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Feb. 27th, 2022 12:53 pmI watched The Book of Boba Fett with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
genarti and jothra! I enjoyed the experience; I did not think it was a particularly successful narrative.
The good:
- one is a simple person who enjoys seeing Ming-Na Wen and Temuera Morrison hang out onscreen
- one also enjoys watching Temuera Morrison have a festive and supportive Tusken wedding! good for him
- less flippantly: the show does want to make very sure that one remembers that Tuskens are people with indigenous rights to Tatooine and one does appreciate this, broadly speaking, although to my mind a lot of that good is unfortunately mitigated by [Tusken spoilers, below]
- nice that the show lets Boba Fett be bad at things
- weird Star Wars subcultures are good, actually, I think
- one is a simple person who finds it very cute when a little puppet takes a nap against a big puppet
The bad:
- while I'm conceptually down with Boba Fett being bad at politics, Star Wars ... is also bad at politics .... which made this aspect of the show more frustrating to watch than I think was perhaps intended ....
- I did not hate Boba Fett's wacky gang of misfits -- personally I love the concept of Punk Tatooine Youths On Festively Colored Velocipedes; see, Weird Star Wars Subcultures Are Good, Actually -- but in order for this storyline to be narratively successful I feel we might have needed some actual time to get to know them and care about them as characters and as a unit ... Star Wars television is just consistently beset by the desire to create pale copies of The Seven Samurai but one's reach should exceed one's grasp, I suppose
- the watcher's collective ofgenarti, jothra and I -- representing between us a fairly broad range of thoughts and opinions about the Jedi as an institution and their portrayal across the various eras of Star Wars media -- were united in our feeling that the Jedi stuff was simply not good; ( spoilers )
- ( [Tusken spoilers, below] )
The obvious:
- the back half of this show is not in fact the Boba Fett show but S3 of The Mandalorian. Everyone and their long-lost twin has already made this observation and I'm not even annoyed about it on a personal level, it's just structurally baffling; it would have been very easy not to do this! you have unlimited budget to make as many different shows as you want!
- Not Enough Feelings About Clones*
* this is obvious because there were never going to be enough feelings about clones for me regardless of how many feelings about clones the actual show contained, which, of course, was zero; however I am making my argument that if the POINT of your show is going to be "we are tired of standing alone and avoiding attachment, it's about Family now," and your protagonist has a background of strongly differentiating himself from and avoiding identification with the millions of genetically identical humans that once pervaded the galaxy loudly calling each other 'brother' and are now all mostly dead, it seems to me this would be relevant to at least mention, at least once!
genarti and jothra! I enjoyed the experience; I did not think it was a particularly successful narrative. The good:
- one is a simple person who enjoys seeing Ming-Na Wen and Temuera Morrison hang out onscreen
- one also enjoys watching Temuera Morrison have a festive and supportive Tusken wedding! good for him
- less flippantly: the show does want to make very sure that one remembers that Tuskens are people with indigenous rights to Tatooine and one does appreciate this, broadly speaking, although to my mind a lot of that good is unfortunately mitigated by [Tusken spoilers, below]
- nice that the show lets Boba Fett be bad at things
- weird Star Wars subcultures are good, actually, I think
- one is a simple person who finds it very cute when a little puppet takes a nap against a big puppet
The bad:
- while I'm conceptually down with Boba Fett being bad at politics, Star Wars ... is also bad at politics .... which made this aspect of the show more frustrating to watch than I think was perhaps intended ....
- I did not hate Boba Fett's wacky gang of misfits -- personally I love the concept of Punk Tatooine Youths On Festively Colored Velocipedes; see, Weird Star Wars Subcultures Are Good, Actually -- but in order for this storyline to be narratively successful I feel we might have needed some actual time to get to know them and care about them as characters and as a unit ... Star Wars television is just consistently beset by the desire to create pale copies of The Seven Samurai but one's reach should exceed one's grasp, I suppose
- the watcher's collective of
genarti, jothra and I -- representing between us a fairly broad range of thoughts and opinions about the Jedi as an institution and their portrayal across the various eras of Star Wars media -- were united in our feeling that the Jedi stuff was simply not good; ( spoilers ) - ( [Tusken spoilers, below] )
The obvious:
- the back half of this show is not in fact the Boba Fett show but S3 of The Mandalorian. Everyone and their long-lost twin has already made this observation and I'm not even annoyed about it on a personal level, it's just structurally baffling; it would have been very easy not to do this! you have unlimited budget to make as many different shows as you want!
- Not Enough Feelings About Clones*
* this is obvious because there were never going to be enough feelings about clones for me regardless of how many feelings about clones the actual show contained, which, of course, was zero; however I am making my argument that if the POINT of your show is going to be "we are tired of standing alone and avoiding attachment, it's about Family now," and your protagonist has a background of strongly differentiating himself from and avoiding identification with the millions of genetically identical humans that once pervaded the galaxy loudly calling each other 'brother' and are now all mostly dead, it seems to me this would be relevant to at least mention, at least once!
