Spoilers for the Mandalorian follow: Moff, star wars nerds, please discuss.
I've seen the first three episodes. It's good. It's good in a good way too. The Force Awakens was good if you just wanted a slightly more diverse A New Hope, the kind of good that gets less good every time you think about it, let alone see it. The Last Jedi was good in that it was well made, and either you enjoyed the more extreme take on star wars or you hated it, but at least it looked great.
The Mandalorian is just good, as in good entertainment. I can't remember when star wars was just plain good. Well, I can't remember because it was before I was born.
And yet, it would not be star wars if I didn't have an itemized list of complaints:
1. Freaking baby Yoda. Look, I was on board at first. Maybe some backstory on Yoda's species? I'm down. The thing is, you just know star wars is goingthere. Yes there. That place where for a noobish moment they kill the franchise. Like when they decided 'becoming one with the force' when you die isn't just something that happens to those in tune with the force, no it's a 'technique' you have to learn from Liam Neeson. And maybe you think that stupid change is meaningless, but then Ip Man dies in Rogue One, and it's this perfect moment where he 'should' become one with the force, proving his statement throughout the movie, but he can't because he never learned the force powerz. Ugh.
Anyway, so baby Yoda has force powers, because of course he does! But when you do this, you ruin actual Yoda. Yoda was just a little green dude who through his ability to use the force was super powerful. It was this whole lesson about 'size matters not' remember? Thing is, if it turns out he was just a member of a race of force sensitive Gremlins, it all falls apart.
The alternative is that this simplistic peaceful Monk Yoda has sired some bastards out there, or that this is his nephew or whatever. Again, horrible. Yoda is an ancient dude without family or people or origin. Leave him that way.
2. On this subject, I just always assumed Yoda was 900 because being in tune with the force so heavily allowed him to live a long life. Also, for 800 of those years he was training Jedi right? So at 50 he is a baby, and by 100 he is a Jedi Master? The math is so screwed up.
3. The Mandalorian lore is super cool. However, I feel like it's not compatible with some of the Mandalorian episodes of the Clone Wars. I can't honestly remember, it's been a while and I never watched them all. But Obi Wan was totally hooking up with their hot queen who definitely wasn't wearing a steel helmet to bed. I thought clone wars was still canon?
4. There is still this propensity to try to recreate iconic scenes instead of making new ones. The battle at the end of ep3? Very good. All the cantina scenes that are supposed to look like New Hope? Meh, I can do without.
5. The alien rat watching his friend getting roasted is going to keep me up at night for a week.
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I've seen the first three episodes. It's good. It's good in a good way too. The Force Awakens was good if you just wanted a slightly more diverse A New Hope, the kind of good that gets less good every time you think about it, let alone see it. The Last Jedi was good in that it was well made, and either you enjoyed the more extreme take on star wars or you hated it, but at least it looked great.
The Mandalorian is just good, as in good entertainment. I can't remember when star wars was just plain good. Well, I can't remember because it was before I was born.
And yet, it would not be star wars if I didn't have an itemized list of complaints:
1. Freaking baby Yoda. Look, I was on board at first. Maybe some backstory on Yoda's species? I'm down. The thing is, you just know star wars is going
Anyway, so baby Yoda has force powers, because of course he does! But when you do this, you ruin actual Yoda. Yoda was just a little green dude who through his ability to use the force was super powerful. It was this whole lesson about 'size matters not' remember? Thing is, if it turns out he was just a member of a race of force sensitive Gremlins, it all falls apart.
The alternative is that this simplistic peaceful Monk Yoda has sired some bastards out there, or that this is his nephew or whatever. Again, horrible. Yoda is an ancient dude without family or people or origin. Leave him that way.
2. On this subject, I just always assumed Yoda was 900 because being in tune with the force so heavily allowed him to live a long life. Also, for 800 of those years he was training Jedi right? So at 50 he is a baby, and by 100 he is a Jedi Master? The math is so screwed up.
3. The Mandalorian lore is super cool. However, I feel like it's not compatible with some of the Mandalorian episodes of the Clone Wars. I can't honestly remember, it's been a while and I never watched them all. But Obi Wan was totally hooking up with their hot queen who definitely wasn't wearing a steel helmet to bed. I thought clone wars was still canon?
4. There is still this propensity to try to recreate iconic scenes instead of making new ones. The battle at the end of ep3? Very good. All the cantina scenes that are supposed to look like New Hope? Meh, I can do without.
5. The alien rat watching his friend getting roasted is going to keep me up at night for a week.
[This message has been edited by Mr Wednesday (edited 11-28-2019 @ 02:19 PM).]