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kitewithfishOoof. Our elderly furnace has developed a slow leak that would be expensive enough to fix that we are considering the greater cost of just replacing the damn thing. It's had a good life - built in 1999, if the serial number is right. We're getting some quotes together and another energy audit so we can get access to the no interest loan program in our state - we'll just have to do some leg work.
In TV and Stars Wars news, I watched Book of Boba Fett and felt nothing. It just - didn't have time to breathe? Felt like it seemed to need to tie everything together and involve all of the old characters from Mandalorian without giving a lot of space for new characters?
Mandalorian Season 1 actually felt a lot different than Mandalorian Season 2, for just this reason - the second season seemed like there was bunch more mythology at play and not a lot of room for the emotional development that made season 1 so exceptional.
Spoilers here!
So, Mandalorian Season 2 and Book of Boba Fett functionally intertwine quite a bit - characters appear in Mandalorian who then have significant arcs in BoBF, the locations overlap. It's just. There was something wonderfully unencumbered about Mandalorian Season one - Mandalorian mythology was present but in a new way, there was a lot of stuff about just being a person leaning to have a community, about guilt and loss and family - it was great and very contained. I didn't expect it to stick to that entirely - you really can't have a character keep making the same emotional revelation over and over again.
But the second season felt like it was over packed with characters from the Clone Wars cartoons, and they didn't feel like they had time to get fleshed out, or really built authentic relationships with each other.
Ahsoka is great, I like her, but putting her into the story means that we have all the other stuff that came with her, and very little of that gets onto the screen. If you didn't watch Clone Wars, would you know that she was trained by Anakin Skywalker and that she's much older than she looks? Or would you just think, huh, everyone is really excited for this one Jed?
The more you get into high profile characters, the more hemmed in it felt, like the narrative really had to just mind its elbows so it didn't go sticking new characters into established plot lines where they would very reasonably have changed the outcome. Why didn't Ahsoka come to help train Luke? Why didn't Obi-Wan tell Luke about her at all? Adding Boba Fett to Mandalorian Season Two felt forced. Like, you need a crew for this plot line, so Boba Fett will go with you - in a way that feels really out of nowhere for the show.
And while I think there was plenty of admirable story in BoBF, the narrative would have worked better for me as a single straightforward chronological story, without all the flashbacks, and focusing more tightly on WHY Boba Fett cares about Tatooine. Like, I'm new to the Boba Fett fandom - these questions don't feel like tantalizing references to other stories I already know - they feel like narrative dead ends that no one cared about.
In TV and Stars Wars news, I watched Book of Boba Fett and felt nothing. It just - didn't have time to breathe? Felt like it seemed to need to tie everything together and involve all of the old characters from Mandalorian without giving a lot of space for new characters?
Mandalorian Season 1 actually felt a lot different than Mandalorian Season 2, for just this reason - the second season seemed like there was bunch more mythology at play and not a lot of room for the emotional development that made season 1 so exceptional.
Spoilers here!
So, Mandalorian Season 2 and Book of Boba Fett functionally intertwine quite a bit - characters appear in Mandalorian who then have significant arcs in BoBF, the locations overlap. It's just. There was something wonderfully unencumbered about Mandalorian Season one - Mandalorian mythology was present but in a new way, there was a lot of stuff about just being a person leaning to have a community, about guilt and loss and family - it was great and very contained. I didn't expect it to stick to that entirely - you really can't have a character keep making the same emotional revelation over and over again.
But the second season felt like it was over packed with characters from the Clone Wars cartoons, and they didn't feel like they had time to get fleshed out, or really built authentic relationships with each other.
Ahsoka is great, I like her, but putting her into the story means that we have all the other stuff that came with her, and very little of that gets onto the screen. If you didn't watch Clone Wars, would you know that she was trained by Anakin Skywalker and that she's much older than she looks? Or would you just think, huh, everyone is really excited for this one Jed?
The more you get into high profile characters, the more hemmed in it felt, like the narrative really had to just mind its elbows so it didn't go sticking new characters into established plot lines where they would very reasonably have changed the outcome. Why didn't Ahsoka come to help train Luke? Why didn't Obi-Wan tell Luke about her at all? Adding Boba Fett to Mandalorian Season Two felt forced. Like, you need a crew for this plot line, so Boba Fett will go with you - in a way that feels really out of nowhere for the show.
And while I think there was plenty of admirable story in BoBF, the narrative would have worked better for me as a single straightforward chronological story, without all the flashbacks, and focusing more tightly on WHY Boba Fett cares about Tatooine. Like, I'm new to the Boba Fett fandom - these questions don't feel like tantalizing references to other stories I already know - they feel like narrative dead ends that no one cared about.
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Date: 2022-02-16 02:19 am (UTC)Instead we had all new characters in S1 of Mandalorian. Maybe the purpose was to have all the audience on the same level in having to learn all the backstory slowly. But as you point out, that then makes less sense as we move into a S2 chock full of guests with complex back stories, whose stories are left hanging. And as many have complained, we get a rather truncated story with Boba Fett since part of his show is given over to what Din and Grogu and Luke have been doing without really getting that deep into that part of the story either.
I also agree that I don't see why Boba Fett is that interested in staying put on that part of Tatooine. On the one hand, I get the idea that he is "reborn" out of the Sarlacc, a near death experience and being at the mercy at first of the Tuskens starts building in him a need for connection, community and greater purpose that he never had. But on the other it does seem to come out of nowhere and his character seems awfully zen all of a sudden. Plus all the references to these different Mandalorians must be pretty confusing to those without any background into their history and sects.