You know I said a few months ago that Andor was so good it made me re-evaluate my opinion on the Mandalorian. I guess the showrunners felt the same way because that last episode reeks hard of them trying and FAILING to do political intrigue.
Just putting aside the fact that every single person in the "Amnesty Program" should have faced a firing squad: whose bright fucking idea was it to house them all together???? "Oh golly gee wiz, let's just stuck a whole bunch of space fascists and collaborators in a tiny little neighborhood. Surely nothing will go wrong!!!" I suppose its technically canonical that the new republic is incompetent as shit given how things play out with the first order but sheesh guys.
Just stick to what you know guys. More pew pew and vroom vroom. Leave the political drama to the adult writers in the room. You will never ever be as good as Andor....and that is OK.
weirdly enough I think I would have enjoyed book of Boba Fett if they allowed Robert Rodriguez to go full Spy Kids cartoony on the shit (it felt like he wanted to and bits of pieces of the show actually felt like something he created), part of what made the Cyberpunk Vespa Squadra stand out so much is that the rest of the show felt like it was trying too hard to match the slightly grittier vibe of mandalorian season 1
I liked the almost anti-colonial themes of the Boba and the Tuskens arc, but it pretty much went nowhere lmao
Obi-Wan was Picard-tier :cringe: nothing redeemable there, especially after giving Obi yet another chance to kill Space Hitler and basically directly making him responsible for everyone's death on Alderaan lmao
I completely agree with Filoni being a much better cartoon creator though, especially after finding out he was the one who was directly responsible for the Darth Vader Kills Everyone Wooooah Lightsaber scene at the end of Rogue One
Wait were you against the Vader kills everyone scene? Ngl I thought it was sick. If they ever do it again I’ll find it much much much less cool, but the one time was pretty cool, and it is nice to be occasionally reminded that Vader can fucking destroy you.
100% yes to literally everything else you said. Especially about the tusken stuff, that was really cool and then went nowhere.
Ehh, I just thought it was a weird addition to a slightly more grounded WW2 spy action movie
It's like we almost had a movie where nobody ignited a lightsaber and then we get the fan service scene
like it's cool in a vacuum I just didn't like it as an ending to the rest of the film