Boba should have walked straight into the mayor's office without even addressing the assistant. He already established in a previous episode that he didn't care about appointments.

This ain't the Boba Fett they introduced in the Mandalorian... Fett literally shot Bib Fortuna in the face in The Mandalorian but in this show, he's just soft & weak.

The Vespa speeder chase scene was one of the most embarrassing scenes in Star Wars.

I've been very forgiving of the show, but this episode definitely rubbed me the wrong way. The speeders/cyberpunk kids were the biggest offense. Tatooine, a lawless place where people are either slaves or selling water, or junk for a living. Meanwhile this frat pack of kids with freshly waxed hotrods and body augments is just chilling in town. It's like going into downtown Detroit with a Lambo and not expecting to get mugged/car chopped. Nonsense.

Hiring those "cyber punks" as his personal bodyguards really threw me off. If he hired them as his eyes and ears out in the street, feeding Boba Fett information, it would've been so much better.

All we wanted was a Dredd style movie starring Boba. Instead we get an old man having bad dreams in the bath.

Let’s remember this is the Boba Fett that plain out shot Bib Fortuna to take his place as a crime lord. The Boba Fett in this series would’ve politely asked Bib to please let him become the new crime lord.

In episode one of the Mandalorian we get Mando cutting a guy in half with a door within the first two minutes or so. That alone made him a more ruthless bounty hunter than what we are seeing Boba Fett portrayed as. It’s also why that show really got me invested to watch. It had some edge to it without being graphic. I know I personally want to see Fett with more bite to him.

I'm convinced the multi-colored bike things were added so they could be turned into a ride at Disney. It just sticks out so hard, I can't think of any other reason why they're in there.

They made Boba into a joke, everyone just gets away with knocking boba around and disrespecting him. He is too reserved, the least he could’ve done was beat the shit out of the mayor’s assistant for wasting his time and making constant threats but nope. Fennec is just a nothing character so far, her one job is to protect Boba and somehow the wookie gets past her

I’d just like to point to another character who was done right when he was setting up his crime empire: Maul. When he went to the black sun to gain their support and they declined. His brother beheaded all of them. That’s how it’s done.

Offscreen massacre of his tribe was a mitstake, the character assassination of Boba is unforgiveable and the bait and switch with the Hutts to Pykes is just utterly disappointing.

"we're poor, there's no work" *saying that while they have cybernetics and pimped out rides

Boba fett seems naive as hell in this show. He leave the sand people alone to go collect money and the people he thinks are capable of protecting the train get wiped out by the snall biker gang who dont have bikes any more because he took them. then he just thinks he can become the new mob boss, but he doesnt do anything to protect anyone or prevent any petty crime or even keep himself protected. He sleeps in a bacta tank with no guard. Hes just so stupid.

I’ve never seen a slower and more underwhelming chase scene in any form of media than the one in episode 3

Its very underwhelming tbh. When we all saw the Mandalorian season finally and we saw Boba sit on his thrown. In his full glory we thought we were going to see him as ruthless as ever but still keeps his honor in tact. Instead... we got a wannabe crime lord who takes everyone's disrespect and power ranger vehicles with spy kids riding along side with him. We have 5 or 4 episodes left.... I still have hope that there can be some grit and ruthlessness within this character but the chances are very very slim.

For a guy who carries a jetpack all the time, he sure walks a lot.

I saw a comment yesterday from someone who said that watching Boba Fett in this show is like watching someone pick all the "good" dialogue choices in Mass Effect. I thought that was a good description. Boba Fett is pure paragon. No renegade interruptions. Ever. lol

In Disney's attempt to sanitize Boba Fett for a tv show, they've completely washed away everything that made him interesting in the first place.

This was the first episode in all of the disney shows that felt like a CW show

The way Boba is being Disneyfied is making me really concerned for how they'll handle Kenobi

I thought this show would be more gritty and dark. Boba does not come off intimidating at all.

At this point, this show is going from a weekly watch to a “I’ll wait until all the episodes drop” before I watch.

Calling them a "gang" is its own atrocity. It's 4 kids. The whole show is feeling anticlimactic to me. Building and "army" to go to "war"? What army?? What war?? Boba's got 6 little henchmen and a Rancor. It's gonna be a playground scuffle at best, calling it a war is a stretch and a half.

The part on the mayors office building made me laugh where Boba pushes the red door button and says it's locked and then he looks totally lost then of course the female character who is better at everything comes and hacks the door open in a second. This character is the legendary bounty hunter who even Vader respected. *LUL*

It's like Disney figured people like Boba because he's hard and so they made him soft. We're not supposed to like legacy characters.

The other issue is that Boba has years of experience being a bounty hunter and it feels like he is an infant and needs to relearn how to survive. It's insane how bad it is.

The Mandalorian was basically what Boba Fett would have been but I feel since they basically did that, they have made this Boba a completely different character for the worst mostly. Its possible it could get better but so far, I'm not even sure if he has even shot his blaster so far.

I thought the cyber-girl was gonna start singing “I love rock-n-roll” or “I hate myself for loving you”

The "car/bike" chase was the worst, I could ride faster on my push bike than the speed they were going and it made it worse that they where trying to portray it being fast with the direction and editing. It was almost comical.

I really thought mando would be the "rule with respect" light side mandalorian, and that boba could be the badass mercenary from his scenes in the mandalorian. But instead Bobas character in the show could have been literally anyone, the story isn't built for him.

Even IF Boba's recent sand raider fam "made" this a soft Boba, that explanation wouldn't give reason to the direction given to the "hardcore Boba" we got in the Mandalorian. Great writing doesn't mix with bad directorial

Long story short Boba really took no disintegrations to heart

Hard to believe this is the same Boba that Vader had to specifically tell “no disintegration’s”

I was looking forward to this show expecting to see a badass Boba Fett being a vigilante. Yet he is useless! He could have used his Jet pack and back pack mounted rocket to stop the car. However we got one of the worst chase sequences I have ever seen.

Boba feels like those fighting game bosses that are so badass then you unlock him and they nerf him into the ground

Fennec is literally Boba's balls in human form. Stop looking I found them.

Like, I can totally see these characters living in a place like Coruscant, which is essentially a cyberpunk megacity, especially in the lower levels. But it's so out of place here in a setting that is otherwise more like an Old Western frontier type city.

Imagine making a TV series about criminals but trying to make the main crime boss an honourable, kind, loving and forgiving man. This should not have passed the drawing board.

I still don't know why he needs a bacta tank? he kicked ass in The Mandalorian, then arrives at tatooine and needs a bacta tank for some reason. Did he fell from some stairs offscreen?

Boba hasn't aimed his rifle once this season, not including the tusken one. He's only the flamethrower once, the jetpack one. The rocket hasn't been used at all. The cyber punks had no money for water but had enough money for Vespa speeders and body modifications 🙄

The funniest part about the speeder chase to me is that none of the vehicles involved ever go faster than like 15mph… who’s decision was that it looked terrible and hilarious lol

This show is holding so much back everything feels clean and polished when tatooine and the criminal underworld should be dirty and scummy. Those vespa speeders and the riders do not seem like they belong on Tatooine, they maybe would work on coruscant or nar shadaa but they feel out of place on Tatooine. I was pretty disappointed that Krrsantan didnt destroy at least one those cyperbunk wannabe's or one of the gamorreans, it would have been a nice call back to when Han Solo said "That's 'cause droids don't rip people's arms out of their sockets when they lose...wookies are known to do that..". Overall I think this show is missing the mark of what a criminal underworld should feel like.

100% agree about the spy kids. I IMMEDIATELY hated them the second I saw them on screen. Then that hate turned to absolute disgust the second I saw them on color coordinated power ranger scooters. I was expecting them to form together to make an anime robot at any second. An anime robot with a starbucks coffee in one hand.

The fact that boba fett recruited emo punk cyborgs who ride space mopeds, shows he’s desperate, and in what world would those little scooters keep up with an actual speeder

Okay it was not just me. When I first saw those colorful hover motorbikes I was like "uhhh....this seems off."

After seeing the tone of the 1st episode I knew the rest were going to be "disneyfied," and that we're not going to get a serious mature Boba Fett story. The Mandalorian's more of a badass bounty hunter than Boba Fett.

When Boba took a beating "Kirk vs Lizard" style, allowed his guard in his healing tank, spared the wookie and then tried to pet a rancor, I really lost my faith in him as a character. He's not an awesome hyper-dangerous mobster we used to know and love. He is a PG rated, elderly softie, a joke of a mobster, and a painfully average fighter altogether. I really hope this is rock bottom and that it's gonna change. Because if it's the actual direction the whole show is going, it's gonna be sequel level bad.

I was just so annoyed that they could've gone with the Tuskens joining Boba in ruling over Tatooine, developed some of them like the kid the leader and the woman to be more interesting characters, and maybe included some of Boba's old bounty hunter companions. But instead they killed off the tuskens, they wasted the one bounty hunter fight so far and then dismissed the character, and now his army is a bunch of spy kids we know nothing about with 0 motivation to care about Boba's cause. And that’s even without mentioning the wacky design

My first red flag of soft boba was when he offered to cut the ropes for the Rodian in episode 1 when escaping from the tuskens. IMO it just doesn’t fit his character especially before he was taken in the tribe and had character development.

What would've been really cool in the first episode is if when boba Fett was attacked, he flies up and burns all the assassin's. One survives but is badly burned. So boba signals to the guards to get the badly burned assassin to that healing tank thing. Then some exposition untill the assassin is able to be revived enough to talk. Boom. Hundred times better already.

I know we're only 3 episodes in, but I'm gonna be a bit cynical and say this series will be an afterthought in the end for most fans. The tone of the series is all wrong and it's not something you can fix with a few more episodes. The overall concept is solid, but Boba should have been written more like an underworld mob boss as that's the role he's attempting to fill, not some benevolent usurper who wants to solve everybody's problems. Mandalorian borrowed influences from spaghetti westerns, this show should have borrowed from everyone's favorite mafia films.

The worst is Boba APOLOGIZES for saying "keep an eye on them..." Since when a bounty hunter cares about hurting feelings ?

This feels like a different Jango clone. The fight with Black Krrsantan was conceived completely wrong. Boba should never have been that vulnerable in the bacta pod to begin with. BK should have wrecked shop with the Gamorreans and Mod Squad then Boba - in his armour - should have come to save them. Instead Shand is the one who traps him and Boba comes down in his robes, gimme a break

Thank you for reviewing this episode, you guys nailed ever issue I had with this episode. I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking they are ruining boba fett with a PC disney fuck fest.

I am genuinely worried for the kenobi show, I feel like it's gonna be "disneyfied", I get that it's a different director but these things got approved somehow

I was hoping Fett was going to keep the Wookie in the pit and use him as a replacement rancor, but that would probably be too dark.

The lamest chase scene I have ever seen was in this episode.

You can tell Robert Rodriguez directed this because there were certain shots with the cyber kids that had the same style as spykids 😂 it threw me off guard and lost me

I'm trying to figure out how a 7' tall bigfoot in gladiator armor got past everyone without any alarms going off, no one saw him. He got straight to Fett and pulled him out of his lazuras pit jacuzzi. This is not a tight operation Boba has obviously.

The stomach acid of the sarlacc didn't just soften Boba's skin, but also his heart

It's just so weird that Boba is only starting to recruit goons now. I know he used to be a bounty hunter but he's worked for criminals before, so shouldn't he already know that he needs henchmen to actually run a criminal organization? If he's going to protect his territory, he can't do all the fighting himself, his enemies have henchmen and they can attack more than one place at a time. Also, the Vespa gang has to be set up to for slaughter. They're a bunch of punk kids, how are they going to stand up against actual criminals with blasters and ships who have no problem murdering people that get their way? And Boba just recruits them without seeing what they can do first? If a gang recruits new members, don't they need to know if the new guy is competent? Don't they need to know if the new guy is good at fighting or stealing or spying on rival gangs so they can put him to good use?

I’m so glad they turned Boba Fett into a joke. Was worried they’d turn him into a crime boss or something..

Never thought I would see an old boba fett tell a group of young (cyber)punk folks that they should get a job... followed by a low speed scooter chase scene. Hilariaous

Episode 3: Boba Fett and his army of Millennials. Rise of the Vespas...

There are so many people out there now working on movies who’s only talent is ruining pre-existing properties that we all love.

I cringed soooo hard at the scene where Bobba's slowly walking down the road to the Mayor's building, being flanked by those hipster mopeds... The cyberpunk kids were cringe, but what got me was how out of place they were, like *maybe* they'd work if it was on Coruscant in a metropolitan setting, but they live on some backwater-ass desert planet, they should _atmost_ look how Rey or Anakin did in like desert-wrappings or whatever.

I'm hoping we'll get to an episode where Boba is just like, "People keep asking if I'm back to bounty hunting. And I haven't really had an answer. But now--YEAH, I'M THINKING I'M BACK."

Mando was more "hard edge" than Boba and that's extremely sad; Mando should be the "soft one" of the two.

im glad angryjoe is reviewing this show on the regular instead of doing the entire season in one video. hawkeye took forever to come out

The part of the fight that took me out of the fight the most is when Fett tries to wrestle the wookie or something by trying to pick him up. I was thinking to myself that Wookie probably weighs 1k lbs or more, trying to pick him up is not something I would try.

I think overall Disney has proven that when comes to Star Wars, there is no plan.

Boba fett is just seems like an old man who can't do what he should be able to do and the world around him just caters to his whims. Why the hell is anyone listening to some guy with 3 soldiers??

Trying to be a crime lord who rules through respect instead of fear is like wanting to run a business on good feelings instead of making money. You're in the wrong business if you don't want people to fear you.

In this exciting episode Boba takes another bath, and then another dream sequence happens, then the Gamorian guard gets hurt and has to take a bath. I swear this series should be called bacta bath and beyond.

As soon as I saw the vespa gang the first thought i had was "you are way too clean for tattooine."

Boba fett is literally filler:the show. Everything that has happened up until this point has either been unimportant or could’ve been explained in literally 5 minute flashbacks

What worried me the most, is that Boba apologized for the eye joke towards the punk kid. That is not how crimelord should act

Those speeders were so jarring. Whoever signed off on that must have been hungover or high as a kite.

The night sisters of Dathomir rode rancors. That's why Boba wanted to ride it - because they are traditionally rode.

I had this image of Boba in my head, kinda like a tough Judge Dredd antihero type. Image shattered. He's just a weak, naive, and now slimy old man.

As much we love Robert Rodriguez for making movies such as desperado and from dusk til dawn ...we might have to acknowledge we're dealing with Robert Rodriguez who made spy-kids, shark boy and lava girl...

Watching the speeder chase of this Episode, I can only think of the wise words of one man… “faster, more intense”

If Boba Fett gets a black scooter he can form the body. 5 smaller scooter bots come together to form one giant Scooter Bot. Bobatron...

What bugs me most about those kids is that they stole because they thought it was unfair that they had to pay those rates for water, yet I'm sorry, compared to all other people on Tattooine, these kids have no right to bitch and moan and should be paying more. I mean hell, the way they dress, those cybernetics, and those stupid speeders all look like things someone from the higher platforms of Coruscant would buy, not a bunch of homeless kids in the slums of Tattooine.

The book of Boba Fett is coming off like a kids show. Campy action, no real life or death stakes, basic bubble gum @#$&. What a waste! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Those bikes looked like fancy mobility scooters for sassy senior citizens.

When the ‘scooters’ went over a bit of knocked over water bucket. All I could think was… “those boards don’t work on water!… unless you got power”

I didn’t even know it was possible to have a lame biker gang. When they said this “gang” used cybernetics to upgrade themselves that was not what I imagined. Who tf gives themself a extendo boot? Why didn’t Boba chase them with his Jet Pack

I see where you're coming from. Personally I think they're really afraid to touch on the more violent half of Star wars. Boba Fett is a crime Lord and before that he was a hired killer. The man's body count is probably higher than a Warframe's. For him to act so soft is a little strange. this is coming from someone who doesn't know him all that well aside from the movies and a few games.

Supposedly, the book of Boba Fett is his book of bedtime stories he reads to his wounded gamorreans before they sleep in his bacta tank

The car chase was so slow I felt like I could have run and caught up with them.

I think the vespas would have looked fine.... on Nar Shaddaa! Also, Vader killed, no, slaughtered the entire Hutt council not too long ago, so the Hutts are weakened at the moment. They are certainly not picking a fight with Leia and the New Republic.

I can't believe how quickly my opinion of this show has changed. I *loved* the last two episodes, and I was confident that Jon Favreau understood Star Wars fans fully. But this episode felt like a return to the dark days of the sequel trilogy. The CW biker gang was awful in every conceivable way, and Boba is being completely defanged -- dare I say humiliated. I hope this is just a bump in the road and that next week's episode is great, but right now I'm concerned.

That little skid-stop the girl does on the vespa is a mirror image of MJ Fox skidding to a stop on his skateboard just as Biff's car fills with manure...or in this case...car filled with potatoes.

Cool, cold, strong, merciless men is a thing of the past. Emotions, love, caring, baby shit is the future of starwars. Unless youre a woman in the show then youre automatically an experienced ex-rebel, super assassin, ex-special forces storm trooper or head of a motorcycle gang.

It really is weird - in “The Mandalorian” Boba is a total badass and so is Fennec, but in His Own Show Boba is just so incompetent, and is so utterly passive (I get it rule with respect, but barely winning any of his fights by skin of his teeth w/ help from his bodyguards doesn’t rouse any respect), thus making Fennec carry all of the weight and is the one with actual “balls” to get the job done. Boba totally “died” in that pit, whatever crawled out was humbled by the Tuskens and the writers elude that Boba is still a harden fighter, but The Book of Boba sure as hell shows me otherwise. Maybe he should just leave the whole underworld thing and just hunt remnant Imperials, he does a much better job at that then trying to play Daimyo.

What a step back from episode 2 😔

The Power Rangers cyber-mods might work on Coruscant, but they're totally out of place on a backwater planet like Tatooine: where do they get the money and the parts to mod their bikes and themselves? Boba still runs his 'empire' with a handful of people, where is his accoutant, his heavies? Then again, the Pykes might not pose much of a threat if they have to ship their soldiers in economy class on a charter flight. Let's hope their luggage with their weapons didn't get lost on the way...

The problem wasn't the actors. The girl is Sophie Thatcher and she is good in Yellowjackets on Showtime. The problem was the props, costumes, director, fight choreographer for having those stupid scooters/poor fight scenes. That whole chase scene was terrible but the rest of the episode was average.