![]() ![]() He’s there to kill Boba, and their fight is brutal - Boba has to at least cracked a couple ribs. The Hutts and the Pykesīoba is rudely and violently awakened from his Bacta bath by Black Krrsantan, the massive Wookiee gladiator who’s apparently now working for the Hutt twins. Lortha Peel isn’t happy, and Boba angers him more when he gives him the number of credits he thinks the water is worth rather than what the monger is charging. Instead of fighting them, Boba gives them jobs with him. Jobs are scarce and inflation is terrible, so they steal what they need and want. ![]() Between the bike colors (red, yellow, green and blue - all four possible colors for a lightsaber) and their cybernetic body parts, the gang brings an intriguing mid-century sci-fi vibe to the episode.ĭuring this exchange, Boba learns that, well, adults just don’t understand what’s really going on in town and these kids are acting as sort of a Robin Hood outfit. ![]() When Boba and Fennec confront the gang outside a cantina, they’re drinking (probably) stolen water near their sweet speeder bikes. The monger says the gang has been stealing his crops. Employing the local misfitsĪt the beginning of the episode, local water monger Lortha Peel (Stephen Root) requests the assistance of the Daimyo Boba to get rid of a local gang of young criminals who have enhanced their bodies with droid parts. After burning the dead Tuskens with their sacred gaffi sticks, he leaves the camp with revenge in mind. Boba says he’ll take care of the bikers, but returns to the Tusken camp to find it burned down and all of the people slaughtered. He rides to Mos Eisley to talk with leaders of the Pyke Syndicate about solidifying the deal made in the previous episode, where the Pykes are to pay the Tuskens in return for traveling across the Dune Sea.īut the Pykes tell Boba they already pay the Kintan Striders biker gang for protection. More important to the story is the flashback to Boba’s final moments with the Tusken Raiders. Still, since Kamino was destroyed in The Bad Batch, it’s nice to get more looks at Boba’s childhood home that he will never be able to return to. The flashbacks are shorter in Episode 3 we’ve actually seen the bit with kid Boba on Kamino already. This is when we get flashbacks to Boba’s past. We’re seen Boba Fett in a Bacta bath at least once in each of the first three episodes of his series. There’s something likable about loner bounty hunters taking long baths to sort their stuff out (looking at you, The Witcher). *Spoilers ahead for The Book of Boba Fett, Episode 3* “The Streets of Mos Espa” may be shorter than the first two episodes and much lighter on character development, but it sets up key plot points for the rest of the season and get fans theorizing ahead of the next week’s episode. In the third episode, Boba hires a gang of local youth bikers, has more short and sad flashbacks to Kamino and his time with the Tusken Raiders, gets a new pet, is beaten up by a Wookiee and learns a bit more about the mess Mos Espa and Tatooine have been in since Jabba’s death. The Book of Boba Fett Episode 3 is short, sweet and to the point - the point being, setting up the possible big baddies of the newest Star Wars series on Disney+. ![]()
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