The Inevitable Downfall of The Mandalorian

What a doofus. I stopped watching the moment he said I am millennial and happy I grew up with prequels. Not having respect for history and classics is a hallmark of millennials I guess.

do you know why they need to use the same characters again and again, because of thats how you pitch it to the higher up, that would ask you "why do you think fans would love this new character", so it's just the writer guessing what the higher up wants, and the higher up guessing what the audience wants. its never a creative choice

To me, the mandalorian show ended at season 2 and I refuse to acknowledge season 3's existence.

People wondered why I dont watch anime shows, tv shows or movie trilogys until they finish completely and end. The Mandalorian season 3 is one example as to why I dont waste my time and years. Because the creators will, eventually, f*ck up the show because of stupid random reasons. And shows being ruined happens at the rate of 85%. Another example of shows ruined is Vampire Diaries.

Way too early comment, but re: Solo, not only does it not need to be about Han, it’s better if it’s not. My biggest gripe is the Kessel run. Han is a crook, he’s gonna lie about everything he does. He’s gonna say words that he thinks sound smart to get people to believe him. Parsecs wasn’t a plot hole IMO, it was a tip-off that he was lying through his teeth.

Also Maul being there was fine but igniting his lightsaber was dumb as hell.

Edit after the Solo and Maul parts: lmao yeah same

Good vid. But with your take on Han Solo was off as to why it failed. Star Wars fans love Star Wars, the issue as to why it bombed was due to the Political Agenda they pushed and terrible writing of franchise that ruined the characters. When this was brought to theie attention, the fans were called bigots and racists.

About season 2 of the mandalorian, I think Luke Skywalker makes the most sense as a character din would run into, in the sense that whether din knows it or not, he s actively searching for Luke on grogu's behalf. But I think the cameo s should have stopped there. And any future appearances by Luke should have been brief distant glimpses of grogu doing well and missing din, but learning. It would still be fanservice, but it would at least give some relief from having to have him around while still getting them their fanservice and stuff. If they even had a season 3, I think it should have been din becoming mandalore. I think Bo-katan should either have not existed or have only existed to show the audience exactly why din has to step up. I don't even know if they have to show din becoming mandalore, just have the 3rd season be a small scale study on empty nesting, hard choices, stepping up, choosing responsibility, maybe show that din and Luke, reviving the tattered remnants of their respective cultures and with grogu's well being and best interests as a bridge between them, lay the foundations of finally creating a mutual trust between jedi and mandalorians who historically spent their time either eyeing each other across the galaxy or actively committing war crimes. There's a lot of potential to do both small scale and large scale work, and I think din is a great character and a quintessential mandalorian - 'it doesn't matter who your parent was, only the parent you become'. And I think Rey was a similarly wasted opportunity to show both the old and the new, and let the new succeed the old without spite or scorn. There were so many good opportunities here, and star wars fans were so prepared to go anywhere with the writers, the whole galaxy was open. They just couldn't get off the ground.

Spot on, and then it got worse with Ashoka. While Andor helped to forgive Boba, they treaded water with Obi Wan, and now we’re back to being disenfranchised. Good luck Skeleton Crew!!

Mandalorian was so boring and slow i couldnt watch it at all. This will be a good way to catch up. What makes no sense to me is how there is a Boba Fett show as well as the Mandalorian. From a casual consumer perspective its confusing and messy. They made the Mandalorian show specifically because that helmet and armor was made iconic by Boba Fett. Now you have two of these similar helmet dudes running around the same-ish looking Tatooine like desert locales. It's insane they did that. If Disney will give money to that they should pay my rent.

Many great points, but I strongly disagree with the assessment that handing over Grogu to Luke was the natural end of the Mando-Grogu storyline. It closed an arc - sure, but it should have been the start for the actual Mando-Grogu story. Up to this point, everything between the two of them developed as you might expect: Orphan force-sensitive child was found, protected and brought back to the Jedi order. Case closed in a very foreseeable manner.
Now on the other hand we know that the Jedi order had massive flaws as an organization. Denying deeper human connections might work for a character as wise as Yoda was. He was the exception to the rule. For the rest of them, it seemed to rob many of the Jedi of empathy and made them blind to reality.
So it would have been an excellent and plausible approach in the Mandalorian for Mando and Grogu to come to this realization and decide that they would walk their own path, create their own rules and reject the classical Jedi path for a good reason.
I think this train of thought is something the creators of the show might have had in mind, and it would be a good starting point for the next arc because it innately creates conflict (Jedi vs. Mando-Grogo) and asks the question "what are they (Mando-Grogu) together?".
But ... the story writers took a lazy shortcut and brought Mando and Grogu back together seemingly because both of them decided "Together we have more fun" and "Luke is annoying, because he doesn't let me play with frogs (from Grogus perspective)". So we have no tension and no expectation of what their relationship should/could become. As a result, Grogu is just there, looking cute and being secretly powerful. But there is no real character or relationship development. Disappointing.

One of my biggest gripes with the Mandalorian, apart from the pacing and disjointed story telling, is the growing focus on the Mandalorians, that is, the obnoxious Bucket Klingons. They are so fucking boring. Every time the show focuses on politics and other people, I start getting hopeful again, but every single time, it veers back to the Bucket Klingons waffling on about their stupid rules. It's not clever. It's boring and annoying.

Too much fan service, not even Borgo likes it anymore

the 1 and 2 seasons of mandalorian would be perfect in an dEd universe, because is just quests every episode!

This show was always dog shit it deserved to fall for being so overrated and kicking the clone wars and the other cartoons in the ass

The thing about "Instant Icononagraphy" is that after miss after miss, Star Wars has lost the ability to make new characters instantly popular. Now if a new character wants to be popular, their character needs to be well written as well as part of a good story to back them up. Why else do you think characters like Reva aren't household names?

I feel like Rouge One did it right by introducing new characters and then killed them off but unfortunately it still fell victim of legacy characters 😢😢😢

For me, the cracks were there in season 2. Maybe it's less noticeable to those who have seen Clone Wars or Rebels or whatever these characters are returning from.

This whole dark sabre belonging to someone else on a technicality gives me Harry Potter and the elder wand vibes..

Raid shadow legends is a rip off, your video however is great

Brilliantly said. The problem with Hollywood right now, not just Star Wars, is a fear of going beyond the old, beloved characters and creating new stories with new characters.