Mando season 3

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah these Mandalorians definitely feel like they have a bit of meathead/jock vibe, even Bo-Katan might be found stuffing a nerd in a locker, and you know Din would (he even bullies droids!). Nothing entirely wrong with that, but it does clearly leave them lacking when they have a situation which might require some care, finesse or technical expertise to resolve.

Indeed. That's why they should team up with Thrawn. If Din or Bo-katan had half his smarts they would have deduced the presence of Gideon's base back in Episode 3 when they where attacked by imperial fighters whilst leaving Mandalore.

 

[Maxperson]

Found this on facebook
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I read that entire thing in the voices of Scooby and the gang. It just felt like one of their conversations.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That seems unlikely. If it's naturally-occurring, it could easily have required weeks or months of study by Moff Gideon's forces to overcome. If it's artificial, it would need to be dealt with at the source, not from above.

If it took weeks or months they could have given it weeks or months. There was no time pressure on the mission, they where just impatient.

And if it turned out that the source was artificial, they could have taken it out from orbit. They have a capital ship and the escorts to defend it from counterattack.

 

[Maxperson]

But not just Jack – Lizzo and Christopher Lloyd as well?! What is this?!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, Sabine is a real outlier there as an engineering genius.

As well as an artist, something else most of the Mandalorians seem to have abandoned in their diaspora.

Ironically, Sabine only got that education because of the Imperial presence on Mandalore.

 

[Maxperson]

Well fictionalized in Mandalorians go back to the 90's at least.

Wouldn't they go back to Boba Fett in Empire Strikes Back in 1980?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Wouldn't they go back to Boba Fett in Empire Strikes Back in 1980?

Not in the movie itself, but possibly in supporting products, it was mentioned that Boba Fett wears "Mandalorian armour", without explaining what that meant.

 

[Maxperson]

Not in the movie itself, but possibly in supporting products, it was mentioned that Boba Fett wears "Mandalorian armour", without explaining what that meant.

Google turns this up.

"What was the first mention of Mandalorian in Star Wars?

The first mention of Mandalorians came in Marvel's first Star Wars comic book series, with 1983's No. 68 featuring a (non-canonical) backstory for Boba Fett that saw him as being one of a number of super-commandos protecting the planet Mandalore."

 

[Benjamin Olson]

Yeah, Sabine is a real outlier there as an engineering genius.

An engineering genius, a demolitions expert, an acclaimed artist, and sufficiently skilled in the Mandalorian combat arts to routinely defeat people who just do that full time, all by her mid to late teens, having also spent meaningful time in the imperial academy.

One of the weaker points of Rebels is that, having made the teenage boy a Jedi (the coolest thing you can be in Star Wars), they decided to balance it out by making the teenage girl every other cool thing in the Star Wars universe they could think of. If she was older, or if they established right off the bat that she was a prodigy, I wouldn't be bothered (still wildly improbable, but not as ridiculous), but they sort of stumbled into making her an all-out engineering genius whose weapon design could not be reverse engineered by anyone else, when originally she seemed to just be highly competent, and on top of all of her other competencies it all became a bit Mary Sue-esque on a character who is supposed to still be 20 in the final season.

 

[Maxperson]

That was a bizarre fight as it seemed like none of the Mandalorians used their tricks - no flamethrowers, no "whistling birds", I don't think they even used their grapples (though maybe I forgot?). Even though a little later all the Imperial Mandalorians use their grapples and Din uses his flamethrower.

I wondered about that, but I wondered even more why Bo didn't use the Darksaber to cut through and have the Mandalorians save Din when he was caught alone out with the Imperials.