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rather inexplicably, look you see, i feel compelled (for it is the way of the internet) to place one of them exciting looking *** SPOILER WARNING *** things here. it makes no sense to me, but fine - if for some reason you have not watched series ("season" if American) 2 of The Adventures Of Buckethead & The Frog (often abridged in title to The Mandalorian) yet for some reason have done one of them internet searches and ended up here, well, proceed at your own risk.

moving on, then, and i say absolutely nothing controversial or surprising when i state that all of this The Mandalorian business has been a huge,widely embraced and much loved Star Wars success via means of taking all of the aspects what the majority (rabid "fanboys" based in Momma's basement in Wisconsin exlcuded) of people loved of the original films and packaging it into a series. simple, effective, clear, linear good vs evil adventure stories. and my, how impressive. 

it has all been so very thoroughly enthralling and entertaining, watching Buckethead and his pet Frog meet interesting new characters (in particular the pig man off of Bespin and Apollo Creed out of Rocky) and familiar favourites (Ashoka Tano). and now they have ramped up the latter, for one recent episode early on had a certain spaceship fly in and land. 

yes, Slave I. as in, the ship of space what fans were first introduced to by seeing the original Buckethead, Boba Fett, twat around in during The Empire Strikes Back, and of course then saw the retrospective original Buckethead, Jango Fett, twat around in during Attack Of The Clones off of the prequel movies. 

who was flying it in this instance? requiring an all too easy given suspension of disbelief by the fans, none other than Boba Fett himself. his return was previously hinted at in the series, and so it is, here he is, back in action, and apparently quite alive, despite last being seen getting eaten off of a massive ground based space creature thing in Return Of The Jedi. a film which many, certainly in 1983, assumed was the "last ever" Star Wars film. 

so many questions prompted by his return. how did he survive getting eaten off of that creature? just how is it that he somehow lost his armour (to Jawas) yet Slave I remained his and undamaged? did he spend all of his time after surviving eating pies? and when did he become a dab hand at bringing people back to life with robot guts in the stomach installations? 

generally, and widely, the answer from we, the people, us, the fans who just want to enjoy it all, is very much as succinct as who f*****g cares? we have Boba Fett back, being an absolute badass as you can see above, uttering class one line quotes which reference previous films and just generally looking like one of the most aesthetically pleasing (allowing for pies being eaten) characters ever. 

being the third best and most important Star Wars character (after Lando and Lobot), there is a ludicrous weight of expectation around the character of Boba Fett. rather like Don Corleone in the first Godfather and very, very much like Hannibal Lecter in the silence of the lambs, a key to understanding his iconic presence is the limited screentime. like them two, what he could do, what he was capable of, was only ever really hinted at. and now, with Boba, we have him very much doing all of it, and then some. 

of course there are some who will raise an eyebrow (refer earlier comments about Momma's basement dwellers, but also more reasonable people) at his presentation here. sure, some actions, decisions and what have you seem not to be how we came to understand Boba Fett, in particular from The Empire Strikes Back where even Darth Vader seemed a bit scared of his ruthless, relentless ways. but, once more, the response to that is who f*****g cares, really. we get to see him smashing up stormtroopers in a way that was considerably more violent than i was expecting to see in an ostensibly fun for all the family show. i could sit and watch that all day, every day. 

with regards to how he went in the one episode he was in clearly as Boba (at time of writing), he basically used all of the tricks and tools we knew or suspected he had. possibly, then, he was tossed in as some sort of "fan service", showcasing all that he could do in a one off thing, as is maybe the case with Ashoka in the episode before. however, it does look like he is going to get something of a substantial, relevant to the plot role in the remainder of the series. after all (spoiler warning), they now need to go and find The Frog, since him off of Breaking Bad has him, and Boba Fett is known as the best person to search for stuff in this galaxy far, far away. 

for what reason that it has taken Disney, the financial custodians of Star Wars, to work out success comes from giving the fans what they want, is baffling. despite Rogue One being an overwhelming success, much of the "sequel" trilogy (despite having the ingredients to be amazing) spent far too long pandering to Momma's basement dwellers and "subverting expectations". the true low, i suppose, was Solo, where they seemed to blatantly have no interest in either what the fans wanted or how the fans knew and loved characters. except they got Lando right. 

anyway, at least now they would seem to have worked out how to get it right for the majority of fans, which is a win. one can actually feel excited about any new Star Wars stuff they announce, whereas after Last Jedi and Solo new projects were met with a groan. space cow milk, indeed.

quite a lovely touch, that was, in the above picture, giving Boba Fett some sort of Predator like thing on his arm guard stuff, showcasing his family history. kind of. and one gets every sense that this spear thing what current (or incumbent) Buckethead is holding shall be important. 

my apologies for not showing any images of The Frog off of this episode. he spent a fair bit of it doing all that transcendental meditation stuff, but yes, also did smack in the heads of a couple of stormtroopers too, which was lovely. 

live long and prosper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!