Main cast: Temuera Morrison (Boba Fett), Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand), Matt Berry (8D8), Stephen Root (Lortha Peel), Sophie Thatcher (Drash), Jordan Bolger (Skad), David Pasquesi (The Majordomo), Carey Jones (Black Krrsantan), and Danny Trejo (The Rancor Keeper)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Am I the only one that notice how Fennec Shand’s personality is more like the original Boba Fett’s that the Bobo Fett in this series? She’s more silent, meaner, and sinister just by standing in a place than this Bobo.
Anyway, yes, The Streets of Mos Espa. Here, Bobo and Fennec are settling into their posts as the new bosses of Tatooine, but first, there are things they have to look into before they can start the party.
Now that Jabba the Hutt is dead, there is a power vacuum and several key players are jostling to be the top dog. Alas, Bobo is not in the equation because they, like the average viewer of this show, have zero respect for him at all.
There is one issue that needs to be addressed urgently: anarchy is the word of the day in Mos Espa, ever since Bobo killed the previous boss Lord Fortuna and seized his palace. Apparently cybernetic street gangs have been running wild, and a bunch of them have stolen water belonging to the water-monger Lortha Peel.
This is the cue for the street gang to appear: freaking color-coded brats full of Buffy-speak and brassy attitude that feel more at home in discount MCU or CW cape-crap universe than Star Wars, complete with a long-drawn chase scene that delivers nothing but profound relief when the whole cheap-CGI infested, interminable cringe of it all has ended.
Meanwhile, Bobo just walks around and, for some reason, he seems reluctant to kill anyone and anything now. The most action he gets into is some flailing around in the now obligatory flashback-of-the-episode moment and I don’t get it. Why not just make this fellow a brand new character instead of disgracing the name of Boba Fett like that?
Even if Boba had been a new character, he’s still a boring character as he doesn’t do anything of interest here, aside from reacting to the characters around him. He’s like the player-controlled protagonist of a video game that has zero input in the events around him, only, this isn’t a freaking video game. I’m not going to take over the character and go kill things, so this isn’t fun at all. I’m just sitting there watching a tired, weary old man walking around like he’s freaking President Brandon missing his cue card from his handlers, and it’s boring.
Danny Trejo is wasted in a tiny role here, Ming-Na Wen is wasted, everything and everyone here is wasted. Well, aside from the hideous Mos Espa Mighty Morphine Power Rangers-wannabes, that is—those are the waste of the show and need to be dumpster-ed ASAP.
The Hutt twins are cute, though. Maybe they should have been the protagonists of the show instead.
Anyway, The Streets of Mos Espa all lead to a dead end, and watching Bobo being done this way is a soul-destroying experience. It is one thing if this episode had been so bad that it became fun to watch, but no, it’s just dreadfully dull from start to finish.
