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"Let's take one of the most popular ruthless bounty hunters ever and make him into a weak giant possi!" fricking genious!

I’d like to add that Grogu and Mando being in this show makes the season two finale for Mando feel, pointless. I mean I was expecting Grogu to go back to Din at some point but not THAT fast and I think the biggest clue to what kind of badass Boba Fett is in the Original Trilogy is the fact that he's the ONLY person we see in the whole trilogy who argues with Darth Vader - even getting right up in his face at one point in ESB - and DOESN'T get choked out. That alone speaks volumes.

It's kind of depressing how the animated clone wars series (which was a series for kids I might add) had far more violence than The Book of Boba Fett, a show about one of the universe's most deadly assassins.

What also bothered me is that Boba made no mention of Han Solo or the group that led him to his "death" in Return of the Jedi. He just says, ah whatever, and moves on.

"Defeat my enemy and then give him a job" was actually a strategy employed by none other than Genghis Khan, and he got some of his best generals out of it. However, he certainly didn't let them push him around in front of the other troops afterwards.

I'm honestly kinda sick of star wars, used to be a big fan but Disney has been screwing it up so bad and it's hard to see past the countless flaws in their products, I'm excited to see you rip apart Kenobi.

I tapped out after last jedi. I think the scene from Breaking Bad where Jesse is confronted by Hank, and Jesse emotionally screams "He can't keep getting away with this!!", accurately describes my feeling for Disney, Amazon, John Favreau, JJ Dumb Dumbs, and Corey Olson.

There was a severely missed opportunity for Boba Fett and Mando to act as polar opposites, and for Boba Fett to spend more time growing as a character, rather than just changing at the very beginning

The best part, the Slave-1 ship (in Legends/EU) was named that by Jango Fett because he had grown up a slave before coming a foundling - it was an ironic name for his ship. In the mind of Jango, the life of a bountyhunter was liberating, he could take any contract he wanted, worked by his own rules, etc. Where Boba Fett feels this way for all of his appearances in Lucases Cannon, I do think the Book of Boba Fett explores something interesting in showing a character shift in Boba, having his view evolve after being betrayed into believing the life of a Bounty Hunter was akin to servitude. This could have been really interesting since neither view is completely true or false. It is too bad the show rushed this entire portion of character growth into flashback scenes and a lizard. Also yes, I am sure it is also called Slave-1 for other "worse" reasons - but slavery is a pretty big theme in Star Wars. Scrubbing it from one place, something as small as the name of a ship, is ineffective in removing any references to slavery. Anakin is literally a slave in episode 1, there is no getting around Star Wars themes of slavery. Part of Anakin's arc in the prequels is how he starts as a slave, becomes free as a Jedi only to grow to think the Jedi are using him, then is ultimately is reenslaved by Sidious. Kids who are old enough to watch Star Wars are probably old enough to have learned about slavery from a teacher or their parents. Even if they aren't, do we really want to live in a society where we shield kids from the truth / themes of hard to swallow topics? Just my thoughts, great video!

Andor surpassed my expectations a lot. Despite being weird backstory show for a character introduced in a spin off movie, I think it’s the best live action Disney Star Wars TV show we got

"Why would I want a show about Andor that's gonna suck!" Meanwhile it becomes one of the best things Disney has done with the franchise.

Boba's appearance in Mando S2 was done right atleast. Ruthless killer, demands for his armor, goes so far as threatening children, taking jobs and honoring agreements. His show turned him into a nobleman, his sand ppl revelation was pretty interesting, but it wasn't a gradual change and they killed them off like right away

They needed to write Grogu out of the burning Jedi temple in TLJ. “Star Wars” has been a a franchise that I have always held close to my heart, ever since I was born. But after The past five years, I’m seriously questioning if it’s even worth being a fan of this franchise anymore.

I think in this show Boba is like an RPG character in Fallout or Skyrim or something. He’s supposed to be the ultimate badass but he’s also generous and he just recruits random people

The Book Of Boba Fett was an underwhelming, forgettable, messy show that didn’t accomplish anything

I rewatched ESB last year. You almost forgot how cool Fett is in that movie, because people have been calling him "overrated" for decades. In his debut movie, he is one of the coolest and most effective villains ever.

I usually disagree with you about basically everything but that alternative plot you came up with was pretty badass. I enjoyed the video. Never stop doin what ya do Vito. 🤘

"We're going to make Boba Fett badass again!" Spends 3 episodes beating the everloving shit out of Boba, making absolutely sure to knock him tf out at least once an episode and he NEVER gets back at those people. lmao

My problems with the Book Of Boba Fett honestly stem from one scene in the Mandalorian, actually. Bo-Katan gets all "high and mighty" and starts acting like somehow Boba is less of a Mandalorian than she is simply because he's a clone. Then one of her companions straight up physically overpowers him and tosses Boba around. Weird, she didn't seem to mind the Clones when they helped her retake Mandalore. She doesn't have much to say about being a "real" Mandalorian, considering her pacifist sister is half of the reason that Mandalore is in this mess, and the other half is Death Watch's for becoming servants of Maul, which she was a member of. She also clearly doesn't understand their culture, since any of those Clones could be a Mandalorian if they went through the same trials as a Foundling, and they stand a way better shot of passing than literally anyone else. Nor was she a very good leader, considering she had the backing of the united Mandalorian clans AND the Rebel Alliance, and still she somehow managed to lose Mandalore to the Empire. Again. Boba should've thrown her friend to the ground and quickfired into her head for being stupid enough to try and square off against Boba fucking Fett without a blasterproof helmet on. That's what you get when you don't treat arguably the Galaxy's greatest bounty hunter as a legitimate threat. After what Bo-Katan said and the shitty "I've heard your voice so much before" zinger, I want Boba to use his criminal empire to figure out how to solve the clone accelerated aging, have the mystery cure half their age, and then start training them as his own "True Mandalorians", just like Jaster Mereel did before him. If Boba wants to rule through respect, having his own cadre of Clone enforcers to work protection on shipments, diplomatic missions, and controlled areas is the perfect way to do that. In that way, the former criminal empire that he takes over becomes more of a private security force or a private military company. They demand pay from the people of Tatooine, but they also eliminate any threat to the people. They charge a premium for their services, but they will make sure that you and your possessions are safe. Imagine Mos Espa or Freetown or Mos Eisley being patrolled by a litany of Clones in Mandalorian armor, instantly eliminating any threat to the town. It would be like Boba being everywhere at once, because they all have the same voice. To the common people, they wouldn't really be able to tell the difference between Boba and the other Clones, so it would be like Boba Fett was standing guard on every corner. Every person who tried to screw with them would have to ask "Is that really Boba, or just one of the Clones?", making them definitely think more than twice about trying to attack him, and then realizing it doesn't make much of a difference when their attack is met with a blaster bolt between the eyes. They'd be perfect body guards and enforcers for him, it would absolutely be in line with his character, and it would be a great way to send a message to Bo-Katan and the rest of the criminal underworld.

Only Disney could make boba fett empathetic and Luke skywalker apathetic

While watching this poorly written show, I kept thinking "Boba Fett? Where?" He was my favorite villain and they ruined him. #moredisintegrations

I found myself questioning whether or not this was really "The Deadliest Bounty Hunter in the Galaxy" many, many times throughout the show. Made me so upset.

I thought the same thing when Boba and the mandalorian left the high ground and flew down onto the street to fight. Why the hell would anyone who's ever been in a gun fight ever give up a tactical advantage like that?

5:43 Your storyboard/telling on the final confrontation of Boba Fett & Cad Bane is really well developed & way way better than the actual show. Great job!👏

Imagine owning the SW license and not producing a single, worthwhile thing with it.. That makes what? 5 films and 3 tv series? ALL SH*TE

So let me get this straight. Disney approached Robert Rodríguez, the guy from "Desperado", "Machete" and "Once upon a time in México" with the proposal of making a show about drug cartels where a bunch of space cowboys fight these giant spider mechs but they told him not to show anyone being killed? ...okay.

Man, back in the mid 90s, I was obsessed with Robert Rodriguez. I read his book, Rebel Without a Crew, and El Mariachi and Desperado inspired me so much, I wrote one act of a rip-off screenplay called "El Bandido" and I was going to make the movie just like Robert. From Dusk Till Dawn was amazing. Even Machete and Planet Terror were pretty good. But dude, either he got old or lost some of his mojo or something, because Boba Fett was without a doubt the single most boring piece of Disney Star Wars since... Well, since 2015.

I broke up with star wars a year and a half ago, and this show made me glad I did. Every time I look back I see what was wrong and how great it was to leave.

Finally, another Vito review. I imagine the next video will be "How Disney RUINED Obi-Wan."

this makes me worried about all the other anti-heros under disney, i highly doubt we will get a better deadpool.

They should've added three more episodes to make the season an even 10 episodes, and base those 3 episodes on Boba Fett having flashbacks to his bounty hunter past, and we see him taking ruthless jobs for the Empire. That way, when Cad Bane accuses Fett of being a murderous bastard who worked for the Empire, we'd actually remember him doing horrible things for the Empire outside of helping Vader track Han Solo. That's not horrible, that's just being a professional. Horrible would be Fett torturing and slowly incinerating a rebel captain for info. Or Fett going after a criminal wanted by the Hutts and blowing him up into giblets with a rocket to his mouth. Or Fett trapping a Jedi Padawan into a situation where the Jedi gets disintegrated painfully, his last words being cries of mercy or calling to his master for help, while Fett looks at him with a cold stare full of disdain and hatred for the people who took his dad away from him.

One thing I would like to point out, Fett and Bane were mortal enemies, not friends.

honestly I liked this show more than obi-wan, purely because it actually made me feel something (even if it wasnt a good feeling). Obi-wan made me feel NOTHING at all. I'd rather hate something in star wars than be indifferent about it.

A character can only be as intelligent as the writers. Don't expect more from the fools Disney has hired to write and direct their movies.

I agree with most of the video except for the idea of cad bane going for a cheap shot at Boba because in one episode of the Clone Wars Obi-Wan disguised as a bounty hunter enter a bounty-hunting challenge with cad Bane and other bounty hunters but when one of the Bounty Hunter's tries to go for a cheap shot towards Obi-Wan cad Bane saves his life saying if you're going to kill him do it with honour

Boba Fett was god awful. It should’ve focused on individual stories and bounties of Bobo fett that may have led up to one bad guy at the end of the show not spent the whole show on the Mandalorian it was basically Mandalorian 2.5

Oh I've been waiting for a video for this exact topic. The most dangerous bounty hunter in star wars history, reduced to a pudgy scarred man that lived with sand people for a few years to ultimately become a "Major" crime lord with morals that made his roll in the story feel extremely miniscule in the massive galaxy of star wars.

I can’t think of a single part of this show that didn’t fail to disappoint. Literally everything from Boba himself to Black Krrrsantan, from the sarlacc escape to the show’s idea of cyborg criminals, everything fell into the negative.

Killing Bane so early on was such a waste of a good villain. So many possibilities. How do people with so little talent get those writing jobs? Even the fans are coming up with better ideas.

Honestly the worst part was what they did to Luke. The choice he gave Grogu was hypocritical and sociopathic.

To be honest the Sarlac Jumpscare actually got me and I new what was about to happen

This was released on the same day that boba fett got 4 Emmy nominations

Boba Fett died in ROTJ. Continuing to kill off characters and then retroactively saying "no, he didn't REALLY die" is so silly. And it makes all of these stories pointless, because they can just reverse everything whenever they want to (and often do). Silly.

Disney Ruined Star Wars. It's dead to me.

Disney has the issue of thinking just throwing familiar shit at the screen with little good stories, is sufficient

Honestly, Vito, you make a lot of extremely good points here. I do hope Disney does allow Dave and Jon to fix TBOBF so we can see him regain his former glory as an undisputed badass like he was in The Mandalorian, but I guess we'll just never know now what they have up their sleeves for the future, in terms of future Mandalorian/BOBF developements.

As much as I sympathize with you, please do Obi-Wan Kenobi. Your reviews are better than the shows themselves.

Funny how people want Din who’s a badass mando to lose fights to keep it interesting, but as soon as it’s one of their favorites like Boba, suddenly it’s a crime.

"we like jokes" "jokes are funny" great stuff.

I was very annoyed when people were excited that baby Yoda came back already. like that completely undoes the entire second season. why not go with season without him so we can focus on the Mandalorian more and then maybe in the fourth season the fall of the Jedi Temple can happen and he has to go save baby Yoda and then we're actually seeing the fall of the temple in real time

I think the only people who actually liked this show are people who just either didn’t like or didn’t care at all about boba fett

One thing that made me frustrated with Boba Fett was the interpretation of the Tusken Raiders: famously known to beat farmboys and kill farmboy mothers for 45 years and suddenly they act like the Talz in Book of Boba Fett?

Wait they just killed cad bane off like that? Bro they had a good stand off in a clone wars cut episode. Why did they bring cad back like that

I love these essay style videos you make man! They're always so funny and articulate. Keep making great content! (Also do Kenobi next).

Next Disney Series: - The swamps of Daggobah - Tatooine: secret world - The Kalrissians - Cheewaka Vs Maul - Rankor! - Dooku Vs Maul: duel of mates - Solo 2: With a revenge - Water Condensers for farming facilities in desertic planets (Tatooine edition) - Sunset at Hoth - Grievous: the musical

I'm sure they could have did Boba Fett being soft but still very skilled but instead they made him weak

After finally finishing Kenobi, which was an actual chore for me, I feel I've hit somewhat an epiphany. These shows/movies are all really bad fanfiction. Or at least fanfiction quality, has a massive budget, but is really really bad. Everything(save Rogue One mostly, and much of The Mandalorian) is poorly cobbled together screenplays that are the writers' version of Star Wars. Not Star Wars with their flavor, not quite Star Wars seen through their eyes, but _their version_ of Star Wars. Star Wars has quite a life of its own, not to mention a fair bit that had already been established. The established stuff wasn't always the best, but it wasn't bad for things at the time. But now that it's in the hands of Disney, they feel they need to NOW write Star Wars how they think it should be. **Edited to say "really bad fanfiction"

Between Fett getting his butt whooped almost every episode to the point of comedy, to the teeny-bopper motorcycle bit, to the fact it basically becomes 'The Mandalorian' halfway through, and how strange 'fake-Luke' looks...it's a bit of an eye opener how disjointed Disney has become.

Disney still believes that star wars are more for kids than adults. Leaving most of the mature star wars content out the window left with cheesy writing.

pretty sure Mando was originally written as a boba show but Disney didn’t want to do big characters anymore because of Solo’s failure so Jon faverou had to basically changed boba into faceless a Mandalorian What I’m getting at is all the cool stuff that boba would do has been given to Din, disneys interpretation of what a Mandalorian should be. And disney Mando’s aren’t the ones that kill 6 Jedi in hand to hand combat. No no they give them jobs guys

Dude you stole my version of if I wrote the Book of Boba Fett. I love seeing my idea of Boba fighting his past through Bane. I love knowing that my view point would have been liked by others. Thank you.

12:24 The thing that's annoying is a gang of thugs who modified themselves into cyborgs is an idea that could work and feel right at home in Star Wars. In Predator Concrete Jungle (An underrated PS2 Game) one of the enemies you encounter is a group called the Machine Men who were effectively Russian Hitman who'd modified their bodies with cybernetics to be more effective killers. We should've gotten that instead of the Sci-Fi version of The Outsiders.

Baby Yoda makes ZERO sense, given what happens after Mandalorian. As in: no one mentions a "baby Yoda" in the sequels. Ever. Man, fuck Disney-Lucasfilm, fuck Disney-Marvel, fuck Disney.

“Yes Disney ruined boba fett by making two shows of a background character that barely have any lines and barely have any cool action scenes except being smacked by a blind guy and nodding his head, and having him in these two shows making stormtroopers look like chumps, made him ride a kriffinf rancor munching on aliens, slaughtering drug dealers in the streets and being an honorable leader of the galaxy’s greatest mafia. Yeah Disney ruined boba fett and I am pissed they didn’t just keep as a background character that gets bested by a blind guy with a stick. I’m very upset!”

well it makes sense for mando to stand out (he's bullet proof) the same cannot be said about bobait would've been cool to see mando out in the open eating bullets while boba sniped them

Star Wars died when Disney bought it, end of the story.

I was the biggest fan of star wars. Played all the games. Still stuck to watching the prequels even after the first 2 movies were weak as water. I gave up after not being able to finish watching Mando, never rewatched the sequels, never watched any of the cookie cutter baby series. I am dumbfounded and awestruck at how bad Disney's media has been and how it still manages to sink to new lows. It's amazing to me how nobody involved can say in a board meeting "hey what if the villains were competent", or "hey what if there's an actual moral dilemma that can teach life lessons"

Ok to me the gamorians not being killed by boba and him giving them a job actually made sense

It's so weird to see Boba Fett evolve and grow. To imagine he started out as a glorified Uber driver is amazing.

Yep. Totally agree man. My wife and I just recently finished watching Mauler’s (…extensive..) analysis series of both Star Wars: TFA and Star Wars: TLJ. So the trend is fresh in my mind, and The Book of Boba Fett certainly tracks along with it. I’ve been a die hard Boba fan since I was a kiddo (read all the novels and comics), so yes, it’s borderline tragic to see his character get mishandled so badly. Anyway, excellent analysis yet again. Stay safe out in the wasteland (being born out there, I trash-talk it lovingly lol). If you have to flee (as many of us have..) you’re welcome out here in AZ 😂. See ya in the next vid 🦾

Disney has taken star wars and made it all about weakening/watering down the male characters and making the female characters front and center for no actual reason.

Darth Maul made a better godfather than Boba Fett. He gathered allies, defeated other crime families, and assembled a galactic underworld's worth of allies and minions for him to use. And just like with the Godfather, the life of crime ruined Darth Maul, because he literally attracted the feds' attention (Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious of all people) and he got crushed like a bug. Boba Fett seemed more like a friendly neighborhood town sheriff than a crime lord.

It's THESE types of videos that keep me a patron! Please do more video essays!

Andor was good. Better than anything else disney has made

Old Boba Fett: "-There's no escape from me! *pew-pew-pew*" 🆚 New Boba Fett: "-You get a job, you get a job & you get a job!"

the whole episode of him with the Tusken raiders gave me vibes of Disney trying to say "Sand peoples lives matter"

You're on point my man! Great video! Let's hope some of the Disney hacks sees these kinds of videos and actually makes an effort to give us some sort of decent story telling with some creativity, imagination, and well developed characters. Much love from Canada my friend 🇨🇦 keep up the great work!

I mean, i feel like either way fans would hate on this "Oh, so boba fett comes out of a sarlacc and sees some random sand people die and than he's a changed person?" and "Oh, so boba fett comes out of a sarlacc, sees some random sand people die and he's still the exact same person? Where's the character development!!"

Also one thing, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY HUMANOIDS, IN THIS *”GIGANTIC UNIVERSE”* One other thing, every character that suddenly wears a Mandalorian helmet: *”I AM KING”* And then they stand awkwardly still with their helmets in their hands, and speak to people whilst also disobeying “The way” as a sort of insult to Mandalorians. I find.

24:57 well that aged terribly

I actually like the show lol

I never realized how bad Disney Star Wars could get but here we are.

They took a popular Star Wars character and wrecked him. It was a narrative mess but that's part of the problem. The bigger problem is what they did to Boba Fett. I wasn't sure who the character in BOBF was but that wasn't Boba Fett. Disney destroyed another great character . At least , no second season.

10:30 Calling that girl 15 is an insult to all 15 yr olds

Absolutely hated the biker gang, definitely gave off a more disney feel than starwars. Just felt like a cheap useless addition to the show. And the bikes were definitely completely out of place when compared to every other SW vehicle.

Disney ruined Star Wars. Totally, completely, thoroughly and absolutely. Period.

Actually Andor turned to be the best Disney Star Wars show.

It’s ridiculous that they didn’t just recast Luke.

Say Vito, did you grab an old hockey video to use for sound at the start of this video? Brings me back to the 70's. Nice.

Kathleen Kennedy deserves to be booed at some Stawars event by fans forcing her out

Turns out Andor did not, in fact, suck. The true miracle of the Star Wars galaxy

2:52 3:19 Basically, Boba Fett is every video game player who takes pleasure in making the enemy die painful, horrifying deaths. The kind that would shotgun a man in the face, then proceed to turn the guy's body into giblets with more shotgun blasts. By the way, disintegration weapons in Star Wars are very powerful and painful. They turn you back into your constituent molecules painfully while bypassing any shields you might have. So Vader telling Fett not to disintegrate Han's crew wasn't just him telling the guy to reign it in a bit, but he's also telling the guy to not use weapons that are literally war crime levels of bad. If Darth Vader orders a whole village to be terminated, his men would just laser/machine gun the populace. If Boba Fett does it, he'd probably burn them all alive with his flamethrower. The difference between the two men is that Vader doesn't take extra delight in making the enemy suffer before they die. Fett does. Vader is content to slice up, gun down, or strangle his enemies. Fett would disintegrate his foes, burn them alive, or blow them into giblets with rockets and grenades. That is how sadistic and cruel the old Boba Fett was in the old lore. Fett's brutality rivals that of Darth Vader, and his sadism exceeds Vader's by a country mile.

The fact that Boba Fett literally makes 0 wrong decisions is just a crime

That Andor comment aged poorly best live action disney+ show right up there with mando s1/2

Vito really ate his words by calling Andor bad.

They should have just let Temuera Morrison helm the project.

I think cassian andor was the best out of all of these star wars shows no cap.

Kathleen Kennedy actually said "there is no source material for Star Wars."

The Mods are also a nod to Luca, a Disney cartoon from Pixar also about a pair of boys and their Vespa scooter.