When he looked straight at R2-D2 in A New Hope and pretended not to know him I’m surprised that the little guy didn’t electrocute the gaslighting old bastard then and there. That’s some hurtful shit to pull on a guy who served alongside you for over a decade.
“if Droids could think, there’d be none of us here.”
The man had some opinions about droids and their 2nd class existence. No suprise his attitude towards r2 later on.
Yes! I recognized him immediately when they were being given the rancor outside the gate. Took a few moments until we got a good look at his face, but I knew it was Danny and was thrilled.
Honestly, this really was the best episode in every possible way, which highlights what I think another commentator I saw on Twitter gets right about the situation: The Mandalorian is the show the creators wanted to make; The Book of Boba Fett is the show Disney wanted them to make. And the difference shows, between the original creation with generally excellent writing, and trying to shoehorn in “popular character” whose sum total existence was a few minutes of screen footage ending with ignimonious death in the sarlac pit.
But this episode we get: Mando torn between his Mandalorian code and his code of being a father to a youngling; ring world!!!; Naboo fighter (which yes, makes no sense, but totes agree it was the whole “sweet hot rod” thing); the return of the Mandalorian armorer; did I mention ring world???; Danny and the rancor!; jawa sex stories; and ring world!
Your theory seems to be missing the fact that young Boba was featured multiple times in the Clone Wars cartoon and that Dave Filoni is a huge Fett fanboy. Perhaps a perfect storm of what Disney wanted and what Dave wanted to do with him.
Hey, I’m not criticizing the guy’s physique. He’s no doubt in better shape than I am. I just think it’s kinda funny when people try to cram themselves into outfits they wore decades earlier in order to re-live their glory days.
Clearly the armor did used to fit him better.
So the best “Boba Fett” episode didn’t have Boba Fett in it, Mando returns to bounty hunting after handing over Baby Yoda, and little droid BD makes a cameo (!). When Fennec Shand showed up, this whole episode felt like “The Love-Matic Granpa” from “The Simpsons;” a superior sub-episode inside of a spin-off’s spin-off.
The kicker was that he didn’t even bother taking the bounty, he just decapitated the butcher and murdered a bunch of his employees in exchange for directions to the basement.
Imagine how many people might have died if Mando had been desperate to know where the nearest Men’s Room was.
So it’s just like every other religion then?
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