Clearly, Fett needs some allies in his new role. He refuses to pay off a mysterious “mayor” and is attacked by assassins soon afterward.
Meanwhile, in the show’s present (set after the events of The Mandalorian Season 2), Boba Fett is already encountering resistance as a new crime lord on Tattoine. It’s likely this will continue throughout the series, revealing how the bounty hunter learned the ways of these people while also revealing the complexities of their society and culture. Through flashbacks in Episode 1, we see Fett earn the respect of the Tusken Raiders. Now, in The Book of Boba Fett, we’re seeing this trend continue. And even if it wasn’t perfect, it was a big step forward. This was the first time we’d seen the Tusken’s treated like three-dimensional characters in a live-action Star Wars story. In Season 2, Din Djarin teamed up with a group of Tusken Raiders to take on the Kraiyt Dragon. Luke Skywalker “died” in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and in Book of Boba Fett he appears as a young man, de-aged with impressive digital effects. Heck, this entire show was about a mercenary who “died” almost 40 years ago, eaten by a giant monster buried in a sand dune. If death ever meant anything in Star Wars, technology and fan service have conspired to ensure it doesn’t anymore.Boba Fett and Fennec Shand in Episode 1.
But does anyone believe he’s really dead? Last week, we watched Timothy Olyphant’s marshal Cobb Vanth “die” and this week he’s seen healing in a bacta tank in the show’s final post-credits scene. Theoretically that’s a pretty big change to Star Wars’ status quo. Book of Boba Fett introduced a live-action version of ruthless bounty hunter Cad Bane and, in the season finale, Boba kills him in a duel. True, a few other minor characters came and went over the last seven weeks. Tellingly, the very last shot of The Book of Boba Fett before the closing credits wasn’t Boba Fett and his space consigliere, Fennec Shand it was Mando and Grogu venturing off into space. That felt like a tacit admission that they were the most important characters on The Book of Boba Fett, regardless of whose name was actually in the show’s title. He also reunites with Grogu after having left his widdle buddy in the care of Luke Skywalker at in the finale of The Mandalorian Season 2. In short order, he trains to wield the Darksaber, and gets rejected by his Mandalorian brethren. The only changes of note on The Book of Boba Fett occurred to Din Djarin, a character who only appeared in its final three episodes.
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His philosophy and even his title remain unchanged from Episode 1 to Episode 7. This isn’t circular storytelling this is a TV show going in circles. But where Boba Fett ends and where it began - especially as it pertains to Boba Fett himself - look almost identical. Boba hasn’t gone on a journey, literally or metaphorically, and he learned nothing about power and leadership. And he has made a few new buddies, like the robotically-enhanced “mods” and his Wookie enforcer Krrsantan. He is more fully entrenched as the “daimyo” of Tatooine. When the dust settles - and this is Tatooine we’re talking about, so there’s a lot of dust that needs to settle - we see that almost nothing has changed for Boba Fett. (Did you remember Boba Fett said he was going to ride that guy? It’s okay if you didn’t he mentioned it once weeks ago then vanished from the show entirely.) Although the odds are not in their favor, they manage to emerge victorious thanks to help from Din Djarin, his Baby Yoda pal Grogu, Din’s mechanic buddy Peli Motto, the residents of Freetown, and Boba’s pet rancor. Yes, The Book of Boba Fett finally remembered it was a show about Boba Fett and (mostly) returned its focus to him for the season finale, “Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor.” After a two-week digression that followed Din Djarin from The Mandalorian and his supporting cast, Boba and his tenuous batch of allies fend off an attack by the spice-running Pyke Syndicate.
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