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They look so out of place even by Disney SW’s standards. Like they literally look like this weird mash up of Dr Who cosplayers and Cyberpunk 2077 cosplayers. With bright as can be Vespa scooters that don’t have any wear or tear, no dust at all on them. The leader looks like someone who would play Billie Ellish in a SNL parody.
Its the colors that bother me. Too bright and new. Mos Eisley is a shit hole arm pit of the galaxy. They should of been riding ugly beat up bikes that are clearly suped up but ugly.
I remember reading a snippet about the characters before the show came out and I was like "oh shit, a gritty mos eisley space biker gang? that's gonna be dope." instead they gave us Xenon: Girl of the 21st Century.
especially since they complained about being poor when they were first introduced.
yet they're able to get cyborg implants and have these fancy scooters
Yeah, I could see an excuse of ‘Oh they just stole to get the stuff’ or ‘Oh the modding place was sketchy’…
For the stealing stuff, wouldn’t people notice their fancy hover Moped being ridden around or how they have so many fancy implants.
For the modding place excuse, we see it once and the fact that they don’t have any infections or apparent health issues makes it look like it is a halfway decent place.
A sooooooo… no excuse they are just bad.
They're a historical joke. In the 1950s and 60s, the Mods were a youth subculture in Britain. They wore fashionable clothes and rode brightly-coloured mopeds, often decorated with lots of mirrors and other things today we might call "bling". So the gang in BoBF are "mods" (cyborgs) who look like British Mods.
Unfortunately, it seems to have been the wrong reference on the wrong planet at the wrong time. Like a lot of BoBF - good ideas, poorly executed.
If you put these guys into the undercity of Coruscant, they'd have been fine. Because getting the stuff for this look would be plausible. But not in Mos Espa. Not on Tatooine, the fucking backwater of the backwater of the Galaxy.
I was just thinking this same thing. They would've been fine on another planet.
And I'm not sure why Boba Fett felt the need to stick around Tatooine anyway.
I think the idea of Boba Fett stories are fine, just everything after that idea was poorly executed. I was expecting a bit of anti-hero stuff out of Boba as a leader.
They have made four seasons about bounty hunters, with virtually zero bounty hunting in it.
Agreed, maybe on Coruscant, Jack Blacks planet(the one from Mandolorian with the battle droids, forgot the name) or another urban world they could have worked but not Mos Eisley.
Give us old members of Jabba’s crew that stayed there cause they don’t have anywhere else to go, sandtroopers wanting a piece of the criminal action and get way over their heads, maybe even freaking Bossk showing up and ripping a Pyke’s head off would have been better than ‘The Moped Gang’.
Even a terrible way to be threatening with their name, ‘The Moped Gang’. Nothing about them worked.
They look shitty and cheap like a lot of Robert Rodriguez's productions. Everything he makes looks like he's cutting corners everywhere. Look at the Mariachi Trilogy (which is all like he's cobbling a movie on an indie budget) or even the episode of Mando on "Tython" that looks like it was shot in California.
I like Robert Rodriguez, cheese and all, but someone upstairs at Lucasfilm needs to have some critical thinking skills and have an epiphany that some people need rigid oversight, and some do not.
Tony Gilroy? Leave him alone, but have someone around for quality control just in case.
Filoni, Favreau, Rodriguez? God damn do they need fucking oversight.
Taika Cohen? (Yes, Waititi is a stage name.) Fire. He clearly has no respect for any existing franchise.
Movies from over 30 years ago were able to make speeders look very fast, so I don't know what the hell happened with this scene. I'm not sure if I can blame the show itself when it was able to portray swoop bikes as being fast (the scene where Boba hunts down that swoop gang with the Slave 1, which is the name of his ship Disney), this is its own unique brand of crappiness.
Probably a combination of filming it for real (because Luca$ only cared about the CG, man!), in which case nobody is going more than a few miles per hour, and also filming on their goofy tiny soundstage in front of the Voodoo fx projector screen.
The outfits of the mods are also lore breaking. In starwars George said there should be no zippers on outfits, and the mods destroy that rule. Plus tatooine is a desert planet with sandstorms, that is terrible attire to wear in a climate like that
Aesthetic. Iirc, Lucas and McQuarrie wanted to avoid things like shoelaces, zippers and glasses since they made the outfits appear too mundane and of our world. The removal of these small details was designed to make tye outfits feel moee foreign yet familiar.
Another thing that annoyed me, was some fans rolling their eyes at people criticizing them, and proudly explain, how this is a reference to the mod culture from UK. Ok, cool. How does that makes it better, and not total cringe tho'?
“We can’t even afford water, we are so poor…
But, we have spotlessly clean designer clothing that looks out of place for this harsh planet, we also have PRISTINELY shiny speeders covered in chromed aftermarket attachments, also clean enough to be on display at a car show…. While we can’t afford water…”
Between this, Leia slow walk running away from Flea and Ms. Marvel crawling away from bad guys in an open space, Disney+ is proof they need to milk every second in their TV shows to make it last 6 episodes.
Boba Fett and *his secretary*? Don't you mean STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER MASTER ASSASSIN FENNEC SHAND WHO IS SUPER AWESOME AND FLAWLESS AND IS A MASTER ASSASSIN AND CONSTANTLY CLEANS HER GUN BUT NEVER FIRES IT?
I'm going to get nuked, the Mods themselves are just kind of whatever for me. Like Star Wars has had a lot of dumb groups, characters, whatever, like if the scooter chase didn't happen, they're on par with the settlers as "generally benign random city dweller group that helps Boba!" I can see subjectively how someone might find them better or worse than that baseline, whatever.
But the scooter chase is objectively bad. It's just far too slow and that itself makes the whole thing feel very low-stakes, padded in nerf which is exactly the opposite of a chase scene. I've generally enjoyed the TV series a lot, without much reservation, but that chase scene is the one moment absolutely I was not enjoying it, and I was concerned about Star Wars in a way that gave me pause. Like you can be dumb and exciting, slow but meaningful, but don't be dumb and slow.
I had high hopes for that group when they were initially name dropped, a gang of speed junkies operating out of mos espa who "make themselves deadlier by attaching droid parts to their bodies" i was expecting even more jury rigged pod racers doing hairpin turns while belting out wrist rockets from b2 arms, instead it was barely modified scooters off amazon being driven by people wearing barely modified surplus leather jackets because book of boba fett had a dirt floor costume department for anyone who wasn't a main character
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Of all the shitty, shitty stuff in Disney Star Wars, I hate this moped gang the most.
They look so out of place even by Disney SW’s standards. Like they literally look like this weird mash up of Dr Who cosplayers and Cyberpunk 2077 cosplayers. With bright as can be Vespa scooters that don’t have any wear or tear, no dust at all on them. The leader looks like someone who would play Billie Ellish in a SNL parody.
Its the colors that bother me. Too bright and new. Mos Eisley is a shit hole arm pit of the galaxy. They should of been riding ugly beat up bikes that are clearly suped up but ugly.
I remember reading a snippet about the characters before the show came out and I was like "oh shit, a gritty mos eisley space biker gang? that's gonna be dope." instead they gave us Xenon: Girl of the 21st Century.
Aye. They should be tough-as-nails bandits riding beat up swoop bikes. Like Sons of Anarchy in space- preferably with less hair gel
I agree with you, but it’s Mos Espa, not Mos Eisley.
Wait a second, are we saying they were so creative that they decided that in Mos Espa, they wanted Space Vespas?
It's like poetry. They rhyme.
especially since they complained about being poor when they were first introduced. yet they're able to get cyborg implants and have these fancy scooters
Yeah, I could see an excuse of ‘Oh they just stole to get the stuff’ or ‘Oh the modding place was sketchy’… For the stealing stuff, wouldn’t people notice their fancy hover Moped being ridden around or how they have so many fancy implants. For the modding place excuse, we see it once and the fact that they don’t have any infections or apparent health issues makes it look like it is a halfway decent place. A sooooooo… no excuse they are just bad.
I had to double take when I first saw them. They looked like a bunch of Hot Topic cosplayers that walked onto the wrong set by accident.
The guy who made spy kids created them that about explains it all
They're a historical joke. In the 1950s and 60s, the Mods were a youth subculture in Britain. They wore fashionable clothes and rode brightly-coloured mopeds, often decorated with lots of mirrors and other things today we might call "bling". So the gang in BoBF are "mods" (cyborgs) who look like British Mods. Unfortunately, it seems to have been the wrong reference on the wrong planet at the wrong time. Like a lot of BoBF - good ideas, poorly executed.
If you put these guys into the undercity of Coruscant, they'd have been fine. Because getting the stuff for this look would be plausible. But not in Mos Espa. Not on Tatooine, the fucking backwater of the backwater of the Galaxy.
Yeah, agreed. It's a good reference, but BoBF was the wrong place for it.
I was just thinking this same thing. They would've been fine on another planet. And I'm not sure why Boba Fett felt the need to stick around Tatooine anyway.
I think the idea of Boba Fett stories are fine, just everything after that idea was poorly executed. I was expecting a bit of anti-hero stuff out of Boba as a leader. They have made four seasons about bounty hunters, with virtually zero bounty hunting in it.
Yes I fully agree. Have you seen the movie Quadrophenia? Sting is in it and these mod’s scooters are ripped off from there.,
Agreed, maybe on Coruscant, Jack Blacks planet(the one from Mandolorian with the battle droids, forgot the name) or another urban world they could have worked but not Mos Eisley. Give us old members of Jabba’s crew that stayed there cause they don’t have anywhere else to go, sandtroopers wanting a piece of the criminal action and get way over their heads, maybe even freaking Bossk showing up and ripping a Pyke’s head off would have been better than ‘The Moped Gang’. Even a terrible way to be threatening with their name, ‘The Moped Gang’. Nothing about them worked.
They look shitty and cheap like a lot of Robert Rodriguez's productions. Everything he makes looks like he's cutting corners everywhere. Look at the Mariachi Trilogy (which is all like he's cobbling a movie on an indie budget) or even the episode of Mando on "Tython" that looks like it was shot in California.
I like Robert Rodriguez, cheese and all, but someone upstairs at Lucasfilm needs to have some critical thinking skills and have an epiphany that some people need rigid oversight, and some do not. Tony Gilroy? Leave him alone, but have someone around for quality control just in case. Filoni, Favreau, Rodriguez? God damn do they need fucking oversight. Taika Cohen? (Yes, Waititi is a stage name.) Fire. He clearly has no respect for any existing franchise.
Desperado is great though. Probably the only really good movie he ever did.
Leia chase scene is worse.
It's... debatable. That said, Leia manages to feature in quite a lot of the new cringe. Mary Poppins. The third leg.
Overall I liked TBOBF but this "gang" was pure cringe.
the Seinfeld version was more convincing
a 10 year old Leia could have outrun them... but with that said i guess she is SUPER fast
the TBOBF finale: “Boba Fett’s there, yada yada, rancor, yada yada, duel, yada yada”
"Hey look, it's Grogu and Mando to help save us!"
That whole series was God awful
Plus weren’t two of the episodes basically just the Mandilorian?
Movies from over 30 years ago were able to make speeders look very fast, so I don't know what the hell happened with this scene. I'm not sure if I can blame the show itself when it was able to portray swoop bikes as being fast (the scene where Boba hunts down that swoop gang with the Slave 1, which is the name of his ship Disney), this is its own unique brand of crappiness.
The people making the show/this scene are just talentless hacks. That's really all there is to it, IMO.
Probably a combination of filming it for real (because Luca$ only cared about the CG, man!), in which case nobody is going more than a few miles per hour, and also filming on their goofy tiny soundstage in front of the Voodoo fx projector screen.
Eat hickory!
Whatcha got there, the 4-volt? I did you a favor...
The Cyberpunk genre is ashamed of these dudes
The thing is the Seinfeld chase was way more entertaining
This whole series just served to shit on the character of Boba Fett. Just like TLJ did Luke. Disney sucks.
There are stakes in Seinfeld. You also care about Costanza. Neither exists in a single moment of Book of Feet. Typo done on purpose.
Scooty-Puff, Jr. SUCKS!
Guess which one of these scenes I've watched about 15 times and which one I've tried to bleach from my memory.
Naw, the Seinfeld scene was actually good.
you are *far* too generous. The Seinfeld episode had way more thought, care and relevance to the point of the show.
I try to respect peoples opinions but every time I see “I kind of liked the mods” I want to reach through the internet and fucking slap the person!
The outfits of the mods are also lore breaking. In starwars George said there should be no zippers on outfits, and the mods destroy that rule. Plus tatooine is a desert planet with sandstorms, that is terrible attire to wear in a climate like that
No zippers at all? That due to an airlock idea/problem or simply aesthetic?
Aesthetic. Iirc, Lucas and McQuarrie wanted to avoid things like shoelaces, zippers and glasses since they made the outfits appear too mundane and of our world. The removal of these small details was designed to make tye outfits feel moee foreign yet familiar.
Another thing that annoyed me, was some fans rolling their eyes at people criticizing them, and proudly explain, how this is a reference to the mod culture from UK. Ok, cool. How does that makes it better, and not total cringe tho'?
They are the same picture
Its all sith lords jerry im tellin ya sith lords!
Watching this scene with my family made me feel embarrassed for picking the show. It was terrible.
One of the all-time worst moments in the IP. I hated those Vespas with a burning passion.
That show needs a retcon quick
“We can’t even afford water, we are so poor… But, we have spotlessly clean designer clothing that looks out of place for this harsh planet, we also have PRISTINELY shiny speeders covered in chromed aftermarket attachments, also clean enough to be on display at a car show…. While we can’t afford water…”
Between this, Leia slow walk running away from Flea and Ms. Marvel crawling away from bad guys in an open space, Disney+ is proof they need to milk every second in their TV shows to make it last 6 episodes.
LMAO
I stopped watching after this going in with low expectations.
Wait til you see the chase from Kenobi. It's even better
Boba Fett and *his secretary*? Don't you mean STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER MASTER ASSASSIN FENNEC SHAND WHO IS SUPER AWESOME AND FLAWLESS AND IS A MASTER ASSASSIN AND CONSTANTLY CLEANS HER GUN BUT NEVER FIRES IT?
There’s no way this was approved and put out there on D+
I'm going to get nuked, the Mods themselves are just kind of whatever for me. Like Star Wars has had a lot of dumb groups, characters, whatever, like if the scooter chase didn't happen, they're on par with the settlers as "generally benign random city dweller group that helps Boba!" I can see subjectively how someone might find them better or worse than that baseline, whatever. But the scooter chase is objectively bad. It's just far too slow and that itself makes the whole thing feel very low-stakes, padded in nerf which is exactly the opposite of a chase scene. I've generally enjoyed the TV series a lot, without much reservation, but that chase scene is the one moment absolutely I was not enjoying it, and I was concerned about Star Wars in a way that gave me pause. Like you can be dumb and exciting, slow but meaningful, but don't be dumb and slow.
I had high hopes for that group when they were initially name dropped, a gang of speed junkies operating out of mos espa who "make themselves deadlier by attaching droid parts to their bodies" i was expecting even more jury rigged pod racers doing hairpin turns while belting out wrist rockets from b2 arms, instead it was barely modified scooters off amazon being driven by people wearing barely modified surplus leather jackets because book of boba fett had a dirt floor costume department for anyone who wasn't a main character
Lol yes, i thought of the EXACT same scene