![]() ![]() “Good guys” like former Rebel commando Cara Dune (Gina Carano) turn out to have done some very bad things in their past. Over and over in the series we are presented with characters whom we judge to be villain or hero only to be later shown to be both. ![]() Hidden amid its meme-ready moments and reveals, “The Mandalorian” is quietly investigating an idea of its own-not redemption per se but the inadequacy of our ideas about each other. ![]() ![]() The Star Wars saga invested heavily in the exploration of redemption-Is anyone past help? Can forgiving one person save the whole universe? What about forgiving yourself? Personally I am as excited about it all as a Wookie playing space chess.Ĭreator Jon Favreau and his team have succeeded through a combination of simplicity and guile that would make Han Solo proud.īut the thing that makes “The Mandalorian” worth talking about has a lot more to do with tadpoles than tentpoles. This month’s announcement from Disney of two new shows spinning off from “The Mandalorian,” as well as seven other Star Wars TV projects in the works, is the fruit of that labor. Each episode is inspired by a different storyline worthy of a Hollywood western-The Big Heist Save Our Town Prison Break-and offers some of the cleanest, most streamlined storytelling you will find on television today.īut how to thread the needle of being both fresh and enormously commercial? How about by featuring a protagonist that looks an awful lot like one of the most popular Star Wars characters of all time, and adding a co-star that is the “Muppet Babies” version of Yoda? Give them each a backstory connected to different aspects of the bigger Star Wars universe and a purpose that will enable us to meet all kinds of new people and worlds, and you are on your way. How do you tell a compelling ongoing story set in the Star Wars universe that is not about Luke Skywalker and his posse? How do you also craft that story as a jumping-off point for lots of other stories, with the original Star Wars saga of films having finally been finished?Ĭreator Jon Favreau and his team have succeeded largely through a combination of simplicity and guile that would make Han Solo proud. The series’s big twists have provided great distraction at a time when we all so desperately need it, as well as offering a fascinating glimpse into the work of weaving together art and commerce. Hidden amid its meme-ready moments, “The Mandalorian” is quietly investigating the inadequacy of our ideas about each other. In a second season filled with show-stopping moments (The return of Boba Fett! The live-action debut of Ahsoka Tano! The spooky appearance of Luke “Needs No Introduction, Just Your Child” Skywalker!), that incident seems like just a blip on the screen, more like shooting womp rats in your T-16 than facing down the Empire. But as the child keeps finding ways back into the eggs, it grows more and more uncomfortable to watch. It is played for laughs at first, with Mando trying his best to keep Baby Yoda away from the eggs. Early in the second season of the Disney+ mega-hit Star Wars TV show “The Mandalorian,” the internet’s Very Good Boy Baby Yoda tries to eat his way through the unfertilized eggs of a Frog Lady, who is risking everything to get them to her husband. ![]()
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