Mando season 3

[Paul Farquhar]

Why do you hate good writing?

I like writing that is fun and entertaining. I hate writing that is serious, dark and ponderous.

 

[Ryujin]

I felt like Bo-Katan was kind of doing a "No TRUE Scotsman" there though. Because the Mandalorians are only ever united, AFAICT, when they're already winning/on an upcurve. As soon as they switch to neutral or things go bad, they all start squabbling.

Yeah that was smart, though that project name was on the nose even for Star Wars (with a device for blowing up planets being called "Project Stardust").

I think it's more like most people don't even know it exists. Also it's outside the Republic which I suspect is seen as a bad thing by most Republic citizens.

Doesn't strike me as reaching "No True Scotsman" levels. It's just the sort of rhetoric that you use to unite disparate factions against a common enemy. Right up there with, "We must hang together, or we shall surely hang separately."

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I like writing that is fun and entertaining. I hate writing that is serious, dark and ponderous.

I don't think there's might of a contradiction between those two things. The opposites of serious, dark, and ponderous- as pertains to TV/movies - would be lightweight, light-hearted and zippy. Fun and entertaining are a separate thing entirely. One could find either or both kind of TV (or the majority that is in the middle somewhere) fun and/or entertaining.

Doesn't strike me as reaching "No True Scotsman" levels. It's just the sort of rhetoric that you use to unite disparate factions against a common enemy. Right up there with, "We must hang together, or we shall surely hang separately."

I mean that the thinking is "No True Scotsman", rather than the goal of the rhetoric. The goal is obviously to unite people. But to actually believe it, you have to take a "No True Scotsman" approach to Mandalorian history, where whenever they're losing, it's because they're divided, and whenever they're winning, it's because they're united, rather than observing that perhaps the Mandalorians are a little less honorable than they'd like to think, and instead keen to back a winner and flee a loser. This actually applies to a whole lot of "honorable warrior" societies now I think about it, in human history and in sci-fi.

 

[Hussar]

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

I pissed myself laughing. You could just hear Din grinding his teeth.

 

[trappedslider]

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

I pissed myself laughing. You could just hear Din grinding his teeth.

no no no no no no

 

[MarkB]

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

I pissed myself laughing. You could just hear Din grinding his teeth.

no no no no no no

Grogu is now the personification of Bit from Tron.

 

[wicked cool]

One of the better episodes . Hardcore with some humor and lots of foreshadowing. This episode competes with the best of Andor and the best of Star Wars. Paves the way for Ashoka who could be sort of a uniting figure in some of the heroine movie/tv politics going on
Off topic but there was a cameo of a rebels character a few episodes back and yet that character isn’t mentioned in possibly being in Ashoka . Is there a reason for that?

 

[Zardnaar]

I like writing that is fun and entertaining. I hate writing that is serious, dark and ponderous.

Fair enough I'm more into variety. Star Waes has always blended genres. Depends on the specific project and its execution.

I liked Andor not as much as the internet though. It was biring for me earlybon ymmv. I seem to like this season more than the internet go figure but it has its issues

 

[trappedslider]

No squeezing!

 

[pukunui]

Something to consider: Moff Gideon has a way of bypassing Mandalore’s magnetic interference since he was able to communicate with both Elia Kane and the Shadow Council from his secret base, and he was aware of the Mandalorian fleet in orbit.

I also want to know how the Mandalorians will have enough jet pack fuel to fly all the way up to the fleet when they clearly didn’t have enough fuel to chase after the raptor thing. (They’re also going to have to fly through that storm.)

As an aside, I note that the show seems to have dropped all the mystical stuff. No one refers to jet packs as “Rising Phoenixes”, and we haven’t seen any of Din’s “whistling birds” in a long time. (They would have come in handy in the fight against the super-commandos!)