Despite some bold ideas, The Book of Boba Fett Season 1 was a bit of a mess, but that doesn’t mean a second season wouldn’t work.
It’s no secret that The Book of Boba Fett is considered by many the biggest misfire of the Star Wars franchise on Disney Plus so far (Obi-Wan Kenobi gave it a run for its money). It wasn’t a mind-numbing disaster, but despite a surprising character arc it felt half-baked and served more as an interim between the second and third Mandalorian seasons
Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett) and Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand) were never allowed to fully dig into what made their characters enticing when they cropped up in The Mandalorian. This was mostly due to Din Djarin unexpectedly hijacking the season midway through. In a way, season 3 of The Mandalorian began in The Book of Boba Fett, a baffling choice made even more egregious when Pedro Pascal’s show reset its status regarding Grogu’s departure without even letting more casual viewers know they should have watched The Book of Boba Fett before to learn about all that.
The exciting highs were there, and the stuff that connected to the larger story being told in the New Republic era by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni was really good, but by the end, viewers were left hurting for the intriguing structure and character progression established during the first half of the series. Maybe Boba Fett and Fennec will be back in the upcoming Mandalorian & Grogu movie, but they also deserve a project that completely belongs to them, and a second season could mend many of the aforementioned issues and set up exciting new plot lines to explore.
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There’s a high possibility that Boba and Fennec will just show up at some point during Din Djarin and Grogu’s big-screen adventure, and perhaps even the Dave Filoni-directed event movie that will supposedly arrive after he’s done with Ahsoka season 2. But as we pointed out before, the bounty-hunter-turned-daimyo and his trusted assassin companion deserve to tell the second chapter of their redemptive story arc.
A character like Boba Fett, especially now that he’s more than just a silent-type, armor-clad guy who looks cool and is killed off quickly, should be famous enough to hold an entire season of Star Wars T.V. on his own. Plus, the first volume of his series already introduced a number of strong supporting characters without ties to The Mandalorian. Ironically, The Book of Boba Fett fell flat not because of cheap nostalgia (it largely went the opposite direction), but because of an odd overreliance on the current stars headlining the New Republic era’s live-action storytelling efforts.
