The Book of Boba Fett (spoilers)

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Yep.

The episode also made the Lucas-Mistake with Luke (in Return of the Jedi, at least). Watching Luke being all stoic and proper Jedi-like is as interesting as watching grass grow. In fact, I would have preferred to watch the scenery on that planet for 10 - 15 minutes. Looked really beautiful.

The contrast between Luke interacting with Grogu and Din interacting with him -- while in a faceless helmet! -- was startling.

Just goes to show how people who enjoy the same overall brand can view things so differently. I thought every minute with Luke was very good, but I also was a kid when Star Wars was brand-new and no one was better than Luke for many years after seeing the movie for the first time.

 

[Dioltach]

That explosion scene was a homage to The Untouchables. I wonder if that's an indication of how the "war" will be handled.

 

[Janx]

Yep.

The episode also made the Lucas-Mistake with Luke (in Return of the Jedi, at least). Watching Luke being all stoic and proper Jedi-like is as interesting as watching grass grow. In fact, I would have preferred to watch the scenery on that planet for 10 - 15 minutes. Looked really beautiful.

The contrast between Luke interacting with Grogu and Din interacting with him -- while in a faceless helmet! -- was startling.

yeah, the whole thing was humdrum in a way the training montage on Degobah wasn't.

At times, Filoni has a good feel for the SW universe, and other times, he doesn't have a good feel for storytelling/pacing. A proper argument between Luke and Din might have been interesting.

Sadly, Kobra Kai S4 might be doing a better job of opposing styles/personalities than Luke and Din.

 

[wicked cool]

so we have 2 pathways ahead-one Grogu goes with the mandalorian and there is no canon rewritten. Or he stays and the part where Kylo is the first student is rewritten (he says in one of the movies hes the first of Lukes students).

Also-Bane is a bounty hunter hired by someone. Do we think that we are possibly getting a certain Dark sun leader? maybe Emilia Clarke?

 

[BrokenTwin]

I'd much prefer if Grogu went with Mando. If for no other reason than, looking at how Luke treats him vs how Mando treats him... one seems focused on doing what's best for him, the other seems to see him as a means to an end.

 

[MarkB]

Also-Bane is a bounty hunter hired by someone. Do we think that we are possibly getting a certain Dark sun leader? maybe Emilia Clarke?

Is there any reason to think that he wasn't just hired by the Pykes?

 

[Janx]

Is there any reason to think that he wasn't just hired by the Pykes?

yeah, I thought that was pretty obvious.

 

[Staffan]

Also-Bane is a bounty hunter hired by someone. Do we think that we are possibly getting a certain Dark sun leader? maybe Emilia Clarke?

Is there any reason to think that he wasn't just hired by the Pykes?

yeah, I thought that was pretty obvious.

It might be a situation like in Hawkeye, where the Tracksuit Mafia turned out to be working for the Kingpin, and the assassin that shows up halfway through the show was hired by another person also working for/with him.

 

[Stalker0]

Yep.

The episode also made the Lucas-Mistake with Luke (in Return of the Jedi, at least). Watching Luke being all stoic and proper Jedi-like is as interesting as watching grass grow. In fact, I would have preferred to watch the scenery on that planet for 10 - 15 minutes. Looked really beautiful.

The contrast between Luke interacting with Grogu and Din interacting with him -- while in a faceless helmet! -- was startling.

I think the cgi may be partly to blame. CGI Luke looks pretty good but they seem to take things really slow when he’s talking and interacting, I’m guessing to make it easy for the cgi.

 

[Staffan]

I think the cgi may be partly to blame. CGI Luke looks pretty good but they seem to take things really slow when he’s talking and interacting, I’m guessing to make it easy for the cgi.

I don't know if it's true, but folks on Twitter claimed that Luke's voice wasn't genuine Mark Hamill, but rather an AI-generated voice trained on audio books Hamill had read. That would explain the uncanny (as in "uncanny valley") acting.