Episode 4 of The Book of Boba Fett once again tells the story of Boba Fett's previous experiences through a large number of flashback timelines, and the flashbacks also explain how Fett and Finnick Sander became friends and partners.
Episode 4 of The Book of Boba Fett, "The Coming of the Storm", is primarily a long flashback about Boba's acquaintance with Finnick Sander, and then together the two recapture the rocketboats in Jabba's palace, which also explains why the former bounty hunter suddenly had the urge to become the leader of the Tatooine Society. Returning to the present timeline, Boba continues to prepare for a war with the Pike Group, but he finds that Tatooine's scum and various forces have little support for him, and in desperation, he has to make a partial compromise, hoping that in his war with the Pike Group, these forces will choose neutrality. It now appears that these Tatooine forces have accepted this opinion for the time being.
Once again, Disney + The Book of Boba Fett is full of Star Wars Easter eggs, memories, and references, including a tribute to General Griffiths, some familiar quips, and Mando's musical cues.
Boba Fett crosses the remains of Bansa (a tribute to a new hope)
As Boba Fett and his Banta companion wander through the Sea of Dunes, he passes the skeletal remains of a Banta that has been dead for a long time, but whose intact horns are still legible. The living and dead Bansa is placed in a shot that sets the stage for the scene in which Boba later releases his mount and lets it live happily with its kind. At the same time, as an additional Star Wars Easter egg, passing through the animal skeleton while crossing the Tatooine Desert, it can't help but evoke memories of R2-D2 and C-3PO in "A New Hope" in the sand sea.
Aliens and robots in episode four
As always, each episode of Boba Fett is set against the backdrop of familiar alien species and recognizable robots. Also in this episode, starting with the hunt "Where's Waldo", Boba scouts Jabba's palace, noting that Nictos and the Gamos are also passing through the guards. The cute little "mousetrap" chasing in Jabba's palace is a LEP robot that appears in large numbers in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and the funny thing is that when Boba catches it, it shuts itself off to save his life. And in the escape scene of Fett and Sande, a "poof" robot that has always been popular can be seen, which is hit and explodes.
After recapturing the Flamethrower, Boba Fett offered Finnick Sander a "fast-growing animal" to eat, an animal that has been endemic to Tatooine since New Hope. This time the scene comes back to the sanctuary and you'll find RX robots, Hask, Trandosha, Tyrek and, of course, Max Rebot's band. At the party of the gang bosses at the end of the episode, Boba Fett meets with the Kawadosaans, Aquilic, and the Kratuans.
Tatooine's three satellites
Most viewers of The Book of Boba Fett are probably aware of Tatooine's Twin Suns, but few will remember that Luke Skywalker's home planet also has three moons. Although these satellites have been part of Tatooine's natural history since 1977, they were not named until 2015 (from Star Wars: Everything You Need to Know). "Gathering of Storms" includes a gorgeous day-to-night transition that showcases all the moons of Ghomrassen, Guermessa and Chenini.
Connect again with the first season of The Mandalorian
Boba Fett's dinner is interrupted by a series of missile flares in the nearby night sky, and in "Gunners" in the first season of The Mandalorian, Din Jarin fired the same missile, which he also used to distract the other side during the battle with Finnick Sander. Sure enough, The Book of Boba Fett replays the last scene of that episode from another angle (the mysterious character approaches Sander).
Wen Mingna's son made a cameo
In this episode there is a child wandering outside the decorated room, watching gloomily in the direction of Boba Fett, who is Wen Minna's son Cooper Dominique Xu, who makes a brief cameo here.
The shopkeeper copied Princess Leia's greeting
When Boba Fett walked into the refit shop carrying the injured Finnick Sander, the owner quipped, "Are you a little too old here?" He was referring to the fact that most of the customers who walked into the store were street teenagers. The line is meant to pay homage to Princess Leia's iconic opening to Luke Skywalker as she saves the Death Star – "Are you a little short as a Stormtrooper?"
The Mediator has a B2 Combat Robot Hand
Modface in Episode 4 has many convenient interchangeable arm attachments, and the camera also focuses specifically on a thick three-fingered claw. The doctor's arm appears to have been obtained from a B2 combat robot that was widely used by splittists during the Clone Wars.
The name of "Slave One" in Star Wars was changed
Ever since Disney acquired the Star Wars brand, it has gradually stopped naming Boba Feit's spaceship Slave One. Probably due to the true connotation of the name itself, the Mandalorians referred to the ship simply as the "Boba Fett Starship." The fourth episode confirms more clearly that Slave 1 is no longer a classic, with Boba himself using a "flamethrower gunboat". In Star Wars legends, Firethrower is a spaceship type rather than a real name, so Slave 1 may also apply.
Boba Fett copied his lines
Finnick Sand agreed to help Boba Fett snatch his ship from Bieb Fortuna in return for saving her life, insisting that they would later part ways. Boba simply replied, "As you wish." This quote replicates the dialogue of Boba Fett from the Star Wars trilogy, and when he was ordered not to break up anyone, he said to Darth Vader, "As you wish."
Drones embody technological advances
Before the Jabba Palace raid on the Flamethrower Boats, Finnick Sander dispatched a detection robot, which was a little smaller than a hot detonator. The device functions much the same as the detection robots used in Clash of Empires and Ghost Menace, but the technical shrinkage and invisibility indicate advances in Star Wars.
Jedi Robot cameo and Saugan Frog returns
When Boba Fett and Finnick Sand repeated the mafia's long-standing tradition of entering the kitchen, they encountered two robots. The first is the EV-9D9, which appears in Return of the Jedi and represents Jabba in assigning work tasks to captured robots, including R2-D2. The camera also shows a poor one-eyed creature desperately trying to escape the EV's pot, this creature is A Saugan frog from The Mandalorian.
The kitchen robot became General Griffiths
Bib Fortuna's kitchen team, the second robot being the COO Chef Robot, was first seen in Attack of the Clones on a cargo ship on which Anakin and Padmé were riding. The Star Wars Easter egg here is a robot violently spinning a kitchen knife with his 9 hands, a parody of General Griffith in Revenge of the Sith, who wields his lightsaber with all of his robotic arms to attack Obi-Wan Knobi.
Hangar Shootout is a homage to Star Wars
Boba Fett and Finnick Sander try to escape from Jabba Castle in a "firethrower" while dodging pursuers, which is the same basic scene as the 1977 Star Wars movie in which Han Solo's crew try to escape in the Millennium Falcon. Both of these events also happened on the planet Tatooine, and both have some connection to the Hut jabba.
The fire spewed over a ROTJ Jabba dinghy
In the Book of Boba Feit, the wreckage of Jabba's private yacht is placed next to Sharak Pitt. When Boba Fett bombards the palace's hangars with his "fire jets," he crashes into a familiar small boat from which Luke Skywalker jumped from before he could unexpectedly launch a sneak attack.
Finnick releases an electric charge for earthquakes
This sonic bomb appears in both Attack of the Clones and Mandalorian 2. In this episode, in order to escape Sharak, Finnick Sander drops a sonic bomb into its mouth and kills it, but Boba Fett instead blames her for casually activating the buttons on the jet boat. The awe-inspiring sound of sonic bombs was obscured by sand, but it was still a spectacular moment.
Why would Hecristan attack the Trando Mountainmen
In the fourth episode, bounty hunter Blake Kristan returns, drunk and unreasonably attacking a group of Chuanduoshan people. Although their feud does not appear in the Star Wars movie series, the hatred between the Trandor Mountains and the Wookie is famous, with reptiles hunting down Kasik's furry inhabitants, and Kasik's furry inhabitants not afraid to fight back. That's why the drunken Hecristan specifically targeted the Tlando hills patrons of the sanctuary, and perhaps because of this feud, the landlady and Boba Fett deliberately let him go.
Hechristan's actions are related to Han Solo's dialogue with Chuba
To express his anger at the Trando Mountain, Hecristan pulls off the arm of a lizard gambler, reminiscent of Han Solo's warning to the C-3PO when he was playing holographic chess aboard the Millennium Falcon. He said that even if a person loses, the robot will not pull the human arm out.
Ding Jaring's music hints that the Mandalorian will make a cameo
Episode four ends with Boba and Finnic Sand considering how to hire more soldiers to fight the Pikes. As they discussed in some of the options, Din Jarrin's Mandalorian theme music played in the background, suggesting that Pedro Pascal would make a cameo in a future episode.