Toadmeister
Sr Member
This doesn’t play with the story narrative at all...
The Mandalorian (TV series)
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This doesn’t play with the story narrative at all...
firesprite
Master Member
Except Mando HATES the Empire, to the point where he turns his nose up at full pay in Imperial credits, for half-pay in Calamari flan in the first episode.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
I don't believe he turned them down out of hate, but rather because the Empire had fallen and they had little value.
Riceball
Master Member
Even if Mando had worked for the Empire in the past, why would they give him security access to their database(s). If he had ever worked for them as a bounty hunter, they would have almost certainly simply have handed him a data chip instead of putting him, along with any other bounty hunter they might have hired, in their system.
Toadmeister
Sr Member
And being a bounty hunter by definition makes you a NON-Imperial employee, a third party If you will. It’s not like a civilian contractor who needs clearances to enter a secure work area.
But I’m getting too technical. Star Wars is a fantasy and the Mandelorian has a Western & Samurai film storytelling style. Do you think they are trying to tell a story with GOTCHA technicalities? This is NOT the way....
Toadmeister
Sr Member
I found this episode to have many similarities to a combination of scenes from a couple of Quentin Tarantino movies.
- Imperial Officer was similar to Hans Landa character in Inglorious Bastards. Tension in officers mess very much like the basement bar shootout as well.
- SURPRISE pulling gun point blank and shooting very similar to Dr. Schultz (Christopher Waltz who also played Hans Landa!) shooting Calvin Candie (Decaprio). In fact the quest to save Brunhilde is not unlike that of the Mandelorian....
Note these Terrintino films possess other antihero, western, samurai and villain motifs. We all know the Empire was space Nazis.
Now if we can get Christopher Waltz to play a villain!
- Imperial Officer was similar to Hans Landa character in Inglorious Bastards. Tension in officers mess very much like the basement bar shootout as well.
- SURPRISE pulling gun point blank and shooting very similar to Dr. Schultz (Christopher Waltz who also played Hans Landa!) shooting Calvin Candie (Decaprio). In fact the quest to save Brunhilde is not unlike that of the Mandelorian....
Note these Terrintino films possess other antihero, western, samurai and villain motifs. We all know the Empire was space Nazis.
Now if we can get Christopher Waltz to play a villain!
squirk
Master Member
Just remembered something (maybe already discussed?) - Boba blew up Jango’s helmet with a bomb intended to kill Mace in TCW.
So when “The Mandalorian”’s Boba claims that the armor was his father’s, is that supposed to mean (most of) the body armor, and Boba somehow got his hands on another beskar helmet since TCW?
Or do you suppose they’ll retcon and say that the helmet with the bomb was a duplicate, and that Boba would never intentionally destroy Jango’s real helmet?
So when “The Mandalorian”’s Boba claims that the armor was his father’s, is that supposed to mean (most of) the body armor, and Boba somehow got his hands on another beskar helmet since TCW?
Or do you suppose they’ll retcon and say that the helmet with the bomb was a duplicate, and that Boba would never intentionally destroy Jango’s real helmet?
Strikerkc
Sr Member
Retcon implies they'll even bring it up. I expect we won't hear about it; but a decoy helmet is as good an explanation as any. why put a bomb inside of the most durable shell available any ways?
If it was, he could have gotten another. The firespray is literally just a system patrol craft; Fett and his father were rocking around in the equivalent of a star wars crown vic. Either way, he had one during empire strikes back, so if it blew up in clone wars, that's 100% before new hope, so they'd have known he had a new version of the ship by empire any ways.
I meant he was possibly an Imperial or even a Stormtrooper, not just doing bounties for them.
There's probably a reason he hates them and having been an Imperial would be a good reason. It makes a lot more sense than he just stared down their security computer and got in!
squirk
Master Member
In what ep did get blown up? I remember it crashing out of sight (on Florrum?) and presumed destroyed, but showing up again later.
The decoy makes sense, but that’s really not how the TCW ep was playing it, IMO. It was young and impetuous Boba going for some kind of “poetic justice”.
Yep. It went over a hill and there was a huge fireball. A vehicle doesn't recover from that!
(....but it did. I guess it's another "just accept it" thing like Maul surviving....)
squirk
Master Member
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it showed up again later in the series.
But with Jango’s helmet, there was no implied destruction. Mace found it after the explosion with half of it blown away. And Boba got arrested soon after, so it’s not like he had time or opportunity to recover the pieces.
But Strikerkc makes a good point - Filoni might offer an explanation IRL, but it’s hard to see how this topic would ever come up in-universe, at least with the existing characters that Boba is dealing with.
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Toadmeister
Sr Member
Oh no, that Trek thing has us beat by far!
squirk
Master Member
He’s right, you know.
Toadmeister
Sr Member
Trust me...
division 6
Master Member
When RotJ came out the explanation on the differences in Fett's armor was he had several duplicates in assorted paint and mods.
Which fit in with the EU back story that he just found all the armor on an ancient battle field.
Which fit in with the EU back story that he just found all the armor on an ancient battle field.
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