US: The Mandalorian

Have to say I've really enjoyed The Mandalorian - both series. Perhaps it lacks what you might call 'gravitas' but I don't think it pretends to have any, it's just a thoroughly enjoyable watch.

Kudos to Jon Favreau.
 
great series enjoyed it no star wars nerd but was fun to watch. ending seemed a little obvious. will be interesting how they continue it.
 
Just finished this tonight, how did they mess up the movies so bad but do such a good job of this.

This was star wars, enough new stuff but with enough hints to the past to keep people happy. Main female roles, without it being political - so easily done! The roles fitted. All very well done. I mean i could dive deeper and find faults, no dout, but I don't want to it was too much fun.
 

There was a behind the scenes thing released on christmas day of the series, always thought the talk of Lucas's involvement was bs as he basically flat out said in interviews he wasn't taking anything to do with the new movies or spinoffs.
 
Gerard said:

There was a behind the scenes thing released on christmas day of the series, always thought the talk of Lucas's involvement was bs as he basically flat out said in interviews he wasn't taking anything to do with the new movies or spinoffs.
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47 secs in " what we did with the Mandalorian was respect what came before"

/Drops mic
 
I still think Ryan Johnson got away too easy. That **** deserves to be immortalised as an internet meme for the rest of his shoddy expectations subverting career. You know,"Directed by Ryan Johnson" type of meme that would see picture of crying Samwise captioned "Gollum killed Gandalf and Frodo sold the ring for crack cocaine". Directed by Ryan Johnson.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Which is all anyone wanted rather than Rian Johnson doing what HE wanted and screw everyone else. What a ****.
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Therein lies the problem, there was seemingly an arc laid out for the 3 movies and Kennedy just let Johnson do his own thing. He must have been her bit on the side or something as anything abrams set up in TFA just got crapped on, then the third movie was just a cluster **** of trying to gaffertape plot points together that Johnson seemed to go out of his to change.

TFA is arguably the best of the 3 movies, and that's not really saying much. Pity they can't relegate these movies to some subsection and try again.

I'd imagine the original outline for the third movie was VERY different from the retcon fest that we ended up getting. Of course you'll likely never hear the right way of it as they play it off like the movies played out how they were supposed to. Even Stevie Wonder calls bs on that.
 
Agree.

Despite it being a clone of ANH, there was at least some promise of TFA potentially growing from what came before and it being a clone could be forgiven (it had been decades since last Star Wars, so you needed to show it's the same thing still, ease peoples fears it's no longer the same thing, then grow from there in the next films). Then came TLJ. And that was the end of almost everyones relationship with Star Wars. Until Mando and Grogu popped up.

Now? I'd rather they just put some type of "multiversal" / time-line deal in place and just divorce the ST from the Mando series (which appears to becoming its own Mando-verse with the various spin offs coming from it). If people do eventually want the ST, they can still go back to it then, but otherwise just leave it consigned to history and continue to develop this set of stories that can be different to whats shown in the ST.

Speculation on Din and the Darksabre. Anyone get a feeling they're going to throw a spanner Grogu into the mix when they try to have Bo-Katan win the Darksabre off of Din in S3 or later, and Grogu shows up and Force Pulls the sabre to himself to prevent the fight/injury to Din? This removes the conflict between Din and Bo-Katan and then also gives Grogu their own Sabre, which by rights now as part of Mando's clan, means they have a legit claim to the Sabre at least. And also put a real weird spin on the next Mandalore being a child, and long lived Jedi trained one too.
 
Meddling-Monk said:
Agree.

Despite it being a clone of ANH, there was at least some promise of TFA potentially growing from what came before and it being a clone could be forgiven (it had been decades since last Star Wars, so you needed to show it's the same thing still, ease peoples fears it's no longer the same thing, then grow from there in the next films). Then came TLJ. And that was the end of almost everyones relationship with Star Wars. Until Mando and Grogu popped up.

Now? I'd rather they just put some type of "multiversal" / time-line deal in place and just divorce the ST from the Mando series (which appears to becoming its own Mando-verse with the various spin offs coming from it). If people do eventually want the ST, they can still go back to it then, but otherwise just leave it consigned to history and continue to develop this set of stories that can be different to whats shown in the ST.

Speculation on Din and the Darksabre. Anyone get a feeling they're going to throw a spanner Grogu into the mix when they try to have Bo-Katan win the Darksabre off of Din in S3 or later, and Grogu shows up and Force Pulls the sabre to himself to prevent the fight/injury to Din? This removes the conflict between Din and Bo-Katan and then also gives Grogu their own Sabre, which by rights now as part of Mando's clan, means they have a legit claim to the Sabre at least. And also put a real weird spin on the next Mandalore being a child, and long lived Jedi trained one too.
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Also puts a babies life in danger, unless he's grown up of course.
 
Going off other reviews and comments here, looks like I've found my next binge.
Coming straight after a Better Call Saul marathon.
 
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