Sasha: Sorry we haven't been as experiency lately. We're here now to try to make up for it!
Ariel: That's right!
Sasha: Today we'll be talking about The Book of Boba Fett!
Ariel: Yes! And we're not messing around talking about a bunch of other stuff first like sometimes we do.
Sasha: "We"?
Ariel: (I'm ignoring you so this doesn't turn into another one of those talking about other things conversations and make me end up being a liar about not messing around.) So anybody who doesn't want The Book of Boba Fett spoiled better put your spoiler blankets over your heads right now. Let's go!!!
Sasha: You're really not kidding around today, are you?
Ariel: (Ignored!) The first thing I want to say about this is, if you haven't watched it and you don't mind spoilers, don't get your hopes up about it being a real book.
Sasha: I don't think anyone would do that.
Ariel: They might! Because it's sort of false advertising to call it The Book of Boba Fett and then it's just a TV show.
Sasha: What else would people expect when they turn on their Disney Plus channel and see a thing for The Book of Boba Fett? Obviously it's going to be a TV show.
Ariel: Yes, but it could be a TV show where someone is reading a book about Boba Fett. Sort of like an audiobook except you'd see them reading it.
Sasha: That would be a terrible idea for a show.
Ariel: Well, it's better than if it was just a big fat book sitting on a table that the camera just keeps showing you for 40 minutes and then there are credits.
Sasha: Okay, yes, that would be even worse, but it still doesn't mean somebody would turn on the TV and expect a show that's just a book ... and even if they did, you don't think they'd really be disappointed that it turned out to be an actual show do you?
Ariel: I was just being polite to the people out there who maybe might have thought that.
Sasha: Okay, great. That's very you and you're a nice person for thinking of them even though they don't exist. Can we get on with talking about the show now?
Ariel: I was totally talking about the show! And then you went and got us talking about if somebody would or wouldn't think the show was really a book.
Sasha: ... You know, you're right. I shouldn't have done that. So now can we get on with talking about the show?
Ariel: Well first I want to warn people that they shouldn't get their hopes up that it's a TV show where the characters are trying to find a book about Boba Fett, or write a book about Boba Fett, or anything like that.
Sasha: So ... now ... ?
Ariel: No, I also feel like people should be warned that even though it says The Book of Boba Fett and they think it is a show about Boba Fett, it's not just about Boba Fett. There are other people in it too.
Sasha: Maybe you also ought to warn people it's not a show about a guy who's writing a recipe book that's just about making boba tea and fettuccine.
Ariel: Wow. I did not think of that one! Listen, people, if you're hoping this is a show about a guy who's writing --
Sasha: Stop. Can we just stop this part and start talking about the show?
Ariel: Wait, what? That one was even your suggestion!
Sasha: For someone whose fiancée is like, the most sarcastic person in the world, sometimes you really don't get sarcasm, do you?
Ariel: Not when I'm focused on being considerate to our audience and on thinking about things to say about the show, I don't.
Sasha: Well, did you think of anything to say about the show yet?
Ariel: Just that a lot of people actually did complain about episodes 5 and 6 not being enough about Boba Fett. So I think that was a good warning to give people even if some of the other ones weren't.
Sasha: Hm. Okay, for once I can't argue with you. A lot of people did complain about that. Did you agree with them?
Ariel: To be honest, I was still waiting for the book to show up and I didn't even notice until later that Boba Fett was mostly missing from those episodes. Which we shouldn't be calling "episodes," by the way! They're "Chapters." It says so at the start of every one. Which it also says at the beginning of every episode of The Mandalorian, but I was letting them slide on that because they didn't call it "The Book of the Mandalorian."
Sasha: Great. But looking back on it, do you agree with the complainers that there should have been more Boba Fett in Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 of a show called "The Book of Boba Fett?"
Ariel: I almost did agree with them, but I was talking to Hettie about it and she said, "You know, Shakespeare wrote a play called 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,' and Caesar dies in scene one of act three."
Sasha: Is it also not really a tragedy like this one is not really a book?
Ariel: Oh, gosh, I didn't even think to ask Het. But anyway, after she said that, I thought, "Well, if Shakespeare could get away with it, I don't know why Star Wars can't." I mean, at least Boba Fett comes back pretty big in Chapter 7.
Sasha: Those are also good points. But I don't think I'm going to use the "What? It's just like Shakespeare" argument if someone starts complaining that way around me.
Ariel: Hopefully they won't. Because I'm usually around you, and I don't want to hear people complaining about this show since I mostly thought it was good. And Chapter 5 was great even though there was no Boba Fett in it at all!
Sasha: I'm kind of with you on that. Although I wasn't a huge fan of some of the stuff in Chapter 7.
Ariel: Like what?
Sasha: Like the way it kept being time for the good guys to have a whole-ass conversation in the middle of a gunfight, and the bad guys for some reason paused all the shooting while the good guys were talking.
Ariel: I noticed that too! But I figured maybe they were just being careful to talk when the bad guys were reloading.
Sasha: Huh. That's actually a pretty good excuse. Still not at all realistic, but nice thinking.
Ariel: Thanks!
Sasha: I also just in general thought the story seemed like when they wrote it they were expecting a bigger budget with tons of extras, and then when a whole town's worth of reinforcements shows up it turns out to be maybe eight guys in a van.
Ariel: In my brain there were a lot of those vans showing up all around town in all the different places where fighting was going on. But it would have been better if it was on the screen. Or at least if they mentioned it, like Boba Fett saying, "Wait, I thought there's supposed to be a whole town of you guys!" And the dude driving the van says, "Well, yeah, but one bunch of us went to fight in the murder-lizard part of the city, and another bunch went to the butt-tooth monkey part, and some other bunches went some other places. This town is a mess!"
Sasha: That would have been a good dodge if they just didn't have the budget for their original plan.
Ariel: I still liked a lot of stuff about it, though, and even more stuff about the other Chapters.
Sasha: Like what?
Ariel: Well, obviously the part where they killed the big sand-pit monster with one of those bombs that goes BRROWWRRRRR!
Sasha: Haha, BRROWWRRRRR!
Ariel: And also the scene where he just murderizes that whole biker gang from the air with his veep!veep!veep!veep!veep! guns on his spaceship.
Sasha: Yeah, that was a cool-ass scene. Those guys had it coming.
Ariel: They had it coming so much, he didn't even bother doing a showdown with them so he could tell them why he's killing them.
Sasha: Nope, straight to the killing. I really liked that chapter.
Ariel: Actually most all of the first four chapters were really good, except for a goofy thing here and a goofy thing there. Then Chapter 5 was totally awesome with that hula-hoop planet and his new spaceship getting built.
Sasha: Both of those were super-cool. Was it in that same chapter where he went to the planet to find Farmboy Luke and Baby Yoda, and the Rolling Bleepster met him when he landed?
Ariel: I don't remember, but I loved how the Bleepster went all bleepity-bleep when he saw that ship. I'm betting he was saying, "Hey! That's an N-1 starfighter! I flew a cute little slave boy around in one of those once, and then later I flew his senator girlfriend in one too."
Sasha: You may be right. I wondered why he bleeped so much. That idea makes that scene even better.
Ariel: I also loved how the builder-bots built the Mandalorian a bench to wait on while he was talking to Rolling Bleepster.
Sasha: Haha, yeah, he was like, "How long am I going to have to wait?" and then he looks down and sees it and he's like, "Hang on ... is this bench for me? Dammit."
Ariel: That was a great part. If it was in Chapter 6 it was maybe the best part of the chapter.
Sasha: You didn't like that chapter?
Ariel: It was a good chapter, but a little weird. Like, all the Baby Yoda space-magic lessons were cool, but REALLY didn't feel like the whole rest of the series. It wasn't just that there was no Boba Fett in those scenes ... they like, didn't even feel like they were taking place in the same galaxy as the Boba Fett stuff.
Sasha: Yeah, Chapter 5 at least seemed pretty Boba Fetty because the Mandalorian looks a lot like Boba Fett and does the kinds of things Boba Fett does, and was buddies with Boba Fett near the end of The Mandalorian season 2. But Farmboy Luke showing Baby Yoda how to do space magic was a whole other kettle of one-eyed frogs.
Ariel: I agree except that I think maybe instead of saying it was Boba Fetty, it would sound better to say Boba Fettish.
Sasha: Ooh, Boba Fetish! I like that!
Ariel: Anyway, I hope they do another season of The Book of Boba Fett, but I guess it doesn't sound too much like they will since a lot of people didn't like it as much as The Mandalorian.
Sasha: We'll just have to wait and see.
Ariel: Well, should we go on and start watching Mandalorian season 3 now?
Sasha: I vote yes!
Ariel: Cool!
Ariel and Sasha: Bye, everybody!
