I don't even watch the show and I agree. The color scheme and pattern is pitch-perfect 70's Star Wars pastiche. It'd be perfect if Mandalorian oc's weren't so cringe.
Mandalorian Season 3
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I don't even watch the show and I agree. The color scheme and pattern is pitch-perfect 70's Star Wars pastiche. It'd be perfect if Mandalorian oc's weren't so cringe.
Riceball
Master Member
But that helmet rule doesn't apply to all Mandalorians, just to the group that found Mando when he was a kid. Bo Katarn's group certainly has no problems with taking their helmets off in public. And in Rebels we Sabrine take her helmet off all of the time. So really, all Mando has to say is that he no longer follows his group's ways and his "way" is now that of all of the other Manadalorians like Bo & Sabrine.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
And with the dark saber he could make it not apply to all Mandalorians.
I think also that some fans are transferring their wishes for Boba never removing his helmet along with Din Djarin to declare that they should have never removed the latter's helmet. In the old EU this was not a thing at all. In the Republic Commando novels, they removed their helmets whenever they weren't in danger. They would sometimes use their helmets when around outsides for the intimidation factor, but just having the armor on does that job.
My gripe with the armor, and I did like his original armor, is that now they seem to think that if you have Beskar, it's shiny like his armor. Beskar can be painted (colored?). Well in the EU, but hopefully in canon. I really dug the idea from the RC novels that you might wear armor components from your deceased relatives to honor them so you might have mismatched pieces. One character from those books, 40 years later, wears parts from all his uncles so his armor is all kinds of colors, but the sentiment is pretty cool, IMO.
My gripe with the armor, and I did like his original armor, is that now they seem to think that if you have Beskar, it's shiny like his armor. Beskar can be painted (colored?). Well in the EU, but hopefully in canon. I really dug the idea from the RC novels that you might wear armor components from your deceased relatives to honor them so you might have mismatched pieces. One character from those books, 40 years later, wears parts from all his uncles so his armor is all kinds of colors, but the sentiment is pretty cool, IMO.
I feel like... before AOTC, Boba's appearance was kept a deliberate mystery. After, he kept the helmet on after he grew up because, basically, he was just too damn recognizable. His line to Dengar in Twin Engines of Destruction ("This is my face.") takes on a different meaning if you look at it as him rejecting being "just another clone".
VanPersie
Well-Known Member
But that doesn't automatically mean that the sect he is from has to allow its members to remove their helmets.
Speaking with friends offline, a few seemed to forget that Din's sect do take off their helmets, but the rule is not to allow other alive beings to see their face. They remove them to eat etc when completely alone as Din was originally on the Razor Crest.
Honestly, the “never take off your helmet rule” sounds like the kind of childish rule that Spanky and Our Gang would come up with for their club.
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And to dig DEEP into the weeds, do followers of The Way reproduce through "normal" biological means? In other words, if two Mandalorians of ...Din's religion mate and/or marry, are they allowed to take their helmets off in front of each OTHER??!!!
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
Technically you can reproduce with a helmet on.
jts1031
Sr Member
There's even a warning label on the package cautioning about it.
The ONLY thing that makes any sense without being completely stupid is that they would be permitted to remove their helmets with their own clan, but not outsiders. Anything else is just dumb fan fiction.
Does my mother have to be Mandolorian in order for me to be a real Mandolorian?
ConvergencePro
Master Member
The thing I hate most about Beskar in this goddamn show is that it is literally indestructible Plot Armor now after Season 2, when it never was supposed to be that..
My understanding of it before this garbage was that it was the only true “lightsaber proof” armor in the universe… but that, like what we see with Boba, it could still take some damage from heavy blaster fire… denting in and deforming in the process of deflecting said shots.. lightsabers being a hand held weapon only have so much energy behind a strike by comparison and so it wouldn’t cut or dent by comparison
I always imagined with Bobas armor in ESB that the damage was an accumulation of failed ‘kill shots” snipers had taken on him, or from him getting caught in a spray of heavy blaster fire
In Season 1 they had Fennec shoot Mando square in the chest and Mando mentions that his “beskar held up”, which gave me hope for them progressively adding damage and character to Mandos armor, but instead they went and made him indestructible action figure
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HMSwolfe
Master Member
Yeah, Mando desperately needs to pick up some damage and some paint. His first suit had character, and his helmet did too, by virtue of being the only piece of unpainted beskar he had. Now he’s just a big chrome guy.
It's something I've maintained since the '00s, when Karen Traviss came in and all that. "Mandalorian iron" has been a desirable thing since the early '80s, but it didn't become the Star Wars version of adamantium until well later. And I maintain that did it a disservice.
Without some supertech lining on that, heat and kinetic energy will still transmit through that indestructible metal and pulp and/or cook the occupant. This is why most real-world armor has evolved to absorb and disperse that energy, rather than remain rigid against it.
This all also means however Boba's helmet got cratered like that, it couldn't have been while he was wearing it or something with the force to do that would've snapped his neck.
The visible partial armor plates we see don't even provide full-body coverage. It's made more sense to me for a long time that that flak vest and the plates on it are a replaceable second line of defense (first, of course, being dodging the blow), and the real armor is something lightweight and high-tech inside the coverall. A bit like a stillsuit made with Kevlar outer layers and antiballistic gel padding. Conveniently, BTW, what Marvel showed us back in '82.
So, since Boba's backstory at the time of ESB was that he was either a survivor of the Clone Wars or someone who had nicked the armor, he just had to keep using the waster plates long after they'd've been replaced were he still part of a functioning organization.
I don't know how indestructible it needs to be anyway. Stainless steel works just fine. What makes it lightsaber-resistant is having a lot of free electrons, so some weird isotope of iron that needs specific conditions to come about. I've never liked the glamorizing of beskar and the sneering at durasteel, 'cause of all that.
Without some supertech lining on that, heat and kinetic energy will still transmit through that indestructible metal and pulp and/or cook the occupant. This is why most real-world armor has evolved to absorb and disperse that energy, rather than remain rigid against it.
This all also means however Boba's helmet got cratered like that, it couldn't have been while he was wearing it or something with the force to do that would've snapped his neck.
The visible partial armor plates we see don't even provide full-body coverage. It's made more sense to me for a long time that that flak vest and the plates on it are a replaceable second line of defense (first, of course, being dodging the blow), and the real armor is something lightweight and high-tech inside the coverall. A bit like a stillsuit made with Kevlar outer layers and antiballistic gel padding. Conveniently, BTW, what Marvel showed us back in '82.
So, since Boba's backstory at the time of ESB was that he was either a survivor of the Clone Wars or someone who had nicked the armor, he just had to keep using the waster plates long after they'd've been replaced were he still part of a functioning organization.
I don't know how indestructible it needs to be anyway. Stainless steel works just fine. What makes it lightsaber-resistant is having a lot of free electrons, so some weird isotope of iron that needs specific conditions to come about. I've never liked the glamorizing of beskar and the sneering at durasteel, 'cause of all that.
Prop Collector
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The decision to reunite the child and Mando so quickly and ON A DIFFERENT SHOW has completely turned me off from the last remaining thing that was keeping me interested in Disney Wars.
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