What an episode, for me this was an 8 out of 10 because it showed the progression of where boba has been this whole time and made you want to enter the healing chamber because it gave us flashbacks.
So, before we beigin, for newcomers this takes place right after Mando season 2. IF you haven’t seen the post credits scene from Mando season 2 finale, go do that and things will make more sense.
The flashbacks take place during Return of the Jedi, which came out in 1983, this was the one where luke fights Vader and gets shocked by the emperor.
As we open we see boba in a healing chamber on a batch.
He gets flashbacks first of Kamino and slave 1 I believe from episode 2 before he fought obi-wan, then to when he was a little boy holding the head of his father in the genosian arena after the Jedi fought the separatists with the help of the clones in their phase 1 armor.
Then, finally, we see a flashback of what happened to boba after he fell into the sarlaac pit in return of the Jedi. He was being digested, when he wakes up and sees where he is. The thing with sarlaacs is they digest their prey over 1000 years, so while the person may be dead, the armor takes longer to digest, as the stomach acid eats away at it. That’s why when he looks around he sees the corpse of stormtrooper, dead for probably a long time, partially digested armor as we can see with the acid burns. Now Boba’s armor won’t be as digested as easily because he’s wearing beskar iron, which is harder to melt than plastoid which is what stormtrooper arbor is made of.
As he takes the oxygen cord from the lifeless trooper, who had unluckily fallen into the sarlacc god knows when, he uses it to breathe as there isn’t any oxygen left in his own suit. Punching through he blasts the sarlaaccs innards with his flamethrower and gets out on his own terms. Now in legends, Dengar, another bounty hunter which we see in episode 5, saves Boba. However now they’ve rewritten it in canon that he makes it out on his own. And you know what, I’m good with this, I think it just makes Boba more badass.
As he’s left there until nightfall, the Jawas come to strip him of his suit, when he wakes up and they knock him out with the butt of their blaster rifle. I thought this was hilarious, that such funny little creatures take out Boba, and it would only happen in this state that he’s in. This lines up with Cobb Vanth’s story in the mandalorian season 2 with how he got the suit from the Jawas in the sand crawler. So now backstories are being visually explained.
Boba is left for dead on the sands of Tatooine, only to be rescued by the sand people, the tusken raiders tie him up, awaken him with their equivalent of smelling salts or ammonia, and make him walk back to camp. We’ve seen this type of thing where they tie a prisoner by the hands and pull them while on horseback, only now it’s Tuskens on Banthas. Very Wild West vibes, very barbaric and you’d expect nothing less from the Tuskens.
As he gets beat up by youngling tuskens, Boba wakes up again and is tied by the fireplace when he tries to work with the Rodian tied up next to him, who gives him away. and needs to make a break for it, he does so by pretending to break his ropes as the Mastiff sits watch. This was the dog equivalent to the Tuskens. Very rabid beats of Tatooine, however they were trained to be loyal to the Tuskens. Boba uses his smarts to lure the beast and knocks it out, using it’s fangs to cut his rope. This is all key stuff, Boba is very intelligent, he’s not just a good killer. As he’s chased into the desert, he has a fight with the kylo ren knights of red looking tusken who is ordered by the leader to fight Boba. Boba is tired and out played, losing.
This episode was awesome. I give it an 8/10 for explaining how he got out of the pit as well as what he's going through now, coupled with flashbacks.
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