 Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and this is what I think about Book of Boba Fett. Would be honored if you would join us. All right, so Book of Boba Fett brand new series out on Disney Plus and those of you who've watched my channel either here or you've watched some of my other channels you know that I'm a huge fan of the Fett. I love Boba Fett biggest fan. The last time I went to Disney World every single one of my shirts was Boba Fett themed and so yeah just love love love everything about Boba Fett. So probably you've been waiting for this right, waiting for me to tell you what I thought about the series because the other thing that I make a habit of saying all the time is I'm a fan right. I'm a fan of Star Wars. I don't complain about anything. I don't complain about the directors or the story or the fact that Disney bought them or Lucas or so tiring. Like I'm a fan if you put Star Wars on it. I love it and I've loved a lot of things that notoriously a lot of fans haven't liked. I liked the Han Solo story. I loved that a lot. Okay. I love a lot of the novels that people don't particularly like as much and I liked the cartoons. I like Resistance. I like Rebels. So yeah I typically like things that other fans don't like. That said the book of Boba Fett has received a lot of mixed reviews out there like you'd expect. People love it. People hate it right and they've all been voicing their own opinions about why they think it's great or why they don't. I don't want to go into all the little the detail right. I don't want to sit there and flip coin after coin about all the things that could be right or wrong. I want to give you three things all right. Three things that's it. Just three things and I'll start by saying I'm watching it. I'm watching it. I'm not you know not watching it and saying oh I'm not going to watch it because they've ruined my favorite character. I'm not doing that. I'm not here to say that. I wouldn't want to say that but if the creator is a book of Boba Fett pulled me in and said David we know that you're a super fan of Boba Fett and we really appreciate your opinion. How could we have made the show better? Here's just my three humble suggestions. Number one the costume right the costume when we saw Boba Fett the first time ever all we saw was the costume. We didn't even see him in a movie. He hadn't even been in a film right. He was an action figure that was it. He was an action figure and he was a character on the Christmas special. That was it. That's all we knew and he had a fan base before we heard his voice before we saw him move. We were all over it right because of the costume and so somebody said hey people love Boba Fett. Let's do a series about Boba Fett. What are some of the things we could change the costume? No the costume right the costume. This is what makes Boba Fett Boba Fett for all of us. The dental helmet all the battle damage the gauntlets the wookie scalps the cape you know the the rocket firing knees all the little things in his pockets the shoes this is what we think of when we think of Boba Fett we think of this. So I don't know why they wanted to clean him up give him a new paint job replace some parts make his costume less complicated give him a different blaster like they changed his look and it's so iconic right it's so iconic so I don't understand that process I don't understand that decision to where you have a fan base and we this is the character we love and then they change it. Now my second point kind of goes along with my first point the other thing that we've always loved about Boba Fett is his mysteriousness right he was only on camera for minutes he had barely any lines and he never took this off never took his helmet off we didn't know what he looked like underneath there there was speculations there was you know pictures and Marvel comics but nobody had ever seen Boba Fett with this helmet off and the tea visor and this helmet it's again so iconic to who he is so to just hear his like mechanized voice come out of that mask and to be so ominous that's what we love and then and let me just say that's what Mandalorian did great the Mandalorian show we didn't see his face for forever right for forever and and even though we knew what the actor looked like just the fact that we hadn't seen the character's face really helped us feel like this is what we would want from Boba Fett like it almost was like the Mandalorian when they did that show they said well we can't do a show about Boba Fett so let's do the next best thing let's do a show that appeals to all the fans of Boba Fett and kind of give them Boba Fett but as a different character and that's what I loved about the Mandalorian like I felt like the Mandalorian did a great impersonation of Boba Fett like that's what I wanted I wanted him to do that those kind of missions and be that kind of character that was really you know neutral not good not bad just kind of right down the middle somebody to look out for himself somebody that didn't take the mask off was the gunslinger like that's what he wanted and then we get Book of Boba Fett and they start taking his mask off all the time so just to recap with my second point being the mystery I feel like they kept the mystery going with Mandalorian very well great stories great scripts great acting they kept that mystery going and it was it was awesome and they and Boba Fett didn't really have a lot of lore anyway to begin with other than what was you know created in the books or in the comics but as far as film like there hadn't been anything so I feel like there was a ton of mystery still there and I feel like Book of Boba Fett is like quick to remove mystery remove mystery like they want to tell you stuff right this oh let me and they want to tell you all this stuff and I'm like no no no I don't want to hear all this stuff I'd rather see him do things and keep the mystery right I don't all the backstory about him and the Tusken Raiders and all that it just felt too it felt too like soft and squishy and nice and I want him to be more the gunslinger more the loner more the I don't talk to people I work for myself it's me you know versus everybody else all right so we've talked about costume we've talked about mysteriousness the third thing I would add is know your audience know your audience okay I'll start off by saying I know there's a lot of young people that love Boba Fett too there are I get it but when you look at shows like Resistance or Rebels or even like the neutral it used to have come out it's obvious that their main audience is still young people even kids right and it's been the theme for Star Wars since the beginning it's always been a show for kids or people who are young at heart right but I think the people that have been with Boba Fett and your primary fan base are gonna be the guys like me or gals who've grown up with Boba Fett since they were kids so you're really not looking at even you know 30 year olds you're looking at 50 year olds or 60 year olds you're looking at us at us old guys with gray hair like we're your we're your base fans that have been with Boba Fett since the beginning right and so I think your first responsibility is to your core fandom that's your first responsibility and I think that for us when you start taking away his costume when you start taking away the mysteriousness it feels like you don't know us it feels like you don't know your audience right whereas Mandalorian was brand new you just you build an audience right you build an audience and I think for certain I can watch my children 13 years old eight years old they love Mandalorian right along with me so it's great something I can enjoy with my kids but Boba Fett has always been like my thing right my thing and so just to say you know what know your audience so just to give you an example like you know two episodes ago Boba Fett went to that cybernetics techno bar tattoo shop that was the worst thing I have ever seen in a Star Wars show like talk about know your audience you're on Tatooine which is all sand right it's desert but the teenagers of Tatooine want to leave you know like we saw with Luke they want to get out of there they don't want to body modify themselves with tech like they don't even have they don't have credits to do stuff like that they're you know they're moisture farmers these these kids don't have you know they don't have money to build cybernetic stuff into their bodies or right around on moped's like Luke wasn't having any fun on Tatooine right and just the music took me out of it the music was not Star Wars it felt like it was just a grab at a younger audience it was like hey what can we do to get the kids to watch and I was like know your audience know your audience you've got to appeal to them first and you got to get them on board you got to get them to get the buy-in I know I've rambled I've rambled and it sounds like I'm complaining I don't want to complain I don't want to complain because I love Star Wars and I love Boba Fett and I'm going to stick with this show I'm going to watch all of them no question and I'll support it I'll back it I will be a fan of course but I'm just saying if the creators of the show were to ask my opinion that's what I would say don't change the costume keep the mysteriousness and know your audience one more thing if you're a fan of Boba Fett you know this is not even his screen-used costume so trivia for you this is not his screen-used costume this was a production shot that was taken before filming began he didn't keep these gloves and there's a couple of other very subtle things they got changed but just so you know if you were looking at this going I don't recognize his gloves yeah this this this is not the screen this is not that finished screen-used costume from Boba Fett a little tiny piece of Boba Fett trivia all that to say thanks for watching Boba Fett is awesome man force be with you