Raithe

I've been thinking about the Book of Boba Fett, and an area that gave me mixed feelings. Seeing Cad Bane on screen, live action and having them wrap up the relationship between Fett and Bane made my inner fan glad, however, as a piece of storytelling I don't think it worked as it was set. None of their relationship or history was explained in the tv show, but it was fairly important to the way they interacted, so if you knew nothing about the things from other media it would all go whooooshing over your head like a Tie Fighter. Making that last conversation and fight rather bland and uninspiring. Compared to Ashoka in The Mandalorian. None of her actual history or backstory was relevant as such to any of her interactions with Din Djarin or within the story of the show. They didn't need to explain it, so seeing her was a good hit for the fans while having no actual effect on the arc of the episode / series. She could have been interchanged with any other random Jedi who survived Order 66. And because of that, putting her in that episode actually worked, and just teased the wider universe.

I know technically I should be waiting until after my first paycheck comes in, but I needed some mood shopping, and wanting to get started on some of that crafting related elements before work kills all my time, so I started sorting out fabrics, patterned pleather and such like for ordering. Plus contemplation of that first set of basic leatherworking tools if I'm going to try developing those skills in the future... Also, contemplating future transport and seeing some of the ways folks have come up with transport containers for gear once done: Which means I'll also have that urge to make sure space in future budget for such containers and more paint....

BBC - EncroChat: Selfie lands cocaine dealer in jail

He takes over by creating a new crime syndicate of... himself and Fennec? At no point does he actually spend any time preparing henchmen in advance, and even when he does, it's basically three people and a gang of late teens, early tween Mods. He knows the enemy are likely to try manipulating the other crime families, but the moment they all say "of course, we'll stay neutral, let you do all the fighting, and enjoy the fine life after the war" and doesn't do any checking of what they're actually up to from that point on. Apart from walking around rather than being carried on a litter, he does nothing to actually gain the hearts and minds of the locals beyond talking about it. He applies none of his hunter / killer skills for pretty much any gunfight he gets in. In fact, he tends to come across as fairly unskilled with guns but only great with a gaffi stick in melee. Or he mostly uses a blaster to hit people with rather than shoot them. He never tends to use the environment, just walk out into the open. I mean, to be fair, Star Wars in general is fairly terrible with showing small unit tactics or even large group tactics in any meaningful way. They tend towards the "mass everybody together and run towards the enemy while wildly shooting". But still, when we've had decades of "the deadly bounty hunter" in comics, novels, and other media where he usually manages to outsmart the enemy as much as outfight them.. This pretty much played into the guy who gets randomly hit in the rocket pack, bounced off the hull of a vessel and dropped into a sarlaac pit with a concussion.

Did the binge of the Book of Boba Fett. Some interesting elements, some nice expansion. But my god, for the history of Boba Fett the lack of tactical awareness and actual underworld street smarts they have him showing is kind of shocking.

Well I've managed to get offered a new job role, so that's kicking off in a couple of weeks. Surprisingly blah and neutral over it, there's nothing exciting about the work from what I can tell but it's work, it'll be providing income, and that lets me spend on hobby projects and bills and the like. Finished sewing up my Mando flight suit, sorting out various materials to make the flak vest before I return to the design of the armour. I want some reference shots of myself in flight suit and flak vest that I can set as background in Blender to make sure I'm getting sizing and proportions right. Once I start being fully happy with the armour design, I can check it with the QA team at the MandalorianMercs that it's all acceptable before starting to 3d print it. Dad's batch of radiotherapy had it's last day today. Now it's a little bit of wait, then scans and see what the doctor's say and whether surgery or a return to the start of chemo and more radiotherapy. And my sister apparently picked up Covid, so she's not coming around for a few weeks now.