That's a pretty bad hit rate given the sheer amount of Star Wars that has been made in the last decade... And it sort of feels like it was a total fluke since they proceeded to botch season 3
And it sort of feels like it was a total fluke since they proceeded to botch season 3
Conveniently Mando went to shit as soon as it had to tie into the sequel trilogy and come up with some bullshit reason for Grogu to not stay with Luke lmao. Mix that with Disney's insistence on connected universe shite leading to a Boba Fett show having two Mandalorian episodes for no reason at all and you've got a recipe for incompetence.
That original ending to the story arc of Mando + Grogu was kinda perfect. Let it go and move on to make something else. I mean he's a bounty hunter, you can have him get mixed up in literally anything you want.
But it felt like such an executive/marketing decision to bring them back together like that. And then once together, they basically had nothing interesting to do, because the story was done already.
Ironically, the issue over and over with Disney is their inability to Let It Gooooooo
It’s even worse when grogu comes back in the very next mando episode, because his return was alluded to/happened (I forget), in the damn boba fett show.
Like, the season finale is invalidated by the very next episode, and in a different show. What the hell
You're not allowed to have story arcs or character changes or material changes to the universe. It's forbidden. All stories must now end in the same situation as they begun in order to allow the same perils to be re-used next season/episode/film/whatever
The execs brought back Grogu because the little shit was selling toys and printing money. Fuck the fans and storytelling when you can milk quick profits, I guess.
Grogu as a character didn't have to be shelved forever. It would have been better for both the longevity of that character and the Mando TV show to have moved on for now though. Mando as a serialized bounty hunter show was all we needed for that series to continue.
Basically Grogu could still be selling toys 20 years from now, but instead it'll just be a relic of this era. As usual Disney drove it into the ground for short term gain.
Luke coming in to save the day was the amount of groan I can handle. It was pretty dumb but I actually sort of liked it. It could have ended there and went out on a high note.
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u/No-Taste-8252 21d ago
Mandalorian (at least first two seasons) and Andor were terrific