![]() Shand especially is a character that we need to know more about, yes in The Bad Batch she was given a moment in the spotlight, but they never really expanded on her as a character, just proved that she can be deadly when she needs to be, we got that exact fact from the first season of The Mandalorian, the problem is, she is not showing why that matters now. In addition to him not living up to his potential, the side characters are starting to feel exceptionally one dimensional, from his right hand in Fennec Shand, who swings from enjoying the perks of being a crime boss, to wanting to kill everyone, or the denizens of the town who just seem to be there as background filler, there is no depth. When we saw Boba Fett in action against storm troopers, he kicked butt, literal but and while he may have missed a target with his rocket pack, he still hit the target but now, in his own show, he can’t do anything except be thrown about, it really undercuts the mythos that was built up around him. This is meant to be one of the most feared bounty hunters in the galaxy, Darth Vader personally sent him on a mission to locate and capture rebels and yet, now not even 10 years later, he is so useless in a fight, he can’t do anything, even when he is supported by Mos Espa’s space moped gang. That fight scene got on my nerves, not because it was bad, there were some interesting parts, but it again highlighted the lack of impressive action that Boba delivers. From that point on the show sped through a lot of information, including another flashback, which in and of itself was quite a sombre one but the events never really felt all that impactful, even when Boba was ejected from his bacta sleep. The problem with that entire sequence of events, because it all took part before the title card, is that it didn’t move the story forward in any significant way and while there was a nice moment of Boba finally proving he has some stones, at least when it comes to scaring teenagers, it really undercut the tension that opening moments were attempting to build. When a random water salesmen turned up, to complain that a street gang was stealing his hard farmed water, I did wonder who would be so terrifying that they would skip over the local gang in control and go straight to Boba Fett, teenagers on space mopeds was not what I was expecting. ![]() Sadly, before that, we got more politicking and while there are times when that works in shows, when you base your show around a legendary bounty hunter, that should be kept to a minimum, but they keep leaning into it. ![]() ![]() With the episode starting off with Boba, Fennec and to a lesser extent us, getting an explanation of how the power balance post Jabba played out and still does to this day, there was hope that the show would start to move things forward and eventually it did. It did manage to, but there were some really weird parts that made the episode feel disjointed. While the premier episode didn’t wow me, the second one corrected a few of the issues that I had, it was time to see if the third episode of Boba Fett’s time in the spotlight, could keep the momentum going. ![]()
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