Wow. Just wow. Although I suspected somebody would show up after baby yoda put up the bat signal last week. I hope you guys all stayed through the end of the credits and saw the trailer for what’s coming.

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Originally posted by Chowser:
not sure if the book of fett will be another series taking place at the same time as the mandalorian, or if season 3 is about fett while we take a break from Din.

or fett is a short series of episodes and season 3 is dealing with din and bokatan and the darksaber

From what I hear season 3 and 4 are a go of Mandalorian, featuring Din. The Book of Fett will be a different show, there are varying stories on what it will be. Flashbacks of his life, his new leadership of the former Hutt cartel, who knows. At one point before he sold to Disney there were plans for a more adult show on a cable channel about the Hutt cartels. They had a bunch of ideas and scripts, so I wonder if they will dust those off for the Book of Fett.

There are also a whole slew of other shows coming, Bo Katan, Ahsoka, Cassian Andor, Obi Wan, etc.

Terrific wrap up for this season. Looking forward to the next.

Michael

An opportunity was missed when Djarin didn't give baby Yoda that metal ball when he said goodbye.

I mean, really! Did they just forget to shoot that scene? Why did Djarin even pick it up from the wreckage of his ship if he wasn't going to give it to baby Yoda?

He didn't give Grogu the ball because it would have given a sort of closure to their seperation. Djarin will give it to the child in a future episode when they reunite again.

Or Djarin's keeping it as a keepsake, with a later scene when he gets a new ship showing him screwing the knob onto a new lever while reminiscing about Grogu.

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Originally posted by sigspecops:
He didn't give Grogu the ball because it would have given a sort of closure to their seperation. Djarin will give it to the child in a future episode when they reunite again.

That's how I see it. As ridiculously popular as Baby Yoda is, they may be afraid to drop the character.

Although, the two previous episodes were excellent, and Baby Yoda was not in either.



That Beskar staff did retract, as I was wondering why he didn't use it on the Dark Troopers. Then, like magic, there it was. It bothers me, but I can get over it.

I geeked out hard watching Luke take down the Troopers. That was actually the first time we really saw him using his full potential power (the fight on Jabba's barge was sort of JV level in comparison).


The Fett show looks AWESOME. I am REALLY glad they kept Fennec alive. That is an amazing character.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:

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Originally posted by Chowser:
not sure if the book of fett will be another series taking place at the same time as the mandalorian, or if season 3 is about fett while we take a break from Din.

or fett is a short series of episodes and season 3 is dealing with din and bokatan and the darksaber

From what I hear season 3 and 4 are a go of Mandalorian, featuring Din. The Book of Fett will be a different show, there are varying stories on what it will be. Flashbacks of his life, his new leadership of the former Hutt cartel, who knows. At one point before he sold to Disney there were plans for a more adult show on a cable channel about the Hutt cartels. They had a bunch of ideas and scripts, so I wonder if they will dust those off for the Book of Fett.

There are also a whole slew of other shows coming, Bo Katan, Ahsoka, Cassian Andor, Obi Wan, etc.

I’ll be honest, having a slew of SW shows all coming out at once may actually hurt the franchise. It’s one thing to have movies come out every year or two, but multiple episodic TV shows all running near, or at, the same time? I think everyone is going to get tired of it. The law of averages says that not all of them are going to be good, and some of the characters honestly aren’t particularly interesting. Don’t really care enough about either Bo Katan or Cassian Andor to watch a series about either of them. Ashoka is OK, but she had a massive story arc in The Clone Wars series that got pretty much wrapped up with them finally releasing season 7, plus her activities in the Rebels series. Not sure I really need to see more of her continuing adventures, and wasn’t too impressed with Rosario Dawson’s characterization of her. Same with Obi Wan. I do think the actor is fine, but don’t really need to see more of his story.

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:
That Beskar staff did retract, as I was wondering why he didn't use it on the Dark Troopers. Then, like magic, there it was. It bothers me, but I can get over it.

He didn't use it against the Dark Trooper initially because it was knocked away from him by the Dark Trooper's first hit. The spear is shown skittering across the floor and ending up further down the hallway. It's only after several subsequent strikes from the Dark Trooper that Mando was able to regain the spear and use it against him.

It wasn't that he had it retracted, and then finally pulled it out and extended it. He just had to get over to where it was laying on the floor before he could pick it up.

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Originally posted by Dwill104:
I’ll be honest, having a slew of SW shows all coming out at once may actually hurt the franchise. It’s one thing to have movies come out every year or two, but multiple episodic TV shows all running near, or at, the same time? I think everyone is going to get tired of it.

Star Trek did it with the last few seasons of Next Generation running alongside the first few seasons of Deep Space Nine, and again with the last several seasons of DS9 and the first several seasons of Voyager. With several Star Trek movies being released during the same period as well. And that worked out just fine for the Star Trek franchise. That period in the mid-to-late 1990s was seen as the height of Star Trek, and brought in a ton of new fans into the fold, and a ton of money for the studio.


It would also depend on the release schedule throughout the year. Mandalorian seasons are released once per year, and run with weekly releases for 8 episodes over two months. So that's 10 months out of the year where there's no Mandalorian episodes being released. If they do the same with their other shows, and stagger them, that's potentially 6 concurrent Star Wars series without having any overlap at all in episode release weeks throughout the year.

Yeah, if they drop all 6 at once, with all 6 having new episodes debuting at the same time squashed into the same months, with nothing in the other 10 months of the year, that wouldn't work so well. But they're smarter than that.

Watched it again...damn allergies

The beskar spear is at least 6', as Din Djarin/Pascal is 5'11" and photo's clearly show the spear point over his head, so maybe 6.5' long. Getting off the Imperial shuttle he's got it strapped to his rocket pack, and the initial hit from the first Death Trooper dislodges it. Getting to Grogu's cell, he chokes-out a Stormtrooper with it and the spear is no longer than 4' Perhaps a prop-fail, maybe there's an explanation, it's not a point-of-failure....

My understanding is all the new SW programing will intersect to varying degrees and at points over the next several years, similar to how the Marvel Avengers arc of movies progressed. s3 of The Mandalorian was rumored to be about Boba Fett, given it's release date and announcement of his own show, it could be possible and Djarin takes off to assist the Night Owls and Bo-Katan ...or, its an entirely new show altogether and Djarin's story continues.

Now that Luke has Grogu, does he become Luke's first student at his Jedi Academy/School post-ROTJ? Ben Solo in future seasons? Does Favreau/Filoni work to smoother-over the sequel movies and install a more cohesive and plausible timeline?

Expanding on what I posted earlier about the 1990s Star Trek comparison, it looks like each season of TNG/DS9/VOY was 26 episodes (with a few seasons being a bit shorter).

So with two ST shows running concurrently, as they did on two separate periods of several years at a time, that was 52 new Star Trek episodes being pumped out every year (plus the movies), without the fans getting tired of it.

If Star Wars sticks to Mandalorian-style seasons of 8 episodes with each of their 6 new shows, that'd still be 4 fewer episodes per year than Star Trek was dropping in its prime with just two concurrent shows.

And if some of the SW shows have more than 8 episodes per season, it's still roughly around what ST was pulling off 25ish years ago.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Does Favreau/Filoni work to smoother-over the sequel movies and install a more cohesive and plausible timeline?

God, I hope so.

Disney themselves created the possibility of alternate universes/timelines with the whole "Veil of the Force" allowing you to change the past/future by seeing and manipulating past/future events and even transporting yourself to other timelines. So let's hope they take advantage of it, and wipe those abominations away from the official canon.

That. Was. Awesome.

I've been waiting since 1983 to see that. When he beer canned the droid I'm pretty sure my neighbors heard me. I thought including him in the show would be a mistake and kill it for me. I was wrong.

Hi Bib. Bye Bib.

Boba Fett looking like King Conan on the throne with his new sidekick / possible love interest swigging blue whiskey from a jug behind him is my new favorite image from the show.

THAT IS HOW YOU DO STAR WARS DISNEY. I have decided that the sequel movies never happened. My Star Wars canon is now the original movies, Rouge One, and The Mandalorian.

Seeing Luke as a full fledged Jedi only makes the Disney sequels suck even more, if that’s possible. This is the type of Luke I wanted to see, not a pathetic, bitter loser hiding on a rock. Ryan Johnson ruined Luke’s character. I wish that they would just completely ignore the sequels going forward.

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Originally posted by ChuckFinley:
May have been said before, but unless the Dark Sabre is won in combat the new posessor receives bad luck as a result.

This doesn't make sense to me. Is losing it in combat not bad enough luck?

I've really enjoyed the second season. My family is only finishing the first season. But my kids are obsessed with baby Yoda. Made these for some gifts for them.

A long time ago, there was special feeling and excitement I got from watching Star Wars and the following two episodes, in the theater.
The Mandalorian has given me that same vibe, to an extent, that I would like to watch more. There's a whole universe that hasn't been tapped and I like what they are doing.
I want some moar.

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Originally posted by ChuckFinley:
May have been said before, but unless the Dark Sabre is won in combat the new posessor receives bad luck as a result.

I guess Bo Katan had the bad luck since it was originally just handed to her by Sabine Wren, which makes you wonder why she took it in the first place, if she knew it was bad luck.

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Originally posted by Sock Eating Golden:
my kids are obsessed with baby Yoda. Made these for some gifts for them.

Nick those are neat and I'm sure they'll be a BIG hit!

I tried really hard not to poke holes into the plot or even the actions of the series. I’ve taken it at face value, and that’s contributed to my enjoyment of it. It was fun! Like Star Wars was when I was a kid.

This will be the deepest though that I have given it the whole time I’ve watched the two seasons.


What if Grogu exists, along with the Jedi culture, tucked away (like Yoda was). This would insulate him from all the drama and disfunction that was the last three movies. All the Rey and Ben and Luke drama wouldn’t even matter. It’s like an “evolutionary” dead end. The story of the Jedi could continue. That would insulate the Star Wars “universe” from the train wreck that was the last three movies. The stories of the Jedi could continue to be told

Even if they don't ditch/avoid the sequel trilogy, there's still hundreds/thousands of years of pre-prequel history they can play around with, plus all the stories yet to be told from the end of the Republic and Clone Wars era, or the Imperial era, and then 20-30 years of post-RotJ but pre-sequel events.

The overall Star Wars Universe is huge, and the sequel trilogy is only a small blip in it.