#sw the mando show

[twilightofthe]

#mando season 1 was great bc it had confined scope #after that it got too big imho

yes you’re SO right about all of this

imho while star wars movies are well suited to live action, the tv shows are best in animation. star wars, to feel like star wars, requires incredible spectacles to snare the audience, like flashy lightsaber combat, battles in space, and the environments of a thousand planets. that's all very expensive to make look convincing in live action. it's very possible for a two hour movie, but fucking hell it's expensive to do that for a full season of a tv show. disney is not here to spend half a movie budget per episode on a tv show for a streaming platform, yk? they do their best (and exploit labor) to make the episodes within the constraints, but they will never be able to match what is possible visually on a much smaller budget with animation. imho the last few seasons of rebels, and this last season of bad batch, both created vast, beautiful environments and complex action sequences, with stunts and effects that would be a bitch and a half to do in live action. it looked incredible and just felt like good star wars. so yeah. live action tv is just a difficult medium and the storytelling suffers as a result, and animation is great for star wars. tbh i wish it got more respect.

[mythosaursarecool]

Greater Krayt Dragon VS Mythosaur

Went into this planning a quick doodle and well… that’s not what happened here lol Anyways enjoy!

It was fun paring Mythos up against something a fair bit bigger than her. Most things she gets to play with are so small

[ruescott]

“take it off. or I will” 🤝 “do you respect my station? remove your helmet”

[rexxdjarin]

DANIEL LOGAN POSTED ON HIS INSTA STORY IN SUPPORT OF TEM. LETS GO. LETS BE LOUDER. WE NEED TO LET THEM KNOW THIS ISNT ACCEPTABLE.

give us the well written shows we expect. give us the characters we love with the actors who love portraying them and give them a story worthy of their fucking talent. give us 10+ episode seasons with storylines that make sense. Give us a universe that is connected and weaves together excellently, not chopped up and name dropping characters just for the sake of it.

I’m not one of those DiSnEy RuInEd StAr WaRs people because there are wonderful, incredible things going on in the animated shows imo. But this season of the Mandalorian was an absolute mess and I refuse to allow my favorite characters of all time to have future shows ruined bc corporate overlords won’t pay a decent writers room what they deserve or will act like doing the bare minimum is enough for the long-time dedicated fans who have waited YEARS to see the conclusion of these characters stories’.

[jsfn04]

After the first ep of Ahsoka, I wondered what the star wars canonical version of rock music would be and if it is it more cursed than jizz?

I present to you: Rack.

Not more cursed but definitely more stupid

[thefrogdalorian]

Half of me yearns for the time when Mando felt so separate to the rest of Star Wars, but then the other half of me LOVES seeing Din's story become part of something bigger. The fact that little boy from Aq Vetina has a major role to play in key events in the galaxy like reclaiming Mandalore when everyone else gave up is quite incredible, actually.

I can't lie though, I do miss how separate season one felt to everything... mysterious man who barely speaks making his way through the galaxy with his strange frog baby. So many new characters and planets introduced.... it was amazing to see after the sequels. Mando s1 really united the fandom.

While I don't think it could have stayed that way forever and regardless of where the story goes, I guess i'm just glad we have the first season to go back to with all of those nostalgic feelings. But the "problem" of the story being linked to existing characters started in season 2, not season 3 like a lot of people pretend. At least season 3 was actually linked to Mandalorians, which is personally what I want in a show called THE Mandalorian lmao. It still has its flaws of course, but I hope at the end, when Din's story is complete, some of the choices will make more sense.

[samsdawn]

Sabine watched killing eve and said no to taking away her crazy blonde murderer

I now wish to do a full designed outfit for shins Mando gear Sabine painted for her. This playful sketch idea has inspired

[bilbo-fettt]

I need y'all to come out of the wood work for this

Please support this kick starter!

Do it for Rex and his bean shaped booty!

Do it for the dramatic flair of Ventress's cape.

Do it for cross legged Thrawn.

They have the rest of the clone troopers too 😭

[evaceratops]

both of the flashback episodes felt weak to me and i can’t figure out why

[twilightofthe]

tf is wrong with you

hello anon, my day was nice, thank you for asking!

as for your question, I decided to outsource the answer to some friends of mine. Results are in and the answers include:

There you are! My answer?

✨✨Yes ✨✨

[sweatandwoe]

i know you haven't written anything for star wars in a long long long time but i just finished mando s3 and I was wondering if you watched it? it just felt so... different

anon I would need to unleash so much nerd anger to do this. So asking followers: do you guys wanna hear me rant about star wars media for like a few paragraphs. 1 like and I'll do it

[iamda05]

All of the rebels people freaking out over the Ahsoka show while I'm still mad that Zeb appeared before Sabine in Mando because she's a mandalorian and Zeb isn't

[phantom-of-the-keurig]

sorry i have been flooding your in box but in case i forget. would you even check out a rex and echo spin off at all or is it too soon to tell?

You know what’s crazy? If you had told me a year ago there’s probably gonna be a Rex spinoff show I’d be soooo excited. Now?

It just feels…hollow? Soured? Idk. People moaned and groaned since day one they didn’t wanna watch Hunter, Tech, Wrecker etc. they wanted REX and ECHO and OMG why isn’t background clone number 657 from episode 12 of clone wars here??? Why isn’t Echo front and center this is bullshit!?

Anyway, people bitched about everything from day one, despite season 1+2 delivering some of the best Star Wars content in years, and now it feels like the bad batch is getting a super rushed and half assed ending so they can move on to a shiny new show with Rex and Echo.

It’s literally giving Game of Thrones final season vibes, when the creators tried to do a speed run through the story and couldn’t be assed to even try to make things work, just so they could move onto their new Star Wars project. And then the result was so bad, they lost their Star Wars project lmfao.

Like, the bad batch deserve a story too. They’ve set up so much, beautifully crafted these impactful emotional moments and character arcs- and the clone rebellion we’ve been working toward and slowly growing in the background could EASILY have been part of this show.

But no. They’re gonna save that for the new show with more popular clones like the fans want 😌 and Star Wars creating content in reaction to fan outcry has never gone wrong, nope. The bad batch? What’s that lol, isn’t that the show with that goofy little kid? It’s all about the Rex-bellion show now baby 😎

Watch them pull some of the more recent bull shit and have Echo be force sensitive, Cal Kestis shows up for some reason, Moff Gideon is a one off bad guy to help tie into Mando, oh and Darth Vader is there too

[cienie-isengardu]

Jango Fett Open Seasons: Retreat vs. fight no matter the cost

Another detail from Jango Fett: Open Seasons that I find very telling about characters is their approach to retreat. I’m specifically want to talk about the  four major Mandalorians - Tor Vizsla, Jaster Mereel, Jango Fett and Montross as they all were at some point in the story put in situation when they needed to decide to continue fight no matter the cost (in theory the ideal Mandalorian warrior mindset) or to prioritizing their people’s life (a choice testifying to good leadership). And yes, those situations weren’t always exactly the same yet similar enough to see the implied(?) similarities in theoretical dissimilar characters.

So we have Jaster Mereel, the original leader of True Mandalorians. During a mission on Korda Six, when Mandalorians came across the enemy's heavy fire (and Jango ordered his people to find cover), Jaster gave an order to regroup at Jango’s location - the safest place and abort the air strike.

And once it became clear, they made a mistake to rely on second-handed intel - but before they learned it was Death Watch's trap - Jaster decided to abort the whole mission. Something quite different from what Jango will teach his son decades later (“Your loyalty, your honor – these are the things that matter. When you accept a mission, when you give your word, it is all that matters.”)

Montross however refused to regroup at Jango's location

and continued the attack, stating "we've never abandoned a mission!"

Montross survived thanks to Jaster who personally came to his aid only to betray his leader and leave him behind once Tor showed up. And while he tried to take command of True Mandalorians, he did order an evacuation, as the "Jaster's last order still stands" argument.

Then we have Tor Vizsla who during Jango’s attack on Death Watch’s ship, ordered everyone to evacuate.

And now, let’s talk about Jango Fett who started very much minded like Jaster, what was the best visible on Korda Six. The mission was his first official role as Squad Commander but he didn’t allow pride or desire to make Jaster proud to take over common sense. When it became clear his men were under too strong enemy’s fire, he ordered them to get into trenches / find cover. 

However on Galidraan, as a leader of True Mandalorians, when he already knew they walked again into Death Watch’s trap, instead of  de-escalate threat of the Jedi by at least trying calm down the situation and presenting what is going on behind the scene- and mind you, the Jedi did not have all facts but Fett already met Vizla at Governor's residence and as he wore helmet at that time, most likely had recorded this, not to mention all Mandalorians could present what they were doing and where they were via the recording from helmets - Fett ordered to open fire. And the Jedi naturally responded as such.

(And really, if Fett was smarter he could at least try to turn Jedi against Death Watch).

This is even more surprising choice as Jango's first reaction upon seeing Republic shuttles before even meeting eye to eye with Jedi was to call his second-in-command to order an evacuation.

Which is pretty ironic, that both Jaster and Tor, despite their ideological differences, were at some point shown to prioritizing their men’s safety by ordering retreat / evacuation, while Jango started as similar minded (Korda Six and upon seeing Republic shuttles on Galidraan) but once Jedi showed up, his attitude changed into “no running, fight whatever the cost” which not only led to great tragedy but made him more like Montross. 

[jessescoldbrew]

every character this season is going “It’s time for us to retake Mandalore” but saying it like they’re implying they have to defeat some occupying force there but like

no one’s home?? do they just need more people so they can drive the u-hauls?? what’s going on here? am I missing something?

[aq2003]

you know the nature of star wars to me is that they will drop something so mid or bad or uninteresting and make me go "what the hell this sucks. i don't care about any of this. im so tired of star wars can they stop" and then they will drop something so exquisite and stunning and a masterpiece of art and i'll go "i love star wars with all of my heart and all of my soul it means so much to me and it's the best thing ever in the whole entire world" and this goes around in a violent cycle. i am being thrown around like i'm in a washing machine