But little "conveniences" happen very often in films. They are often just so quick that no thinks twice about it. For instance I was just watching The Winter Soldier the other day. And the thought occured to me that he only carries on mag for his Skorpion. So that way he and Cap HAVE to get into a knife fight. Or another one I thought of while was working the other day. It's a good thing Luke Skywalker got the Stormtrooper belt that had the grappling hook
So while I do agree little “conveniences” can indeed be ignored so long as they are in fact little, I unfortunately think it doesn’t apply very well here given how Mando is presented to us as the audience. At what point does it become to much and start to break the world, or Mando’s character itself?
I loved Episodes 1, 2, most of 3, as well as 7 & 8. But on subsequent viewings I can start to see they are chock full of problems, especially for Mando himself
Mando is presented to us as a Mandalorian which canonically throughout StarWars have largely been presented as elite warriors. Some of the best in the galaxy in fact. Then you couple that with Mando being an established Bounty Hunter, a incredibly dangerous trade that requires wits, skills, and know how in order to be successful in, let alone gain a reputation in. (Granted that Mandos only the most famous BH in the “parsect” which is actually a pretty small area, but whatever)
So, given that, why does Mando make so many illogical decisions that could easily get him killed?
Decisions like walking up on IG-88 without warming only to luckily get shot in the armor.
Not using thermal or night vision rather than the flashlight in the Mudhorn cave despite the former being repeatedly used later on
Forgetting his own weapons capabilities
Not using his ship to kill the At-ST
Flagrantly exposing himself to enemy fire only to luckily only be shot in the armor over and over
These might seem like small nitpicks to some of you, but Mando really is supposed to be one of the best BH’s around as he’s presented in the show. So given that context, his decisions dont make sense to the character and are rather those one would expect of an upstart. Were he presented as being fairly new to the Bounty Hunting profession then
maybe I could understand, but a lot of it unfortunately is starting to break the character foe me because his repeated poor decisions are ones that could easily get him or his companions killed and yet theu just keep happening more and more frequently for no real reason
Its just really strange to me.
Again I still really like the show. Its still infinitely better than the joke that is the ST, buddy t it still has some serious problems going on that will definitely need to be addressed in subsequent seasons if its to last
