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The technique here is almost kindergarten picture book. I think there was 1o minutes of action before there was a spoken line, then another 10 minutes and a few lines. Would not be surprised if episode 1 ends with fewer than 5 minutes of dialogue.
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Wtf this is by Robert Rodriguez? Now I’m extra disappointed. Fine I’ll give it another episode. Maybe it gets better.
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Second episode improved things and clarified artistic intent. This thing is almost silent-movie like in style. Just enough near-phatic dialogue to glue largely visual storytelling together. And the visual bits are stylized and self-consciously tropey to the point of mannerism.
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This thing is acutely aware that it’s a very late addition to a very complete world, expects viewers to be in a post-story mood. The storytelling is almost like a musical. The long, no dialogue visual action sequences are kinda like arias. The melody is the point, not the lyrics.
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The title, ‘Book of Boba Fett,’ suggests a sort of background legendarium that in-world characters would know, rather than a story for outside-world people. Like Fantastic Beasts. Maybe people in Rey’s time a few decades later know this Book.
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Ok last 2 episodes kinda redeemed the show after an unpromising start. Last week was the introduction of the weird spaghetti western bit (who I now learn is a character Cal Bane from the animated show)…plus spacecraft building porn…
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This baby yoda training montage is like total cinematic clickbait
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I watched Dune in the middle of the Boba Fett run. A brief moment where giant, scary sandworms, desert nomads and “spice” were the dominant onscreen tropes. Foundation beats both though, they don’t treat the original as sacred, so they can create space for originality.