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After the hit and miss of the Streets of Mos Espa the Book of Boba Fett finally shows Boba in action as a man to not screw with.
Having taken several beatings physically and mentally in the first three episodes, our now standard flashback sees ‘The Man with No Name’ of Star Wars unleash hell on the biker gang that killed his Tusken tribe, battle a Sarlacc monster and retrieve Slave 1.
Slave 1 is now officially in good old Disney ‘family first fashion’ referred to as a “Firespray” Ship.
My key take way is this episode obviously was written and filmed well before the internet moaners started to complain how Boba was weak, not killing anybody like the feared Bounty Hunter he apparently was.
Even the newly repaired by Fennec Shand calls him out on it.
And writer Jon Favreau highlights this is a personal growth story for Fett, it’s going to be his grand arc of development. Fett acknowledges all this and simply shrugs it all away like a grain of sand off his back – stating his time with the Tusken people has made him even stronger.
When he slaughtered the biker gang from above his Firespray, he showed no emotion*, he just took them all out and moved on.
Stone.
Cold.
Killer.
*OK, a quiet steely, murderous streak was probably boiling through his revenge full veins.
The fairly long flash back sequence (remember this is the Book of Fett, meaning his whole story) features more Bathan riding, the discovery and repair of Fenech Shand and a fun liberation of Slave 1 from Jabba’s palace.
The episode is basically a few set pieces strung together.
Boba fruitlessly search for his prized Mandalorian armour at the Salarc Putt, at which time the Sarlac bests Slave 1 until Shand produces some sonic boom of her own to save the ship.
This sets up an interesting story as to how Fett knows that Our Metal Man The Mandalorian obtained his suit from Cob Vanth…
Back to reality, nothing much happens other than Fett meets with Jabba the Hutt’s former Captains of Crime to discuss the melange of the Pykk Syndicate with a not so subtle reminder to the audience that Fett is in possession of a Rancour.
We suspect he’s gonna ride it into town one day instead of all walking he does…
