The Book Of Boba Fett Episode 5 Review: Returns With A Bizarre Episode A Mandalorian To The Rescue

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Cast: Temuera Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, Matt Berry

Streaming Platform: Disney+ and Hotstar (click to watch)

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

We are experiencing an incredibly extravagant situation with The Book Of Boba Fett and not in the right direction, not in the sense of a series that is surprising us for the quality of what it proposes and for the hazards it wants to make. No, it is something that is closer to a sense of almost ridicule if you think of the crazy narrative management with which this first season has now been treated, which with two episodes from the end has essentially not fielded anything.

A war as full-blown as never before seen, some interesting – for the most part, at least – deviations from the past of the homonymous protagonist and now, an episode that has literally nothing to do with Boba Fett and her storyline., excluding the final minute. So how is this fifth chapter to be considered? Because to be honest, the much rumored return of Din Djarin that has become a reality cannot be considered disappointing at all and, indeed, although it slows down in the second half, it gives life to an ensemble that is also quite sensational in intensity, beautiful references to the past of Star Wars. and especially for lore, as well as potential clues as to the direction of the third season of The Mandalorian.

But we are not talking about The Mandalorian, but The Book Of Boba Fett (among other things we have already compared the first episodes of The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian). The moment a series puts it in a position to point this out, it is doing something wrong, something is not working and the situation becomes serious when there is so little to the ending.

The Book Of Boba Fett Episode 5 Review

But let’s proceed in order: the fifth episode, subtly titled ” The Return of the Mandalorian “, sees the protagonist Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), who the viewer finds in his usual activity, that is to hunt down a prey to bring back dead or alive. Finished his job, among other things still wielding the Darksaber, the bounty hunter strangely seems not so much interested in the cash reward, but in information. The reason? He is trying to find a new hiding place with which to rebuild a lair of Mandalorian with the Gunsmith, who survived the extermination on Navarro.

And here the series, strong for once by a charismatic protagonist on stage, explodes through dialogues and comparisons full of meaning and of capital importance for the past, present and future of the far distant galaxy. From the recent history of Mandalore and the tale of Bo-Katan’s failed rebellion – only glimpsed in Star Wars Rebels -, with the consequent imperial purge, to Din’s strenuous training with the Darksaber who traces the same difficulties from another with wonderful quotes Mandalorian with the blade, Sabine Wren. From the deep beliefs rooted in an amazing people to the painful awareness of the protagonist that, by removing the helmet in front of other people, he failed to believe, the first part of the episode is a very dense and sumptuous jumble of themes and emotions, surprises and clues.

An Incomprehensible Direction

The second half, of which we will not spoil anything, is instead weaker and worldly, despite the fact that a slight underlying pleasantness remains and always the inevitable respect for the history of the entire franchise. It is then possible to understand by now the delicate and complex situation that one encounters in dealing with this episode: it cannot in any way be defined as disappointing or unsatisfactory, but it has nothing to do with The Book Of Boba Fett, guilty of throwing away again of the precious time and miss for the umpteenth time the appointment with the necessary fundamental steps forward to forge an impactful finale. If, in fact nothing remains but the present, that is the weakest and most badly managed part of the series.

There are still no reals up for grabs, there is no villain to hole the screen, there are no secondary characters who can really give meaning and consistency to Mos Espa, and even the very characterization of Boba falters strongly, in several respects. far from the brutality and decision glimpsed in the second season of The Mandalorian. They are the foundations of any action story, missing in toto and to which the show, instead of starting to strengthen and remedy, with already little time available, churns out an episode very far from all this. These are decisions that seem incomprehensible to us, in short, as if they didn’t have a precise idea in mind on what to do with a character of this caliber.

The Book Of Boba Fett Episode 5 Review: The Last Words

The fifth installment of The Book Of Boba Fett is one of the strangest and most complex to deal with. Not for the content itself, but for its role within the overall picture of the series. And there isn’t even that much that requires complicated or manic analysis, because Din Djarin’s return to the stage is simply of an excellent level: it is an episode that brings into play a wonderful amount of themes, from the story of Mandalore – which finally fills once and for all the hole he was in post-Rebels – to the protagonist’s painful awareness of his crimes against belief, despite moments of utter need. It even gives you some potentially intriguing bases and clues about what’s to come in The Mandalorian 3. But you forgot for a moment that we’re not talking about The Mandalorian but The Book Of Boba Fett , right? The ex-bounty hunter in this episode is not there, his storyline is not present, everything that happens has no importance or relevance within the general framework of the show, which in itself had problems of poverty. generalized. It is a crazy and incomprehensible management of narrative.