Mando season 3

[Zardnaar]

... the Minions in "Despicable me"...

They behave in similar ways, and yet I would say they're sentient.

Yeah they're sentient. AI very old trope but can still be done well (Mass Effect, Humans, Better Than Us recent examples).

Star Wars could do it. Should they probably not. At least on screen.

 

[Rabulias]

Do we think them retaking Mandalore is something that will be in the show, or are they saving that for the movie that includes these characters? Or will that just be a Thrawn movie?

Filoni’s movie is a Mando/Boba/Ahsoka grand finale. It’s almost certainly going to have Thrawn as the main antagonist.

Agreed that Gideon is the BBEG for the Mandalorian, though.

Exactly. Perhaps we’ll get one more season of the Mandalorian before the movie wraps things up.

It may be wishful thinking on my part, but I think we will get 2 more seasons of The Mandalorian, and then Filoni's film in December 2026.

I think the endpoint of the tale Filoni is telling is the reclamation of Mandalore, so while we may see that begin in the show, its conclusion will be in the movie. And with his involvement in Mandalore's fall, I think it will be fitting that Moff Gideon is defeated during that return to Mandalore. I think Thrawn will be defeated in the Ahsoka show, but it could well be that he and Gideon join forces in the film to beef up Team Bad Guy to an appropriate cinematic level.

 

[Dire Bare]

The comparison to pets voting is bizarre to me. Pets are not sentient beings - they can't reason or use language at anything like a human level, let alone exceed it.

To me, it's not that droids are equivalent to pets in Star Wars . . . but they are often treated like pets by the characters. Which, again, is something that happened in slave-owning societies in the real world.

And that's only one of the many slave narratives in Star Wars! The entire franchise has slavery as a frequent reference, yet seldom as anything more than background plot. The Republic was fine with slavery happening, to the extent that two Jedi took a child from his mother while leaving her enslaved!

I don't think that the Republic, overall, thinks slavery is okay or a good thing, but . . . rather that the Republic is a shaky democracy of thousands of worlds, some of which are slave-owing societies. The Republic is often treated like a monolith, but is far from that. Of course, I don't think the franchise does a good job of making that clear. It pops up occasionally, like the episode of Mando focusing on the Doctor.

This (from within the story) is part of the problem with the Republic and why Palpatine is able to sow division . . . the Republic actually is corrupt! Both the Clone Wars era Republic and the post-Empire Republic. It's addressed in the stories but not given a lot of attention and is easy to gloss over.

 

[trappedslider]

If you really want to delve into whether AI-powered robots are slaves or not, I recommend watching Westworld.

I also recommend a new thread just for the topic.

 

[Clint_L]

Can someone clarify a discussion my spouse and I are having? We just finished episode 4 and once again there is a big deal about whether or not Mando or others have ever taken their helmet off, or done so since bathing in the sacred waters, etc. My spouse is wondering how they eat, bathe, have intimate relations, etc. and my response is "in private" (though the last one is a bit of a stumper). Is my response correct?

 

[Zardnaar]

Can someone clarify a discussion my spouse and I are having? We just finished episode 4 and once again there is a big deal about whether or not Mando or others have ever taken their helmet off, or done so since bathing in the scars waters, etc. My spouse is wondering how they eat, bathe, have intimate relations, etc. and my response is "in private" (though the last one is a bit of a stumper). Is my response correct?

Essentially yes. Not sure how intimate relation work but they may not be allowed.

 

[MarkB]

Can someone clarify a discussion my spouse and I are having? We just finished episode 4 and once again there is a big deal about whether or not Mando or others have ever taken their helmet off, or done so since bathing in the scars waters, etc. My spouse is wondering how they eat, bathe, have intimate relations, etc. and my response is "in private" (though the last one is a bit of a stumper). Is my response correct?

Yep. This is a military order existing in secret locales with minimal space and facilities, which does not do communal eating or bathing.

 

[Ryujin]

Essentially yes. Not sure how intimate relation work but they may not be allowed.

Maybe they aren't? Have there been any characters that have been confirmed as biological offspring of adult cult Mandalorians, or might the young all be foundlings? Saying, "My son" might just be another term for a particular adult's Foundling.

 

[Zardnaar]

Maybe they aren't? Have there been any characters that have been confirmed as biological offspring of adult cult Mandalorians, or might the young all be foundlings? Saying, "My son" might just be another term for a particular adult's Foundling.

Yeah that's how I see it. No families like Jedi maybe.

 

[MarkB]

Maybe they aren't? Have there been any characters that have been confirmed as biological offspring of adult cult Mandalorians, or might the young all be foundlings? Saying, "My son" might just be another term for a particular adult's Foundling.

Yeah, but do we really want this cult getting any more creepy? Taking in kids who are in dire need is one thing, but sustaining your cult entirely through recruiting and indoctrinating children into it is a whole other level.