re: The Mandalorian Season 3 - Official Thread

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That alone makes it worth it and I’m surprised Gideon was able to keep it to himself.

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Remember the planet was rumored to be cursed or unable to sustain life on it. Another rumor created by the Empire to keep people off of it.

Just like in Andor with his home planet. Though I believe it may had more to do with hiding their mining efforts that killed off the population.

That sounds cynical. But honestly, at this point when you have a question about why or how something happened in a Star Wars media, the answer is just “because the writers are bad and also they hate Star Wars.”

There are no answers. This stuff is made up on the fly. They don’t care if it makes sense. Only if it makes dollars. And they seemingly care less and less about that too.

Finally realized where I recognized the imperial Chick from. It’s the same actor that played the shithead little boy at the beginning of Jurassic Park

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Bo that saved him as a child and brought him to the tribe to become a foundling

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Was this established in a recent episode? I was under the impression he was saved by someone else

Love that Din gave up his beaker spear and now the dark saber and has no way to help fight the Guards now.

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Thrawn has always been depicted as a soft spoken, uber intelligent antagonist who respects his adversaries.

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Interesting they brought in Gillad Pellaeon.

I mean, can we just stop for a min and appreciate Timothy Zahn? Seriously, it was the perfect follow up to ROTJ. I just finished rereading the Thrawn trilogy and it’s truly wonderful. And here, Star Wars has poached all of his characters (except for Mara Jade) and inserted them into this canon.

I will give it to them. Rebels is a good series, had skin in the game for some good characters. And I like that they are setting up Thrawns return and more of the Ghost crew in live action. Wonder if we’ll finally see an Ezra Bridger sighting. Maybe even a FPJr force ghost cameo as Kannan. So good on it to Dave and John for at least approaching this from people that give a shite about fandom and story.

And how much longer before we find out Grogu is a clone of Yoda which they are clearly setting up since there’s a dude in the previews for Ashoka that’s clearly a Jorrus C’Baoth analogue?

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There are no answers. This stuff is made up on the fly. They don’t care if it makes sense. Only if it makes dollars.

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So... they are simply following the George Lucas playbook?

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Bryant Carter

I love this show, but I'm feeling a little frustrated after watching the latest episode. As a former Army Ranger and combat veteran, I have some experience with running recon patrols. After the initial skirmish with the imperial commandos, any decent leader would have withdrawn, regrouped, and made a plan. Those commandos had to come from somewhere, and they were clearly retreating back to something. So here's my question: do I hate the writers for being incompetent and not doing their homework, or do I hate Bo-Katan for being an incompetent jackass who needs to be relieved from command immediately?

Let me explain. Bo-Katan ordered her troops to pursue the commandos, leading them into what turned out to be a larger, more dangerous force almost every time. And when they hit what was obviously imperial infrastructure, they just kept going in full force. This isn't the purpose of a recon patrol. Officers typically exist to prevent this type of stupidity, but Bo-Katan, as the patrol leader, behaved like a rookie with a bit of adrenaline.
When the enemy broke contact, she should have sent a scout team (2 to 4 Mandalorians) ahead to gather intel, while falling back with the rest of the patrol to establish a perimeter and wait for reinforcements. This is not high-level military theory; it's basic combat doctrine. It's frustrating to see such an experienced leader and commando behave like a young, green idiot who has never done this before.

There are thousands of veterans out there who would have loved to help the show's writers design a more plausible ambush or trap. I just hope the show improves in this regard, as it would make it more enjoyable for anyone who knows anything about warfare.

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Fixation? I just find they look absolutely identical.

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You really need to watch Rebels. That’s where we meet him in canon. It explains why he is so bad and why he has been gone.

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This is the problem. There are a lot of us that don't want to watch Rebels, Clone Wars, etc. We wanted this to be a show that's about the Mandalorian, a more episodic show, maybe with an overarching development of something like reclaiming Mandalore where they could have missions together, etc.

I wanted more of a stand alone show. I wanted more Mando and Grogu...or even leave him training with Luke and check in on him occasionally.