Welcome back to Thrak Attack! What's your adventure? And welcome to TV Thursday! On today's adventure we are on our way to Tattooine, again, to follow a character who received a show just because his character design was really cool! Nothing else about him is interesting except that he has some cool friends like Fennec Shand and Din Djarin. This show had a lot of potential but fell flat in my opinion, so let's get into the review!
This show takes place after the events of "Return of the Jedi" and follows the "main" character Boba Fett taking over for the late Jabba the Hutt as the new crime lord. Story wise this makes sense, what doesn't make sense is how he survived to get there. The first half of this show is showing us how amazing Boba Fett is getting out of tough situations but most of those situations are extremely unbelievable and don't carry over to the finale. Temuera Morrison is a great actor but the fact that he's playing a character that has no personality makes the show seem underwhelming and boring. His character traits are...that he can get out of tough situations and survive.
Now the way the show was initially set up was good story telling. Showing the start of his journey out of the Sarlacc pit to taking over for Jabba and jumping back and forth between those two. He shouldn't have survived any of that which makes most of the show worthless because it proves the main character will never be in danger. Also, the Tusken Raider storyline stops halfway through the show which makes no sense and him being the White Savior to that group was cringy.
Next we have the supporting cast which is Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand who is the best part of the show, along with Din Djarin (aka the Mandolorian) but we'll get to him later. Fennec is one of the few characters with a personality in this show. Most of the other followers of Boba Fett are lifeless (until the last episode when the Mod's are like "We'll fight for the city we live in!" which was out of place and forced).
The saving grace of this show is episode 5 and 6 where we follow Din Djarin instead of Boba Fett; but these episodes seem like "The Mandolorian" season 2.5 rather than "The Book of Boba Fett". They also introduce some cheap cameos that make the viewer go "Wow! They're in this too?" but then change the character too much so that they're unrecognizable, or not explain who they are to the audience so that they're involvement in the show and character arcs are non existent or useless.
Needless to say I did not like this show, it was a cheap way to get some popular characters from the extended universe so screen time. It did nothing to add to any of the characters but only undercut some important character development and plot lines from previous stories.
When reviewing shows I give out a 5 star average for the episodes and stars for production, characters, plot, setting, and overall feeling. This show gets a 2 star rating and additional stars for production.
The Book of Boba Fett receives 3 out of 10 stars.
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