The Book Of Boba Fett's treatment of the Tusken raiders recalls Obi-Wan's famous "certain point of view" lie from Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. When first introduced in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, the Tusken raiders were portrayed as mindless attack dogs going after any unfortunate soul that happened to mistakenly wander through the deserts of Tatooine. This was especially true in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones when Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker slaughtered the Tusken raiders who captured and tortured his mother leading to her death. However, Boba Fett's (Temuera Morrison) interactions with them have shown there's more to the Tuskens than realized.

In Return of the Jedi, Alec Guinness' Obi-Wan Kenobi infamously tells Luke Skywalker that he was right from "a certain point of view," when he explains that Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Luke's father, Anakin. After Anakin is seduced to the Dark Side, he ceases being the good person Obi-Wan had loved like his brother and becomes someone else. Obi-Wan goes on to tell Luke that "many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." So in Obi-Wan's eyes, after Anakin betrayed who he was as a person in his turn to the Dark Side, Anakin, the man who had fathered Luke and Leia, was effectively dead and his new personality of Darth Vader had killed him.

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With this in mind, The Book Of Boba Fett's Tusken-heavy focus recalls Obi-Wan's famous "certain point of view" lie. The first few episodes have shown audiences that the way the Tusken raiders have been portrayed has potentially been wrong all along. A significant chunk of the series has been told in flashbacks to Boba Fett's time amongst the Tusken raiders. Fett started as being a captive of the Tuskens after escaping the Sarlacc pit and having his armor stolen by Jawas. However, all this changed after Boba Fett rescued a young Tusken after a six-limbed creature attacked them while searching for black melons. In episode 2, "The Tribes of Tatooine," the Tusken culture is heavily explored and begins the process of de-vilifying them.

A Tusken Raider in Book of Boba Fett

Far from the mindless and bloodthirsty desert thugs they'd been portrayed as, The Book of Boba Fett Tuskens flashbacks paint a very different picture of the Tuskens. In them, the Tuskens are portrayed as having an evolved culture, expressing gratitude, and living simple lives. Further, that tribe is shown to be not only largely peaceful, but also terrorized by gangs from the speeder train. They are not the ones actively attacking trespassers, rather, they are defending themselves and their land and the precious little resources they have. Fett then helps them by liberating some speeders from some thugs, and teaches the Tuskens how to ride them to defend themselves from the speeder train.

As a way of thanking Fett for helping and teaching them how to defend their land from outsiders, they send him on a journey to get a piece of wood to construct his own gaffi stick. The gaffi stick is not only a weapon for the Tuskens but important culturally and spiritually as well. The crafting of a Tuskens gaffi stick is comparable to a Jedi finding a crystal and constructing their lightsaber as well as a Mandalorian crafting their beskar armor. Boba Fett learns that crafting one's Tusken gaffi stick is a significant part of becoming part of the Tusken tribe. After the construction of his, Fett is fully welcomed into the Tusken tribe during a ceremony around a fire comparable to those of native peoples on Earth.

The peaceful, welcoming culture is a far cry from how the Tuskens have been portrayed in the Star Wars universe to this point. The Book Of Boba Fett paints a new perspective on the Tuskens, recalling Obi-Wan's lie about a "certain point of view." They were once depicted as savage barbarians attacking anyone else on sight. Now, they've been revealed as misunderstood native people defending their heritage and way of life.

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The Book of Boba Fett releases new episodes Wednesdays on Disney+.