Book Of Boba Fett: The Tuskens' Black Melons Explained
Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for The Book of Boba Fett.
The Book of Boba Fett, through the Tuskens' black melons, offers Star Wars fans a more in-depth look into Tusken Raider culture and the natural history of the desert planet of Tatooine. By fleshing out the traditions and daily lives of the iconic Tusken tribes, The Book of Boba Fett moves in a direction that's never been truly explored by the Star Wars franchise in previous movies or shows. While the black melons seem like a small and insignificant detail, they actually reveal much about the characters as well as the setting of The Book of Boba Fett.
That being said, the Tuskens' black melons first appeared in The Mandalorian season 2, episode 1, «Chapter 9: The Marshal.» Din Djarin's (Pedro Pascal) search for his fellow Mandalorians brings him back to Tatooine, where he finds Cobb Vanth (Timothy Olyphant), the self-appointed marshal of a small mining town, wearing Boba Fett's (Temuera Morrison's) Mandalorian armor. Vanth agrees to hand over the armor to Djarin, but only if Djarin helps Vanth to kill a krayt dragon that's been terrorizing the town. Along the way, Djarin and Vanth enlist the help of Tuskens, who also want the krayt dragon dead. When the Tuskens give Vanth a black melon to drink, Vanth insults them when he rejects the offer. As Djarin translates for Vanth, the Tuskens tell Vanth that his people steal the Tuskens' water and then insult them by refusing the black melon.
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