Book of Boba Fett Thread

[McAvoy]

So far we got the lead up with the Tuskan Raiders capturing, training, bonding with Fett after he climbed out of the Sarlac pit.

Then post Mandalorian where he is trying to be some Mafia Boss in place of Jabba the Hutt. So he is in conflict with other Hutts and Tatooine politics.

I wonder if this is a build up to something much bigger.

I can see making Fett an anti-hero, but he's coming off too much hero and not enough anti. I'd still like to see a Star Wars setting where they go fully into the perspective of a villain and Fett originally was one freed of constraints.

What they did to the Tuskans annoyed me. They are not Native Americans, they are this in Sci-Fi masks:

They're Hillybilly's that willfully hide in the wild and take pot shots at people, not because they're a poor victimized tribal people, but because their secretive loners who hate outsiders and see them of no good being "on their property".

Or maybe they are Native American equivalents.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

[hammerofglass]

That's how Native Americans have pretty much always been portrayed in fiction, though? And some "history" as I was taught in grade school, come to think of it. The Savage Indian selfishly holding onto territory that real people could be using and unreasonably resisting the civilizing benefits of killing them and taking all their stuff. It's blatantly and deeply racist but it's baked in to the whole western genre and westward expansion mythology.

[Thebestoftherest]

Yeah, and people still act like we somehow did a benefit.

[Beastro]

So far we got the lead up with the Tuskan Raiders capturing, training, bonding with Fett after he climbed out of the Sarlac pit.

Then post Mandalorian where he is trying to be some Mafia Boss in place of Jabba the Hutt. So he is in conflict with other Hutts and Tatooine politics.

I wonder if this is a build up to something much bigger.

I can see making Fett an anti-hero, but he's coming off too much hero and not enough anti. I'd still like to see a Star Wars setting where they go fully into the perspective of a villain and Fett originally was one freed of constraints.

What they did to the Tuskans annoyed me. They are not Native Americans, they are this in Sci-Fi masks:

They're Hillybilly's that willfully hide in the wild and take pot shots at people, not because they're a poor victimized tribal people, but because their secretive loners who hate outsiders and see them of no good being "on their property".

Or maybe they are Native American equivalents.

Not originally. This is why their brief scene in The Phantom Menace is them sitting off half enjoying the pod race as it goes by, half taking pot shots at the pod racers.

That's how Native Americans have pretty much always been portrayed in fiction, though? And some "history" as I was taught in grade school, come to think of it. The Savage Indian selfishly holding onto territory that real people could be using and unreasonably resisting the civilizing benefits of killing them and taking all their stuff. It's blatantly and deeply racist but it's baked in to the whole western genre and westward expansion mythology.

It's the usual pattern with peoples no differently than the fringes of Celts that lay beyond that of Britannia left unconquered by the Anglo-Saxons and Irish in Yr Hen Ogledd. Same with every place where one people move into an area and drive others away creating a new center and margin in the area.

[TGLS]

So far we got the lead up with the Tuskan Raiders capturing, training, bonding with Fett after he climbed out of the Sarlac pit.

Then post Mandalorian where he is trying to be some Mafia Boss in place of Jabba the Hutt. So he is in conflict with other Hutts and Tatooine politics.

I wonder if this is a build up to something much bigger.

I can see making Fett an anti-hero, but he's coming off too much hero and not enough anti. I'd still like to see a Star Wars setting where they go fully into the perspective of a villain and Fett originally was one freed of constraints.

What they did to the Tuskans annoyed me. They are not Native Americans, they are this in Sci-Fi masks:

They're Hillybilly's that willfully hide in the wild and take pot shots at people, not because they're a poor victimized tribal people, but because their secretive loners who hate outsiders and see them of no good being "on their property".

Or maybe they are Native American equivalents.

Not originally. This is why their brief scene in The Phantom Menace is them sitting off half enjoying the pod race as it goes by, half taking pot shots at the pod racers.

Or maybe they're a mix of several cultures that is occasionally retooled by different writer, being a fictional culture and all.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I think Tuscan raiders were supposed to be more like urban transients, on a more city street basis, kind of like the Kazon being inspired by LA gangs.

[hammerofglass]

I was genuinely surprised Taika Waititi was not involved in episode 4. The whole scene with the kitchen droids just felt like his brand of humor.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I was genuinely surprised Taika Waititi was not involved in episode 4. The whole scene with the kitchen droids just felt like his brand of humor.

He had his chance.

[CharlesPhipps]

That's how Native Americans have pretty much always been portrayed in fiction, though? And some "history" as I was taught in grade school, come to think of it. The Savage Indian selfishly holding onto territory that real people could be using and unreasonably resisting the civilizing benefits of killing them and taking all their stuff. It's blatantly and deeply racist but it's baked in to the whole western genre and westward expansion mythology.

To be fair to Western mythologizing and even Westerners at the time of the period, there's always been at least some writers and people in the world around them that realized the Native Americans were getting shat on. Mind you, Temura Morrison has also been pretty clear that he saw parallels between the Native American inspired Tuskens and his own people (who he's done much to teach about) so the whole "Dances with Raiders" thing is heavily influenced by him.

For all of the Dances with Wolves plots' problems, the stories are coming from a place of trying to represent native peoples as people worth learnibng from.