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Yeah this isn't really popping off is it.

For those wondering, the episode (and possibly the series) is split in time between Fett after having taken over Jabba's Palace (and crime syndicate) and the other half is flashbacks of Fett just after he escaped from the Sarlacc.

The inside of the Sarlacc is pretty gross and neat for what thirty seconds we got of it, before Fett grabbed an oxygen tube from a dead Stormie and then flamethrowed his way out. Fett then collapses after his escape and gets stripped by Jawas and captured by Tuskens. The rest of that time is basically spent earning the Tuskens' esteem by killing a dangerous predator for them. The predator kinda looks neat but is basically a cross between Goro, a lizard, and a centaur.

That's all interspersed with the "present" which is a relatively small amount of time with Fett and Shand speaking to Jabba's vassals, going into Mos Espa, and getting into a rather uninspired fight with some assassins. Like the first part of the fight has them penned in by energy shields and it's kinda dumb looking as they get poked at with electric clubs.

It's funny because the end of episode art (which always looks cool) has Fett and Shand with their blasters out, but in the actual episode they don't have their blasters because I guess they figured out in the process that the fight would be over in a minute if they could just shoot them, soooo they left their blasters behind I guess but they still have other hidden weapons, and it just all looks kind of awkward.

At least until Shand goes after a couple of stragglers of the assassins and she puts on her helmet so we can switch to the stuntpeople doing parkour over Mos Espa rooftops. That lasts about a minute though.

I mean, I like Ming-Na Wen just fine. She makes a great second to a charismatic lead (as in Agents of SHIELD), but here she's just the terse adjutant to a terse leader and it's just not all that interesting to have them interact, because Fett is not charismatic.

This show is going to need some interesting and likable characters. Mando was always playing off these larger than life goofballs like Greef Karga, the Client, and so on, and even his quiet interactions with Grogu were cute, but this is just crime people doing crime and when there's already so much crime on TV these days, having a show that's "Crime but Star Wars" needs a hook of some kind.

It needs its Baby Yoda, is what I'm saying, whatever form that takes.