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 4: The Gathering Storm
Official summary: Boba Fett partners with Fennec Shand.
Trivia
Not only does the sky show us the twin suns Tatoo I and Tatoo II, but it also shows us the same three moons with stars as seen in Attack of the Clones. These three moons are called Ghomrassen, Guermessa and Chenini. All three moons are named after towns in the Tataouine region of Tunisia where A New Hope was filmed.
Twice we see Boba Fett eating a scurrier. It is strange only that he feeds it to the bantha, as they have always been established as herbivores. Now it is not unheard of an herbivore changing its diet to what is available, as hippos can also sometimes eat meat. There seems to be some debate online if an elephant, the direct equivalent of a bantha after all, can eat meat, but it seems that it would be possible but very rare. In-universe the reek is sometimes also trained to be an omnivore rather than the herbivore it originally is.
The flashback continues to show us how he saved Fennec’s life, bringing the flashbacks concurrent with Chapter 5 of The Mandalorian.
The mod-parlor has Aurebesh above the door, but unfortunately it is only partially visible. It appears to read: MER?A PLA. Next to the door is Aurebesh seemingly spelling ‘Uzkelt’, but we are not certain about the z or k as they are a bit too close together. Either way it appears that it is all gibberish as it also does not seem to refer to anything from the episode or names that we can recall. Also seen above the door is a stylized krayt dragon skeleton.
The person operating and saving Fennec’s life is calling himself the Modifier and was played by the singer Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner. The concept art at the end of the episode was made before he was cast as it shows a very different person operating on Fennec.
The show really goes out of its way to avoid using Slave 1 as the name for his ship. In retrospect, Boba Fett does not seem to be the sentimental type who names his ship, so referring it to its model, a Firespray gunship, makes sense.
“You wanna head a Gotra?” asks Fennec, which is also a bit weird. Gotra is used here as a word for a group or syndicate, but previously it was used it was as part of the name for the Droid Gotra, which is a group of droids that supported droid rights.
For the time we see the Palace’s kitchen. In it we see a COO cook droid (first introduced in Attack of the Clones) and an EV-series supervisor droid acting as sous-chef. This droid uses the same prop as the one that was seen in Chapter 5 and Chapter 10 of The Mandalorian, which was identified to be EV-9D9. While this is a flashback, it seems likelier that this time around it is a different droid and not EV-9D9. The creature is technically an unknown but could very well be a one-eyed version of a gorg as there are many variations of them.
The attack with multiple arms of the COO cook droid is very much like General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith.
It turns out that the ratcatcher is a LEP-series service droid, making its debut in live-action. That is, if you do not count The Force Awakens reusing their sound effects in Maz’s Castle where you cannot see them. The LEP droids were originally conceptualized, but unused, for The Phantom Menace. Boba’s difficulty in trying to catch the droid also mimics the troubles that Padmé and Jar Jar Binks had with one of them in the episodes regarding the Blue Shadow virus.
The hangar where they find Boba’s ship has been seen before in the game Battlefront II, only with the Khetanna in it. As he tries to fly away, he knocks over a Bantha-II cargo skiff.
The speeder bikes of the Kintan Striders look a lot like a 74-Z speeder bike from Return of the Jedi, but you can spot a fair few differences. So, these are probably a different model by the same manufacturer (Aratech Repulsor Company).
Jawas have been really busy judging by how picked clean the sailbarge now appears to be compared to its appearance in the first episode.
It turns out that our earlier assumption of the Sarlacc appearing dead, was the same lure that Boba fell for in this episode.
This episode gives us a fair few of answers to lingering questions like “Why does Boba want to be a daimyo?”, but also to why he even needs the bacta tank after he appeared fine without it after living with the Tuskens. It seems that his return trip inside, this time without the beskar protecting him, is the reason why his health is degrading over time.
‘Singing like a Yuzzum’ is a new phrase. The Yuzzum are creatures from Endor and of course we all remember the Yuzzum singer in Return of the Jedi: Joh Yowza.
Just like the first episode, we have another reference to the Trandoshan-Wookiee feud with Black Krrsantan starting the fight after he sees some happy Trandoshans. And while we have seen Wookiees pull off arms in various other media, this is only the second time we saw it in live-action. The first time was in Solo, with Chewbacca pulling the arms off a Pyke guard on Kessel.
The databank updates on the official website already confirmed the Ortolan playing in the Sanctuary to be Max Rebo, but for those who have missed those, Garsa Fwip mentions his name.
“Credits can buy muscle, if you know where to look.” – the music theme that plays right after this line of dialogue makes it obvious that a certain other fellow in beskar will be the first that they will hire.
- Insight Editions (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 16 Pages - 01/11/2022 (Publication Date) - Insight Editions (Publisher)
