I’ve been listening to all the usual podcasts/streams, heard people discussing all this Star Wars/Mandalorian/Boba Fett confusion. Nothing but confusion here.
The mess includes the Sequels, the EU, Mandalorian, among other things. People aren’t just squabbling about an appearance of Fett in the Mandalorian, nor blabbering about EU storylines, or just what happened in and after Return of the Jedi. Even the wikis are all over the place as to what the fucks going on in all this.
The main films, Prequels and Luke Trilogy have these Fetts. People are saying they’re not Mandalorians. Like Mr. Plinkett, I didn’t read all the novels, comics, or play all the video games. As far as I know, Jango is. Fett is a clone of Jango, correct? I didn’t watch the Clone Wars, and I have no idea what’s canon lore and isn’t.
If Fett shows up no matter what they explain in the Mandalorian, it’s all new to me, and I have no real idea about if Boba Fett survived or not. I’m not opposed to it, but from what little I know of the Mandalorians (mostly from the old Marvel comics series) none of this shit makes any sense at all anyways. It’s one big ball of confusion for me, a standard everyday Star Wars viewer who has very little knowledge of the novels or other series. (Shit, I still haven’t even watched SOLO or ROGUE ONE or THE RISE OF SKYWALKER). So… if there is any truth that Boba Fett isn’t a Mandalorian, or Jango isn’t a Mandalorian, I have to wonder about all these Mandalorians and why any normal viewer should even care, since the only ‘Mandalorians’ we ever knew were Jango and Boba Fett.
If that ISN’T Fett at the end, it feels very JJ ABRAMS to me. If we find out that it’s some old Clone Trooper, or some convoluted trick and it’s some other old Jedi and there’s no explanation of why the Jango actor is playing him just to trick the audience, I’ll tell you what I think…
It’s more of the same. It’s just more mind-numbing gimmickry, as if baby yodas weren’t bad enough already. I’ll tell you right now, they have NO IDEA what they’re going to do with ‘baby yoda.’ None. They haven’t even decided where this shit is going. It’s starting to feel VERY J.J. Abrams with this nonsense. We already know this shit is directionless. A Boba Fakeout also means an Ashoka Fakeout as well. Guess which other actor ISN’T playing who you thought they were playing this, and how many? I predict all this fakeout bullshit is going to be exactly what everyone’s been complaining about for years, more hollow gimmickry with no payoffs. Pure JJism. I predict right now that these people have NO CLUE where any of this is going, and they don’t care if it gets cancelled with no ending a la Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles or take your pick of whatever show you watched with no ending.
What will they think of next? Huh? Hows this for an experiment… The Mandalorian’s not Boba Fett. Baby Yoda’s not Yoda. IG-88 wasn’t IG-88. Starting to get it yet? Ashoka Tano won’t be Ashoka Tano, and Boba Fett isn’t Boba Fett. There’s a pattern here. Why is that? I think you know the answer to that. Another, yet completely different, mess which baffles the mind and devalues this “series.”
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