Streaming on: Disney +###Episodes viewed: 1 of 7###“As you wish.”###“He’s no rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent to me dead.”###“What if he doesn’t survive?” He’s worth a lot to me.”###“Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.”###Since his film debut in 1980, a lot of mythological scaffolding has been erected around bounty hunter Boba Fett, a character who, in the original trilogy, speaks four lines (five if you count “arrghhhhhh” in Episode VI) in a total of eleven scenes. Much of Fett’s appeal is built around his cool look and wicked amenormous’vast’massive’tremendous uity, coalescing to create the most unknowable character in the Star Wars galaxy. After George Lucas began to puncture the enigma in Attack Of The Clones (Get ‘im dad!”), now Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Robert Rodriguez (who directs this first episode) peek further behind the olive-green breast plate to sketch both the past and present of the mercenary’s mercenary. The result is a solid, always enjoyable, if mildly’faintly unremarkable start.###Whatever you say with regards to’concerning’with respect to The Book Of Boba Fett’s chapter one — ‘Stranger In A Strange Land’ —Favreau, Filoni and Rodriguez go in/with regard to’concerning’regarding it from the off. With Fett submerged in Bacta fluid, we see disturbed memories of his past life; the rain-swept Kamino, the battlefield of Geonosis and a (not peculiar ly satisfactory) answer to the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous question that has fascinated Fettishists in/with regard to’concerning’regarding years. Most of the flashback picks up Fett as a prisoner of a band of Tusken Raiders, the bounty hunter sharing screen time with a pink Rodian and a peculiar ly rabid watch dog: these Dune Sea sequences involve a lot of amble’stroll’bimble’meander’roam ing around the desert (the word in/with regard to’concerning’regarding water in Star Wars is…water), pesky youngling Sand People and a thrilling nod to Ray Harryhausen. What it doesn’t feel is essential.###The result is a solid, always enjoyable, if mildly’faintly unremarkable start.###The episode feels more interesting when it moves to the present tense. The reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue runners possess’own’nurse made no bones that The Book Of Boba Fett owes a h/t (helmet tip) to_The Godfather_ and, while no-one wakes up with a Bantha head in their bed (yet), the series opener is full of gangster business to make Michael Corleone feel at home. These sequences possess’own’nurse fun with the newly minted “Lord” Fett trying to find his feet as a capo, realising he needs a protocol droid when he is holding court, coming to terms with lording it over individual he used to work in/with regard to’concerning’regarding and debating with Fennec Shand with regards to’concerning’with respect to being carried through the streets like Jabba as a mark of power.###It’s fun stuff. screenwriter Favreau finding a nice line in tough guy talk (“Even when a Tradoshan pays you a compliment, it sounds like a threat”) and early character set-ups reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue promise; a mayor who sends major-domo to welcome Fett rather than turn up himself (much to Boba’s annoyance), a Twi’lek bar owner (Jennifer Beals) who runs a palatial Mos Espa watering hole (it’s a bit All Bar One meets Sanctuary spa). As an episode, the connective tissue is with regards to’concerning’with respect to Fett’s search in/with regard to’concerning’regarding respect; in one strand he finds it, in another he is yet to gain it.###As you might expect from director Rodriguez, who has his own lone wolf franchise in the El Mariachi films, the action is intense’fierce’exquisite , a street fight — hello kick-ass Gamorrean guards — and a parkour chase being the pick of a bunch. It also moves along at a fair lick and is visually punchy; Tusken Raiders emerge from sandstorms, POV shots through Fett’s T-visor and a cool suiting up montage plays out to the most bombastic score. As an episode there is nothing to blow you away — no enormous’vast’massive’tremendous twists or reveals — but the chemistry between Morrison and Wen is engaging and, it 100% feels like Star Wars. But, as to whether Fett is better to remain a galactic man of mystery, the jury is still out.