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The (Revised) Book of Boba Fett
🕑 Added 2022-01-25 11:46:33 +0000 UTCI think the Book of Boba Fett is a really good encapsulation of Disney's problem, which I would call 'algorithmic thinking.' They want to exploit popular characters and IPs for profit (hence the acquisition of Marvel and Star Wars), but they also want to remain 'family friendly' with as low of a bar to entry as possible. That's why "Slave 1" became "Spitfire," because even the mention of slavery is taboo in Corpo-America, because we don't want to acknowledge that it's somethin we still practice and maintain, we just exported it to other countries, or demoted the slaves to 'gig workers.' This makes sense in terms of 'algorithm thinking,' because you're just min-maxing the amount of money you're *projected* to make, but it misses out on the vital human element . . . Which is that Boba Fett is supposed to be a fucking bounty-hunter (literally someone who captures escaped slaves). He's SUPPOSED to be a slaver. He's SUPPOSED to be the bad guy. That's why people like him. Because WE ARE bad guys. That's what we identify with. That's what we want, but that's not somethin Corpos can understand because they're too superficial and robotic to understand the IP beyond its most base components. They think they can change a bounty-hunter into a 'something' (I'm not sure what archetype Boba is supposed to be now) without it mattering because they assume that the audience only regards Boba as an 'asset,' which is how they regard him. They have no thesis, no story, no narrative, no point. It's all just sounds and colors to make money off of an entire generation of stunted Americans who grew up eating fast-food and drinking lead-poisoned water.
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Sasquatch180
Honestly my biggest issue is that they want to be showing the "adventures" of a somewhat-redeemed Boba Fett without showing us the actual redemption. The way The Mandalorian showed him off you'd think he went through at least years of toil to become the slightly better man he is today, but the Book of Boba Fett just turns around and gives him his new outlook instantly.
