These two aren’t exactly a cameo, in that they’re new characters, but they are the first appearance of any Hutts in The Book of Boba Fett so far, which makes them pretty notable. The episode’s other two appearances happen a little earlier in the episode, during the present-day timeline, as Boba tries to figure out who exactly put a hit out for him, he eventually meets the culprits: the Hutt Twins. While these two aren’t played by the same actors they were in the original 1977 scene, it’s still a nice callback to a very specific kind of longtime Star Wars fan. In that scene, they’re also hanging out at the Tosche Station bar before Luke finds them and implores them to look up at the sky as he insists a battle between starships is going on - the one that would eventually result in R2-D2 and C-3PO getting marooned on Tatooine. These two human characters - who spend most of the scene getting accosted by the gang - are Camie and Fixer and they first showed up in a deleted scene from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Boba eventually finds the gang drinking at Tosche Station, an old haunting ground of Luke Skywalker - in fact, as luck would have it, two of Luke’s friends are at the bar when Boba arrives. The first live-action Star Wars series to follow the success of The Mandalorian was the spin-off series The Book. In preparation for the heist, Boba decides to steal a few speeders from a no-good gang that’s been hanging around the area, which brings us the episode’s biggest and most surprising cameo. The Book of Boba Fett: The Pros and Cons of a Season 2. Episode 2’s other tale followed Boba as he trained the Tuskens and orchestrated an old-fashioned wild west train robbery. One story continued the adventures of Boba and his former-assassin assistant Fennec Shand doing their best to establish the Fett as the new daimyo of Tatooine’s bustling crime empire. ![]() This week’s episode once again told two different stories. 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. ![]() ![]() The Book of Boba Fett’s second episode dragged the bounty hunter-turned crime lord further into the sands of Tatooine and the planet’s seedy underbelly.
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