’The Book of Boba Fett’: Franchise Savior Or Killer? [Bingeworthy Podcast]

Bingeworthy has returned—the relaunch of a fairly-long dormant Playlist TV podcast that will no longer stay asleep! We’re in and have been in, a new age of streaming - the uber years beyond Netflix. Everyone has their “+” subscription service and, hell, Disney+ only launched at the very end of 2019 with Apple, Paramount, Peacock, and many others will follow in their footsteps.

This episode, #1 as we consider it a total reboot, relaunch, focuses on Lucasfilm's "The Book Of Boba Fett," an extremely hit and miss show and arguably the worst Lucasfilm series to date. Written by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, the head's of "Star Wars" on TV these days, and directed and executive produced by Robert Rodriguez, "The Book Of Boba Fett" went something like this: terrible, boring, then more interesting when it decided it was no longer at all concerned with its title character. "The Book Of Boba Fett" became "The Mandalorian" 2.5, and while that was more interesting, it was also very strange for a show to just abandon its lead character, pivot to Mando, and oh yeah, slather us with fan service cameos while they were at it.

Favreau discussed in the past and teased how different this show would be, saying that it was influenced by "Game of Thrones," but if interweaving A, B, C, D, E, and more storylines were the goal-- just like uhhh... all television that juggles multiple storylines, it was a major failure. While it wasn't a total wash and there were interesting things within it, we'd love if Lucasfilm could figure out their "interconnected" storytelling world with a bit more finess.

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