“You have the stripes?”
“I do.”
“Produce it. On the dick.”
“I know where it goes!”
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mentioned offhand that we’d see a CG show character in live action for the first time, partner guessed Sabine which is heartbreaking in its reasonableness
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this show is really testing my patience
like, i don’t really dislike anything that happens in it just from a pure lore perspective, but the creative/technical decisions and plotting of every episode just drives me crazy. at least they are still interesting/fun to look at.
i just wish someone in the room could have had enough confidence in a weirdo space western starring boba fett, entirely confined to tatooine, and just let them actually make the whole show revolve around that
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stopping the boba fett show to do c. ROTJ luke fanservice would seem heretical… from a certain point of view
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mando fully taking over the show is so funny. it’s like when a bunch of random characters show up on a sitcom or CSI or whatever as a backdoor pilot except…for a show that they already made. like i compare it to the MCU but even marvel is not this incompetent at it. boba has not talked or moved for 2 hours of screentime it’s very very funny
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they’re just giving boba some extra time in his bacta tank 
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Someone (on Twitter, forget who) theorized that they’re just bringing Boba Fett back to his roots of standing around in the background while other people talk and do things
But even that would be funnier. Like the Mandalorian opines to muppets about how much he misses Grogu and Boba is just silent in the background with his arms crossed
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oh it’s not even hamill doing the voice on these things huh
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We were investigating these tools two years back and it was clear that acting contracts were already starting to be written taking into account vocal synthesis.
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definitely a creepy sign o’ the times but also very clearly one of those “innovations” you can’t hold back and which has some untameable appeal in its intrinsic gonzo conspiracy-mindedness, for which I particularly recommend this book about yeltsin-era russian paranoia
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ah. that explains why every single one of his lines was like sandpaper to me (to say nothing of the writing)
on one hand i was very much not on board with his characterization in this episode — especially with the dilemma he forces upon grogu — but on the other hand it almost seems like a preamble to his fall pre-TLJ (something something traditionalism, dogma, etc., etc.)
can we please get back to boba fett generally getting clowned on?
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I actually thought Luke’s voice in the last episode was almost too reminiscent of the original movies’ acting style to be believable in 2022. The way he played that character in last j Jedi is really remarkable for the way he leaves that kind of 70s naivete behind without being totally unrecognizable as Luke. it’s sad to me so many people just hated it. So the total reversion to amiable Muppet whisperer via synthesis is very disturbing
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Thinking about fake Luke, respect to F&F for not cartoonishly de-aging Diesel and Cena in Fast 9. The stand-in Luke looks so close! If you must, just trust me to understand he’s the same character
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as far as I’m concerned E5 was a nice epilogue to the mandalorian, great amy sedaris work, fun naboo starfighter and beggar’s canyon bits, have not watched any of the rest of the boba fett show and shut off E6 like five minutes in
Back at the end of Mandalorian S2, I just kind of accepted that gulp shitto was going to be taken off the show to live on a farm, because they can’t very well keep having Mando cart him around when he’s trying to re-take his planet or whatever. So Luke showing up to take him away to “train him” was just something I didn’t really put much thought into.
This episode forced me to confront the reality of the fact that like… gulp shitto is a BABY, still, and for some insane reason, Luke Skywalker, hero of the Republic, has chosen to leave it all behind and escape to a distant forest world, where he will begin a jedi school by himself (no help from like, remaining jedi or the republic or anything like that). His first student is apparently baby yoda, and him attempting to train a baby goes about as well as you’d expect.
I cannot get over how they spent the entire penultimate episode of Bob Fett showing us a thing we have absolutely zero need to actually see - fuggin’ baby yoda, a baby, being trained by Luke Skywalker on how to use the force. They even go as far as to give this baby a choice between shiny chainmail armor crafted by his father figure, or a LOADED GUN / INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS MELEE WEAPON that Mando wounded himself with not one episode prior. What on Earth has given Luke the impression that Shitto has (A) actually retained anything he has taught him, (B) is capable of understanding the choice in front of him, which will determine his future forever, and (C) can wield a fucking beam sword before he’s able to walk?
Truly deranged. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Also got a huge kick out of the bit where Mando shows up to talk to the Marshall into providing some warm bodies to feed into the woodchipper, and the Marshall is like, “As a personal favor to you, Mando, because we go way back, I will send a large portion of my remaining able-bodied villagers to help your crime syndicate friend attempt to defeat several several other, older, more powerful crime syndicates. Now I know I promised to protect them and all that biz, but I don’t leave a friend hanging when he comes to me asking for a favor.”
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I basically agree wrt the execution, but the baby is actually 50 years old and has repressed memories of the Jedi academy. So it makes sense that Luke would want him around in the new school he was building.
On the other hand him forcing the kid to choose between his friends/family and being a Jedi felt more out of character than anything that happens in tlj, and at least in that movie they gave him plenty of good reason to be kind of an asshole
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I know he’s technically 50 years old, but acts in all ways like a baby. Definitely not mentally developed enough to talk, much less be trained on how to become a sword-welding space wizard.
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while you were learning to talk, baby yoda studied the blade…
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