Boba Fett S1E4: The Story Comes Together. More Space Millennials!

[canyonwalker]

Last night I watched S1E4 of The Book of Boba Fett. The series has developed nicely since its uneven start in S1E1. My concern back then was, "It's not clear why I care about these characters" — the main characters Boba Fett and Fennec Shand. If the previous episode started to make their challenges interesting, more than just a series of fight scenes between evil people, this episode is the one where I started to see them as truly sympathetic protagonists. It's also the episode where the story really comes together.

The flashback storyline reaches the point where Fett and Shand meet. That connects it with the storyline of The Mandalorian, which this series spun off from. The flashbacks also reach nearly the present day, or at least where the "present day" storyline started in S1E1.

One sign of how well the story gels in S1E4 is how I was surprised when it was over. "Wait, that's all?" I asked. "That wasn't even 30 minutes!' It was actually 47 minutes. Clearly I care about these characters, and the plot, now.

Space Millennials, Again!

This episode has another scene with what I dubbed Space Millennials in the previous episode. They're the young people who have stylish body modifications— the space version of tattoos and piercings— and own brightly colored hover mopeds— the galaxy far, far away version of expensive iPhones in conspicuous cases— all despite being apparently unemployed idlers. There's a slight spoiler in how Fett meets this gaggle so I won't go into detail on it except to note that they all seemed to be different people from the pod of Space Millennials Fett hired in S1E3. So it's just more amusing stereotyping on the part of the writers.