‘The Book Of Boba Fett’ Season One Finale: [Spoiler] Returns, While [Spoiler] Lives

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Warning: The following contains spoilers about the season one finale of The Book of Boba Fett, “In the Name of Honor” directed by Robert Rodriguez on Disney+.The bounty hunter Cad Bane, who mentored Boba Fett in the deeper Star Wars mythology of the animated series Clone Wars, spoke a lot of truths in the season one finale of The Book of Boba Fett. “You’re going soft in your old age,” Cad tells Boba.

No kidding. Later on in the episode, during a face-off with Boba, Cad tells him something that’s been on our minds all season about The Mandalorian spinoff: “What’s your angle?”As a Star Wars fan since the age of five, I’ve been dying for a Boba Fett movie, and actually was thrilled with Lucasfilm’s original plans to make standalone movies about the classic characters.

However, if The Book of Boba Fett was a movie, I would say the result, despite having it’s dazzling moments, is half-hearted, and slightly upsetting.To use a western term, season one of The Book of Boba Fett was pokey.Even though the season ender delivered a rollicking battle, evoking Godzilla on a pint-sized level, Book of Boba Fett lacked the intensity of The Mandalorian‘s season one finale, and in its western-inspired showdown felt a bit old hat.

That’s when Mando (Pedro Pascal) was in a near death square-off with Moff Gideon. All season long during The Book of Boba Fett, the bad guys here, the Pykes, were even goofier than the alien villains in Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.