What did you expect from the creators of Shorts and Iron Man 2?
My new Mandalorian name is Oda the Vindicated. I hated the whole thing since The Clone Wars and Dave Filloni. I mean did you watch the last season of The Clone Wars? They spent like a third of it on some redundant story about a Jedi teaming up with two idiots. This is the sort of thing we can expect from these guys.
I am sad to say that they inevitably got rid of the Sand People sub-plot and moved into actual storylines. Which means that they are going to screw this up. That being said the show was already wrong from the start when they started with a bunch of sequences out of order. They should have started with Boba Fett getting out of the Great Cancun, then Sand People, then whatever the heck happens after that, then Boba Fett as the "daimyo". Anytime these people actually go to the storyline they find a way to destroy their show.
Also can they at least use some kind of Star Wars terminology instead of friggin daimyo? I get it Favreau and Dave Filloni just want to rip off Akira Kurosawa and Lone Wolf and Cub, but could they be less on the nose about it?
Episode 2 - Boba Fett of Arabia was pretty awesome. The daimyo part of the episode was generic as always. How can they screw this up? Stupid attempts at humour almost ruin this show every time. If they say "do you have an appointment" one more time I am actually going to put a bounty on Jon Favreau. But being fair Boba Fett snorting geckos laced with Ayahuasca was pretty awesome. I now have a new found respect for Sand People and their barbaric traditions.
Episode 3 - A case study on how to ruin your show in just one episode. ing terrible episode. So they killed off the Sand People, which is the only thing that was somewhat decent and making this bearable.
Why is Boba Fett teaming up with the Mighty Morphin Hipster Rangers? Why doesn't he just recruit an actual army? Or hire some mercenaries? Also their bikes look literally gay. The whole Hipster Brigade has an aesthetic that doesn't feel like Star Wars at all. I am willing to bet that this was Robert Rodrigues smoking a joint before every episode and then the THC making him think that this was actually Shark Boy and Lava Girl.
The evil Wookie is pretty cool, too bad he doesn't do jack. Hey you know what would be awesome? Boba Fett fighting an overpowered evil Wookie. You know what we got instead? Boba Fett in his underwear fighting an evil Wookie, with the help of the Geek Squad. Like how do they this up? They had one job.
You know how I would have done this? Boba Fett hires some Trandoshan mercenaries, instead of the Pride Troopers. The evil Wookie bursts in through Jabba's front door, he beats the crap out of the Trandoshan mercenaries (cause Wookies hate Trandoshans, duh). Then the mandingo Wookie gets into his chamber, looks around, Boba Fett isn't there. Then Boba Fett comes out IN HIS SUIT and says "I'm right here" and they just start fist fighting until Boba Fett either beats him up, gets clobbered and smacks Mandingo in the head with his Gadhafi stick, or until backup shows up and they corner the Wookie. What we got instead is one of the worst fights I've ever seen. Joss Whedon was doing this better in 1998 with 16 year old girls. How the heck does Disney have worse action scenes in 2022 than low budget 90's TV shows?
Episode 4 - This episode was so redundant. Robert Rodriguez thinks he is making Spy Kids or something. Bobba Fett actually seems incompetent. The whole first bit with the Hutts just randomly gets the plug pulled for no reason. Also Machete (aka ROBERTO ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ runs this show now) tames Rancors, which sounds awesome but knowing these guys the depressed Rancor gets kidnapped so that Mulan and the Power Rangers can go save it while Boba Fett is running around in his underwear.
Oh yeah, the episode ends with ominous music that when translated means Mando will get a cameo appearance or something. Whatever who even cares at this point. Well I do, he has a black lightsaber, woah so cool.
Ironically I literally asked my brother yesterday "hey how many episodes do you think it will take them to screw up Boba Fett?" and he said "I want to say three" and I was like "you sure dude? that is too soon, probably four or five". Well now I know I was wrong, cause it was actually three episodes. Holy . I am more worried for Kenobi now more than anything. If we are lucky they will give us a scene for scene recreation of a Masaki Kobayashi movie.
Finally, I am heartbroken that I can't even blame Dave Filloni.