Watched the second episode of The Book of Boba Fett last night. I have a couple of problems with this series, which really began with the first episode and have not been corrected with the second (if anything, they have been exacerbated).
The first is the extreme reliance on flashbacks to give us Boba Fett's backstory--a backstory that, so far, seems to have little relevance to his current situation. Why is he not relying on his close relationship with the Tuskens in his position as the new boss on Tattooine? Why use the apparently unreliable Gamorreans (after all, they turned on their last two employers)?
The second is the content of that backstory. Last night, my first impression was that this was just a new version of the first several chapters of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, as John Carter is first captured and then ingratiates himself with the Tharks. On second thought, I realized it was really all based on T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and his campaign to assist the Arabs in fighting the motorized forces of the Germans. In either interpretation, it all smacks of the "great white savior" trope, doesn't it?
Anyone else see it all this way?
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