Season 1 of The Book of Boba Fett, the Mandalorian spin-off, has ended on Disney+, centering on an interstellar bounty hunter's attempts to become crime boss on the planet Tatooine. Film critic Pavel Voronkov explains why the show turned out to be so controversial. The two seasons of The Mandalorian were, if not the best thing to happen to Star Wars since the original trilogy, then at least the best thing to happen to the franchise under the Disney label. The Boba Fett Book, the first of several planned spin-offs for the show, is starting to draw on that credibility. The series gives a number of reasons to love itself, but it seems that it still does not find an answer to the main question: why did the former bounty hunter, who turned to Tatooine's godfathers, need a full-fledged solo project.

It comes to the absurd: for a couple of episodes, the title character almost completely disappears from his own show, as if confirming his failure as a focal point. Then The Book of Boba Fett turns into the second season of The Mandalorian with a ponytail - and in this form, which is symptomatic, it looks most attractive. The rest of the time, “The Book” noticeably slips, jumping between an underdeveloped gangster drama about the redistribution of power and the fight against the drug syndicate (these things I just wanted to see in the first place) and drawn-out flashbacks about sagging with the Tusken tribe immediately after the events of Return of the Jedi. In this sense, it is especially disturbing to think what was supposed to be in The New Republic Rangers, another spin-off of The Mandalorian, which was eventually canceled, and the remaining developments seem to have been decided to be implemented in the next seasons of the flagship show, if such a “Book of Boba Fett" was still considered an adequate addition to the line. We are worried about Ahsoka, announced for the next year.

However, minus the completely incoherent script, for which all the anger should be directed to showrunner Jon Favreau, the series is close to great. There is one more heap of winks at the western classics, one more warehouse of references and Easter eggs - there is one more luxurious musical theme of Ludwig Johansson - there is. It's great to see Robert Rodriguez in the case, whose producer hand is clearly visible here - and who clearly likes to mess around in this sandbox (joke about Tatooine): the peculiar predilections of the director of "Desperado" look very funny in the context of "Star Wars" (fans ambiguously accepted a gang of young cyborg bikers on eye-catching jet-bikes, but George Lucas would probably approve). Danny Trejo has finally been pulled up - what can be the claim?

At this stage, it is not very clear what the future holds for the show: we will most likely meet its heroes in the third season of The Mandalorian (it will presumably begin sometime at the end of 2022), but directly about the second season of The Book until you hear nothing. Disney keeps its mouth shut in typical fashion. There is hope that those involved will still come to their senses and there will be no season at all, and the storylines that have been started will be developed in the next episodes of The Mandalorian, since there they obviously belong. Jon Favreau, for whom we begged for a New Year's award a couple of years ago, now I would like to advise you to lie in a spa capsule for a day or two (Boba Fett himself spends an enviable amount of time in it), gather his strength (may the Force be with you), think about his behaviour. But that doesn't bother us at all.

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