A Star Wars Legend Appears In The Latest Book Of Boba Fett And I Loved Every Minute Of It
Major spoilers ahead for Chapter 6 of The Book of Boba Fett.
For me, the Favreau/Filoni era of Star Wars is the best it's been since the original trilogy. Even when it sucks—and it does sometimes—I love it. I think it's because you know these guys have a real reverence for the source material. When they invoke the movies, they do it in a way that seems sincere. You feel like they want to do it, that it's not just an attempt to tap into people's nostalgia in a shallow, cynical way. That's the vibe I get anyway after watching hours of Mandalorian talking head interviews and behind the scenes footage.
At the end of season 2 of The Mandalorian, the duo invoked the movies in a big way by bringing Return of the Jedi-era Luke Skywalker into the story. While I was a little disappointed that this refreshingly standalone series was adding Jedi and the events of the original trilogy back into the mix—ground already well-trodden by Star Wars media—I was also thrilled by it. But I'm in my 30s and grew up with Star Wars, so of course I was. It was bold, but Jon Favreau, who wrote the episode, pulled it off with restraint and style.
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Now, in Chapter 6 of The Book of Boba Fett, Luke is back. While watching this and the previous Mando-focused episode, I occasionally forgot I was watching the Boba Fett show. Temuera Morrison's wearily charismatic former bounty hunter has been pushed to the sidelines to continue the story of Din Djarin and The Child. While I am invested in Fett's war with the Pyke Syndicate, I was more eager to know where the hell Skywalker was taking lil Grogu at the end of The Rescue—and this episode delivers that magnificently.
We rejoin Skywalker on a remote planet covered in lush
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