Boba Fett Has Completely Lost His Own Star Wars Show
This article contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett episode 6.
Boba Fett has completely lost his own Star Wars story in a stream of cameos in The Book of Boba Fett. Introduced in The Empire Strikes Back as one of the galaxy's foremost bounty hunters, Boba Fett was presented as a true force to be reckoned with. For all that's the case, though, he didn't exactly fare well in Return of the Jedi when George Lucas decided to wrap up the original trilogy and kill Boba Fett off in the least spectacular fashion imaginable.
Lucasfilm has brought the bounty hunter back, revealing Boba Fett escaped the Sarlacc. Disney+'s TV show The Book of Boba Fett has revealed how he survived that grim fate, and it has seen Boba attempt to reinvent himself as a crime boss — tired of working for power-hungry men who would waste his life on absurd quests, eager to gain some independence in the criminal underworld. In theory the story should be a compelling one, a tale of transformation in which Boba Fett restructures the sprawling criminal empire that once belonged to Jabba the Hutt. And yet, for all that's the case, The Book of Boba Fett isn't quite pulling it off.
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In truth, the problems have been there from the beginning. A series like this requires a laserlike focus, and that's been absent from the show ever since The Book of Boba Fett episode 1. The problems have been compounded over episodes 5 and 6, as the show has drifted away from its ostensible star. Now, Boba Fett has effectively become a cameo in his own Disney+ TV series.
It's first necessary to acknowledge that The Book of Boba Fett has never really committed to Boba Fett's story. The first four episodes were
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