They started filming season 3 already from what I've read. But. I suspect that they will use the next season to fully setup the next series. Or at least it would make sense to do it that way. Now that he's with Bo Katan they cam start building a team.
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WELCOME BACK HALLIWAX!!!! So good to see you back man!
WELCOME BACK HALLIWAX!!!! So good to see you back man!
Ok so I'm typing this as I watch. So far I don't really care about what's happening. I know Bo Katan, Fett, and the other Mandalorian have history but I never cared much about the lore they were referencing and that fight was so corny. Fett works best when he is restrained. For all of the things that I thought were cool about him in his return episode, this comes across as cheap fan service even moreso than before. I really don't like Bo Katan. A huge part of it is this insistence on having the character never use conjunctions in their sentences. I see this kind of thing all the time in so much of Star Wars and other movies in the speculative fiction genre and it drives me crazy. It's supposed to generate a sense of gravitas to whatever dialog is being said but it just comes off as amateur writing to me. Even in real life when people talk like that I find it distracting. It just doesn't sound natural. Just like I have gripes about the insistence on having important dialog being delivered in an English accent. It's become a pet peeve of mine. lol
The Imperial mocking Cara was cool I guess and does speak to the ideological conflict between the two factions though I knew the second he said it he would get shot in the face. It's a trope that is all too familiar where the protagonist is goaded into killing the villain in a fit of rage and usually in a gruesome manner. Not bad per se but super predictable.
Are Dark Troopers supposed to be scary? I know they're a reference to something but they just come across as a type of super battle droid to me. I'm getting Terminator vibes. If they don't float away too far they could still be a threat because they can survive the vacuum of space. (Turns out I was right.)
The duel between Gideon and Mando is happening and I feel like I'm watching Clone Wars clips. I'm not invested in any of this.
Grogu is cute. That's been consistent from the beginning.
So the Darksaber and Bo Katan's story is a thing now. I know Gideon is supposed to be menacing and conniving but the whole lore about how she has to win it in battle in order to reclaim her throne doesn't interest me. So what? Are they going to have to duke it out at some point? I mean who cares? I didn't watch Clone Wars for this very reason. This lore doesn't interest me at all. Just like Game of Thrones didn't interest me. I didn't care who ended up on the throne because I wasn't invested in the characters or the stakes. Ughhhhh......
Digital Luke looks off and the voice isn't Mark Hamill. I know a lot of fans are going to go gaga for this but I'm not feeling it. So he's doing things we've seen Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan do to battle droids in TPM. Big deal. I'm not impressed. And what is it with Jedi not wearing flight suits? Even in Return of the Jedi Luke wore a flight suit when he was flying. That drove me nuts with the prequels. I get that it was more dramatic to see him in his ROTJ Jedi garb but it would have been more impactful to see him take off the helmet to see that it was Luke.
The moment where Din takes off his helmet and finally sees Grogu face to face is very sweet. I just can't help but feel like Din passing him to Luke feels sort of creepy because Luke looks so off.
I've said it before that no amount of good content will ever make up for or "redeem" bad content. The Mandalorian might be good, but having Luke show up doesn't change the fact that he ended up a loser in the Sequel Trilogy. I think this might be the breaking point for me.
For some fans they might be willing to overlook the Sequels because of this but I'm not sure if I can when I try and take the entire story into account.
That coda was ridiculous! So were are back to Tatooinne AGAIN! How many times does this planet need to show up???? And Bib Fortuna somehow survived being blown up in the sail barge? For ***** sake. Death is not a thing apparently. He said, McClunky..... Gammoreans are now anorexic and Boba takes the throne. Whoopty **** -ing do. Boba Fett fan film. That's all that was. I've seen amateurs doing this for years. It's not impressive. None of these content creators can show any restraint can they????
So the Mandalorian is now going to be a series where we see different short seasons of Mandalorian characters? The Book of Boba Fett? What the **** did I just watch???? Is Din's story now over? Is this a series of Anthology stories about Mandalorians?
This is exactly why I didn't want to watch this show in the first place. I purposely stayed away because of things like this. This entire season was just one cameo after another. I don't know if I'm going to bother watching any more. This should make for some spirited conversations at work.
The strength of this show was that it was trying to actually do something different and explore characters and scenarios outside of what we knew, but apparently the set dressing is all that matters to these content creators. I love Jon Favreau and I have come to respect Dave Filoni more than I have in the past, but this is EXACTLY why I have said that it's foolish to say these guys "saved" Star Wars.
I'm ******* pissed that I wasted my time with this crap. I was willing to overlook things and the second to last episode was literally some of the best Star Wars content I've seen in a long time (which is really sad considering how much content has come out since 1999) , but man did this episode just throw all of that in the trash....
