I actually did a Star Wars again today. Casually watched Book of Boba Fett while setting up and playing a game of X-wing on the lovely mat I got for Christmas...
...and I can’t believe Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen got stuck in THIS.
Can’t believe the Space Vespa gang that drew me in with their lovely colors is being surrounded by THIS.
That all the Tuskens got tastelessly slaughtered for THIS.
I rant about The Last Jedi more than I should (a lie), but at least that movie didn’t have a desperate need to be associated with Star Wars. I mean, that’s also its problem...but...like......
...it started with someone saying “E chu ta!”, which made me go “OHHH like they said in the orignal movies!!! Ohhhh!”, because they were Very Clever. There were a few other points that made me sigh or give a strained smile (there’s a whole fight with electro-prods and shields that would have REALLY been over quickly if one of them had just pulled out a blaster pistol and shot it at Boba Fett’s Temura-Morrison-Screentime head, but...), but the point where I actually decided “Oh, no, this is Bad, Actually” was the part where Boba Fett is gifted a new pet rancor.
Like...not a Krayt Dragon or Kell Dragon or Gundark or Chandrilan Wuffabeast, but a rancor. Just a fresh rancor. Three episodes into the show. Not even a month into the show, and we’re...getting a rancor. In the rancor pit. Of the crime lord’s palace. On Tatooine. Just another rancor. Where the last one died. A rancor. A brand-new rancor. To replace the old rancor.
It’s uncreative and boring. and I hate it.
This is a tailor-made attack on my taste. It’s the same thing that had me foaming at the mouth over Snoke doing the whole “watch your fleet be destroyed!” bit that Palpatine did, which they did again in the very next movie with Palpatine himself...like, guys. Guys. New stories! You just did a whole saga of a dude carrying a baby! People loved it! You can do LITERALLY ANYTHING. You can put ANYTHING YOU WANT in that giant pit. Boba can turn it into a WINE CELLAR, and the fans will love a whole episode devoted to the tense question of “will Boba Fett win the biannual Mos Espa wine auction???” If you structure it right, if you hire the right wrtiing team...yeah, that’ll be awesome!
It’s garbage but I do love my colorful space vespas and also that tall Twi’lek woman. There’s some fun stuff.
But that RANCOR--