Four spoilery hot takes on this week's Book of Boba Fett

[lizbee]

1. I ship Ahsoka/Luke and I will not apologise.
2. Luke is a terrible teacher and Ben Solo should have burned his school down much sooner
2a. I am generally a Ben Solo apologist but I reserve the right to change that if it turns out that he killed Grogu; on the other hand I do not for a minute believe that Grogu can be killed, so I think I'm safe here.
3. The Jedi are terrible and UGH I cannot BELIEVE we have to put up with their nonsense, did we learn NOTHING from the whole Anakin THING?
4. The last two weeks have brought us very enjoyable episode of The Mandalorian, but I'm kind of annoyed that The Book of Boba Fett has gone from being a story about Boba Fett, and a meta-story about Indigenous solidarity, to Boba being a footnote in his own show. The whole crime lord story feels super underwritten, and I don't understand how you start with the premise of "a bounty hunter tries to become an ethical crime boss" and end up with something boring.

Comments

[vaznetti]

Jedi training techniques are basically just a cycle of abuse, aren't they? I can't believe Asoka just stood there and told Luke to trust his instincts! No wonder one of Luke's students snapped and killed everyone else, like you say it's a miracle it didn't happen sooner!

[maidenjedi]

1 - Sounds good to me!

2 - Luke never had good teaching himself so this isn't terribly surprising. It makes me sad for Ben all over again.

3 - Jedi can have affection, Luke! OMG. And yes.

4 - I loved the episode and I've loved the season, but yes. Yesterday in particular felt like two different episodes altogether - both ones I wanted to see, but having so little to do with each other. The crime lord thing would go better spread out over at least a couple more episodes, with more going on to convince me *anyone* takes Boba Fett's "rule" seriously.

[starlady]

I feel like we've been shown quite neatly where things are going to go wrong for Luke and the Jedi restoration, but I don't know whether any of the people making the show actually realize that. Maybe Rey can teach Grogu? Third time's the charm?

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about the characterization of both Luke and Ahsoka but I should probably just go back to writing fanfic.