The Book of Boba Fett Season 1 Episode 2, The Tribes of Tatooine is finally here, throwing
us right back into the rise of Boba Fett’s brand new criminal empire and his goals to
rule the underworld… with respect of course.
We get some awesome looks at the major moments of his life as flashbacks, as well as a glimpse
at some very infamous crime syndicate rivals from Solo: A Star Wars story and the Clone
Wars.
Not to mention we got a massive appearance from a beastly black furred wookie from the
Comics.
So, lets break down everything that went down in the episode, and how it connects to the
other Star Wars books, comics and tv shows . And make sure you drop your episode rating
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So the episode actually kicks off with a “previously on” segment, giving us a quick recap of
Boba Escaping the Sarlacc and his time with the Sand people.
These recaps are more common in Star Wars animated shows rather than live action, but
it’s definitely cool to see.
The proper episode though kicks off with Fennec escorting the Red clothed assassin from last
episode back to Jabba’s palace, which is of course now Boba’s.
WE get some awesome interior shots of the palace which are actually all based on unused
footage from Return of the Jedi.
Back on the Throne, Boba demands that the prisoner reveal who he’s working for but
the slimy assassin stays silent and even curses Boba out, obviously angering him.
Boba’s droid, 8D8 then says he’s a member of the Night Wind assassin group which are
actually a group in Star Wars Legends.
In legends they were a fake resistance group setup by the empire to lure in Rebellious
citizens on the planet Goroth Prime and then arrest them once they joined.
I don’t think they’ll have the same purpose in this show, but it’ll be interesting to
see how they are connected.
And also 8D8 is the same droid we see in Return of the Jedi who’s horribly torturing a Gonk
droid, which is absolutely awesome.
Fennec then says that the Nightwind are just lowly assassins, and really you’re paying
for the name.
8D8 however disagrees and tells Boba of their legendary status among the underworld…
Not willing to wait any longer, Fennec Shand pulls the lever and drops the Night wind assassin
down into the legendary Rancor pit from Return of the Jedi and this finally terrifies him
enough to speak, telling them that the mayor sent him.
Now the pit was empty, but I was half excepting Muchi from the Bad Batch to show up here considering
what Luke did to the other Rancor named Pateesa…
Moving back to Mos Espa, Boba Fett is filled with anger for the attempt on his life and
storms back to the Mayor with his prisoner.
On the streets we see Kyuzo, the same species as Embo, Trandoshans, obviously Bossk’s
species and a range of other cool offworlders.
Arriving at the Mayor’s headquarters, the underlings try to keep him out but Boba isn’t
having any of it and simply storms into the backroom to finally come face to face with
his rival.
Many people actually thought this was Pedro Pascal doing the voice for the Ithorian mayor,
but it’s actually the showrunner of the series Robert Rodriguez himself which is pretty
cool!
After entering the main room of the mayor, he immediately has the Assassin killed so
that he can’t talk which infuriates Boba.
Mok Shaiz, the mayor then warns Boba that he should look deeply at who really is behind
the assassination attempt, since he has no motive…
Following this, Lord Fett and Fennec are sent back to Garsa Fwip’s cantina and they have
no idea what’s going on, but Boba says Garsa is sweating like a Gumpta on Mustafar…
As we all know, Mustafar is the Lava world where Anakin and Obi-Wan had their showdown
as well as the location of Darth Vader’s castle…
Immediately after this Garsa mentions that “The Twins” have laid claim the land which
Boba Currently holds, which we soon see are two Twin Hutts who have managed to rise to
the top after the Entire Hutt council was wiped out.
Now for those of you who don’t know, in the War of The Bounty Hunter comic series
set between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Qi’ra who is the leader from
the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate steals Han Solo’s carbonite Frozen body from Boba and
Lures Darth Vader to her location with it.
Eventually a battle ensues and Vader slaughters the Entire Hutt council, leaving Jabbas the
only remaining Hutt crime lord…
This makes it easy for Bib to take over After Jabba’s death at the hands of Leia.
Now once this happens the two Hutt twins are carried in on a litter and lay claim to Mos
Espa, which Boba is not going to accept.
In a show of force they then bring out one of their warriors who is a black furred wookie
known as Black Krssantan.
This is actually a very renowed Wookie from the Doctor Aphra and Darth Vader comics, and
he actually has done bounty missions directly with Boba himself on the orders of Darth Vader…
Now the reason Boba calls him a Gladiator in this scene is because he was originally
exiled and captured from Kashyyk and trained by the horrid Xonti brothers as a Gladiator
in the Fight pit, from the Doctor aphra comic run.
Black Krrsantan is an amazing character from the comics so it’s awesome to see him show
up here.
You can also see him give Boba a familiar glance as he leaves because they have so much
history together in the Comics.
After this we find out that these Hutts are actually Twin cousins of Jabba, and we do
actually know a few of them in canon who are still alive.
So for the female Hutt, I’d say it could be Crakka, who is the cousin of Jabba and
recently showed up in the Star Wars adventures: Return to Vader’s castle comic series.
She was estranged from Jabba for many years because she threatened to kill him, so she
would certainly want the empire from her dead cousin.
Not to mention she’s a very close pinky shade to what we see in the series.
Now for the male Hutt, we have about 3 options.
Thje first is Tagta the hutt, who is the second cousin of Jabba and appeared in the Clone
Wars UK comics and The Hutt Gambit book.
Because he’s more of a bluey purple, I don’t think this is him.
Next is Hiro the Hutt who is the Son of Ziro the Hutt, Jabba’s uncle and has appeared
very recently in the Galaxy Edge black spire novel as well as being mentioned in the tales
from Galaxy’s edge game…
Because he’s featured in so much recent content I’d say there’s a good chance
it’s him, despite the fact we dont’ know what he looks like yet.
Lastly we have Graballa the hutt from the Freemaker adventures..
Just because he’s a lego character and doesn’t look similar at all, I’d say its not him…
So my final picks for these hutts are Hiro and Crakka.
Following this whole debacle Boba Fett vows that the Hutts will have to kill him if they
want his throne, and then he returns to his bacta tank so the flashbacks can begin.
Travelling back out into the wild Tatooine Desert, we now see how Boba learned to use
the Tusken Gaffi stick for combat, which he went on to use on Tython against stormtroopers
in the Mandalorian.
The Gaffi stick is a traditional weapon of the Sand people and although it’s primitive,
it can be extremely dangerous in the right hands.
Not to mention we finally get confirmation that the substance Boba and the Tuskens have
been drinking from is actually the milk of a black melon, which we first see in the Star
Wars 2015 comic with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Another awesome little tie in to that series.
Now during the training the clan of Tuskens is interrupted by their pet mastiff going
rabid and then they hear the ominous approach of an incoming vehicle.
Honestly it sounded quite a lot like the scream that Obi-Wan tried to imitate in a New Hope
to scare the Sand people, but this time it was arguably something worse.
A rolling sand train filled with members from the Pyke syndicate rushes by, blasting the
Tusken tribe without hesitation…
The Pyke syndicate are very big in the spice trade and can be seen heavily in Both the
Clone Wars season 7 as well as Solo: a star Wars story on Kessel.
They pretty much run things in the spice mines of Kessel and they’re addicted to their
own product.
If you watch solo, you can see their suits have spice tubes connected so they can constantly
inhale it as they work…
Following this, Boba offers to stop the rolling train and be back by morning which leads him
to a very familiar location known as Tosche Station at Anchorhead.
Tosche station actually featured prominently in the deleted scenes of A New Hope, where
Luke’s friends Camie and Fixer lounge around all day and where they watch the star destroyer
chase Leia’s ship from overhead.
Inside we see Camie and Fixer still lounging around in Tosche STation all these years later,
but of course they’re much older.
They are then terrozied by the Nikto gang members who we see steal the water in the
last episode, and Fixer actually stands up for himself for once but immediately gets
into a brawl with the gang members.
Luckily for them, Boba Fett is there to save the day and obliterate the gang members with
the Gaffi stick skills he just learned from the Tribe.
After this, Boba steals a bunch of speeders from Tosche station and begins the long and
arduous task of teaching the Sand People how to use them.
After much failure, he eventually teaches them everything they need to know for a train
heist, including grappling, jumping and boarding the vessel.
Eventually the time comes for Boba and his Tuskens to raid the train and they do surprisingly
well, manage to struggle their way inside
After killing many pikes and sending the pilot droid flying out of the window, Boba manages
to do a pretty good job of stopping the large vehicle in its tracks and unloading all of
the loot inside.
The Tuskens then round up the Pyke syndicate members on board and unload their goods.
And here we finally get to see the Pyke syndicate members without their masks for the first
time in LIve action…
We did already see this in the Clone Wars season 7, but its nice to finally
see in live action.
Their leader is then brought forward and is found to be transporting illegal Sassana spice
from the slaves mines of Kessel, which we’ve been to many times in Star Wars Rebels, Solo,
The Clone Wars and was of course mentioned in a new hope.
Sansanna spice actually even goes all the way back to one of the first 1977 Star Wars
comics, so that is a deep cut.
Cutting back to the Tusken campsite we get a small history lesson about their past.
Ever since the oceans dried up, the Tuskens were forced to stay hidden and some tribes
survived by killing.
This Tribe however does not.
This also recanoizies the old story from the Dawn of the Jedi comics and KOTOR, where we
learned that Tatooine was once a lush green world, but was Glassed by the Rakatan infinite
Empire after a slave uprising there…
The orbital bombardment transformed the planet into the sandy world we know today and even
forced the Tuskens and the Jawas to devolve from their original species.
Boba is then given a very weird gift by the Tuskens which happens to be a small lizard.
Hilariously, it jumps down Boba’s throat through his nose and he apologises profusely
for swallowing it, but that was the intention.
The lizard will guide him through the head according to their folklore…
This then triggers a flurry of flashbacks covering Boba in the armor, the oceans of
Kamino where he was born, the Sarlacc swallowing him and the death of his father at Geonosis
from Attack of the Clones…
This saga then leads him to collect a branch, which he takes back to the tribe and is eventually
awoken from the dream state.
At this point, he is officially a member of the tribe and is even given their traditional
clothing, the same ones that we see in the Mandalorian Season 2 episode.
Boba then uses the branch he collected from the fever dream to craft his own Gaffi stick,
making him a true Tusken Raider.
And to end off the episode boba fett begins a hearty Tuscan Ritual and the entire tribe
dances around the fire in a traditional pattern, welcoming their newest member.
So that is my full breakdown for Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett Season 1 episode 2:
The Tribes of Tatooine.
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