The Book Of Boba Fett’s Upcoming ‘Twist’ Seems Pretty Obvious

I continue to puzzle over what exactly is going on with The Book of Boba Fett, a show that is occasionally good but mostly weird, and certainly painting a much different picture of the famed bounty hunter than I had in my head, that’s for sure.

We only have three more episodes to go in this seven episode season, and it’s unclear if this is meant to expand to season 2 and beyond after that. The overall storyline is Boba Fett trying to retain control over Tatooine’s underworld, and to do that, he’s had several “false start” rivalries. First with the mayor, then with the Hutts, and now it seems he must take on the Pykes, threatening to fully take over Tatooine and its valuable spice trade, cutting out the criminal gangs, himself included.

The Pyke Syndicate is the organization Boba Fett made a deal with after he and the Tuskens took out their shipment train. The idea was that if he eliminated the Niktos biker gang they pay for protection, they’d do a deal with the Tuskens instead.

But, as of this week, it’s pretty clear a planned “twist” the show has. This isn’t necessarily a spoiler, but the set-up seems obvious.

Last week, we saw that Boba Fett returned after a journey to find all his new Tusken friends massacred, and the symbol for the rival biker gang sprayed on the wreckage. This week, Boba Fett got his ship back and blew the living hell out of them, “justice” for his fallen friends.

All it took, however, is one line from Fennec that makes things pretty clear. She wonders how a simple Niktos biker gang managed to get one over on the Tuskens, which didn’t seem likely.

As such, I have to believe that the twist here is that it was really the Pykes who killed all the Tuskens, and then put the biker gang symbol there to trick Boba Fett. That worked, Fett got mad and killed the bikers. Now the bikers and the Tuskens are dead, and look who doesn’t have to pay anyone for protection anymore? The Pykes.

My guess is that Boba Fett will figure this out over the next few episodes, and then he will have even more motivation to kill the Pykes, not just to protect his business interests, but to seek revenge for the Tusken Raiders who adopted him.

I don’t think this has been set up particularly subtly, but I do believe that’s where we’re headed here. I think The Book of Boba Fett has lacked a clear villain, as it keeps introducing potential ones and then ripping them away before anything comes of it. So the ultimate villain, I guess, is the Pyke that Fett did a deal with. I thought the twin Hutts would have been more interesting, frankly.

We’ll see how this plays out in the final three episodes here. Not wild about how this has all gone so far.

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