It's notable to me that only Katee Sackhoff still manages to carry herself in a distinct way in the armor. She's got a lot of experience of doing genre work and already carries herself like an athlete in real life. But almost everyone else is an anonymous schlub in the armor, which isn't great.
she gets points for swinging those hips in that armor
True, and this is probably why it's more noticeable this season. In previous ones, Din was the only one in a helmet, and he could still manage while interacting with Greef, Cara, the widow in the village, etc. With this episode, everyone is wearing a helmet. Katee Sackhoff manages to project a character when in armour, to her great credit, but it was still better when she could use her face.
I got the impression that his work is what will result in Snoke and the First Order.
LOL Yeah. I thought to myself, "If you want to defeat the Mandalorians, just wait until lunch time and then attack."
I got the impression that since they can fly, climbing isn't their thing. They seemed to struggle, which makes sense with their armor. My big issue with that scene was that a day later, after losing the big dragon thing in the air, it shows up to spit out the kid in order to feed its young just as they show up.
She has a Hold of Holding, duh!
Wrist-mounted steel cables are also terrible ways to climb.
Apparently Snoke is already alive by this point in the timeline.
Perhaps has was a "failed" experiment that survived to grow in power.
I’d definitely say he was a failed exp…oh wait, you mean in-universe.
Those things are not mutually exclusive!I’d definitely say he was a failed exp…oh wait, you mean in-universe.
As with so many things in Star Wars, though, they could have accomplished all that, and avoided the problems, just by sitting down and plotting it out a bit further into the future.
I don't think SW has a long term plan....unless it is recycle the past and only tell Skywalker adjacent stories. that's, like, the extent of the plan (in fairness, neither Andor nor the Mandalorian are stuck on Skywalkers, which is nice).
To be fair, they pretty much did that in the first two seasons, showing that other Mandalorians don't adhere to this custom and having Din compromise it for the sake of his ward, while also having his faction be decimated down to a handful of members. And now they're doing a Rise of Skywalker, getting intimidated by the daring of their own character development, trying to walk it back and overcompensating.
Plans change. The success of The Mandalorian has done much to propel the greenlighting of other Star Wars series projects, and those in turn will have influenced the course of this show.
I would say that you're right. I doubt that anyone, even Lucas, has ever sat down and seriously written a "world bible" that outlines how things work and are connected. No plotted history. There are too many things that just jump out of the woodwork.
It's too bad, because there is one on line somewhere (of the past and future works), but I don't feel Disney has a real plan (that's clear from the last three movies).
There was a plan. In fact there were two; one for each director.
