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Dec. 8th, 2022 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakThe first draft of my Yuletide story is done and off to be beta'd, phew. This time, I intended to write nothing but frothy fun, but then I thought about the basic premise some more and it turned into, well, not an angst fest, but there sure as hell is angst and emotional slaughter along for the ride.
Speaking of slaughter: I watched more Star Wars, to wit: The Book of Boba Fett, as I had liked the two seasons of The Mandalorian released so far. The Book of Boba Fett is basically three shows in a miniseries - one that covers the time between Boba Fett getting swallowed by a Sarlaac in Return of the Jedi and his showing up remarkably undigested in the second season of The Mandalorian, one that covers what happens next with him, Fennec and various new characters, and season two and a half of The Mandalorian in its last three episodes, in which the Mandalorian & Grogu duo is absolutely central.
Like The Mandalorian itself, The Book of Boba Fett is blatantly a Western, if at times more by way of Kurosawa than Sergio Leone, and having fun with all the tropes. Also, Dave Filoni gets to make another of his animated Clone Wars characters into life action canon. I mean, given the Western of it all, it makes sense they picked this particular one to show up next, but I'm not sure how said character works for new viewers who encounter him here for the first time. I guess he's trope-familiar enough to work without knowing the backstory?
All in all not a bad way to pass the time, and between The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian I had come to care about Boba Fett (who'd have thought), but otoh it's also nowhere near the league of Andor in quality, and definitely not a must. Except for Mandalorian watchers, because I guess if you go from the end of season 2 to however s3 starts without having seen these events, it must be very confusing.
Speaking of slaughter: I watched more Star Wars, to wit: The Book of Boba Fett, as I had liked the two seasons of The Mandalorian released so far. The Book of Boba Fett is basically three shows in a miniseries - one that covers the time between Boba Fett getting swallowed by a Sarlaac in Return of the Jedi and his showing up remarkably undigested in the second season of The Mandalorian, one that covers what happens next with him, Fennec and various new characters, and season two and a half of The Mandalorian in its last three episodes, in which the Mandalorian & Grogu duo is absolutely central.
Like The Mandalorian itself, The Book of Boba Fett is blatantly a Western, if at times more by way of Kurosawa than Sergio Leone, and having fun with all the tropes. Also, Dave Filoni gets to make another of his animated Clone Wars characters into life action canon. I mean, given the Western of it all, it makes sense they picked this particular one to show up next, but I'm not sure how said character works for new viewers who encounter him here for the first time. I guess he's trope-familiar enough to work without knowing the backstory?
All in all not a bad way to pass the time, and between The Clone Wars and The Mandalorian I had come to care about Boba Fett (who'd have thought), but otoh it's also nowhere near the league of Andor in quality, and definitely not a must. Except for Mandalorian watchers, because I guess if you go from the end of season 2 to however s3 starts without having seen these events, it must be very confusing.
