Summary: In flashbacks, Boba Fett trains with the Tusken Raiders and earns their respect. They are attacked by a train and many are killed. Boba goes to a nearby outpost and fights some people and takes their speeders. He teaches the Tuskens how to use them and they destroy the train with them. Boba learns that the people are spice-runners and he negotiates a deal with them. In the present, Boba learns that the mayor sent the assassins and he confronts him. Boba returns to Garsa's and learns that Jabba's cousins, the twins, have arrived to lay claim to Jabba's throne.
The Good: As a standalone story, this is pretty good. It's an enjoyable arc to watch Boba and the Tuskens mutually gain respect for each other and help each other out. It's nice to see Boba learn how to fight through hardships, and it was amusing seeing the Tuskens attempt to learn how to use speeders. I liked seeing Boba negotiate with the spice runners. The suggestion is that he learned how to lead a criminal operation through his interactions with a crime syndicate while learning from the Tuskens. I'm curious to learn more of what he picked up from his past. I enjoyed the little bits of world-building we were given. The spice runners going through the dune sea is sensible in this universe, and I really liked the inclusion of the magical lizard that the Tusken Raiders use to find the branch to use for their weapon. Overall, this episode is enjoyable enough but I am short on things to talk about, which is evidence of how simplistic of an episode this is. The Tuskens story is simple fun and the action is nicely directed. The spice runners' train is a cool new piece of Star Wars technology. The scenes in the present are fine enough story progression as Boba works with the mysterious mayor and meets the twins, who are likely to be his main enemies. The Bad: While the simplistic nature of the show is still fun, I am left wanting more. The first episode promised more character work, complexity, and intrigue and yet we hardly got any of that in this second episode. That made the entire episode feel flat and it never sucked me in all the way because I was given very little substance to latch onto. The scenes in the flashback ended up being frustrating. Unlike the first episode, these scenes revealed little about the character of Boba, and I thought that this story was almost entirely unnecessary. The scenes went for far too long, and I am much less interested watching this story of Tusken Raiders fighting a train than I am watching the story of Boba leading a criminal operation. The opening sequence with the assassin did not impress me. Evidently, he was not afraid to die at Boba's hands, so why on Earth would the threat of a rancor make him reveal who sent him? That is very inconsistent, and it reeks of the writers shoehorning a way to get him to release information at a time when it should not happen. I continue to be disappointed by "Star Wars" TV shows because of how fanservice-heavy they are. I get the sense that the entire thought process behind this scene was to call back to the rancor from "Return of the Jedi". The Unknown: Did the mayor send the assassin? If it wasn't him, then who was it? And why would the assassin lie about it? How will Boba handle the hutts? Best Moment: Boba negotiating with the spice runners. Character of the Episode: Boba. Conclusion: This was your standard "Star Wars" fare. Some simple character work, a mission-of-the-week style story, and some completely safe storytelling. Last week promised a more complex show, but this episode returns to Disney's realm of safe, predictable, and uninspired. It's nothing special. Score: 56
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