re: The Mandalorian Season 3 - Official Thread

Yea I honestly think that they know they kinda fricked up in the long run with Grogu. He would be good for a 1-2 season series but now it’s like, okay wtf do we do with him considering he can live up to 1,000 years old and he’s only around 50 in the show? But hey, those season 1 memes and merchandise were really worth it.

It all goes back to making Boba Fett a soft bitch and then creating this Mando character with whom Fett should’ve been.

But Grogu is cute and cuddly! No, it’s kinda cringe seeing 2 foot tall green baby doll with chainmail on doing flips into fat Lizzos lap.

Can we take a pause from running errands on various planets and figure out where the frick Thrawn is? Hell the scientist got his mind wiped and I guess that was it for his screen time.

The single problem is that the show is being spread too thin

There’s not enough time to cover what they are doing and progressing the story in the right about depth

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Yea I honestly think that they know they kinda fricked up in the long run with Grogu

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It really begs the question of what do you do with him. He doesn’t have any dialogue. He looks cute and cuddly but he’s no longer adding anything to the story. The end of season 2 was their best chance to move him forward in terms of character development but Disney inexplicably ruined it between seasons. Now Din has been reduced to a babysitter instead of a bad arse mandalorian doing badass shite across the galaxy.

Yea I was thinking that too.

This show is getting worse with each episode. This last one was close to unwatchable. Season started out with promise, now it has gone to total crap.

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You can’t develop Grogu…he’s a muppet that can’t talk and doesn’t age. He went through his arc at the end of season 2 and they should’ve let him ride off into the sunset. Now they’ve put the series in a box where the best he can do is tag along.

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It certainly seems that way. But it’s hard for me to believe that they introduced baby fricking Yoda, of all things, without having a pretty clear idea of how his story was going to play out in the long run. It just doesn’t make any sense. For them to go as far as delivering him to Luke Skywalker, while still not knowing the endgame, makes even less sense.

I guess it’s possible but as good as those first two seasons were, I just don’t buy it.

I’m wondering if the cancellation (or postponement, absorption, or whatever) of Rangers of the New Republic threw a wrench in the gears. I believe they said that show was supposed to tie stuff back into the films, if I remember correctly.

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t certainly seems that way. But it’s hard for me to believe that they introduced baby fricking Yoda, of all things, without having a pretty clear idea of how his story was going to play out in the long run.

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Because they did have a story for him, and it ended in season 2. It was quite honestly the perfect ending. The problem is that thanks to the retardedly shitty sequel trilogy, we know what finally happens - everyone dies and nothing mattered.



Someone realized this and they backpedaled. And they had to, It's better to have grogu gallavanting around the galaxy than knowing he gets murdered by snokey at some point. if Disney had any foresight whatsoever they would have had Luke squirrel off remnants of the jedi order in an order 66 type situation, but of course they didn't and so their hands were tied.

If they didn't override Season 2's ending, the sequel trilogy forces THIS






Anyway S3 is all over the place and not in a good way, barely consistent as well. stuff like season 2: "darksaber must be earned, not given" Season 3: "lol nah" just strikes me as pitiful and lazy.

Everything with Grogu in S3 is classic 'we need to milk this popular character nonstop' shite that disney does. There's no more 'goal' or 'endgame.' Now he's become Poochie Dog.


Anyway I said early on that focusing on Bo Katan was a huge mistake for season 3, and it really signalled that they are using Mando as a jumping ground for other shows and will probably quietly abandon it for other projects.

The story was finished and now they are just going for *ONE MORE THING.*


And im just gonna say it, the sequel trilogy retroactively damaged the entire brand. I knew they would make another Rey movie for no other reason than damage control and be able to [eventually] move the story forward, since they basically killed it with TROS.

It really was a legitimate pile of shite. Cheesy, cheap, recycled storyline crammed into bland settings with exceptionally low stakes. And just some of the laziest, on the nose dialogue you can generate. Like first draft of first script bland. What you just throw down on the page to get a first draft out before going back and doing the work of crafting actually compelling interactions. It truly felt like a “throw it together the night before it’s due” kind of script.

The scene and dialogue between the two aliens in love was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in Star Wars. Then they follow that up with possibly the next worst scene with Jack Black and Lizzo. I turned it off after that.