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The real Boba Fett, please stand up. I debated on whether or not I would chime in but ultimately I believe this needs to be said and I hope Jon Favreau reads this. You are giving us a geriatric Boba Fett that bumbles through misrepresentations of weakness and erroneous ambition. The Book of Boba Fett waddles around the threshold of low expectations and confirms our 80s born fandom fears that Disney would eventually bloat and gentrify the savagery of the galaxy. I can go along with other Disney incarnations in the galaxy, but don't mess with Boba Fett. Jon, Boba Fett is a bounty hunter who performs calculated and cunning acts of survival in a cold expansive void created by a brutal empire. You know this. (although I do recognize the value of your Sarlaac stomach scene) Remember that collective bitter feeling we all had when Han was cryogenically frozen at the end of Empire Strikes Back? Guess who was right there, the real Boba Fett, profiteering and self perpetuating amidst the desperation of a good versus evil struggle. He's getting paid when good is at its lowest point. (A ruthlessness well captured in Mando 1 chapter 6, but Boba would've left them dead.) Boba Fett is a badass dude and when you see his ship you're either scared for your life or in total awe that someone so badass is making things happen. You're serving us a diplomatic Boba Fett that aspires to form partnerships and "rule with respect" but such an interpretation is synonymous with a Boba Fett that would have sought a bureaucratic role with the Guild. No way, never going to happen and that is why the real Boba Fett is compelling and why he is so much more reveared and feared than any other bounty hunter in the guild. A Boba Fett that takes off his helmet and GIVES it to someone in a bar? No way, never going to happen and we're not even talking about the same character. If we look through the lens of the Marvel Multiverse, The Book of Boba Fett is the O'Doul's version where instead of swearing the characters say frick or gosh darn it. The Mandalorian's virtuous sense of right and wrong was believable because that is a separate character all together, but Jon, please... don't frick with the real Boba Fett.