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HTSF Ep 35: The Book of Boba Fett Ch 1: Stranger in a Strange Land
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After a week off, we dive into the much-maligned Book of Boba Fett, which kicks off with Boba climbing out of the Sarlacc pit, only to be robbed by Jawas and enslaved by Tusken Raiders. Through flashbacks, we see his slow rise from half-dead bounty hunter to survivor earning the Tuskens’ respect. In the present, Boba tries to establish himself as Tatooine’s new crime boss, taking over Jabba’s old territory with Fennec Shand at his side. This is a series that we look forward to discussing, as it isn't the universally loved and top-notch show that The Mandalorian was.
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Transcript
Introduction and Show Transition
00:00:37
Speaker
Welcome back to Hantuk Shots First. We finished season two of The Mandalorian. So now we're here to talk about, well, the only season Mandalorian season 2.5.
00:00:49
Speaker
Not yet. That's not until the end. But that's what this whole thing is. It's all fluffing for it. It's the Book of Boba Fett. Chapter one, Stranger in a Strange Land.
Director Spotlight: Robert Rodriguez
00:01:02
Speaker
I like that look. That fucking throne is sick, dude. Little fucking Rancor hand pieces right there. Dead droid head. Sick. Can I get me a pair of them Boba Fett kicks?
00:01:13
Speaker
Probably. I'm sure Etsy's got them. That would work in with my Boba fit.
00:01:19
Speaker
I'm looking Boba fit. i don't know, man. With my bum-ass foot, I don't think I'm going to get the ankle support and the arc support and the other support that I need. know Definitely not the emotional support. That's where I was going next.
00:01:30
Speaker
Yeah. Yes, this episode aired December 29th, 2021, and is directed by showrunner, executive producer Robert Rodriguez, who we previously discussed on Mandalorian with the tragedy.
00:01:45
Speaker
We discussed him on main feed with the faculty. Yeah, and we'll discuss him again. will see him again. He's a hit and miss kind of guy for people. Sorry, I'm not done with the Rob Rod.
00:01:56
Speaker
He's just kind of a hit and miss with people. I think he's got some really fun movies, even if they are bad. Because you could tell me that Dust Till Dawn is a bad movie, and I can't really show the work of why it's not, but I will just answer with, I like it.
00:02:10
Speaker
It's fun. It doesn't have to be good for me to like it. I mean, he doesn't really have anything that I can think of that's like, you know, your prestige picture. He makes my kids.
00:02:21
Speaker
fuck
00:02:24
Speaker
He makes fucking goofy ass action movies. Yeah. Just fun. I mean, I've got the fucking Mexico trilogy up here behind me on 4k because, Oh, there's a nickname for that, by the way, fistful of pesos.
00:02:36
Speaker
Oh, because it's, you know, the Mexican version of fistful of dollars and all that. But yeah, that's a fucking banging trilogy. Yeah, and this one was written by, they they all say written by Jon Favreau, probably just because he's the behind-the-scenes guy. yeah And Noah Kluwer, who was just credited as staff writer, but he's the one who's credited there. And I guarantee you wasn't just Favreau and Noah Kluwer sitting room, so he must be the top guy.
00:03:02
Speaker
um He or nothing I saw on his besides some other episodes of this are wasn't up was ah the convert episode of Mando, which is season three. That's Pershing's little story there. So one of the good season threes.
00:03:18
Speaker
Yeah. Is it when we actually get to see all those Mandos in the big cave and whatnot?
The Music of Boba Fett
00:03:24
Speaker
I think so. And then so I looked at the music because I was like, some of this is cool and some of it's kind of not.
00:03:30
Speaker
And I looked it up. We've got Ludwig Gorenson or Jorenson, whatever it is, back. And then this other guy, Joseph Shirley, who must be like Ludwig's understudy or like ah not understudy, but like his Padawan, if you will. There you go. Because right he he does this.
00:03:47
Speaker
And then I looked and he's done some other stuff. But the biggest thing I recognized was Creed three. Okay, and he definitely and Ludwig definitely did Creed one. I'm not sure if he did too because he think he did I think he was with ah ah Coogler Ryan Coogler.
00:04:04
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. um what What didn't work? What music? And there's no wrong answer. It's the I don't even remember how it goes right now, but it's kind of just like this. There's like kind of tense scenes and this music is just like.
00:04:15
Speaker
OK, I'm like, I don't know what that is. OK, that's fair. yeah I do really love the fucking Calypso Cantina song or whatever the fuck it is that comes up. this What about the theme song?
00:04:27
Speaker
I like the theme song and that's got to be Ludwig just because it sounds like. Yeah, it's got that Ludwig, that Ludwig feel where just locked himself in a room like you tell me what you need. Now we get it done. Oh, speaking of weird German accents, if that's what he is, but I'm going to speak of a weird German accent.
Humor and Pop Culture References
00:04:43
Speaker
We need to figure out how to get involved in this. Conan O'Brien is lobbying to have Werner Herzog's voice be the voice of Google Maps. We got to figure out how to fund that or or get some traction here, dude.
00:04:55
Speaker
Take the most beautiful left you've ever taken. I've never used a voice. i've Every time I've had a GPS or once phones became a thing, phone I turned that shit off right away. I'm like, don't need to hear you tell me where to go. I can read.
00:05:08
Speaker
You turn it on for Werner. Hell yeah. like Except for like, it's got to start telling you that you've got a right turn like three and a half miles ahead because it's like you're questing down a long and lonely dark road and you'll see the green lights ahead and you will turn.
00:05:24
Speaker
All of a sudden you're just missing your turn. He's like, you need to make a U-turn. Like, no, sorry. I'm just like listening to you talk. I'm going to keep talking. ah You were doing it all wrong.
00:05:36
Speaker
If you're not, if you don't go home, you can't see your baby.
Cinematography and Visual Style
00:05:42
Speaker
And then i don't always do this for the, you know, Star Wars stuff, especially the shows. But I just looked at the cinematographer because I knew that Dean Cundey did some of these who we've talked about on the main show and on here.
00:05:54
Speaker
But he didn't do this one. But there's a guy named David Klein. And I was like, that name sounds familiar. And his little photo was familiar on IMDb. He's been or most of Kevin Smith's career. He was his guy, like all the way back to Clark. Oh, OK.
00:06:09
Speaker
So he was like, you know, I don't know for sure how that worked. If it was like a guy he knew or if he was already a cinematographer who got hired by Kevin Smith. But like, I wonder that all the way back then.
00:06:21
Speaker
i got clerks vibes when this guy was like coming up and he's like, um I don't see your name on the docket. Oh, God, that guy is so fucking funny. That's clerks. Yeah, that's the clerks aspect of it for sure. I'm sorry. I'm not supposed to be here today.
00:06:38
Speaker
And then the the major Domo to David Pasquese. um believe it Don't care for him. I thought he was delightful because he's just such a snobby douchebag. And that's what he's supposed to be.
00:06:53
Speaker
Maybe I'm just being picky, but he is a little too our world for me. yeah does It doesn't make it unwatchable. It doesn't make it unwatchable. it's just like And <unk>t I didn't really notice it the last the first times I watched it, but like this time, for whatever reason, I was like, ah, he's a fucking, he's just fucking riffing improv and all over the place.
00:07:13
Speaker
And i'm I'm probably wrong, but he's probably all it's all probably written, scripted lines. But yeah, it just kind of took me out a little bit. i just Maybe it's just because of the context, because like well we'll get into it.
00:07:24
Speaker
I won't talk about him. But he is real quick. i I was like, he looks familiar. I didn't really see much, but he plays a psychiatrist in groundshog Groundhog's Day. That's the only thing on his that I really recognize. Oh, okay. tom like There was other stuff I recognized, but it's like character actor type stuff. all Almost all these roles are like a job, not a name.
00:07:45
Speaker
you know um But yeah, so we're introduced to Jabba's Palace for the first time ever.
Storytelling Techniques and Flashbacks
00:07:52
Speaker
Oh, and it's the whole we're basically getting introduced to the conceit of the show, which is Boba Fett gets into his back to tank sees flashbacks of his whole life back to the future. Yep.
00:08:09
Speaker
Which just seems awful. Like I've had dreams about the past, but like just every time you go to sleep, you just relive your life. Well, wonder, is it because the Bacta tank has a form of sensory deprivation?
00:08:20
Speaker
Like, is he is he doing this when he's going to bed, or is it like it's healing you all around? It's like, I'm going to heal your brain, too, you idiot. I mean, is. It'll work for Vader. Yeah, I don't know.
00:08:30
Speaker
It's just kind of ah it's a weird thing. i was thinking about it watching this because the first this is only the second time I've watched the show. OK, first time amateur. I was like, this is fine. Like, I don't mind the flashbacks because I like both I want to see both of these stories. I'm not going say i like both, but I want to see both of these stories.
00:08:46
Speaker
But watching it today, i was like, The show could have just been, should have just been the past stuff leading up to how he got to Mandalorian. Like, yeah, but saw him appear and then people might have liked it more and we would have gotten season two, which would have probably been.
00:09:06
Speaker
the dome or the daimyo stuff. Daimyo, which it's, it's so, yeah. Give me one or the other. I think Disney just kind of jumped the gun. they're like, this is going to be a success because it's got, it's Boba Fett.
00:09:17
Speaker
It's a built in fucking fan base. so So we're just going to already just ship it out that he's a hero out of nowhere. So, I mean, like we talk often about the hero's journey, you know, and he's not like a Mary Sue or nothing, but like we skipped a hero's journey.
00:09:29
Speaker
He gets out of the Sarlacc pit and is like, I'm a good guy. Well, um, I don't know. I i've mean, he's humbled a bit by the Tuskens. Yeah, that's what i was going to say this time around, too. I've noticed it more. It was like when he gets, you know, he gets found and he gets taken by them.
00:09:47
Speaker
Yes, he does offer to help that one dude. But I think it's just because it's like, well, I'm getting out of here. And if I let you go, you won't rat on But then the guy rats on him anyway. The little or Greedo guy. Rodian.
00:09:58
Speaker
Yes. Rodian. Or we escape together. And when something big comes after us, I trip you. Yeah, I don't have to then i don't go be faster than the creature. I just have to be faster than you yep you. You are a contingency for me. and then But living with the Tuskens and learning their ways and doing that stuff kind of is what turns him around because he sees, you know, as we see later. i mean this isn't until the next episode with the train and all that stuff. You know, it's.
00:10:24
Speaker
I think that's kind of what turns around it doesn't feel as earned because we start with him as hero because we're episode two He's already had a turn yeah exactly because we're doing since we're doing this flashback thing We're starting with him as a hero and then we're going into how it became and it's just doesn't feel as good ah Jon Favreau had a point in the galaxy or the gallery gallery thing He's like, it sounds like a cool idea to have a show where your guy's ah a badass bad guy who just goes around killing people and doing bad guy stuff.
00:10:56
Speaker
He's like, but he's like, that's not really that wouldn't make for a successful show. We didn't think which it might have, but it would have. He's like, we just didn't think that that would work the way that people thought it would. And so we had to find a way to make him more relatable and make him whatever.
Character Development: Boba Fett and Challenges
00:11:12
Speaker
Now, he that's him saying it on this official Disney gallery thing that's been released. Who knows? Behind the scenes, it was you know some execs that were like, you've got to make him a good guy. I had plans for this fucking series, and they took it out for me.
00:11:24
Speaker
Yeah. But and it's really gross. when ah So he escapes from the Sarlacc pit. I did watch the Parks and Rec thing that you told me about, the Pet and Aswalt filibuster. I didn't watch the nine-minute version that I found on YouTube.
00:11:38
Speaker
I watched the one on the actual episode, but... Season 5, episode 19 of Parks and Rec, Patton Oswalt's character has to filibuster and just kill time, so he starts just spouting fan fiction, and he kind of quotes this, like ah calls this.
00:11:53
Speaker
He's like, the fucking gloved hand of Boba Fett reaches out from the sand as he pulls himself out of the Sarlacc pit. It's like, well... exactly how he started. And it was a either a book or comic that the trivia mentioned that um this is almost exactly how he got out in that, except for in that... He uses a ordinance.
00:12:12
Speaker
ah Yeah, he well, he has his jet pack on. He telepathically connects with some other victim of the Sarlacc pit who's, like, being digested, so is part of the Sarlacc or something. And it's able to, like, manipulate the the muscles, and it uses some of its stuff to, like, squeeze the jet pack...
00:12:29
Speaker
To like set it off and it like shoots him out Or something like that I'm like I understand why they wouldn't do all that That was like in an established well former Canon legends I guess Right But like cause you what are you gonna do You're gonna it's the intro to the show You're gonna spend a half hour showing us how he telepathically talks to somebody While sitting in a ah First explain how that whole thing happens Like explain the science of a Sarlacc now for five more minutes Yeah, exactly.
Artistic Influences in Desert Scenes
00:12:53
Speaker
but like when he gets out and like the Jawas take all his shit and the Tuskens show up and they wake him up by milking this alien dick into his mouth.
00:13:04
Speaker
Yeah, that's as about as real as we're going to get. that's That's a way to say it.
00:13:12
Speaker
All right, there's a guy there drowning in the desert. Quick, jerk the cow off into his mouth.
00:13:17
Speaker
That's how it happens here on Earth anyway.
00:13:22
Speaker
um And then I really like the look. This is why I ended up looking at the cinematographer was I really like the look of when they're leading him through the desert and it's like nighttime and he's got the white shit all over him and then there's a storm.
00:13:35
Speaker
It gave me very like um seventh seal like Ingmar Bergman kind of vibes like this old like artistic kind of movie thing, but like from yeah long before either of us was born, it was a very like out of world looking thing.
00:13:51
Speaker
I mean, next episode has taken a lot of, uh, was it Lawrence of Arabia? And that's not a bad thing. Oh no. Yeah. I mean, I'm hundred percent. I was sitting there watching it and i was like, man, I've seen this movie.
00:14:02
Speaker
Yep. But yeah, this, you know what liked that they do to show you it to flashback is start black and gray. And then it fades into a little bit more color. Even later when he goes back in, it's like everything is like washed out, but it's got like this green aura and he's the only thing that's not greenish.
00:14:21
Speaker
Yeah. And then it slowly like irises out to like everything looking normal. It's at at least, you know, if you're watching the show, not on your phone, you know that we're transitioning to the past, you know, so.
00:14:33
Speaker
Yep, it's very telegraphed in a good way. When he wakes up in this camp and these little Tuscan kids just start beating him with sticks and the chief is just like, takes a sip of his fucking coffee and just shakes his head like, I know it's i know it's water, but it just looks like the dad watching people kids beat up another kid and just being like, those kids. young again, when I was his age, I beat up so many Jawas.
00:14:55
Speaker
used to have gang fights. They outnumbered us five to one. They never stood a chance. Yeah. When I was your age, I was throwing Jawas 50 feet with my left arm.
00:15:07
Speaker
And something I don't like in this one, I noticed this episode and the next one, there's some very poor CG, which Disney has come become known for doing.
00:15:18
Speaker
Sure. But like the the little skag dog things that they run around with. um we Must if. Okay, that makes sense. Like Mastiff. It's so massive. Like, it's it's not Mastiff, but it's like, ah that dog is massive.
00:15:34
Speaker
Dog is massive. Dog's fucking massive. Look at the size of that fella. and We saw those in in Mando season one, and they looked better. It's like, hu you've already got the rendered file. Just put it here.
00:15:46
Speaker
We had to record over that one, though, because we're trying to save money. So we don't have enough ah hard drive. We're running out of hard drive space. We only have 10 petabytes of hard drive space. Just record over Mando season one. Everyone's seen it.
00:16:00
Speaker
What is this, BBC in the 60s? What is this, and fucking NASA after the moon landing? You ever heard the interviews about that, like how we can't go back to like we we lost all the footage? and everyone's like, what do you mean we lost all the footage? Like, well, we're saving money, so we saved we taped over it.
00:16:16
Speaker
Hard blink? What? Did you tape over my baseball game? Did you tape over my moon landing? Linda! Linda! We can't afford to go back to the moon.
00:16:29
Speaker
It's like in basketball when he goes back to watch the Reggie Jackson game and somebody tapes like animals getting hit with cars. the the Fox special or something. God, how how long till we're there? They'll just make it fucking people that got iced up.
00:16:45
Speaker
So the guys who I like wrote down descriptors for the chief, which is easy, the kid, and then I wrote Predator for this other guy. Yeah, which I misspoke about. I remember saying something where I thought this was the same chick that was in the Northman TV show. It's not.
00:16:59
Speaker
This is a stunt person who this is the only – she has like 79 roles. This is the only one that doesn't say stunt or stunt double. It says Tuscan Warrior.
00:17:10
Speaker
Oh, okay. And she's done a lot of Disney work. um She was Nicole. that's No, sorry, it's not Disney. She was ah Miss Marvel's stunt double, for sure, and a slew of other things.
00:17:25
Speaker
There's something else that she did on Star Wars that was... Oh, Mandalorian. She's a stunt person on Mandalorian, too, so... Okay. That makes sense, because they're like, well, you're already in the volume. Let's just ah put a different hat on and... Yeah, you're fine with wearing all this clothing and still being mobile.
00:17:43
Speaker
Love it.
00:17:45
Speaker
Also, so when he runs off here, he escapes, tries to take Red Greedo with him and that the like guy rats him out. When he runs off into the- Red Greedo is like these, sorry, Red Greedo is being like, hey, we got Black Mike here. Like, what?
00:18:03
Speaker
I'm just Mike, dude.
Character Spotlights and Humor
00:18:05
Speaker
i mean that's That's a Star Wars thing. We got black chrysanthemum or whatever coming up in the next one. i mean You know what? Point to Derek because that is a Wookiee with black hair.
00:18:15
Speaker
So they called him Black Santa. When he gets out into the desert and they have like this haze over the stuff and whatever, and he's fighting this dog, this shit looks like trash. Yeah, I agree. It like either take the haze filter off or like it's it is Tamar Morrison there.
00:18:34
Speaker
Yeah. Fighting a fake creature, obviously. Why does he look like a cartoon? like He looks like he's out of the Catwoman 2004 movie. That's just his face.
00:18:46
Speaker
ah So how dare you besmirch the good name of Cat Cat? I can't straight face. So Fennec Shand wakes him up after he has that dream.
00:18:57
Speaker
We got a suit up scene, which is it's like a really slow motion version of Iron Man suiting up because he's got little robots helping him put on his gear and guards that are stopping for fried chicken and shit.
00:19:12
Speaker
And we meet a cast of characters because he's getting tributes from all these people since he's the new crime boss. ah Doc Strassi is the first one i just wrote down because they voiced by Robert Rodriguez.
00:19:25
Speaker
Oh, also, I want to i don't think he's spoken yet. Is it
00:19:30
Speaker
Yes, yeah, I don't know if he speaks in this one but He's a returning He's from episode 6 Yeah You know who voices him? and Matt Barry yeah Yeah Fuck yeah he does This guy's delightful Yeah, he can voice just about anything And just give it a little fucking nudge up ah Excuse me sir It's like, are you still trying to are you trying to do a 3PO?
00:19:55
Speaker
No. ah you sure? Yep. Do you know the odds of us getting out of this alive? but yeah It's just so overly theatrical. That's why he works well in the...
00:20:09
Speaker
inferior what we do in the shadows tv show it's still good though it's still good just inferior to the movie put it off for a long time because i'm like no there's no way there's no way it's good there's no way it's funny i love the fucking movie so much it's still fucking good energy vampire they do a great job with an energy vampire because we all know one if you don't think you do it might be you But it's funny when this guy comes in, ah the Doc Strassi guy, he's like, this is weird.
00:20:38
Speaker
I used to work for him. yeah like feic shit Yeah. It's weirder for him. Trust me, dude. He gets it. And I like when he leaves, he's like, may you never leave Mos Espa. He's like, dude, even fucking Trandoshan compliments are threats.
00:20:53
Speaker
Yeah, because it's like, i hope you stay forever or you're going to die here. like i hope not I hope you die tomorrow and your body just stays here forever. That would be awesome for me.
00:21:04
Speaker
Someone's going to put your skull on top of that throne or on the ground right next to that little C-3PO head. going to turn your fucking helmet into a chip and dip bucket. Oh, my God. I need a Boba Fett popcorn bowl.
00:21:17
Speaker
I mean, you've got the helmet. Just flip it upside down. I'll never be able to wear it again. Oh, my hair's all buttery.
00:21:25
Speaker
um But yeah, then you're supposed to meet the mayor. that dandruff? No ranch powder.
00:21:32
Speaker
But his majordomo comes in instead he's like, they're like, okay, we'll just leave your tribute and go. And he's like, yeah, that's another misunderstanding. An understandable misunderstanding. You are supposed to tribute my or my guy Yeah, and Fennec's hand is like, should I kill him? Whitney was watching it with me, and she just goes, yeah.
00:21:52
Speaker
Yep. Yep.
Leadership Style of Boba Fett
00:21:56
Speaker
Awesome. Our gift is letting you leave unmolested. I don't think that's going to work out the way you think it is, but...
00:22:03
Speaker
First of all, two things. Boba Fett's the one who's like, no, just don't kill him. And Fennec Shand's the one like, yeah, our gift is, you know, she makes it all eloquent. Also, is there an option where I can leave molested if Fennec Shand is there?
00:22:15
Speaker
Like, is there an option where I leave um completely completely molested? but like When she says unmolested, I'm like, well, but do we have to? or Oh, no. What if I were to insult you, you dirty, dirty girl? Yeah.
00:22:29
Speaker
And then we have the two Gamorreans come in and like she's like, we need to kill them because they they didn't ah betray their master, ah Bib Fat Tuna.
00:22:42
Speaker
Yep. They didn't betray him, just like they didn't betray Jabba when he left. But... Boba Fett's trying to do things differently. So he's like, well, they do have loyalty and I want to reward that. Will you be loyal to me if I let you stay on? and they're like, fuck yeah, bro. Yeah, that's our deal.
00:22:58
Speaker
That's what we do. But this is one of many bad ideas he has that are going to lead to problems. Because like this next part, when they go to town, he's not riding on a litter, which is I guess what those carts are called that the huts are always getting carried around on.
00:23:14
Speaker
Yeah, or the platform with people carrying you. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like that cart, I guess. Yeah. The platform. um Because he's like, I'm not going to be carried around like a useless noble. And she's like, the people here see it as a sign of power. You might want to do what they do.
00:23:28
Speaker
And we get a lot of comments in this one and the next one of people just being like, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see your litter. I didn't know you were here. Yeah. um I would have made a much more grand entrance or I would have greeted you better if I would have known. i didn't. Where's your where's your litter?
00:23:42
Speaker
Are they behind I get it, though. He wants to be ah ruler of the people on the street level, you know? Yeah, absolutely. He wants to be more of a Robin Hood. Yeah. And then we get to meet, we get to see Max Rebo and another, ah whatever the Finger and Dan people are called. I had it.
00:24:00
Speaker
Bith. Bith. I thought of it while I was sitting there, and i was like Jack's going so proud, and then I completely forgot. I'm still proud of you. i mean, you had Red Greedo. ah But I love that the trivia said this was an acoustic version of the Cantina song. I'm like, sounds like a Calypso version to me. There's like steel drums and shit. It's like... boom ticket doning Fuck yeah. Yeah, it's a nice little ah remix.
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah, you just hear like... And they're at... um but bo rule and they're at um Garza Fwip's Club slash brothel slash whatever this is. I would drink a Garza Fwip.
00:24:39
Speaker
That sounds like a ah fun beverage. Well, so would i when Jennifer Beals walks in. Dude, first of all, keeping it tight. She looks yeah fucking phenomenal. Also, does everybody just look better as a Twi'lek?
00:24:52
Speaker
Well, that that was actually my note right before she comes in, those two like Twi'lek servants come in ah to like take the helmets and clean them and whatever.
Cultural Significance of Twi'leks
00:25:00
Speaker
And I was like, you just got two sexy Twi'leks walking around. There's a dude and a lady and they're both just like the hottest version of a dude and a lady you can get.
00:25:08
Speaker
I mean, that's why these people were enslaved as as as sex slaves for a long time. And we talked about on another episode how, like, food is scarce. So being really overweight was a sign of just real prosperity and richness.
00:25:22
Speaker
And it's very rare to have an overweight Twi'lek. Food might be scarce. ah but like I guess, like... sugar and fats because this fucking dude is eating lots of protein oh I bet he you're not getting this fucking 14 pack he's got going on if you if you don't eat protein constantly he has been fighting since the Clone Wars and then into the Empire on Ryloth alright that's a but it's a fighter's body right there alright Paul so I think it's time we you know made a trailer do we have to like yeah people keep asking so we're gonna deliver what are we supposed to do in this damn trailer
00:26:00
Speaker
You know, we're just gonna talk about shit we do here. We theme our months, right? Like, what do we... I mean, I know we've done stuff like musicals and animation months and creature features, all sorts of stuff, but is that what you're talking about?
00:26:12
Speaker
Yeah, it's something kind of like that that I'm probably gonna sit there and tell people, you know, we're on all social medias. We're on the Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, and it's all under Flicks and Friends Podcasts.
00:26:23
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Yeah, I guess so, if they're not tired of hearing that by now. Yeah. So, but yeah, that'll work. Should we press record? Yeah, let's let's press record right now. Hey, mister, I extra $3. I was wondering if there's any way you know I can spend it. Have you heard of Patreon?
00:26:38
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Never heard of it. What is it? You go to patreon.com slash worst people, give me your $3, and you can listen to a bunch of stuff that's way too inappropriate for your age. Oh, but I'm actually pretty old. I just sound like this. It's like a Benjamin Button thing.
00:26:51
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But anyway, I was going to ask you, what if I got my mom to give me a couple more bucks and I could give you more money? Oh, that's even better. You can get ad free $5. $5?
00:27:01
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00:27:14
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No more commercials. No more commercials. Oh You get to hear us talk about a singing cop show and more. Well, golly gee willikas, Mr. and Miss. Thanks for all the information. I'm going to go see if I can find a mom to give me $5. Let's go beat that kid up and take his $5.
00:27:31
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but She like runs this place. It's basically just Boba Fett's like, hey, just want to let you know. Nothing's going to change. I'm here to help you. Let me know if you need anything.
00:27:42
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You'll do well as long as I rule. Yeah. Give him back their helmets, and his is full of coins. like i love Fennec Shand's line. She's like, yours is shinier than mine. Yeah. Well, I'm the boss, so.
00:27:54
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And then we have like this is the Rodriguez-ness of this. And I think this is pretty well done, especially once the chase starts. But they get jumped by these assassins. the I'm not a huge fan of the like laser shield circle thing. I know that's like a tactic. You know, you keep your people in so they can't your enemies in so they can't get the upper hand.
00:28:13
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He's got a jetpack. doesn't he Does he have it on him right now? he does, doesn't he? He could just easily just go up there. I know he doesn't want to leave Finnick behind, but as soon as he goes up and over or drops some ordnance on one of them, they're going to turn their back, and then guess what?
00:28:30
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Finnick Shand. Like a master assassin. I love how he introduces her as that everywhere he goes. He's like, oh, Boba Fett, this is master assassin Finnick Shand.
00:28:41
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Okay, I'm already scared. ha ha. You don't have to. so I saw her. The Gamorreans come in rescue them. it's a little bit of It's a little bit of a sloppy fight here, but we do get some cool action. But as soon as these dudes take off...
00:28:56
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and try to like run up on the buildings and start parkouring all over the place. First of all, Boba Fett just blasts one of these dudes with a wrist rocket, and he just no longer exists. Yeah. like it's not I mean, it's Disney, and it's Star Wars, so we're not getting like blood splatter, but this thing hits him, and it's just like there's just a burn mark where a person used to be. They're like, well, in this universe, get vaporized, and you go straight to heaven.
00:29:17
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whatever Whatever this version of heaven is, you're probably there, buddy. Because you're not on this plane of existence. You go straight to the top floor of Coruscant. oh no that's where Sith live oh okay well never mind I don't know if he's the top floor maybe he was he'd have to be he he's up there he'd have to be the top floor who's gonna be higher than him Mace Windu fell a long way he's a long way down he's alive dude I'm just kidding but yeah they have this rooftop I could write it let me know I mean that's what Sam Jackson keeps saying I got the time
00:29:54
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But they have this rooftop chase with like the parkour and whatnot, which is it's fine. It's just you jumping across roofs like we saw in Obi-Wan. It's actually one of the better versions of it, though. i I really like the part where the dudes are trying to they're trying to get away from her, so they kind of like they jump off the roof and like grab this pole and spin around to go to the other side of the roof that's blocked yeah off.
00:30:13
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Very cool. um They think they scare her off the roof.
Fennec Shand: The Master Assassin
00:30:19
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But she comes up and cuts him off. Surprise, motherfucker. I love she's got her her fucking whatever, she's her spear or whatever she has. She's got his. She took one of theirs. Oh, yeah, yeah. she's Because they had this look like, dude, we got you two on one and you're unarmed. And she's like, I'll take them odds.
00:30:34
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yeah check my ah Check out with the my electro paddle, bitch. But she just like she looks at the two and she's like, this guy looks a little more scared and just fucking bats the other one off the rooftop and she's like, you're coming with me.
00:30:45
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Master assassin. Yeah, this guy's not going to talk. You, I bet I can get to squeal. Oh, boy.
00:30:53
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So there's another flashback. This young Tuscan just takes Boba Fett and Greedo to like a farm where these, not Greedo, sorry, the Rodian. All my notes just say Greedo or Red Greedo. That's fine because anybody listening is like, it's not like a fucking super nerd is like, just let him call him Greedo. It's fine. I understand what he means.
00:31:13
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Retto. His name is Retto. Retto. There we go. He takes Boba and Retto to like this farm just to watch these like Zabrak. No, not Zabraks. What the hell are these things?
00:31:25
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Nick toe. Nick toe gangsters are like just beating up these people on this farm, taking shit, doing whatever. He like just takes them there and then leaves and takes them off to go hunt for water. And i'm like, well, why'd you bring them here?
00:31:36
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does this have to do with anything? ah person I was like, oh, this must be when he's like, you can help us with these guys. But that doesn't come up till later. All I can assume is that he, this young kid didn't know where, like that it was there.
00:31:48
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like he's he's going to hunt black melons or melons, whatever. And just like, oh shit, trouble. All right, let's get out of here. Because, yeah, like the Nikto aren't a threat so far, in this story at least. The Nikto aren't a threat to the Tusken Raiders. like they are all They're ready to leave him alone.
00:32:04
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It's just Boba Fett needs their speeders. Yeah. Yeah, and when he does that Terminator 2 fight. Pretty cool.
00:32:14
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But yeah, he they take him he takes them to start looking for the melons in the ground. And I just love the that Retto keeps finding them, and he's just like, meh. And Polifed's like, dude, what the fuck? I haven't found shit.
00:32:24
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I'm like, it's because you don't have hot dog fingers, dude. With suction cups in the end, he can feel it. Yeah. But I like when he's talking to him and he's like, hey, buddy, we could have escaped if you would have shut the fuck up.
00:32:36
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Hey, I'm talking to you. You had to go and blab your mouth. He's like, I'll choke you out with this fucking chain. Oh, you can hear me now. All I caught was him saying Sleemo. was like, I got the context of what you're saying.
00:32:48
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All right. Retto finds some something scaly under the ground and he's just like, what's that? And keeps poking it. And it's this big monster thing that comes up.
00:32:58
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And the monster is cool. It gives me very um ah Ray Harryhausen vibes. And I guess ah Robert Rodriguez came up with the idea for it.
00:33:11
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And I actually just recorded on my phone something from the the gallery thing because it was a really cool. So he was like, I had these little toys and like I took it back to my homemade film days. I had little toys and I was like putting them together and making a little model. And he's like, I was going to a stop motion thing to show my team the concept I came up with.
00:33:28
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And he's like, but then I thought it would just be easier to film it. So check this out. It's kind of interesting.
00:33:37
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Oh, man, I remember this. That's pretty fucking cool. Pretty awesome. I mean, that's what happens when you're a bored millionaire with the equipment to do shit like that. Yeah, exactly. I could explain it or look at this.
00:33:55
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And they they specifically referenced Ray Harryhausen multiple times in the gallery thing. And you can see it. I mean, this thing has... Kraken vibes to like its face, the way it looks. And then it's got the this crack arms and this thing is cracking, man.
00:34:12
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But Boba Fett ends up defeating it um since we're back on Tatooine much the way that Leia defeated Jabba. Yeah. Except for this thing's a little more of a threat physically than Jabba was. v he jumps He jumps on his back and chokes that with this chain. The best part of the fight, though, is because Boba Fett, being who he is, like chains up both of his hands on one side. This thing looks and just double fucking punches him with both of his left arms and sends him flying. He's like, you know I have four arms, right, bitch? Yeah.
00:34:43
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Also, these two are chained up. Now they just have to work in tandem. Oh, cool. You give me one big strong punch. Yeah, I have to double punch with everything. no You've made me stronger than you ever you have never knew I could be.
00:34:57
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But not only does he choke this thing out with the chain like Leia, he saws its head off. Oh, yeah. Which good time. And they go back to the village. You know, Robert Riggs was like, let me show it.
00:35:09
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Yeah. Let me show it. There's a version where he did it. They were just like, you're not putting that in the show. He's like, well, I spent $10,000 doing it. And they're like, we don't care. Doesn't matter.
00:35:19
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We're trying to sell toys, dude. We can't be called the Slave 1 anymore. but do You can still sell it as a toy. It's a fucking... There was a name for it in the trivia now and I don't remember.
00:35:31
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know the the actual creature. I mean, there was a name for because it's from something else. I actually watch the subtitles on. It's just called Desert Creature in this. Yeah. In the in the IMDb trivia, someone said what it was called because it's from some other book or some comic or something.
00:35:45
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But, you know, they sell the toy with the name of it and it's got, you know, it it bends and articulates. You can put it on four legs. You can have it up on two. It does all the stuff. Detachable. Also, it has a detachable head.
00:35:56
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I like that. Detachable head. Detachable creature. He gets back. The chief gives him some water, which is a nice way of being like, all right, thank you for saving my son or daughter.
00:36:10
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my young My people. Well, it's specifically because I think this is the one that's his ah the spawn. Oh, OK. I just kind of assumed it was just like, hey, thanks for saving my peeps.
Show Reception and Narrative Impact
00:36:22
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OK. But you're you're probably right. That is the end of this episode. And a short one. Yeah, it was like 38 minutes, but it ended at like 30 because all the credits and everything at the end.
00:36:36
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I remember watching this and, you know, of course, being who I am, just checking out the general pulse and it not being good of ah fans. I think people are just too ready to hate this this show because, sure, I don't like...
00:36:50
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everything that's in this series you know i do have my gripes i think there are parts that are weak but at the end of the day this episode right here i was hooked next episode i'm even more hooked but people were just ready to kind of hate this show because it's like it's not my boba fett yeah because we've talked about before you got your boba fett it's mandalorian that's your boba fett yeah they're trying to do something else and i actually never thought about it this way but you nailed it Give me the flashback stories as a story.
00:37:22
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And then season two, which we would hopefully get if you do it right, would be what we're getting now. Right here. but And I mean, i think people would like it more, but would it have the same viewership as the Mando seasons? I don't know, because i feel like at that point, because Mando came out, we talked about how it like.
00:37:40
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It was a breath of fresh air for so many people. But after the two seasons, I felt like there were people around me already that were like, oh, there's enough of this, all this content, because they were doing their Marvel shows and their Star Wars shows. And like, I think people were already getting fatigued. I don't know, but I would have appreciated I think it would have been cool.
00:37:57
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I would have liked that much more, I think. Well, that's it for this week. Next week, we'll be back to talk about Chapter 2, The Tribes of Tatooine. Ooh, that's a great fucking shot.
00:38:08
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Is it the the one of the things that came with your four k No, there's no 4K of this one. They did not hey have not put this one on physical media. Shock. This is just it's just a piece of concept art.
00:38:20
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I was searching for images from that episode, and that was like there were 45 of that and like nothing else. I was like, well, this is apparently the one people like. that it is That's is a good reason. and Don't forget to check out our Patreon at patreon.com slash worst people because you can get these episodes early and ad free plus a bunch of other content for bad movies, worst people, which you know all about because you're already there on the feed listening to it there right now.
00:38:46
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Right now. Currently. As we speak. Thank you guys for tuning in. Thank you. I've been Derek. I'm Jack. ah Don't work for skug holes. It's not worth it.
00:38:58
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Is that from this episode? i don't know. I like it though. I know.
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