robert rodriguez is reaaly not good at this but it sort of had the energy of something exciting happening. relying on clone wars for so many plot points is funny but the bane/boba backstory stuff is literally from an unproduced clone wars arc that only got to like animatics lol. i still liked it on a basic level though. despite it being literally just the absolute most basic corporate return on investment Content Trough stuff I still have a fondness for watching people get to make their elaborate fanfiction i suppose. iâve found the bare minimum of a star war i am willing to watch.
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i cannot believe they did not write one(1) joke for matt berry. not even like âa sarcastic withering turn of phraseâ absolutely dire
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Havenât watched any Fett yet (probably never will?) but did they really try to steal the Mando Bill Burr casting trick
well mando already had like horatio sanz and jon leguizamo and brian posehn and jason sudekis and amy sedaris and richard ayoade so itâs just that jon favreau has comedian friends that he likes to cast in general?
If I made a tv show I would cast all of you, thatâs true
remembered someone who had never seen the sopranos told me boba fett was like the sopranos and that has only become more absurd each week
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yâall I smile when they cut to Amy Sedaris but this action figure bullshit is dire. makes me appreciate the drama and levity of the rise of skywalker
I guess what do you expect from a couple of guys whose favorite characters are plo koon and R2-D2 respectively
holiday special pitch: david sedarisâs the lifedayland diaries where he works as an ewok on kashyyk
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OK the rancor stuff was at least pretty spectacular.
Somehow two of my least favorite things from the mandalorian became two of the best things about this show (sedaris and olyphant)
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yâall
Luke S.
Lucas
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itâs still wild that genndy tartakovsky putting a couple of cute star wars references into samurai jack has 20 years later dominoed into the great majority of star wars being a worse version of a genndy tartakovsky show
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I bought a Samurai Jack bluray collection at Target the other day and have never felt better spending money
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This super duper had the feeling of a middling, scripted third-person vidcon shooter called âStar Wars: Bounty Hunter: Paybackâ, where everyone had these looping background fake battles, shooting ineffectively in each otherâs direction until the player characters showed up and nailed every single enemy square in the face without taking a lick of damage.
Particularly in the moment where they didnât know what to do to beat the boss, so they ran around it in circles, buying time as the AI tried to slowly turn to catch them. They then proceeded to cycle through each of their weapons while they actively tried to figure out what they were supposed to do to kill this thing.
A real shitshow!
Bob Fett finale impressions
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Okay so Boba Fett misreads the entire situation with the other crime bosses, and as a result, they get surprise-attacked and put on to the back foot. This makes the entire Fett plot for the last three eps to be pointless, because none of their plan actually goes into effect. Now I donât mind Boba Fett fucking up, lord knows that fallibility is one of the things I love most about Mando, but he just seems like a moron for spending so much time doing this job and completely sucking ass at it.
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Once the attack begins, the assassin lady gets on a speeder bike and takes off to kill all the crime bosses. Much is made of the fact that every second counts here, and sheâll never make it! Then the next scene we see the mod squad hiding behind barrels, and they get miraculously saved by - big reveal - the assassin lady! She then hastily gets back on her bike and takes off. Just extremely awkward that she wouldâve wandered over to where they were, set up, killed all the goons, and bantered with the mod squad, when theyâre driving home that every moment counts.
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I love that Luke Skywalker gave Gulp Shitto - a literal baby who is unable to walk nor talk - a choice between his father figure and a beam sword that kills anything it touches. Then when he chooses his father, the puts him in an X-Wing with an astromech, and sends him on a multi-day journey to Tattooine during a hot war between crime syndicates, run by his old nemesis who tried to kill him recently, whom he then murdered, who is known only to Luke as the scumbag that abducted his friend Han and brought the empire onto his tail.
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I liked the evil alien cowboy a lot - cool design, makeup, VA - and it makes a lot of sense that apparently heâs just directly brought over from some unproduced Clone Wars script. Holy shit did his entire thing about being Fettâs mentor come out of nowhere and mean nothing due to being so unearned, but, it did give a glimpse of something that couldâve been cool to see, were it the entire main story and not a one-episode thing. Only this show would think it was a good idea to not use this at all until the final episode.
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With the above said, I want to say I love love love that Boba Fettâs fight with Cad Bane. Cad Bane nails Fett in the chest directly three times, three perfect kill shots, and Fett wins the day because: He is wearing invincible armor. Itâs not that heâs a good fighter, itâs not that he had any secret plan, heâs not faster or more clever, nothing, he just is wearing invincible armor, and thatâs how he wins. It makes Fett look like a complete dipshit and I love it. It also plays to the idea that all Fett ever was was a regular guy in cool armor.
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Got a real kick out of how many Free Town civilians eat shit in this ep due to Fett not having any kind of plan or strategy. They are constantly just fleeing down a long road from rapid gunfire, getting cut down. I gotta wonder how many of these people wondered in their final moments why the fuck they were made to do this.
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Rancor stuff was fun!
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Among my favorite scenes in this is the bit where, besieged by fire and in an impossible tactical situation, Boba Fett and Mando decide to just walk out the front door into a hairstorm of fire, and just start perfectly nailing each and every enemy in sight with every single shot they take. It could not be made more clear that these two cannot take any damage of any kind, and there is in fact no threat to be found here. Again, Boba Fett is revealed to be nothing more than just a dude who happened to find really cool armor.
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Okay so in this episode, it is conclusively revealed that the two Jabba the Hutts that showed up in episode 1 and a few other ones had no impact on this show whatsoever. They arrived, they made a limp attempt to kill Boba Fett with a bounty hunter so shitty he couldnât kill a sleeping Old in a tank of water, then when that failed, they sinisterly gifted him an entire rancor with a trainer, who also sinisterly looked into the camera with a smile. This was not some kind of trick it turns out! They werenât doing this to kill Fett! They just gave him a rancor and left the planet, defeated! What the fuck was that?!
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Pretty wild decision to introduce that one girl from Free Town who gets tons of speaking lines and moments in the ep, despite us having no idea who she is nor why we should care. Feels like a bit late to bring in new people, show!!! Maybe bring back that one sand raider that beat Bobaâs ass, or something like that!
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Obsessed with the final line from Fett in this show being, âMan, we ainât cut out for this shitâ, after ALL THAT, after THAT ENTIRE SHOW, and they just hand the keys over a handful of his goons and they leave the planet. Absolutely deranged.
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Big fan how, utterly inexplicably and without any buildup, Amy Sedaris decides during a chase sequence that show has a thing for David Pasquesiâs twiâlek character, and they pair up. Just, ???
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Kind of drove me insane how they continued to fire at the invincible bubble shield after it was clear that it didnât do anything, but I guess everyone keeps doing that with the invincible mandalorians so w/e
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Why do you call him Gulp Shitto? I donât get it
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Ooooh
That was a very dumb finale, and only occasionally in a good way.
I do appreciate how the show understood that (to me) the main appeal of Boba Fett as a character is that heâs a guy in cool armor whose only real proficiency is being a punching bag â up to and including his final showdown with Bad Cane (who feels like a largely wasted inclusion in this).
I thought it was funny every time Boba suggested a course of action, somebody responded by saying âThatâs dumb â letâs do this instead,â and Boba would solemnly pause for a moment before saying âYeah letâs do that instead.â I guess thatâs supposed to count as character development for him.
I could not for the life of me tell you the motivations of most of the characters in this.
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Also, whatâs the deal with this show treating Boba like heâs an old decrepit man when, like, heâs only 41-years-old?
This show is just his incoherent mid-life crisis, isnât it?
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feeling like at some point in the next decade the walt disney corporation will just make a full deepfake shadows of the empire
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