeople reacting, and Amy Sedaris doing her crazy shtick (which is kind of getting on my nerves at this point).

Don't mean to be a Debby Downer, but as usual, the best part of the finale had nothing to do with the title character.

Loved the reunion moment. Everything else was just kind of ho-hum and I hope that this is the end of the Boba Fett series. Looking forward to Obi-Wan in a few weeks.

 

[Joe Wong]

I agree 100%. I would even say the directing was amateurish.

Bryce Dallas Howard should just direct every episode. She's terrific. The shots she chooses, the way she frames those shots, and how she moves the camera all remind me of the best parts of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Her episodes have this nice kinetic energy moving us through each shot and scene, and yet we stop now-and-then to just look at beautiful Star Wars frames.

I used the same word earlier to describe the action: amateurish. Eg. Boba’s gang escaping the Scorpenek droids by running down the middle of the street, offering easy targets; the stylish spin by one of the Vespa gang before firing off a laser blast, worthy of Vogue; Fennec conveniently leaving the battle as it was heating up (I probably missed why she decided to go assassinate the Pikes at that precise moment)…

But “amateurish” could certainly apply to much of the episode.

 

[Brian L]

I would like to thank the last seven or eight posters for saving me a bit of typing.

The action was ridiculous, the dialog was as stiff as anything Lucas wrote in the prequels, Sedaris really has a way of getting on my tits…hey look there is a war going on…lets had over in my rickshaw with one of the most precious beings in the outer rim….there is no chemistry between Funnec and Boba….there wasn’t much good to say about the finale.

 

[Brian L]

I forgot to mention, but I am thinking Luke’s gonna be pissed when he wakes up to find Grogu, R2 and his X Wing missing.