BEWARE SPOILERS: The Book Of Boba Fett is here and Fantha Tracks will be offering our own episode guide for your weekly entertainment. Here, we will post every reference, Easter egg and everything named and unnamed per episode along with fun trivia in-between that we have spotted.
Chapter 3: The Streets of Mos Espa
Official summary: Boba Fett must deal with two very different threats.
Trivia
The episode starts off with showing us a B’omarr walker scurrying past the Palace.
While the map that a R5 astromech projects of Mos Espa does not resolve the issue of the Prequels locations and how they fit in, they dialogue does gives some clues.
Under Bib Fortuna’s rule Mos Espa was divided in three sections. The Trandoshans, under leadership of Dokk Strassi received the city centre. Garfalaquox got the Worker’s District, which, assumingly, could mean to be the slave quarters from The Phantom Menace. Which still does not account for the mountain ridge that is nowhere in sight in the movies.
Then we have the Klatooinians who ruled over the starport and upper sprawl. Considering the close close-up that we saw in Attack of the Clones, one could still assume that Anakin and Padmé landed in a smaller hangar somewhere along the upper sprawl.
We are introduced to a new character named Lortha Peel, a water-monger from the Worker’s District. He is played by Stephen Root, who has been in a lot of known series and movies like Office Space, King of the Hill, DodgeBall, Boardwalk Empire, Barry, True Blood, and even Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He speaks of a street gang who has been stealing his water. He describes them as half-man, half-machine and that they modify their bodies with droid parts to make themselves deadlier. This is also what the Guavian Death Gang does.
The gang’s leader is played by Sophie Thatcher, with her character being named Drash in the end credits with her stunt doubles Callie Croughwell and Crystal Hooks mentioned as such.
This also goes for Jordan Bolger’s character who turns out to be named Skad, with Ladell Preston as the stunt double for Bolger.
Dank is mentioned, leaving no question on what it means if you also consider the curse Dank Ferrik, which is uttered by Fennec later in the episode.
It is the circle of life on Tatooine when a scurrier gets eaten by an unknown winged creature and it gets taken by a Worrt. There is a possibility that the unknown winged creature is a (cave) sketto. These appear as concept drawings in The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide and were later retconned to be the flying creatures seen leaving the cave during the podrace in The Phantom Menace. They also appear, fully designed, in Galaxy’s Edge. Considering that Doug Chiang worked on Galaxy’s Edge, The Phantom Menace (alongside Terryl Whitlatch, who designed the guide) and now this series, it is possible that it was meant to be the same creature.
As Boba Fett rides into Mos Eisley he notices someone setting up the spikes with stormtrooper helmets seen earlier in The Mandalorian: Chapter 5: The Gunslinger. In the background you can spot Peli Motto and her three pitdroids walking by, who also debuted in Chapter 5.
The Pyke boss was voiced by Phil LaMarr who voiced many characters before with Star Wars like Bail Organa and Kit Fisto. The performance artist was Jamie Alexander.
It turns out that the speeder bike gang from the previous episode are called the Kintan Striders. While at the time we were not sure if it was meant to be a Kintan strider, we did spot the speeder bike from that episode featuring a stylized skeleton of a creature as a logo. Kintan striders are creatures from Kintan and better known as one of the holographic pieces in the game dejarik.
Black Krrsantan uses what appears to be some kind of variant of the vibro knuckles that originated in the Legends continuity in The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology. In the canon it first appeared in the short story Beyond the Clouds, published in the anthology From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back.
When Black Krrsantan falls down the stairs with the Gamorrean Guards, they fall into the section of the throne room where Han Solo’s carbonite block used to hang. Making it even more fitting that when Black Krrsantan gets hit in the back again, that he cries with a cry that was used before for Chewbacca. Black Krrsantan was played by Carey Jones.
As often when we see a lavish food platter arrangement, a baked Nuna appears.
The Twins come bearing a gift, a rancor for Boba, but more exciting is to see who they have handling the beast: Danny Trejo, who finally makes his debut within Star Wars as a rancor keeper. Known for many roles and cameos, he was also seen in Fanboys, the love letter movie to Star Wars that Kyle Newman made.
Trejo mentions the Witches of Dathomir, who have been associated with rancors ever since The Courtship of Princess Leia.
Boba Fett mentions having ridden beasts ten times the size of the rancor. This is a reference to the Panna dragon that he rides in the animated short in The Star Wars Holiday Special. This animated segment recently became a Little Golden Book by its title of ‘The Story of the Faithful Wookiee’.
In this scene the ronto is also mentioned, but still not seen. This leaves the dewback as the only animal that we are used to seeing on Tatooine who is still not seen or mentioned in the live-action series.
During the speeder chase the majordomo crashes into a painting of Jabba the Hutt. This is Ralph McQuarrie artwork painted for Return of the Jedi.
Also seen during this chase are a couple of familiar droids: a protocol droid, mouse droids, a pitdroid and even the RIC-series general labor droid (also known as the rickshaw droid) first seen in Attack of the Clones.
The fruit cart where the chase ends is filled with meiloorun fruit, first seen in Rebels and making its debut in live action.
- Hardcover Book
- Older, Daniel José (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 496 Pages - 02/01/2022 (Publication Date) - Random House/Star Wars (Publisher)
