Book Of Boba Fett Broke A Screenwriting Rule & Ruined Its Own Story
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for The Book of Boba Fett
The Book of Boba Fett is a Star Wars series with high highs and low lows, and a seemingly minor screenwriting mistake in episode 1 is indicative of its problems. The series is notable for using flashbacks as a major storytelling device, showing how Boba (Temuera Morrison) escapes the Sarlacc pit, joins the Tusken Raiders, and meet Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen). However, it is one of these flashback scenes that actually undermines Boba Fett's character journey in later episodes.
The Disney+ series redefines the famous bounty hunter and changes him into an altogether more sympathetic character who seems to be more antihero than villainous mercenary, as he was in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. This begins in episode 1 as Fett offers to save a fellow prisoner of the Tusken Raiders, in an apparently selfless act. Later on, Fett recruits a gang of young bikers after learning that they are unable to find conventional work to earn money. Episode 4 sees Boba openly discuss his morals with Fennec, telling her that he is sick of being a bounty hunter and wants to make systemic changes to the way Tatooine is run.
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Boba's stark character change in The Book of Boba Fettepisode 4 should've been a defining and shocking moment in the series, but it was undercut by the writers' failure to properly implement well-thought-out character growth. The Boba Fett of the series is an entirely different character to the Fett of the original trilogy and expanded universe material. Yet, if the series had initially presented him as the ruthless killer he used to be, his eventual change following his time with the
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