A relative silence engulfs "The Book of Boba Fett." Not the kind of that suddenly follows a million voices crying out, which would imply that it did something worth investigating.

No, this is the silence one finds inside a dead mine's depths, the result of relatively few people digging the latest "Star Wars" TV excursion.

"Boba Fett is dead: how Disney+ ruined Star Wars' coolest character" proclaims a headline in The Guardian.

First, it's fronted by one of the most popular characters in the "Star Wars" franchise, played by Temuera Morrison in a continuation (of sorts) of his part in "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones." In that film he is Jango Fett, Boba's father; Boba is his clone.

The documentary episode "Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett" explains that his signature suit was a proposed design intended for 100 upgraded storm troopers that would have made their debut in "Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back." But its functionality was so intricate that Lucas decided to spend the money elsewhere.

But the Boba Fett in this "Book" is not that guy.

"The Book of Boba Fett" unspools in two timelines, one in a flashback to shortly after he escaped death by digestion and lived among the Tuskens, and the other in the series' present, where he and Fennec Shand usurp Jabba the Hutt's Tatooine holdings by killing his majordomo Bib Fortuna.

Soon afterward Boba Fett finds out his reputation isn't enough to make the underworld automatically fall in line!

If "The Mandalorian" obliquely operates as a study of faith versus morality, "Book of Boba Fett" seeks, less effectively, to tell a story about earning respect.

To repeat: Scooter kids are protecting Boba Effing Fett.