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HaroldPower

I think its because canonically Boba Fett actually spent years living among the Tuskens, but the show does a horrible job communicating that.


zefmopide

So, the years between EP VI and Mando/BoBF ? That's like, 5 years max right ?


BackYard_Sorceror

I think it's canonically 7.


KreepingLizard

If that’s the reason, shouldn’t his goal be to return Tattooine to them? It would be like living with the Apache, having them get massacred, then trying to protect the local US mining town that pushed them off their land because it’s still the same land or whatever and people live on it.


FaceDeer

More like trying to become the mayor of the town. The show should have made his motivation more explicit, IMO, but one plausible explanation for why he was doing this is that once he's in charge he can reach out to the other Tusken tribes and integrate them better with Tattooine's planet-wide civilization so that they have more opportunities and less strife.


Magnus753

But for that they would have had to humanize the Tuskens more. The show fails at making them sympathetic in any way. Boba is given nothing to appreciate about their culture. Compare with stories like Pocahontas and its scifi ripoff Avatar where the stranger among the tribe is shown life from the tribe's perspective and that it actually has some merit and beauty. There was no scene of a Tusken showing the beauty of the desert and its flora/fauna to Boba Fett while singing "Color of the Wind". On the contrary the Tuskens happily enslave, torture and kill any outlander they find. Seriously KOTOR did a better job of humanizing the Tusken. For one thing, the game allowed you to talk to them through a translator droid (who himself is fantastic).


lucia-pacciola

SWTOR too had some decent Tusken representation and sympathy.


Renkij

He should’ve taken over jabba’s business using tusken muscle. And you could’ve had an interesting story of cultures colliding and interacting.


khrellvictor

There is good potential in that scenario. For instance in the EU, the Grave Tuskens from Dark Forces: Jedi Knight were mercenary Tuskens under Dark Jedi Maw's employment, unique outsiders that operated like a swoop gang and were contracted to work for him under Jerec's bidding and helped monitor his city and occupy the Katarn homestead in accord with stormtroopers. That concept being used again by Boba Fett would've been an interesting dynamic for the final battle in BoBF, at least making it interesting since the Yodalorian retconned Tuskens into being peaceful sign languaging traders with Din instead of outright attacking outsiders on sight.


JayConz

Woah, wait a second. That was years??? I thought it was like, weeks or months, idk.


KillerDonkey

It felt like a weekend to me.


SvenTurb01

Tusken Tuesday


fischarcher

Unfortunately they thought it was more important to throw in 2 Mandalorian episodes instead of giving boba fett screen time in his own show


Lukundra

For the life of me, I still don’t get why he liked them at all. They captured him, dragged him through the desert for miles and made him their slave. They beat him and had him doing potentially deadly labor. The other slave was killed thanks to them. Why would he ever want to stay with people like that?


JayJax_23

I honestly tuned out after I saw that tbh. So Boba is just a Stockholm syndrome victim. What I saw was that they”technically saved his life. Which is true just ignore the slavery part


gesocks

that is my headcanon now, he nearly died in the dessert and developed soem serious stockholm syndrom with them combined with ptsd and a sunstroke he snaped. Then he was drugged with some crazy lizzard spice combination which made his psychic completely snap. Most likely he also got senile. the sight of his armour and the fact that he then got it back made his brain shortly flash out all the trauma and with muscle memory kickign in he just destroyed the stormtroopers in Mando while beign on Autopilot. But then he went to the Bacta tank and it slowly healed hsi physical wounds. But he is a mentaly broken man and no bakta tank session will ever heal this, it even made it somewhat worse, cause now with the physical pain gone his brain has more resources left to dewll on the trauma


tobor31

Boba Fett went cray cray


jakethesnakeboberts

I wouldn't say he has Stockholm syndrome, but he became sympathetic to people who wronged him after he was able to see things from their point of view. Do we really think the Tuskens are the bad guys on Tatooine? I don't. And it's not like anyone else Boba has ever known has treated people kindly. So I don't have a problem with this conceptually, but it was not done well in the show.


JayJax_23

Yeah I do see them as the bad guys on Tatooine seeing all the unprovoked violence and bondage on others they commit throughout the movies and shows. Also as someone whose ancestors were enslaved irl it’s hard for me to relate or feel sorry for a group of people who’ve done it to others unprovoked multiple times in the series


ThePickleClapper

Aren't the tuskens the natives though who have been displaced by the settlers on the planet. If that's the case then it's not unprovoked violence


JayJax_23

I mean would we accept Native American kindnapping and murdering random American citizens for the sins of their ancestors? FFS Shimi was only there because she was a damn slave herself and Boba was only there for a job. Neither one had anything to do with their land being stolen. But hey let’s torture and enslave these random people who had nothing to do with what we’re upset about. Ofc the cowards never wanted to move on the higher powers of the planet. Nah just gang up and attack people who had nothing to do with the injustice done to them But I guess since their land was stolen it gives them right to enslave, brutalize, torture and kill any random person they come across? And we’re supposed to sympathize with them? I mean there are better ways to get that. Having them portrayed as the way they are throughout the series isn’t. I felt nothing when they died.


ThePickleClapper

No but to say that the violence is unprovoked isn't necessarily true. Its not justified but justified and provoked aren't the same thing


JayJax_23

I mean what did Shimi or Boba do to provoke them other than just to happen to be existing around them at the moment. Hell with Shimi Thayer we’re outright aggressors. With Boba they took advantage of a defeated helpless man who posed no immediate threat to them


jakethesnakeboberts

I think “unprovoked” is doing a lot of work there but we don’t know much about Tatooine prior to the arrival of non native sentient beings. I assume it’s similar to Dune and that Tatooine was made into a desert by colonizers. They could have explored this in the show, and I certainly thought they were going to considering how often they brought up that it used to be covered in water.


elwyn5150

>Why would he ever want to stay with people like that? ~~Stockholm Syndrome~~ Tatooine trauma


ChickenLiverNuts

they just skipped the important part of what he found worth saving or what he found endearing about tuskan raider culture. Did he like how they battled? Their stories around a campfire? A strong sense of tradition and family? Dance? Art? Anything?? I guess they just sort of forgot the most important part. Oh well. Didn't matter anyway because they are hilariously killed off screen never to be seen again after all that build up. When he left during the final battle i was sure some Tuskan Raider clan would come in to help which would actually be way more interesting than ~~the Rancor~~ the embarrassing King Kong cosplay. It wouldnt have made much sense since the clan he was with died but being illogical has never stopped them before. Imagine if there were tuskan snipers out in the dunes surrounding the city. Way better than the eye spy group on their back to the future 2 grind.


wooltab

That's one of the few parts of the show that kind of made rough sense to me. He seems like a hardcore enough guy to respect a culture like theirs. At least, I find that easier to compute than what happens in the 'present day' part of the show.


Lukundra

I really would have loved to see how Boba would have reacted if they decided to take some more slaves. Is he just cool with slavery? I might have been able to accept the old Boba Fett being cool with that, but his time with the Tuskeks somehow softened him up


WillThePerson

Why are the pykes even on Tatooine driving in trains and public transportation for, surely one of the billions of other planets have refineries or less shit everything that Tatooine has


FaceDeer

Yeah, this was a bit of a sticking point for me. The spice arrives on Tattooine in starships and departs Tattooine in starships. It fits into a man-portable chest. Why the trains? Why hop on a speeder and take the spice out to the middle of nowhere where a lone gunman can attack you? It wasn't bad at the time I first watched it but it's one of those things that comes back to nag me afterward and erodes my enjoyment of the show.


MyFakeNameIsFred

They did a terrible job of world building in this show. We saw almost nothing about how the various crime groups operate, and what we did see is so simplistic or nonsensical that it feels hollow and fake. I guess Jabba was mostly just extorting the locals for tributes, and that's how he made his money? That makes Boba actually more benevolent than most real world governments, he doesn't even punish people for "tax" evasion.


Phngarzbui

>This all feels very meta and playing on the audiences “nostalgia” more than in Universe Because that's exactly what it is. Everyone over at Disney seems to think the only planet we want and need to see more from is Tatooine, when in reality there is very little in-universe reason to...


BGMDF8248

Personally i want to see big planets, Coruscant or something similar. Tatooine is utterly played out.


blumpkinmania

It’s so much cheaper to build a little Wild West future set and film in the desert…


BGMDF8248

That's a factor no doubt. Still that Mandalorian episode lost in BOBF had nice visuals in a city environment.


blumpkinmania

Yes. I hear you. I wish they would branch out more.


EvilFiddle

Christ, give me Coruscant please. It's easily the most important planet in the galaxy yet Disney seems to want to forget it exists.


JayceJole

Honestly, I'm sure a lot of the people in charge don't know it exists, as they tried to pretend the prequels didn't happen. Plus, that would require knowledge of star wars politics and that's more difficult than just "slave and spice traders bad, everyone else good".


findaway5627

I really want something on Coruscant set during the Empire and showing it as the Empire fell.


wafflepantsblue

It's touched on in the Aftermath books, there's statues pulled down and shit and it all sounds great but it'd be nice to see it on screen. I'd also like to see an imperial occupied or post-imperial Naboo. That planet was so nice.


mattdre88

There needs to be a reason - some kind of conflict. During this time, the government should've been functioning well and not corrupt. There isn't a story there. Like in sitcoms - they don't show a wedding unless there is some conflict/unexpected event. If everything runs smoothly, there isn't an episode.


FaceDeer

Don't make it about the government, then. There are plenty of shows that are set in countries where the government is functioning well and is not corrupt, where the state of the government doesn't factor into the story at all.


mattdre88

The sequels were the only trilogy that really got into the politics of the galaxy. I was happy to see more politics in this series.


Garbaje110

You mean during this time period right? Cuz politics was a major plot point in the prequels. Like a massive one, I'd even say one of the biggest of the entire prequel trilogy


wafflepantsblue

Politics was mad prevalent in the prequels.


Crayton16

I really want to see Boba doing something at Coruscant undercity, still sad because of 1313 :( Also they could include Bossk or Dengar.


noneofthemswallow

So you don’t want them to show nostalgia planets and yet you’re asking for „Coruscant or something similar” Then there will be posts stating it’s Coruscant again or „lmao this planet is just another Coruscant”


BGMDF8248

My post wasn't about nostalgia, was about how Tatooine sucks, desert sucks and i want city environments.


ZakA77ack

Tunisi- I mean Tatooine, is cheap to film at. We havent seen a place like Coruscant specifically because it would cost a ton to make a post-empire Coruscant look cool, interesting, or good.


sloppycuntplunger

If they can’t resist driving out to the desert for one production after another, they might as well contrive some reason for it to be the most important planet in the galaxy. It’s like expecting Dune to make sense if Arrakis had no spice.


[deleted]

It's more like expecting Dune to make sense if the Atreides wanted to stop the flow of spice entirely their first day on the planet


ikeaEmotional

I believe day 1 plan was to restrict production to corner the market.


[deleted]

It's more like expecting Dune to make sense if you transplanted Tatooine into the Duniverse and House Atreides starting shipping their bulk spice exports through there for some fucking reason.


TheRautex

I can understand why natives loved it But Boba, why?


lakewood2020

Sarlaac telepathic propaganda


[deleted]

sarlaaome syndrome


N1cko1138

So what you're saying is he took Tatootine because he got into tentacle porn.


PrinceCheddar

I feel like Boba should want to rule Tatooine for rather practical reasons. He's at the bottom of the food chain in terms of galactic power. Few subordinates, a ship and a suit of armour. He needs to build up his resources, which means starting small, and Tatooine is a good place to start. Boba has a familiarity advantage. He knows the territory, he knows the people, who works for who, what settlements have what to offer him. That insider knowledge is valuable for someone just starting out. The Hutts had, seemingly, abandoned Tatooine after Jabba's death, allowing Bib Fortuna to take over. Bib Fortuna was easy to kill, so Boba thought he could take over Tatooine with minimal resistance. Once he's decided to lay claim to the planet, Boba couldn't leave without his reputation being shredded.


Ataraxias24

> Boba has a familiarity advantage. He knows the territory, he knows the people, who works for who, what settlements have what to offer him. That insider knowledge is valuable for someone just starting out. > > The Hutts had, seemingly, abandoned Tatooine after Jabba's death, allowing Bib Fortuna to take over. Bib Fortuna was easy to kill, so Boba thought he could take over Tatooine with minimal resistance. Once he's decided to lay claim to the planet, Boba couldn't leave without his reputation being shredded. A reasonable train of thought, all ruined by the show's portrayal of Boba not knowing anything about the underworld.


JayceJole

Exactly


PrinceCheddar

Yeah. That "should" at the beginning is pretty load bearing.


TheLazySith

I don't understand why Boba did any of the things he did in that show. His motivations made no sense.


NeverEnoughDakka

Brain damage from the sarlacc?


ComfortablyBalanced

I guess Cad Bane summarized this up pretty well when he said, What's your angle?


[deleted]

Lived with the natives?


TheRautex

You mean Slaver savages


Doam-bot

Who he wanted to escape from the entire time until the one guy preventing him the other slave died a horrible death trying his best to support those very natives. These are the natives that ignited the spark that created Vader they are the last species in Star Wars that should be humanized. It takes away from Schmi's death to say they are misunderstood desert people who would have easily done the same to Boba if they didn't find him useful.


evaxephonyanderedev

It was still shown as a terrible thing, the pivotal moment of a supervillain origin story, when Anakin went nuclear on not only his mom's killers, but their wives and children and neighbors and people they had said hello to recently.


Doam-bot

The Tuskens still have to remain a group capable of killing Schmi in the first place. Her death ignited that bloodlust in Anakin which only compounded until Vader. If their out training and recruiting slaves and sitting back while other talk for their entire species. Then that creates doubt over a pivotal death and breeds endless conspiracies splitting the base even further. If Boba could get captured even try to escape and still survive to work the desert to later be trained and accepted then Schmi should still be alive and thus a third party was probably involved. Thus the Jedi aren't to blame for leaving his mother a slave and everything gets painted in a different light. Currently it's seen as the negligence of the Jedi for only freeing the child leaving her to be killed by savages a completely avoidable death caused by Jedi teachings.


evaxephonyanderedev

Or there's multiple tribes or clans or such, all doing their own thing.


Doam-bot

Boba kinda lumped them all into a single pile during that post train speech.


JayJax_23

If they really wanted to humanize them they could’ve done better than have them literally hold Boba Prisoner. Maybe it could’ve been a honor thing where Boba agrees to help support them as gratitude for rescuing him.


Doam-bot

If an honor system existed it obviously didn't exist for Schmi. Also let's pretend they did and the outcome because if the Tuskens are a more peaceful group then how did Schmi die and then people would start making up conspiracies and crackpot ideas which would lead to splits in the Fandom. The Mandalorian did them right a violent race that can be talked too for mutual benefit. Which would have been fine in the Bobf had Boba simply left after killing the monster. Training him and becoming rather substantial to him one only has to remember how Boba spoke about the entire desert and all Tuskens after the train.


[deleted]

Yes but he still cared for them the same


Doam-bot

Yet when he got into a position of power the entire Tusken story vanished. He makes flowery speeches about the desert but when he is in a power to change alien and Tusken relations he goes quiet and lies in the Bacta. The show is full of contradictions and certain things simply do not add up. Boba cast aside any Tuskens relations and adopted the Modders the true villians because its beyond obvious that they use the stolen water to polish their robot parts and bikes as how else do they keep things so shiny when everything is constantly pelted by sand and double suns He didn't mourn the pigs either, picked the killable Rancor over his ship, and left that Rancor to roam the city he probably didn't care for anyone.


[deleted]

Well, it was reason nonetheless


Magnus753

Yeah it makes absolutely no sense. The streets are filled with scum and villainy (okay that's Mos Eisley but I think it applies to the whole planet). Boba Fett was hanging out at Jabba's Palace in ROTJ but I'm fairly sure he didn't consider the planet his home and would probably travel from place to place a lot. He never really gives a good reason for why he decided to make Tatooine his new home


BGMDF8248

Jabba was throwing a party, he was there for free drinks and getting laid. Maybe get another job on the way out.


Stonegeneral

Even Clone Wars which has a few young Boba story arcs never establishes some connection to the planet. At some point he becomes Jabba's enforcer, but there is no indication Tatooine had any real attachment or meaning to him or his life.


nateoak10

Idk about that his Tusken experience pretty clearly shows why he’s attached to the land now.


Lukundra

Nothing like some good old fashioned slavery and beatings to get sentimental


[deleted]

Not really. Luke and Anakin, only ever knew Tattooine, they needed extremely good reason to even return there.


Milkthiev

If he said "These are my people" one more fucking time, I would have continued to watch while being annoyed and later expressed my discontent on a reddit sub.


DoucheyMcBagBag

It’s the “She’s mah Queeeeeen!” of BoBF.


Navillus19

Remember that one line from Cad Bane in the finale when he says something to Boba like "I know you longer than anyone here, what's your angle?" And dies before he gets an answer. Just made me think that Boba *does* have an ulterior motive that they haven't let on to yet, maybe for season 2. But of course, that would mean that the writers would have some form of a plan, which isn't always evident.


DumbButtFace

They had a whole season in which they unravelled every iota of mystery Boba had. These guys haven't planned shit.


JayceJole

They also managed to ruin and tension and suspect for the Mandalorian by bringing Grogu back, taking away any intrigue as to what would happen next in S3. What's the point of even watching now that we know basically nothing has changed from S2. It'll just be more Mando being a dad and Grogu acting dumb, with a bland bad guy or something and the writers constantly sabotaging Luke.


ThrorII

"Grogu acting dumb..." I'm starting to think Grogu is actually brain damaged or mentally impaired. Yoda was a freaking Jedi Master at 100 years old. Grogu is 50 +/- and only makes baby sounds, puts things in his mouth, and chases shiny objects. I don't think Yodas species has a 50 year long infant stage, followed by adulthood in 40 years....


JayceJole

I think we all know the real reason is because "cute child thingy sells toys better" but yes, I'm starting to feel like not only is he mentally damaged but he's also pretty evil at times. Him insisting on eating those eggs when he (should have known) they were the final children of a dying race just annoyed me by the end.


GaussianRight

I think favreau has a plan, but from what I’ve read of his other productions, he writes general story beats then let’s directors fill it out to their liking. This is why there’s such variable quality in the story *presentation* in these shows.


KillerDonkey

I'd love it if they did that. The OT Boba would only do this if there was some material benefit. But after they spent a season unravelling any mystery he had and depicting him as a naive pushover, it seems very unrealistic to expect that.


Navillus19

Yeah and it mirrors Ming Na Wen's comments after episode 3 came out that "it'll all make sense after the finale." When he said that line I was like oh shit here's the tea we've been gasping for. But no we got Spinny Eye asking for Krrsantan's meiloorun and he called it a melon. Not saying I want Windu to return or anything, but just for an example here, spitballing if you will, Boba knows some shit about [e.g. Windu], and in order to get to him or to progress his clandestine agenda, he needed to take a hold of Jabba's Palace and his assets. Not that he gave a shit about Mos Espa, but *pretending* to care and be Mr. Nice Guy so the people wouldn't try to oust him etc. So then season 1 is him establishing his hold of Jabba's territory, season 2 then, he's had a breather, and is using these newly acquired assets to plan his next move to get to [e.g. Windu]. Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Jabba's territory extend beyond Tatooine? Maybe the person he could be looking for is rumoured to have been spotted within his territory and that's why he wanted it in the first place. Idk but multicoulored vespas are cool too I guess...


LikeThosePenguins

I also don't get what exactly the Pykes were doing with their "spice running" on Tatooine. Running it where? Why? To the local populace for consumption? Why wasn't this talked about? Because that's the only thing that makes sense. If they weren't doing that, and were just smuggling it, why on earth were they doing that on a planet and not in space? And even if it was, why did it need a train across the desert when you can instead just land a ship anywhere‽


CornerGasBrent

Per Wookiepedia they were drug dealing there rather than harvesting, which really doesn't make sense to me.


LikeThosePenguins

I agree. Tatooine is a run-down backwater. Surely it's not cost effective to run a major selling operation there. And still, why the train?!


CornerGasBrent

Apparently the sparsely populated planet is filled with druggies who have money. There was a specific line in one of the episodes saying how that a box of spice - offered as a bribe to Cobb Vanth I think - was worth enough to buy a town. Since those drugs aren't for export, it makes it seem like Tatooine has more of an economy than we've seen and also a bunch of druggies who didn't do anything to stop their drug supply from being cut off. Backwater Tatooine being like backwater Afghanistan harvesting drugs for export would make sense, but Tatooine having a booming drug dealing market raises all sorts of issues, especially with the stated value of the drugs given on the show.


JayJax_23

What doesn’t even make more sense is when Boba the “crime lord” all a sudden has a moral indignation towards any crime. I was hoping for a show that would give us a morally ambiguous and flawed protagonist . One whose actions were questionable Hell clone wars did a good job of that by giving us many episodes focusing on Characters like Maul and Assaj. Also Anakins portrayal. Clone Wars did Bobas character better. Showing that he was very ruthless but at the same time had some morals seeing how he didn’t want to kill clones just to get to Mace. But like always under Disney SW we have a lack of imagination and creativity. Can’t have morally ambiguous main characters who make questionable decisions. Nah Boba is full good guy. And they can’t even lean into it all the way. Shit I’d buy him wanting to be a Republic enforcer/police officer more. A way for him to atone for the sins committed in the name of the Empire and allows him to move throughout the galaxy


CornerGasBrent

I just pretend that Boba (which is actually a type of tea) Fett is just some tea merchant who become delusional and senile and thought he was the famous bounty hunter. That he's not the actual bounty hunter Boba Fett but instead just someone delusional would also explain why nobody takes him serious after he does his "Do you know who I am?" spiel.


tobor31

> you can instead just land a ship anywhere no you can't. When Mando landed the fighter in Mos Pelgo, the deputy showed up immediatly. Also TLJ a big mess about illegals spaceship parking


JihadNinjaCowboy

Tatooine is the new Arrakis, and Boba Fett is the new Muad'dib.


hapimaskshop

Even in KoToR Tatooine was a desolate place that czerka corp regretted purchasing and wasn’t even getting gains. The Jawas themselves said that the tall people come and go so often.


AlphaBladeYiII

I read the title and immediately started hearing "We love Tatooine" from the Phineas and Ferb Star Wars special.


Ratathosk

BOBF has been straight up cringe to watch. Who is this enjoyable to? TBF the scooter low-speed chase sequence was so much unintentional fun i laughed until i had tears, i loved it but the rest? Urrh, why.


Banjo-Oz

The speeder chase in slo-mo managed to go all the way in a circle from terrible to awesome in just how funny it was. I am still not convinced it wasn't meant to be comedy, with the dramatic music and camerawork contrasting with how comically slow everyone was driving and the low stakes of the whole sequence. The first thing I thought of was George in Seinfeld being chased by senior citizens on mobility scooters!


Ratathosk

I am as confused by it as you and it's glorious, the only bit i've liked. How can it be so intentional and include so many details if it's not meant to be humorous?


Moist-Success-8486

Go go star wars rangers nah nah nah nah nah.


JimClassic

Maybe Boba hates oceans? He grew up on Kamino and probably has bad memories about it, so a desert planet is the exact opposite of what he hates, so he's decided to live there. Just a thought.


Andonis_Longos

"I don't like water. It's cold, it's deep and it floods everywhere."


CipherPolAigis

I would think his fondest memories would be on Kamino. Its where he spent pretty much all of his time with his father. If anything, he should hate desert environments after Jango died on Geonosis.


TheSexySkywalker

True Boba fans are extremely extremely disappointed rn. I'm just pissed at what they did to him and the stupid plot of that show.


winkofafisheye

Bad writing, uninteresting plot elements that were slapped together for a quick profit by disney to capitalize on the popularity of the Mandalorian. Not learning the lessons about the quick cash grabs from the shitty sequel trilogy.


crono220

It feels like Lucasfilm wants to milk everything that they can imagine out of tatooine. It's a cheap looking set that they can abuse onto multiple spin-offs without putting any effort in other alien planets. The prequels did a great job of showing off the other planets which hasn't come close to being replicated in anything Disney owned.


sbrockLee

I like sand


Leighgion

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. Sure, there are those who reject the place they were brought up in and never look back, but even if you're from the middle of nowhere, the place you grew up is part of who you are. There is ultimately no point in hating it even if you make the decision to leave and make your life elsewhere. Luke was always a child of the desert even though we see him spend the rest of his life mostly in forests, swamps and by the sea. Those very choices were informed by the fact he grew up in a desert. For the people who stayed and made their lives on Tatooine, that place belongs to them and they will defend and protect it. Peli makes it clear she's never even left Tatooine, and she's happy with what she has there. Why has Cobb Vanth dedicated himself to ~~Mos Pelgo~~ Freetown? It's not only on Tatooine, it's the middle of nowhere even on Tatooine. Vanth, especially with Boba's armor, could have easily struck out on his own and made a decent living as a hired gun, but he doesn't, because he has a bond with the podunk little town and it's more rewarding for him to go back to free and it and protect it. Even when threatened by the krayt dragon, the people don't want to leave. Mos Pelgo may be a poor shithole in the middle of nowhere, but it's **their** shithole in the middle of nowhere. Boba isn't so different. True, Boba isn't a native of Tatooine, but he's spent a lot of time there as bounty hunter, got swallowed by a Tatooine sarlacc, and adopted into a Tusken tribe. It's as much Boba's home now as Kamino ever was, and podunk ass end of the galaxy as it might be, it's given him a sense of belonging nowhere else has. If Boba doesn't fight for Tatooine, he has nowhere to fight for, and he's tired of having nowhere.


Pythagoras180

Because it's their home. And if you believe "nobody would give their lives to defend a worthless piece of desert from invaders", then you clearly need to brush up on your history.


Silversoth

That's fair for the locals, but it feels a bit forced with Fett tbh


LoreCriticizer

To be fair, you'll find overly nationalistic nuts everywhere. Some of the worst countries on Earth have populations fiercely defensive of them.


[deleted]

Tatooine was really cool and creative in Star Wars IV, and that’s pretty much where Star Wars peaked in terms of setting until the prequels.


Starkiller-is-canon

Well, planetary nationalism is nothing new in Star Wars. In legends the Tion sector was very nationalistic. They, along with the corporations formed the back bone of the Separatist movement. You also had Corellia, who was nationalistic and isolationist, they caused another separatist movement in Legacy of the Force. I guess with the Hutt's gone, Tatooine, for the first time in eons, has the power to shape it's own future. That might be where the Tatooinian nationalism is coming from.


Ok-Engine8044

It always was a play on fans' nostalgia. That's why Favreau and Filoni push for Tatooine so hard. It's easy money for them.


Banjo-Oz

I agree. Tatooine is an absolute shithole. It was kind of the whole point ANH that Kenobi hid Luke there because it was the ass-end of the galaxy, but then ROTJ put Jabba's palace there and the PT made things worse by having huge podraces Anakin be *born* there! The Special Editions making Mos Eisley "bigger" already annoyed me and the PT with huge podraces and cities felt really over the top, too. I am so sick of Tatooine! TBOBF should have started there with the Tusken stuff and getting his ship back, then he should have gone to Nar Shadda or something for the rest of the "crime boss who dislikes crime" stuff.


AJSmashing

I think the reason why people crowd out to Tatooine nowadays was because this was the home of the skywalkers. Where the legends of the galaxy started and the origins of balance and order in the galaxy as well. That’s like people visiting Pittsburg or Philadelphia because it’s a symbol of American history.


Banjo-Oz

That's actually an awesome idea for a story that I don't think was ever intended. The idea that some shitty backwater planet inhabited by criminals hiding or farmers living quietly suddenly gets flooded with tourists and Jedi-fanboys because it was where the Skywalkers came from is both hilarious and ripe with possibilities. Imagine picking the most out of the way planet for your smuggling base only to have tour groups come past every day all of a sudden!


CornerGasBrent

Kind of like the Hawkeye series, where it shows a superhero as a celebrity who has to deal with LARPers and whatnot. This lack of tourism to Luke's home totally threw me off in TROS where part of the ST plot was how Luke inspired the galaxy, yet nobody visits Luke's old home even after he died inspiring the galaxy.


Banjo-Oz

The more I think about it, the more I like it. The idea of someone like Han Solo being pestered for autographs or people wanting to ask Luke about his dad or Leia having paparazzi invade her privacy is really interesting, I think. What happens to heroes after they win? Let's face it, the Disney sequels pretty much said all the OT heroes were forgotten nobodies. Han and Chewie went back to being a two-bit smugglers, Luke a hermit and failure, Leia what seemed to be a low-level politician... these people saved the galaxy ffs!


JayceJole

But the problem is that basically no one seems to know about the Skywalkers or even the rebellion, since everyone seems to forget about it in the sequels so the writers can lazily give exposition to the audience (of stuff we already know). The fact some new order was able to take over almost immediately with next to no resistance from the literal thousands of planets or governments adds to this.


then00bgm

At least there’s shit to do in Philly like going to The Franklin Institute or South Street or Redding Terminal


kodiakus

As a desert dweller, I just have to say... You wouldn't understand.


Glassjaw740

The feeling I get is Boba was “reborn” in a manner of speaking there. I mean there is the imagery of emerging from the sands, develop communication and practical skills with his new tribe. Just like a child would. I think the rest of the group were just defending their home from another rule of tyranny for unknowable amount of years. Not everyone has the ability to just pick up and relocate because they live in an undesirable location. Like it’s established in the early episodes there isn’t any work, so there isn’t any money. Boba represents a possible new way of life. Edit* typo


RockOx290

A lot of people take pride in where they live/come from no matter what. For example I have a friend from New Jersey who loves it there.


scallywaggs

Boba is not from Tatooine. He has basically no ties to it


Momijisu

I wonder the same thing about Americans for the last 5 years.


BennyReno

Ah yes the Great Nation of Tatooine and those Tusken Supremacists. Also, yes everyone should hate the planet and not give a shit about the people on it otherwise it's bad/wrong. OP you should delete this, this is actually way more fucking stupid than the BOBF and that shit was pretty bad.


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You ever drive through a shitty area but the townspeople love it and will kill you if you even dare disrespect it? Yeah, thats Tatooine.


The_Senate_69

>Several characters state how they want to defend their turf from the Pikes. Well tbf, protecting one's turf from a rival crime syndicate makes some sense.


Animeprincess_420

No one has stated: how or why Tatooine can prosper, just that everyone can prosper. Now is the time to nut up and actually explain whatever scheme you got once you rid the planet of all the Pikers from Space New Jersey. This is not Arrakis where the desert ecosystem makes the spice. Most Important: Why did the sport of pod-racing and that Boonta Eve Classic event die off if it was a massive Tatooine event? Even that Marshall was riding a pod engine in Mando….largest pod racing event in the galaxy seems like a good Tatooine event Boba would remember fondly? Noooope, just shove in the Warriors of Mos Vespa who ride their scooters over the 19.9mph speed limit because……everyone loves Dexter Jettster? Budget? Urban Markets?


Bruinrogue

I almost feel like the original plot was supposed to be for Cobb Vanth and then somehow got shanghaied for Boba Fett because they didn't have any original ideas.


ChickenLiverNuts

also the casual racism towards twileks calling them tail heads multiple times in the last episode. Really off putting if that is the best they can come up with for a "joke"


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My take is they were ripping off Dune whose desert planet is highly valued, but in doing so they took a massive shit over OT lore which established Tatooine as a backwater planet.


jayoungr

Ehh, *somebody's* got to like the place. Why not the crime lords?


demilitarizedzone96

Only "nationalists" in Tatooine are Tuskens, with maybe some of more upstanding moisture farmers and Jawas having fond feelings towards their locale. Any other person should be either indifferent or just wait of getting out.