Book of Boba Fett Episode 2 has a black Wookiee and other familiar faces

The book by Boba Fett‘s second episode dragged the bounty hunter, who became a crime boss, further into the sands of Tatooine and the seedy underworld of the planet. But while Boba Fett got his hands a little dirtier, die-hard Star Wars fans were treated to a few cameos from the series’ comics and even old deleted scenes.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for The Book of Boba Fett episode 2.]

This week’s episode once again told two different stories. One story continued the adventures of Boba and his former assistant assassin, Fennec Shand, who did their best to establish the Fett as the new daimyo of Tatooine’s bustling criminal empire. The other story of Episode 2 followed Boba when he was training the Tuskens and staging an old-fashioned Wild West train heist.

In preparation for the heist, Boba decides to steal a couple of speeders from a useless gang roaming the area, making us the biggest and most surprising cameo of the episode. Boba eventually finds the gang drinking at Tosche Station, an old Luke Skywalker haunted property – in fact, as luck would have it, two of Luke’s friends are at the bar when Boba arrives.

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These two human characters – who spend most of the scene getting spoken to by the gang – are Camie and Fixer, and they first appeared in a deleted scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In this scene, they are also hanging out in the Tosche station bar before Luke finds them and begs them to look up at the sky while insisting on an inter-spaceship fight – the one that eventually leads to R2-D2 and C-3PO will be exposed on Tatooine.

While these two aren’t played by the same actors they were in the original 1977 scene, it’s still a nice recall to a very specific breed of long-time Star Wars fans.

The episode’s other two appearances take place a little earlier in the episode, during today’s timeline, when Boba tries to figure out who exactly scored a hit for him, he eventually hits the culprit: the Hutt twins. These two aren’t exactly a cameo as they are new characters, but they are all the Hutts’ first appearances in The book by Boba Fett so far, which makes them quite remarkable.

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We know very little beyond what is mentioned in Boba Fett about what happened after Jabba died. As the show says, Bib Fortuna took over and the Hutts were otherwise busy. But why and with what was not clear (here or in other canonical) war of stars

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Speaking of twins, they’re also the party that brings the other legacy character to this episode: Black Krrsantan. Black Krrsantan is the black-haired Wookiee that Boba calls a gladiator. (That’s right by the way, Krrsantan was really a brief gladiator, which means that Boba may know him personally or by reputation). Krrsantan is a Wookiee bounty hunter who worked frequently for Jabba the Hutt and even briefly for Darth Vader in the days of the Galactic Empire. The Wookiee has already made an appearance in comic series Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra, but this is his live action debut.

While the series hasn’t been inundated with Star Wars references so far, it’s nice to see Episode 2 of. to see Book by Boba Fett Bring a few familiar faces from across the galaxy and move the plot forward by finally bringing the Hutts back to Tatooine.