After the disappointing third chapter in this Star Wars series on Disney+ (the House of Mouse taking over all avenues of entertainment), this latest installment is a refreshing return to action and adventure.
Once again we are thrust back into the past, as Boba Fett’s dreams in his Bacta Tank take us back into the recent past. He remembers how, in his quest for revenge (chapter 3), he stumbled across the dying Fennec Shand. Here we cross over into the timeline of that other Star Wars show, The Mandalorian, just prior to Fett retrieving his armor. Fett saves Fennec, his bounty hunter nature mellowed by his time with the Tusken tribe. We see Fennec modded to replace the dying organs from her gut-shot with tech that makes her part cyborg. Together they retrieve Fett’s ship, Slave I (although we can’t say that word any more), from deep within Jabba’s palace. One wonders how and why that ship is still there and operable after five years, and why there was a silly kitchen chase scene, but all that aside, there’s some cracking action. With his ship Fett can exact revenge, and does so both against the raiders who destroyed his tribe and the Sarlacc which tried to digest him.
We then return to the present, as Fett tries to bolster his standing with other criminal gangs against a bigger criminal gang, the Pykes. He manages to wrangle a non-aggression pact from the three other gangs on Tatooine, which means he needs more muscle. The episode ends with the strain of The Mandalorian, setting up a possible team-up. Who else will Fett recruit in his war against the Pykes? With three episodes left, it will be interesting to see where this goes. I doubt the clones from The Bad Batch are still around, though Omega could be alive. Any other clones would be ancient at this point, and I doubt other Mandalorians would join Fett against the Pykes. Still, the closing episodes might bleed into season three of The Mandalorian, or possibly other Star Wars shows. Hopefully any other shows will keep the Star Wars universe, but ditch the major characters from the movies; they’ve had their moment.
