Who would have thought that spending most of your show with your main character wandering aimlessly in the desert, and most of the rest of it being spent with a character from a much better show, would make for a really shitty unfocused story with no stakes or interesting characters? They didn't even try, man. They spend millions on these things and they didn't even try.
They try and build it up like he's protecting people he's come to know and respect but literally everyone he builds a relationship with dies except for the Cyberpunk kids. Maybe they should have spent time developing the people instead of doing, idk, an episode of Pimp My Ride with the Mandalorian????
At least the Mandalorian had a fun adventure vibe to it, but BoBF is just watching a fat old man fail miserably at being a crime lord. He's all like "don't worry about the other gangs, I made a deal where they pinky promised not to double-cross me and side with the guys who they directly told me have made them incredibly wealthy". DUMBASS! I could run a better crime syndicate.
The thing is, there's an interesting story buried there. So go down a what if with me....
Spoilers of course
What if, instead of having him go back to jabbas Palace and try to be a crime lord they had him try to live the quiet life with the tuskens longer. So instead of doing the silly flashback chronology, just commit to making it happen before he meets Mando. So you spend an episode or two with the tuskens, but instead of cross cutting to him pretending to be crime lord, you commit to basically doing the plot from God of war ps4. So he's become a nobody living with them.
But then, instead of doing the dumb misdirect with the bikers and stuff, commit to the thing they tried to do at the end of the last episode. Make him going back to killing a big deal. Instead of being just one moment in some big dumb battle, make him going back to killing an actual event. This could also actually motivate the desire to rule, because he's seen what letting things be led to.
However, this would mean a smaller show and committing to a consistent character arc, instead of the "sometimes he's good sometimes hes bad" shit. Would have required making the blue guy the guy who killed the tuskens, not just the rando pykes. Also killing him should have been way grittier. Honestly like the way fennic strung up the mayor in that little coda.
What's sad is the characters that are western inspired are great. I loved the blue dude and Cobb vanth or whatever Oliphants chara is. The final episode just got too busy, so ironically the most resonant story beats were the ones for Mando characters (even Amy sedaris) instead of boba himself.
Tl;dr
Everything before the timeline catches up with where we met boba in Mando had potential. Everything after sucked. Blue dude and Tim oliphant were wasted.
I have no clue why it wasn't Bane who killed the Tuskens. That was genuinely one my thoughts when it was over.
If you watch Clone Wars you know what's going on but otherwise he's just some guy.
Yeah, that was one of the weirdest decisions. Bane keeps on mentioning it to Fett and he gets mad at him... yet he isn't the one that killed them. The fact that Fennec is the one that ends up offing the Pyke leader makes it even more awkward.
Yeah I need to watch clone wars sometime.
But like, why wasn't he introduced sooner. It's so weird. They bring him in one episode before they off him. Just... Why?
living with the tusks and doing a mao surrounding the cities from the countryside woulda been neat :sadness:
I think the only reason they did the whole become a crime lord shit, is because that's what he does in the legends material they're cannibalising.
In a bunch of those, Boba Fett climbs out of the Sarlak and returns you Jabba's palace expecting Jabba to still be alive. He just sorta becomes the new boss when his reputation as a tough shooty man means all Jabba's old cronies think he'd make a good replacement.