The Mandalorian - A Masterclass In Wasting Time
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Nothing frustrates audiences more than a show that's wasting their time, and that sums up about 90% of what The Mandalorian is at this point.
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Imagine how cool this series could have been if they stuck with the original premise of a bounty hunter in a space Western.
That's thing with filoni and favreau,they become too much of a kid and start clashing their action figures
Which is why I want to see the Drinker review an actual good Western series. DEADWOOD.
yup, star wars cowboy bebop x lone wolf and cub would have been amazing
I was kind of hoping Grogu would've joined Luke's Order and Din would go back to bounty hunting but I knew that wasn't going to happen
@@picklerick8785 👍
The levels of apathy towards Star Wars at this point is something I will never believed a decadde ago.
And Disney's answer to this is even more women and labeling Luke as a cautionary tale
It’s depressing, honestly.
It seems to be a level of apathy shared by the screenwriters, frankly!
The fact that George Lucas screwed up so much, yet still kept Star Wars immensely popular because his passion showed through shows how easy Disney had it. All they needed was to hire people who actually cared about Star Wars and put in effort. Even if the stuff wasn't that good, the passion would hopefully keep fans coming. A good overall story with a bit of a crappy script is far better than a meh story with a meh script.
@@destinyhntr they need a Star Wars version of Terry Matalas.
My favorite part of your criticisms is how easily you show that the storytelling COULD be effective if the people involved just… cared.
@@Soxfandan gender agenda? Do you find having strong female characters intimidating? So it takes skill to stick to the adolescent male fantasy of the untouchable hero rescuing all?
@@roberts5539 "untouchable hero rescuing all" You just don't get it do ya?
@@roberts5539 Woah someones breasts are expanding. Calm down.
@@roberts5539 Honestly, As a woman myself, throwing in “strong female characters” and pushing aside the main lead is more insulting than anything else. Why doesn’t a woman deserve her own show? Why does she have to rely on Mando to get a story? Ashoka’s getting her own show. This is Mando’s and Grogu’s. They could’ve made a Bo Katan show later on rather than pushing aside the main character of the story - the character I’m watching the show for.
@@roberts5539 "fantasy of the untouchable hero rescuing all" seriusly when did that even happened as a main plot in SW? Luke didn't even endend saving everyone, just his father
The last season of the Mandalorian is like watching a let's play where the protagonist has to check every single room, pick up every single item and do every single side quest before going on with the plot.
You described literal me when playing a videogame.
or watching ur younger brother playing as luigi while waiting for ur turn
We have to assume that they're hiring game devs for TV and movie these days. (Video gaming is the bigger entertainment business.)
Nice idea for a video game, not a TV show
Every quest from Freeside...
Honestly the Mandalorian just feels like watching a video where the player does all of the side quests before completing the main missions
since season 1
And yet in spite of that side questing he never gets meaningfully stronger.
Most overrated thing to come out of the franchise tbh
And it’s a Ubisoft game so none of the side quests are even slightly interesting…
This is me on assassins creed 🤣
I love the shots of Baby Yoda force-jumping through the air, because you can tell they just threw the doll in the air and hit Record.
the simpletons who liked this show due to baby yoda cutaways/reaction shots at the expense of actual emotional storytelling are as much to blame as the numbskull writers
@@tonypine3434 You have to admit it's classic George Lucas, though. Remember how bad Phantom Menace was just because he wanted to sell action figures?
@@tonypine3434 Any time you let the fans/viewers have ANY say in how the show gets made, you are in for a shit show of diminishing returns. Committee run story doesn't offend anyone but pleases nobody.
@@daviru02 no, I don’t
We need artists in charge of art. Not commitees of executives, not so called "fans" or people pandering to them, we need storytellers who just do their thing.
Gotta love how they waited until the last two episodes before the plot got going
Andor was slow,but I never felt uninterested. That's what great writing does.
@@FlexyCrash Andor is the best show Disney has made and sadly had lower view counts....people just want fan service and explosions.
@@FlexyCrash Andor was a slow burn that let it’s plot progress naturally to the point where the conclusion brought everything together
Mandalorian season 3 failed to do that because of wasting time and entire episodes on pointless bullshit like the ex imperials and Lizzo
@@firingallcylinders2949 just give it time, people will look back at it. Just like prequels
On a strictly story basis, parts of episode 1,2 and 5 and episodes 7 and 8 are enough. A 2 hour movie . That's it.
Season 3 demonstrates why limited series are always better. Had they left it at Season 2, it would have been a satisfying ending. Sure it was fan service that didn’t quite add up if you thought about it, but it struck all the right emotional beats. Having a sense of ending and closure is what makes story so powerful and lingering in our minds. Studios just want to milk something successful and no longer care about the art of it.
There were many possible ways of continuing that would not be whoring out their new, unexpectedly successful IP to help their other garbage shows. Bobba Fett show turns out to be garbage? Well why don't we hijack it to continue the Mandalorian show! Have doubts about a Bo Katan show? Well why don't we now turn the Mandalorian show into THAT, see how it goes. It's not like fans will mind that we're shovelling shit in their mouths, as long as there's cute baby Yoda to fawn about!
Im glad i stopped at season 2. I feel contempt not continuing. The fact that I never see any mando memes from season 3 tells me no one liked it
The problem is that they write for management, not characters. The character of the mandalorian started falling apart in season two, probably about the same time management became aware that season one was a success.
I particularly liked the line "a Mandalorian has to understand maps and know their way around. That way you'll never be lost". Really gave me an insight into the Mandalorian psyche and culture.
'A Mandalorian has to know how to breathe. That way you will never suffocate. And don't forget eating and drinking as well, they are quite useful'
Also, their pitiful fighting against giant alligator monsters--no concept of cover, defense, cooperation, concentrating an attack, leveraging your advantages, etc.
Yeah, it was a line addressed to a child. Or are you baby yoda?
@@theevermind You just don't understand the special warrior training involved.
It's mainly just run at the target using every weapon in your arsenal very briefly whilst closing the distance so even unarmed assailants can fight back much more easily.
A Mandalorian has to know how to go to the toilet. That way you'll never explode.
Wasn't The Mandalorian like one of TV's most popular/well-liked shows a year or two ago? It's impressive how quickly they killed it
It was never great tbh
It needs better writing. Lucasfilm should ask the people who work on andor to give some help
That's the issue with dragging a side story longer than it needs to, can't thrust Disney with follow ups.
@@zalabit927 Yep
I wonder if they had a freer hand in season 1 because the focus was on movies. When they tanked and this show got raves, the executives started showing up to meetings to ‘improve things’.
That awkward moment when Din Djarin became a side character of his own show and a sidekick to Bo-Katan.
Side Character, the Tales of Womxn.
Pedro Pascal isn't enough of a minority to not have that happen to him it seems.
Even more of an awkward moment when the Disney Star Wars simps use the argument that it's called the mandalorian therefore any mandalorian can be the focus of the show.
Being Disney, it doesn't surprise me ngl.
@@jimbob4447 lol too true
That whole episode was just inexplicable, but what really bugged me was Mando being so insistent on reviving that assassin droid that he makes them tear down the statue in it's honour, then flies to another planet to look for a part it needs for repair but when the first person he asks doesn't have the part he instantly gives up on the droid and it's never mentioned again. What was that about?
it was the first droid he kinda liked.....
"This isn't the droid you're looking for."
It’s called character development
I was so annoyed by that too!
It served two things:
- Fanservice in showing a character we’ve seen before for the audience to go "hey I know this one!"
- Pad out the runtime
It's not made to please the fans, it's made to please themselves and their friends.
Garbage 🗑 🚮 🗑
Really it shouldn't be made to "please" anyone. It should be made because the writers and director have a story or many stories they want to tell and have an audience who want to watch. Trying to please crowds, one side or the other, is how you fuck it all up.
@@ryanmcallen8713 Nailed it.
If only their friends were willing to buy millions of Disney plus subscriptions. Oh well, I guess Disney will just fail then.
It’s also quite literally made by people who have zero interest or knowledge of the canon. So I couldn’t say it was made to please themselves.
Man, I feel like every other scene Din is being saved by Bo-Katan or Grogu. I remember the first season where they portrayed him as this bad ass bounty hunter who could handle himself with ease. Ever since the Book of Boba Fett, he's been getting his ass handed to him and being saved. This season had Kathleen Kennedy written all over it.
In the first season he got his arse handed to him by a bunch of Jawas and later a rhino and had to be saved by an Ugnaut and Grogu.
The key thing is every time Din is saved, he saves that person back.
@@createdforthemoment6740
The "rhino" was such an epic beast, and its defeat so surprising that it became his sigil.
Meanwhile S3 "oe noes.. I can't swAm, paLeeZ, Bo-Karen, save me AGAIN!"
@@samblack5313 he's a flawed man just trying to make his way in thr galaxy. Sometimes the simple mistakes that you or I or anyone would fall too, he falls to them too. And he saves her later and shows her the way. They work together rather well.
Would it have been better if when he attacks the Jawas that he goes in and kills them all and walks away without a scatch? Din can be OP when in the headspace. If his heart isnt completely in it or his minds off the game however, he can get tripped up, its why despite everything grumpy pants here says who's gotten rich from his beloved KK, its still popular and well loved. It has alot of love and passion behind it and its pretty fantastic. Each to their own, i used to watch alot of these channels over things I didnt like but thry really eat into you. You stop seeing thr good and only see what a guy making money by pretending to be angry is saying
@@createdforthemoment6740 You make fair points, but I just couldn't get into season 3. I still really like season 1 and 2 but this one was just hard to watch.
@@arshadmawla1941 and that is 100% ok. Its scale is rather off and it didnt have the banger opening that S1 or S2 had.
I was really difficult to remain a hold out after the Lizzo and Jack Black episode, but the real deal breaker for me was how Bo Katan ends up being essentially gifted the dark saber. Remember there was this whole drama before about how it can't be gifted and it can only be won by duel or battle. Like the show is seriously so afraid to take any risks now and essentially just closed off massive potential for a climactic rivalry between Katan an Djarin. And if all that wasn't bad enough, the finale was only 38 minutes.
As if Ding Djurin would ever grow some balls and have any ambitions LOL
Women can’t achieve anything, they need to be gifted everything.
THIS, she didn't win it by killing the spider droid thing, and then as if grogu with the IG-12 mech and the jack black and lizzo episodes were goofy enough the bullshit with the darksaber got me to stop watching, this whole season has felt like a nightmare of a fever dream.
Well the darksaber got destroyed by Gideon's kung-fu grip so I guess none of it really matters anyway.
Isn’t that the point? They have to move past the traditions that divided them and unite
Mandalorian isn’t alone here. Many shows are using this formula today: Take a 2 hour movie, multiply by 4, and create 8 one hour episodes and call it a season.
An aspect in episode 2 and 3 that really ruffles me is that in context to the season finale, that there is this UBER secret imperial base on mandalore and they dont bother to send out their massive complement of fighter to take out an unknown ship (mandos n1) that clearly breached their airspace but then send out their entire fleet to just randomly bomb bo katans house for no apparent reason
Agreed. The whole thing has zero logic. So many holes.
And she was living on the moon yet she didn’t notice any ships going to or leaving from mandalore ever? The base would need deliveries of food and supplies right?
@@Rumbletheimp2 not only that, how did they get the ties there in the first place?
There had to be a carrier dropping them off or at least a bulk transport delivering them in a disassembled state
@@Rumbletheimp2 how while living on the moon she didnt notice that planet is habitable to begin with
Din Djarin showed up on Mandalore during the new order's employee picnic so they didn't see him. They bombed Bo's house because plot needed to happen to she needed an impetus to get her off the throne
Man its so disapointing. I thought Din Djarin was gonna keep the darksaber and rebuild Mandalore, becoming its new ruler. Meanwhile we see Grogu and Luke rebuild the Jedi Order.
But instead we got nothing. Just soulless corprate nothingess.
That's a fair summary of what exists at the heart of KK and Di$ney. Soulless, corporate nothingness.
And now we know the motivation for bringing Grogu back... Other than shameless merchandising, its so the mighty Wonder Rey can retake her rightful spot as the true star and Jedi Supreme of the franchise.
Nah, Din Djarin was never going to rebuild Mandalore, his character needs like three more seasons of growth to come close (plus there’s that whole being-part-of-an-extremist-tribe thing).
The better arc would’ve been to find someone worthy of the Darksaber (ie NOT Bo-Katan, a leader who failed twice) who is part of another Mandalorian faction, who is capable of uniting people. Let’s say, a former Protector turned reluctant leader of a faction on Concordia named Fenn Shysa. During his encounters with Shysa and Bo-Katan, Din slowly realises that this is NOT the way, and lets go of the extremist dogma he was raised on. Shysa, who has been reluctant to take leadership because of his pride at being only a warrior, contrasting with Bo-Katan’s need for it to redeem her mistakes, eventually comes to terms with it when Gideon attacks his people, whose tense peace breaks apart, with people at each other’s throats suspecting others of betrayal. Shysa accepts the Darksaber while in mortal danger from Praetorian Guards, and uses it to kill them, and to rally the more symbol-oriented Mandalorians to his side, and united they defeat Moff Gideon. Fenn Shysa gets crowned Mand’alor, while Din confronts his tribe about their mistakes and convinces many of them to rejoin main Mandalorian culture. Din gets sent out with some of Shysa’s men (maybe a Makin Marec and an Ailyn Vel) at the end of the season to hunt down a shipment of beskar Gideon sent to the Unknown Regions.
Meanwhile Grogu finally grows a little bigger, we see more early apprentices of Luke, who travels to former Jedi and Sith planets like Ossus, Korriban etc. Grogu hones his control of the Force, and towards the end of the season, senses Din’s struggle. Luke allows Grogu and an apprentice to go aid Din when he senses a dark presence in the Unknown Regions. Grogu makes his choice here, at the end of season 3, to return fully to Din.
Things will all match up when Luke’s X-wing meets up with the Mandalorian task force chasing the beskar shipment.
Thus ending season 3, with Mandalore united, Grogu trained, Din and Grogu chasing after an unknown threat for season 4…
Is disapointing like disappointing but slightly less disappointing because it has 1 less P in it?
@@caleblim6890nearly exactly what I thought would be better. And goes to show, random fan thoughts and RUclips comments are still better than the withering sidebag of a season we got.
Thank you. Too many people have been calling this season "quality" and it just didn't sit right with me week after week.
If they mean “bad quality” they’re 100% correct
Mando for a lot of sw fans is their safe space,just because it makes a lot of money. They won't let anyone break the illusion that the show is actually trash
Season 3 is utter wank
what people?
I really wanted to be quality but after watching upto 5 episodes I couldn't. It's shame
Imagine a The Mandalorian that is "Have Gun, Will Travel" in space and each episode is a crisp 30 minutes long.
I loved that show especially the ballad of paladin beginning
The Mandalorian episode where they hijack the prison ship, try to setup Mando, and they pay for it is the best we'll get.
@@inventorydepartment3662 true. That episode where they drive the caravan to the base to get the code to Gideon's location was also good. Maybe he's the secret sauce 😄
@@guardian0345 have gun, will travel reads the card of a man...a knight without armor in a savage land...
They could've designed it like The X-Files - isolated episodes, but within the framework of a bigger story they periodically return to.
What really cooked my limit, Ep.1 was Mando intent on getting IG-11 back at any cost. Then Mando takes the first random droid within reach minutes into Ep.2. Cut Ep.1 altogether and nothing changes other than a shorter season. You hit it perfectly, filler upon filler frustration.
Its been a while but wasn't one of his story points that he hated droids?
@@newtpondskipper I think he got over that fear in season 1. He started off with hating droids but after seeing droids be nice or helpful he accepted them. So that character arc was finished a long time ago.
@@newtpondskipper The way they seem to forget what they wrote moment to moment, episode to episode, season to season, I am not sure even the writers know whats going on with any certainty, with anything.
One of my favorite things about your channel is that you don't just critique. You offer alternatives and creative solutions to plot holes and drag. 👍🎉
So, constructive criticism
@@jondoe-du2fr unheared of how dare he! Joke aside he really is one of the best reviewers I follow on RUclips
@@jondoe-du2fr Yes. Constructive criticism seems almost non-existent today. Most people criticize but never offer solutions. Which is why I try to mostly just listen... But I prefer to listen to those who at least try to also solve the problem.
@@BWANEMAET Yeah, I like him. Drinker definitely doesn't review to please the masses, which is great.
Drinker often shits on shows that I like but I leave his videos entertained and knowing the show he tore apart could have been so much better.
Suprised how he not even mentioned how they literally just gave Bo Katan ownership of this show. After book of boba fett we were left with the impression that mando would learn to use the dark saber, redeem himself, and become the leader mandalore needed. Instead they completely undid not only that but all of his character development from season 2, so they could pass of his story to Bo Katan, who has never needed to be rescued by anyone. And unless you saw clone wars, you probably don't even like the character that much given how little screen time she had in season 2. Disney yet again subverting expectations to make a character's show completely about someone else.
true, but maybe he wanted to make different video focusing on other problems since pretty much every series and movie is intersectional feminist sh17sh0w and he didnt want to sound repetitive complaining about them every time they do the same shait
That's cuz she's THE BESTEST EVAR GIRL BOSS! DOWN WITH THE PATRIARCHY!
I read this in Drinker's voice. Good job
It's what happened to Luke. He was suppose to grow as a Jedi, rebuild the order, train young Jedi, and become a Jedi master. Instead his character is kicked to the side and now Rey takes over that story arc instead, as well as running off with most of his stuff, too. For this show, Bo Katan is now "The Mandalore".
Don't you get it? It all rhymes. It's like poetry. :B
By watching it you have given your consent. It's your fault we have awful Star wars.
I really liked the whole "reclaiming Mandalore" premise of this season after the trailer dropped coz I figured Bo would ask Mando to help her unite the people so that they can reclaim what is left of their planet. And that's what we got with the last two, the only problem is that it was in fact the ONLY idea that the writters had for this whole season,...
I don't even mind a filler episode or two per season if those bring some value to the overall season, like with The Bad Batch where most of the filler fetch episodes seemed completely pointless but when the season concluded you could see that most of the story tropes from them had a larger effect on character development and interaction.
With The Mandalorian, we got two episodes and 6 FILLERS, THAT GAVE 0 VALUE.
It's insane to me to think that an animated tv-series that's meant for kids from the same production house has a better, more fleshed out story than their heavy hitter main tv-series.
I was glad that The Mandalorian finally got some real Mandalorian activity instead of just a noob babysitting. Felt like this is what the show should have been about, or at least should have been heading towards, from the start.
Which was fucking retarded anyways given Bozo-Katan's role in the downfall and destruction (errrr.... minor inconveniencing) of Mandalore in CW and Rebels
When Bo Katan was elevated to leader, I was actually just waiting for Din Jardin to die in the season finale and Bo Katan becoming "The Mandalorian". Because Kathleen said so.
Nah, they'll have his stunt double die in the first episode of season 4 using pre-recorded stock footage and random grunts. Like when they killed off Chef in South Park.
Bo Katans rise to power is Filoni stroking his OC characters... yet again. He did the same thing in Rebels but then he had people reigning him in so it did not go as far at did now.
As a character Din is dead, Grogu and him are pretty much only in this show for marketing purposes.
@@pyorre2441 That's why I don't really care for Filoni. He's made some good characters but, he's made some utter garbage as well. It seems like all he really cares about is elevating the characters he's created, and he doesn't mind screwing up other aspects of the canon at times to do it either. I lost my patience for him when they revealed that Omega from Bad Batch is a pure clone of Jango Fett. That's not how cloning works, and the Kaminoans are supposed to be some of the best cloners and genetic engineers in the SW universe. It's simply not possible for a Kaminoan to make a clone using completely unaltered DNA from Jango and end up making a blonde girl.
The first two episodes could’ve been compressed into one episode but then it would mean they had to write another episode which meant more work for them so they didn’t
Watch every tv show ever there’s wasted time…
Or ... they could have used that time to make the season finale atually epic! Yeah crazy, I know.
@@theodenednew8874 Union workers lol
Half the season could have been condensed or thrown out, it’s not even filler it’s just useless
That's what they do now, they take one episode and drag it out to 2 or 3
Din Djarin: *removes helmet*
The Armorer: "You are no longer Mandalorian."
Bo-Katan: *removes helmet*
The Armorer: "You walk both worlds."
Double standards in a nutshell.
LAZY WRITING!
I think they're different sects of Mandos. In Katan's case helmets are optional.
The Armorer: "You are no longer Mandalorian, and we don't believe that you can be redeemed, but please keep Beskar armor and Darksaber as our religious cult is conveniently very flexible when it comes to rules!"
The double standard that applies to everything on the left, perfectly illustrated here. Mando serves their helmet cult faithfully his whole life, has one slip up, and is outcast. Bo-Katan trashes the helmet cult her whole life, eventually makes some bare minimum effort to appease them, and is now their leader basically.
Din is a Republican, Bo is a Democrat.
One of the best examples of tight and efficient movie is "A quiet place." Love how well written and how well it flows.
True. But it’s easier in a 1.5 hour movie. These TV shows have to be padded out to eight hours.
@@bigboxerable member the time when they had to cut them in half to make 8-10 episodes?
I want to see more scenes of that scientist taking long, slow walks up and down very long hallways. That was riveting.
It was almost as good as the "dwarves doing the washing up" scene in the hobbit film
Spoiler alert!!
You mock, but that scientist got more character development then the mandalorian this season
And sucking on plastic glowing "ice lollys".
As someone who enjoys slow walks up and down long hallways (in decrepit ancient space civilisations), and dwarves doing the washing up - you'd be surprised that most scifi and fantasy isn't just lasers or axes being embedded in heads. Well at least not the shit stuff.
It's astonishing how a studio with so much money, a bulletproof IP, any talent it wanted...That also initially had the goodwill of the fans, pissed it up the wall so spectacularly.
How?
perhaps its not bulletproof after all
Two words: Kathleen Kennedy.
Star Wars is two great movies and an okay conclusion.
The rest is basically the result of a manic episode.
They drank too much Bud Light.
@@deriznohappehquite L take
Kyle Katarn's story within the Jedi Knight games, before being retardedly retconned by Disney, were a phenomenal ride through an epic character's life.
Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 were some of the best RPGs of their time. Revan and The Exile are sick characters, and they have awesome supporting casts.
Star Wars Rogue Squadron 1, 2 & 3 expanded on film characters by a mile and made the piloting scenes from the movies feel THAT much more epic because we'd actually BEEN behind the stick of an X-Wing.
Star Wars was so much more than "a CouPlE mOvIeS" to many people before Disney came in and fucked it up royal.
Stop pretending otherwise to defend a soulless mouse-head corporation, you shill.
You're putting into words my exact feelings. Seasons 1 and 2 had the same problems but at least there was a sense of fun to the time wasting. Season 3 is just tedious
The moment Disney figured out the little Green Goblin was rolling in the dough, they started milking the idea of "oh look another cool space adventure with your 2 favorite friends who also have plot armor"
Kind of reminds me of old time television. Not everything needs to be Game of Thrones.
A video game cut scene has more depth of story than the entire Mandalorion.
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Force Unleashed definitely proves that
That one Destiny 1 cutscene where the Speaker says he could tell you about the game's lore (and elaborates no further) has more depth
6:39 "all of this stuff is made to waste time" perfect description for Disney
That seems like every Disney+ show from what I can tell.
Disney ever since 2016 ended and 2017 began
Heisenburger.
I hope one day someone does a full montage of Mando walking so we can see how many times in different environments he did it and how long we wasted watching him walk around.
Yes, do a complete video montage of Din walking and set it to Bittersweet Symphony by Verve
Death stranding Mandalorian edition
If we combine that and driving scenes where nothing happens we would have around 30-40 minutes, which sounds like a lot, but that's like, what, 1 season of sex scenes from GoT? Old GoT
Sex scenes > Walking… Fool.
@@DukeJon1969 at least you can play death stranding so it's nowhere this much boringgg
While I do agree that there were always scriptwriting problems in the earlier seasons of the Mandalorian, at least Seasons 1-2 felt like they had some sort of purpose. Characters actually learned and developed to varying degrees by the end of each episode, and the broad story made some form of progress. With season 3, nearly every important plot point and character moment is some sort of retcon or backtracking of a previous plot point or character moment from a past season or an entirely different show. With the characters of Mando and Bo-Katan there is almost not a single character trait or impactful moment from their past that isn’t completely undone by this season for the sole purpose of selling more toys
Pretty insulting they made Bo Katan a leader after she failed being that spectacularly 2 times before
and failed again, this time the Darksaber is gone 😂
Also change her whole personality
Americans elected Trump so...stranger things have happened before...
@@ritagomes7838 Trump was better than Biden and Obama
Honestly,they should have waited till ahsoka and give the darksaber back to Sabine. She 10x more deserving and Better tha Bo or din
They had 2 years to plot, write, film 8 episodes (most episodes less 60 minutes) and this is the best they could come up with? Remember when shows had 24 or 26 episodes per season!
true, but in all fairness, no TV sci-fi of the 90's had special effects on par with this show.
@@meerkatattack BRO THESE PEOPLE are delusional. For real. If this show was exactly as they're saying, they would still find sh*t to complain about.
@@meerkatattack They should have spent the money on decent screenwriters.
Actually, not quite. Cara Dune was supposed to be a big part of the show but she got cancelled by Kathleen Kennedy over some really really stupid shit she said on Twitter so they basically had to rewrite the whole third season. Then Kathleen Kennedy also had Mando and Grogu reunite in the Book of Boba Fett, which was never Jon Favreou's idea and actually caused him to threaten to resign, but somehow they convinced him to stay... And rewrite the entire third season again.
I do definitely agree though that a lot of shows these days would benefit from longer seasons
I still believe it were the Disney Executives, completely disconnected from reality, that forced the writers to bring Grogu back to Mando for absolutely no other reason than to keep their toylines going and "because girls watch it for Grogu". My girlfriend wanted to watch him train as a Jedi with Luke... why in the seven hells did they bring him back to do nothing?
Oh please. Bringing Grogu back has Favreau written all over it. It's not the first time he does the "orphan goes back to his preferred family". He did the same in Elf and that trash Jungle Book remake.
I don't like Disney any more than you, but they're not to blame for everything.
100% my suspicion is that Kathleen Kennedy forced that change as we know Jon was having problems with her getting creatively involved. I expect that the reason we got so little Grogu was because the scenes that we’re supposed to be with luke were cut and replaced for filler.
@@vetarlittorf1807 well acctuelly he is Just following the sorse matterial in both lone wolf And cub And the original jungle book the child characters choose to stay with the cub becoming a samurai with maugli destroying the human village
Besides Grogu choosing the mandalorian way was hinted since the end of Season 1
@@benzelwasington4059 It was never hinted at that Grogu would stay with Djarin.
Also, you've clearly never read the Jungle Book. It ended with Mowgli realizing that the jungle can't accommodate his human needs and as such he leaves the jungle forever and reunites with Messua in a British-controlled village where he eventually marries the daughter of a butler and gets a job as a forest ranger.
The episode where the pirates invade Navarro was by far the highlight of the season for me. Seriously, the dialogue, writing, action, and pacing of that episode was phenomenal. I wish it carried over into the other ones
I remember watching the mandalorian over 2 years ago and finishing season 2 just thinking "damn i hope they don't turn it into a flop next season".
I was hopeful when the season 3 trailer came out, but all was dashed away once the reviews of the first episodes started pouring in. I have not seen the show myself. I was thinking about it until season 3 showed its teeth, or lack thereof.
RIP
Good job. You jinxed it.
Just kidding. It was inevitable that they'd ruin it.
@@silencedmaxim5889 no
Some of the episodes are pretty good but half of them you can skip without missing much.
Nothing worse than a story without a story in it.
We need a term for plotless non porn videos
Or a story where a character recites/has a flashback/thinks of a far better and more interesting story.
This, I suspect, is a function of the American business model for producing series based entertainment. Take an excellent (or at least a well known) premise, run it for a series and, if it gets an audience, do whatever it takes to drag it out over multiple seasons maximise profits. Under that model, you guarantee corruption of content. This is America.
It's the Abe Simpson school of storytelling, invented back when folks would tie an onion to their belt, because that was the fashion back then. Anywho, to make a long story longer...
Story wasn't part of a deal, mate.
Hot fuzz script was so well done.Evwry single thing that was said at some point in the movie,all of them turned out to be important plot points and great call back joke.Its honestly one of my favorite comedies of all time.
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It's honestly one of your favourites?
Glad you didn't lie
I can't hear the phrase "the greater good", without following it up with ominous chanting of it.
Even if it's just in my head.
The greater good!
Fucking love hot fuzz, in fact I find it far superior to Shaun of the dead (still better than most comedies though)
@@dudepool7530 The Greater Good
It’s ironic how when asked about how the show would recover from Gina Carano’s firing, Favreau and Filoni said “It’s a big galaxy with a lot of characters.” While simultaneously bringing in so many unnecessary cameos.
Mandolorian season 3 is both too short and insanely drawn out at the same time. That is actually kinda impressive in a messed up way.
I like the atmosphereicness of it. You get time to feel the space and the art.
@@rgw5991 what space and art? It’s all green screen and volume sludge 😂
@@bikramarora1819 except it's not all green screen. It relies heavily in stagecraft. They could've gone full cg on Baby yoda as well, but they didn't and the puppet movements really break the immersion from time to time. I wish they used a CG double for some of those shots.
It's not that hard. Create your pacing in a random number generator and spent time creating setup in the first half.
Then spend the later half on payoff that were never setups. Basically, Ignore all prior setup and Asspull stuff.
Didn't watch season 3 tho. I'm just used to shit pacing and payoff.
@@anidiot2818 it looks like an SNL sketch at times man
By the time season 3 came around, Din Djarin should have been a living legend, easily dispatching and defeating small bad guys like the spider droid and the cyborg thing.
He got old. That's how the Mandalorians are.
Two years, - and it's the home for the elderly frail.
Alzheimer's. Dementia. Bad news. It's not an easy task to aim a blaster at that age, let alone fight hand-to-hand or even watch where you step...
Din Djarin from season 1 - could've done what you say, but back then he was 60 years younger. Now it's all doctors and diapers for the old Mando.
Thus we have what we have, lol.
Din got old but Bo who is 60 is still flexible af.
@@shadow_realm47 ahhh but she's a women.
@@shadow_realm47
That's exactly what the Matrix wants people to think.
Adware bots like her - don't age. Just ask Agent Smith.
This was extremely accurate. It’s a shame too because if there was good writing this would of had potential to be an awesome series. Disney is soulless.
There were some really standout episodes in the first and second seasons I really enjoyed.
I actually liked how they tied Din and Bo's story together, but as you pointed out they waste so much time not really fleshing it out.
I like addressing these shows from the point of view of a writer, rather than just general critiquing. This is one of the reasons you're one of my favorite reviewers.
I am glad I'm not the only one that recognizes that Hot Fuzz might be the tightest script ever written. There is not one wasted moment in that entire film. Absolutely every single thing has a payoff.
Yarp!
*The greater good*
Still one of my favorites. I often call it “chekhov’s movie” because there isn’t a single thing in the movie that doesn’t pay off by the end of the last act.
the only wasted moment is when he knocks out the trolley boy in the freezer and didn't tell him to "cool off"
Or dark (Netflix)
"A wise man named WIlliam Shakesman once said 'brevity is the soul of wit'. That means DON'T WASTE MY TIME." - Mr. Plinkett
Props to you for giving props to Hot Fuzz, probably one of the tightest screenplays ever written.
I think it’s what happens with Netflix too. Disney got way too excited about having a hit and suddenly executives that weren’t involved have a voice in the kitchen.
This was the Bo-Katan show. She easily defeats enemies that others struggle to defeat (the spider cyborg in ep 2). She saves Mando twice in the second episode. All of her plans go off without a hitch. Literally 5 episodes in a row have the ending shot of her. Not to mention Moff Gideon's escape from custody happening off-screen, with the next time we see him in S3, he's back to his old tricks like his capture in Season 2 never happened.
In the end, it just goes to show that the Golden Boys of Favreau & Filoni aren't above the typical Disney bureaucratic interference. It didn't matter that Grogu went with Luke, because Disney realised they couldn't have S3 without him, ergo forcing F&F to create BoBF to undo S2 finale's events. I've put up with Disney's shit hitherto but now I'm just abandoning them. They don't deserve us as fans.
I stopped watching all Disney SW after the Mando season 2 finale and do not regret it one bit.
I facepalmed when Mando couldn't even take a bath without Bo-Katan coming and saving him.
the rey effect
In fairness, Bo-Katan was a well established fighter and well written character even before Mando Season 3. She has her flaws and obstacles which this series does a good job of addressing and bringing her story of a more United Mandalore to a close…
Except it completely eclipsed Mando’s story to the point where there are some serious shake ups at Lucasfilm and in better news Kathleen “Force Female” Kennedy might actually have her days be numbered.
You do realize outside of maybe Axe Woves, Paz Vizsla, and that captain from Episode 7 and 8, Bo Katan is the most skilled fighter of everyone in the group, right? She has established she can fight decent tier Jedi at the bare minimum.
The problem with the mandalorian (other than everything) is that they had Grogu become an instant cute little hit so they just want to pump out as much cute Grogu content as possible. So what should have been an adult grittier western around the species that literally almost wiped the Jedi order in the old republic, is now daddy day care as long as they can make green alien cute.
A friend I've been watching with says the same thing.
Culture, not species, the rest of your point stands tall and proud.
Other than everything 💀
Exactly right. They're milking the content for young Western women who should be married but aren't and subconsciously want kids, but their feminist brainwashing won't allow them to admit that to themselves.
Yewaaaag ._.
“Just give the fans what they want!”
Picard S3: “Make it so”
Star Wars: “Nah it’ll be fine”
As a nuclear engineer without an ounce of creative writing within me, I feel like I could write a masterpiece if I watch and learn from all of the Drinker's videos. Bloody amazing!
I reckon you should try writing a short story, post it and let the audience decide.
I am sure you can write better trm anyone working at disnoid right now.
I'm sure you'd be great at it. If the scene is too slow boiling, pull out a few control rods to heat up the reactions.
Say what you will about the Drinker, but when you watch his The Drinker Fixes Playlist you learn A LOT about storytelling.
I'm sure you can easily pull it off, just please, for the sake of my sanity, skip electrical sparks and smoke from broken pipes during an action sequence or hot wiring a car with 2 wires or the timer on the bomb that beeps to the last second or the slow walk as a fiery bomb explodes over your shoulder. Now you got yourself a master piece.
@@Xm3rcyX im glad we're still allowed to knock out bad guys by interlocking fingers and double-fist-hitting them on the shoulder.
So glad you highlighted Hot Fuzz as an absolute masterclass of film. Would love to see you do a video on it, and what makes it so good in comparison to the current sludge being churned out.
_Happy Hour #23 - Hot Fuzz (feat. MauLer)_
There already is a video going through what makes Hot Fuzz a good movie. Search and you find it.
This show has so much potential,and so much love and fan base it has when it came out on Disney+. Of course we can’t have any good and decent show these days.
We do have good tv shows these days like Better call Saul and The boys to name a few.
It never was good and had no potential.
The first season and a bit into second season was merely "OK", because it was repurposed script from a canned project, but even the basic premise was bad enough as to prevent any meaningful developments, for example, the badly articulated puppet (more like a stuffed toy, to be honest) baby yoda being completely inept piece of furniture at the ripe age of 50, where Yoda himself was well into his Jedi Knight phase and clocked Jedi Master by the time he was 100, if not earlier.
And then the pacing of the entire show completely did not, at any point, warrant a 40+ minute runtime per episode. Most of the time it didn't even warrant a 20 minute runtime. It felt like a shounen anime(Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, etc), except instead of powering up for 5 episodes, it was 5 episodes of walking.
Just walking.
@@jadenhendricks the boys has gone a bit meh imo not horrible tho
@@jadenhendricks Only the first season of the boys was good. It went woke pretty fast
No it didn't it always sucked so much I'm so tired of this being the only show people would watch
My favorite part of the Mandalorian was when Disney lost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Same
A drop in the ocean? Damn, what a satisfying win there, buddy.
Disney will find a way to just print billions of sales back in
@@ritagomes7838 Tell that to Disney's stockholders. They're not happy with all these budget bonfires.
@@ritagomes7838 Hundreds of millions are not a drop in the ocean even for Disney. Their expenditures are also massive. Their forecast is NOT looking good at the moment.
Every time I try to watch a series these days I just get reminded that I’m better off ff just reading a book. All the best story and the best paced plots are in books
Might I interest you in the world of Manhwas?
Mystery Recapped
Saved me watching 3 seasons of wasted time. My GOD Wayward Pines is bad.
It's amazing how Star Wars managed to fall this low being one of my favorite franchises ever. On top of that how LucasFilm brought Rey Sue back gives me little to no hope in future improvement...
The fact they're so unaware that nobody wants a Rey series is hilarious. Everyone I've told about the Jedi Order series for her they've all been like wtf why, like literally not 1 person I've seen is excited for it
Just write Star Wars off as dead, a lot of us have done so already.
u r just misogynists
@@Lonovavir Maybe l will if they mess up again...
@@firingallcylinders2949 I don't know what they expected when they made that announcement lol.
I've been telling my brother how great this show is (pre season 2). Now I have to apologize. Thanks Disney, you've embarrassed me in front of my family.
"..you see, Ed... bears.."
Same i got kicked out last night
It was never good
😂
"You have done that yourself"
Once I saw Bo Katan in Season 2, I knew it was only a matter of time until she hijacked the show and became the spotlight. And of course knowing Disney, it came true lol
Bo Katan has always been one of the worst characters Filoni has ever come up with. Insufferable, arrogant, hypocritical, self-righteous. First she's a terrorist, but as soon as Maul takes over Mandalore, she's "a good guy". In Rebels, they hammer down on how honorable and awesome she is.......Until The Mandalorian reveals she has failed AGAIN. But no, third luck the charm so let's have her hijack the show from its already paperthin protagonist.
This is why I don't buy into the hype surrounding Dave Filoni. He is a fraud and is responsible for many of the problems Star Wars has had before the Disney acquisition.
I had a strange feeling the first time i saw her
You know it, there always has to be a woman who is the best at everything
Don’t tell the “real Star Wars fans” that because they absolutely simp for Bo Katan and will worship Dave Filoni and everything that man riches until he dies. People say Tolkien fans are bad, but they’ve clearly never met Filoni fans
@@danielloewen2857 Except there's actually a reason that she's better than him: she's Mandalorian royalty, she had access to the best training, teachers and gear. Din is just part of a ragtag group of outsiders.
While I didn't think Mandalorian's 1st and 2nd seasons were bad, season 3 definetly just sucked the life out of this show I DONT GET HOW THEY COULD DO THIS THAT BAD
There’s a reason why no movie or show uses the phrase “there’s no time to waste” anymore.
Puss in boots 2 is literally the only recent movie that i can see takes that sentence and runs with it, there's literally no filler in that movie
“Money costs money.”
-Bilbo Baggins
"If it were different I'd have a different reaction" - Cosmonaut
They called me crazy. THEY ALL called me crazy. I said this season was gonna be bad. The whole point of the series was getting Grogu to safety. Now he's here for marketing reasons.
Technically, the original homeworld of the Mandalorians was none other than Coruscant itself. Of course this was so long ago that most of the Mandos themselves don't even know this. Also, the combined flight time for that N1 starfighter to get from Mandalore to Tatooine and back again would have been roughly 36 hours.
Mando is a side character. Grogu dumps Jedi training to return for cuteness ratings boost
Far too many side plots
"A Masterclass in wasting time" - the drinker has clearly never seen my daily routine.
My older sister had me watch a show with her called “Trigun,” which is an anime space western from the 90’s. I really enjoyed it, filling a similar niche as Cowboy Bebop if you’ve seen that. The beginning of the show starts as mostly one-off episodes, being more character driven then plot driven. When the first lot does start for the second half of the show, it does fall off a bit. However, highly recommend it to fill the void of mediocrity that was mando season 3.
Love and Peeeeeeace!
You and your sister got taste.
It took me around six or seven episodes to really get into when I first watched it but after that it had me hooked! I think I liked it even better than Cowboy Bebop honestly. There's a remake/alternate version of the show that came out earlier this year that I also really loved called Trigun: Stampede, you and your sister should watch it too if you haven't already.
@@00ammy00 We were. I got to where knives shows up before we had to leave and she finished it without me. The story changes threw me off a bit, and I think I still like the original more, but I’ll need to finish it sometime. Also, I love JYB’s voice so much. Trigun was his first role as a dub va.
@@elnathanielgrande16 Yeah, a lot of fans of the original were kind of put off by it from what I saw, I guess it was easier for me to enjoy since it's been years since I saw the original and forgot some of the details. But I think it's at least worth it to watch it till the end, as the way the season leaves off kinda explains a lot of things in an interesting way.
The thing is, I think it was written in 5 minutes. I think Book of Boba Fett torpedoed the ideas they had for season 3 and they had to rethink it very quickly. I think it was going to be a 50/50 between mando and grogu originally
"Hot Fuzz" is a genius movie. There's a reason that out of the Cornetto Trilogy, it's the one I own. It's just perfect from start to finish.
To the Winchester
The Primarch approves this choice of movie. May you fortify the shit out of that movie rack brother.
I gotta be honest. I really loved the first 2 seasons of this show, but season 3 has been absolutely abysmal and it’s an insult to anyone with anything even resembling a brain
I didn’t even finish it. I stopped after Bo Katan got the Darksaber again.
THis COMMENT!
The first 2 seasons were awesome
"Really loved"?! Damn your standards are low....
@@darthmalgus232 I could hardly bring myself to finish the season myself, episode 6 with Jack Black and Lizzo was the hammer that finally smashed the camel’s spine to pieces for me
@bstanigut Guess what? People are have these intimidating things some people have called “opinions.”
As someone who fell in love with this show from the moment in the pilot when Mando walked in, took out everyone who tried to stop him wordlessly only for him to say to his target "I can bring you in warm, or I can bring you in cold," and immediately fell in love with the character of Din and the simplicity of the show, this season is really heartbreaking to watch. It has lost everything that made people like me be invested in it.
This season is a really big disappointment.
Exactly my feeling/impression.that first scene hooked me and I gave it a lot of leeway because I liked seeing Star Wars that wasn’t woke trash.
Agreed, I enjoyed the first season a lot. But the second season I was already losing interest, and I haven't watched more than a couple episodes of the new one and don't plan to finish it.
What are you talking about? They kept the simplicity from S1 episode 1! You know just as much about Din now than you did then!
"Clint Eastwood but in Star Wars" is the perfect pitch for a show. Then Disney got ahold of it, and they decided that Clint had to go. And it ended up being luke warm modern Star Wars with no hook or gimmick or story to tell. Just another pointless dirge.
That was the plan, reel you in, chew you up, spit you put. Disney truly hates the fandom.
I love it when you show an alternative path the writing team could have gone down. It's illuminating, entertaining, and a pre-emptive strike against any tempted to throw "It's easy to criticize, but hard to create" at you. It also begs the question of how a random RUclipsr is able to quickly assemble intelligent plotlines where a billion-dollar franchise has failed.
Pity how a show with such potential crashed and burned in the span of a few episodes.
to be honest there wasn't much potential and that's the reason why it's shit now
season 1 was good but it was a small and simple story about a few characters. And when they started an unnecessary expansion that when the things went wrong.
Mando and Baby Yoda just don't really fit in big stories no matter what those are about.
I don't see the potential you're talking about.
The show never had potential but ok
It never had any potential it always sucked
"This episode was the TV equivalent of Player 2 speed running the same level that stumped their mate" - That part
Keep em' coming Drinker, love the content
I can't believe they undid season two's ending off screen in another show only to make.... this. Boggles the mind.
Didn't they undo Season 2's ending in Book of Boba Fett? At least, in terms of Baby Yoda leaving Luke to return to Din?
You know Disney. Gotta milk as much money as they can from an IP they know is successful
It deserves to be bad for being so overrated
You know what would have been cool? A season where Mando is a kickass bounty hunter.
He's not even that kickass at all
You know, I liked Bo Katan in the Clone Wars. First she was a villain, part of the Death Watch. Then an unlikely ally in times of desperate need, slowly gaining the trust of Kenobi. And by the time Siege of Mandalore rolled in, she was actually an interesting character with a complicated history. Her Rebels arc was kinda half-assed, as was most of that show really, because they were unwilling to put the same mettle down as in the Clone Wars, leaving a very childish level of storytelling. But still, they left her in a position of being the leader of remaining Mandalorians, and an interesting compromise between the militaristic views of Pre Vizla, and the pacifistic views of her sister Satine.
And then they decided "fuck it" and first tore all of her character and her achievements down in the first two seasons of Mando, and then try to pivot back on it by basically reinventing her entirely and making her into a worse character saddled with useless baggage.
A great example of an efficient screenplay is ‘Back to the Future’.
The Mandalorian went nowhere with Din Djarin and instead made it Bo-Katan's rise to power. It's like a honey trap - tempting us at the start but then pulling the rug when all is done.
Star wars is a hoax. I guess it's stupid for adults to be watching these shows or movies. 😒
Mando should have needed Bo's help to locate the Living Waters, because since the mines contain beskar ore, which is the pride and joy of Mandalore and is jealously sought after by the rest of the galaxy, they've been designed like a labyrinth and only the royal family and those entrusted by them to harvest it know how to correctly navigate the mines and reach it. This would have also been the right time to foreshadow an Imperial presence on Mandalore for the season finale.
I'm currently stopped at timestamp 1:40. The Drinker is explaining why he's going to breakdown S3E2. For the life of me, I can't remember what the hell happened in that episode. I can still recite dialogue verbatim from the OT and PT. I couldn't even tell you the basic plot points of S3E2. Great work, DisneyLucasfilm. Just stellar.
Oh...It was a Peli Motto episode. No wonder I checked the eff out.
"Circus Film"
Our review of every episode this season was, "It sure took them a long time to get to the one scene we needed to see."
Thing with Bo Katan is that she's been developed in the animated shows and anyone who knows her knows that she wouldn't backstab someone like Din. Which also creates another problem that all of these characters coming from animated shows are completely new to those who haven't watched them and they will have no clue what they are talking about or how they operate. At least they've been upfront with Ahsoka saying that is it aimed mainly at Clone Wars and Rebels fans.
Also what's wrong with a more casual take? A story doesn't always need action
Are you stoned? She's the kind of character that would absolutely stabbed someone in the back. She got previously's head chopped off betrayed her sister what the f*** is wrong with you clearly you don't know her lore
The animated version of the character is no longer conical. That's why Disney killing off non disney starwars is dumb.
So now this version is a shit character.
True. In cases like these i feel people could research the character before going ham with the notion that its some unimportant, new ish character that "nobody knows" or cares about. Bo Katan is actually an important character. It definitely helps looking them up sometimes if one is unfamiliar, live action is just on medium through which the story is told. Animated shows, comics and books often should be kept in mind as well, at least in some capacity
@@darkstraylily1477 Animated shows, sure. Books and comics...yeah those shouldn't be taken as canon really since they can get easily retconned. Ahsoka novel was retconned quite a bit with the release of The Clone Wars season 7.
Tremors is a great screenplay. Even the sound editing is done in such a way that boots walking around will foreshadow encounters with the monster later in the same location. The most subtle things are all added for the purpose of storytelling. Not a wasted second in that film.
"He went to drop in to see Apollo Creed..." 😂I laughed more than I should've. "Hillbilly mechanic lady!"😂 The Drinker never disappoints.
By the power of grayskull, Hot Fuzz was such an underrated movie. Thanks for reminding us that fun, good movies exist.
It took 18 months to write, but damn, every moment was a set-up and call-back that paid off.
Which reminds me... I need to watch that again
I went to see Hot Fuzz at the cinema and it was great.
@@danielwilliamson6180 I particularly laughed inappropriately loud when the granny got dropped kicked. Very funny film.
I think it’s overrated tbh.
This is kind of random but last week I rewatched a few Stargate SG-1 episodes and the gap between the writing quality of that show and the Mandalorian really hit me. They are both spaceship shows with similar themes and audiences, but the writing gap was almost infinite.
Window of Opportunity is one of the greatest tv episodes ever written - if Mando had anything coming close to that, even a single episode, then it would be worth the price. Instead we get this shit.
SG-1 is a GOAT Sci-fi
Same. While not every episode was great, all of them were at least good. Farscape was the same.
SG-1 is amazing, would sell my soul for another show. they would probably botch it though cause the writing of todays show is completely abyssmal so maybe not
@@jake_with_the_BIG_snake there would almost certainly be a younger, edgier cast...
You are pretty kind Drinker, to not talk about some of the gaping plot holes exposed by the end of the newest season. Not even mentioning the bizarre adoption / water baptism at the end, and then Mando not even being honored or anything....and then basically forced to leave and go explore. Not like we just reclaimed our homeworld and theres probably like plenty of work and help needed. I used to write comics as a child around the age of 10-14 that made more sense.
What also annoyed me is that Din was basically reduced to be second fiddle to bokatan who was made into a sort of main character in this season. And of course the moment this strong competent woman appeared in the show, Din was reduced to incompetent dumdum who had to be rescued by the strong woman bokatan several times.
And then of course the very lazy convenient writing "Hey bokatan take your helmet off, you walk both worlds so it's totally okay, you are still a mandalorian.." or "uh so, bokatan defeated enemy that overpowered me so by transitive property dark saber is hers now and she can be a queen" oh wow how convenient indeed!
Yeah bo kahtan is pretty different from clone wars bo kahtan unfortunately
Din Djarin is John Snow now
Exactly, they're cowards. She should have fought Din Djarin in a real duel. I don't even know if they have to actually kill the other one in order to actually own the dark saber, but even if she does have to... it would work! Kill the mandalorian to then pass the hat to Bo Katan, she becomes a queen. But it has to be beautiful and epic and at the end of the season! This STUPID excuse of "she killed a guy that disarmed me, so she technically beat me" is absolutely dumb and lazy and too easy. It's so stupid. It's unbelievable.
KK has an obsession with girlbosses and Mary Sues. Of course she'll turn Bo-Katan into one, and probably Ahsoka, too.
he had been rescued by strong female characters in the first two series as well, and by Groku on more than one occasion.
I was astounded that the season got to the waters so quickly, and that it wasted all the possible tension between the different Mandalorians. I can’t help thinking that the season trajectory was hijacked.
Yeah, it felt like Jon Favreau wasn't even present in the writing of ANY of the episodes for Season 3.
@@dexketristo2349blame Book of Boba Fett for that one.
@@azrieldalusong5042 Yeah, I know... Kathleen Kennedy is astonishingly petty.
Your last point rings very true. As an author myself, sometimes I watch these kinds of things to learn what not to do. The Walking Dead taught me something similar about writing techniques that waste time in service of "build up" for a payoff no one will care about by the time it gets there.
I can at least forgive The Mandalorian since it was always light on story and seemed way more focused on spectacle. It was a simple adventure series that gave people popcorn entertainment. The problem with The Walking Dead was that it wanted people to take it seriously from the start, and gave the impression of depth where there was none.
The Walking Dead showed how little it respected fans when they did the Glenn fake out and then the killing of Carl. To do a show without Carl or Rick is not The Walking Dead, period.
I got hooked on the first season of that show and sat through 4 more hoping something good would come. Seems like something similar here.
Disney didn't kill my love for Star Wars. Although, they have killed my hope for anything new being anywhere close to good.
This reminds me of the old TV show “The Rifleman”. The first 5 minutes is dedicated to the bad guy. The next 15 minutes is slow fluff. The last few minutes is the Rifleman taking care of the bad guys. After 5 episodes I could watch the first 5 minutes and the last 5 minutes and enjoy the show thoroughly.
great analogy and it describes that show perfectly.
Chuck Connors' Jaw line: harder than Beskar.
Moff Gideon: *catches Darksaber*
Bo-Katan: "What?!"
Moff Gideon: "Nice knife!" *breaks it*
Yeah i was soo mad
Luke Skywalker: This is a saber KILLS GIDEON
“WHY WONT YOU DIE”
“Plot armor, katan. It hardens in response to fan outrage.”
Armorer: "Mandalore is uninhabitable."
Bo-Katan: "That's a nice argument you got there. How about you back it up with a source."
Armorer: "My source is that this is the way."
@@Gapeagle Amazing source.
Paz dying was a metaphor for Favreau. That man is done done. Kathleen managed to destroy yet another cash cow, impressive. Most impressive.
I think the lesbian actress who kills the scientist was a metaphor for Victoria Alonso.
What did Kathleen do to destroy The Mandalorian?
@@jayphillips4167 everything in season 3
Think you are blaming KK for something that Favereau had control over for 3 seasons.
He’s the reason Mandalorian is shit. Don’t attribute all your problems to her.
Favreau is the reason that “3 actions scenes per episode” is a guideline. He’s the reason cameos over character is a thing. He’s the reason “memberberries” is all over the other TV series.
KK didn’t destroy Mandalorian, Favreau and Filoini are.
Don’t ever forget that.
Remember: Favreau is the man that gave us THE FIRST IRONMAN, so if he could do that, he has no excuse for the Mandalorian.
@@nhagan001 No, it was the decision to reunite Grogu with Din that destroyed the mandolorian. Kathleen Kennedy definitely forced them to reunite so Disney can continue to sell baby yoda plushies.
Why does that lady have LED lights on her hair band? What are those LED lights for? Just to make it look sci-fi-ish? Did she really need a _space_ hair band?