The Book of Boba Fett [SPOILERS]

[IndigoPrime]

Ah, fair enough. Still: no spring chicken and past his prime in that gig. Although, again, ROTJ makes me wonder if he ever had a ‘prime’.

[Mister Pops]

...I think we're supposed to accept it's the burns and scarring from the Sarlacc acid we saw in Ep1 that makes him look older (Temuera Morrison is 61).

Yeah, I think that's why they showed that instead of just putting "somehow Boba Fett returned" in a title scroll. It was good enough for Palpatine in the last movie, but it seems these boys at Disney+ have notions about themselves.

[sheridan]

but he’s an old fucker now.

Since this takes place in the Mandalorian timeline, it's actually only supposed to be (what?) seven or eight years after RotJ, which took place twenty-odd years after we saw him as a kid in AotC, so he should only be early-to-mid 40s… maybe 50 depending on exactly how old he was meant to be in AotC, and the slightly nebulous timescale between the films of the original trilogy. I think we're supposed to accept it's the burns and scarring from the Sarlacc acid we saw in Ep1 that makes him look older (Temuera Morrison is 61).

Boba was 10 years old during the Battle of Geonosis (Episode II: Attack of the Clones) which takes place 22 years before the Battle of Yavin (A New Hope).  Return of the Jedi is 3 years ABY while Mando and Book of Boba are five years after that.  So Book Boba is canonically forty years old.

[The Legendary Shark]

It's not the years, it's the mileage.

[Link Prime]

"Hey Jon - Our lead actor looks like a well chewed Penny Toffee that received 6 months of chemotherapy.
What should we do about it?
Have him take his helmet off in every scene?

Jon?"

[Richmond Clements]

YOU WERE WEARING YOUR ARMOUR WHEN YOU ESCAPED THE SARLACC!

[The Legendary Shark]

If I can get rain dribbling down the inside of my raincoat I'm sure Boba can get sarlacc drool dribbling down the back of his armour! :-D

[Funt Solo]

I had wondered if his bacta tank* was due to something that has yet to happen in the flashback sequences.


* I had to look it up.

[The Legendary Shark]

YOU WERE WEARING YOUR ARMOUR WHEN YOU ESCAPED THE SARLACC!

Oops - now I get it. I suppose he was so out of it when he escaped that he forgot about that.

[CalHab]

YOU WERE WEARING YOUR ARMOUR WHEN YOU ESCAPED THE SARLACC!

Yeah, that left me very confused. How does he think he got out?

Otherwise, a welcome improvement on the dire episode last week.

[JayzusB.Christ]

YOU WERE WEARING YOUR ARMOUR WHEN YOU ESCAPED THE SARLACC!

Never thought of that.  I'm quite enjoying the series, though the Mandalorian set a very high bar and Boba doesn't really get close.  Wonder if we'll ever get to see anywhere but Tatooine?  For a place full of robots, giant slug crimelords, sand dragons and cyborgs, it's all getting a bit provincial and over-familiar for me, and I could do with a bit of interplanetary travel.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

YOU WERE WEARING YOUR ARMOUR WHEN YOU ESCAPED THE SARLACC!

Never thought of that.  I'm quite enjoying the series, though the Mandalorian set a very high bar and Boba doesn't really get close.  Wonder if we'll ever get to see anywhere but Tatooine?  For a place full of robots, giant slug crimelords, sand dragons and cyborgs, it's all getting a bit provincial and over-familiar for me, and I could do with a bit of interplanetary travel.

I agree. I thought Tatooine was a hide-out but the dirty work was done on other planets.

[Woolly]

YOU WERE WEARING YOUR ARMOUR WHEN YOU ESCAPED THE SARLACC!

I'm guessing he forgot - understandable considering when he awoke he'd been made a slave by a supposedly noble group of sand people, and his armour was nowhere to be seen.

I'd rather know just how his spaceship works - how exactly does it manage to hover and turn about just a few meters from the ground, when it's thrusters are fixed in one position?

[Funt Solo]

I'd rather know just how his spaceship works - how exactly does it manage to hover and turn about just a few meters from the ground, when it's thrusters are fixed in one position?

Slave-1's anti-gravity nacelles pivot to manage the hover. The x-wings also have some sort of anti-grav for maneuvering gently out of hangers. As does the Falcon.

Space math!

[Woolly]

Space math!

Space math.... why did it have to be space math?!*



*Copyright Indiana Jones