If I had a chance to rewrite Season 3 and Book of Boba Fett; I would have done the following: (1) keep Dins scene with struggling with fighting with the dark saber and defending it from a rival, but keep it in Mando’s season; that’s episode 1. It establishes his struggles and his loneliness. (2) set up a rivalry, but mutual understanding between Dinn and Bo Katan. With Bo Katan wanting the saber and power; but struggling with her feelings of respect of Din’s high morality vs her more pragmatic of the Mando creed. (3) Favreau was clearly setting up Din to be the next in line to be the Mandalore; and I would have kept that as a “reluctant leader” trope with Mando as the spiritual Figure head based on his beliefs of the Mandalore religion. And have Katan relinquish her desire for the control and be Dins right hand (potential love interest in the future). I’d finish up with project necromanxer like it happened but with a more powerful clone and mando finally learning and accepting the dark saber. He then takes that victory, and the throne as the new Mandalore. Bringing his arc to a satisfying conclusion. Then final scene you see grogu and Luke training with grogu looking off in the distance. Thus leading to a Jedi knight academy spin off with Luke and Grogu.
It semi-failed there were some bangers in that season, like the mandalorian charge, the pirates getting their ass handed, grogu remembering a Jedi saving him (hope we get a spin-off or some more information on that character) and the dark saber being destroyed. Those were the best bangers in the entire season. It may have failed overall but those are what I believe saved it people enjoy that.
@creaturefeature123 the story that's been going around from the fans is Jon favreau and Dave filoni were forced to bring back grogu because of merchandise Kathleen Kennedy force him to bring him back instead of allowing him to be off screen. So from what I've heard is they just did the minimum effort for season 3 because of it. If I was a writer and a director I would be demoralized too if my boss came in and said hey you got to have this character back because that what makes us the most money even though the story doesn't need it.
30 seconds in, im pausing this vid to give my two cents as to why i think season three was bad- FRANCHISING No seriously. The appeal of Mandalorian was its self contained story. It subtly fleshed out the post RotJ landscape while being a self contained story. Fans could appreciate the show by itself. If youre a long time fan, it was refreshing. If you were someone who only watched the movies, thats just fine! I have friends who dont watch Star Wars as a whole but who watched and liked The Mandalorian- because it could be appreciated as a self contained story. Season two was when i started to worry. The trend of cameos from other characters had me worried about the shows self-contained story. Even so, season two balanced a fine line of cameos and characters that were cool references for long time fans, and that largely weren't to derailing from the self contained experience and easy enough to understand for casuals. Season three proved my fears- not just with cameo bloat, but the plot itself. Its a season that came with homework. Plot threads and characters didnt fully make sense on their own and required homework from previous shows to understand- which in a modern landscape where most people still look down upon animation as a medium, is such a hard sell to get certain people to watch episodes of a "kids show" (their words, NOT mine) i mean hell, the secret pilot episode for season 3 is in Book of Boba Fett, which has plot threads that are jarring if you didnt happen to watch that one. So again, a season with required homework. And even so, as a hardcore fan who watches all the movies and shows and plays the games, etc. Etc... this season was the PITS! It was unsatisfying payoffs to years long plot threads across multiple shows. I hated the non existent character development of Bo Katan's character in this season- a character i enjoyed in CW and Rebels. And to point to her history and NOT EVEN HAVE HER MENTION HER SISTER??? It ignores arguably the biggest plot point that pushed her from redemption from her origin as a literal. Terrorist. So to sum up: in my opinion, season three fails because it both loses the standalone nature of the story, AND fails the landing for the overarching stories it finishes. Thus, you lose interest and goodwill from casual fans and hardcore fans alike. Sorry for the rant, im passionate about this topic lol. Unpausing the vid now, looking forward to your analysis too! Edit: appreciate your macro scale criticism of the plot! Nice to see we shared some overlap, but your takes on the failure of the self contained plot made me remember how much the internal plot kinda failed, even outside if the mandatory homework. Look forward to seeing more from you!
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I completely avoided it after hearing jack black and lizzo was in it, I love jack black, but they just took me out of the immersion
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Great video dude! Nice pacing and straight to point.
Thanks!
If I had a chance to rewrite Season 3 and Book of Boba Fett; I would have done the following:
(1) keep Dins scene with struggling with fighting with the dark saber and defending it from a rival, but keep it in Mando’s season; that’s episode 1. It establishes his struggles and his loneliness.
(2) set up a rivalry, but mutual understanding between Dinn and Bo Katan. With Bo Katan wanting the saber and power; but struggling with her feelings of respect of Din’s high morality vs her more pragmatic of the Mando creed.
(3) Favreau was clearly setting up Din to be the next in line to be the Mandalore; and I would have kept that as a “reluctant leader” trope with Mando as the spiritual
Figure head based on his beliefs of the Mandalore religion. And have Katan relinquish her desire for the control and be Dins right hand (potential love interest in the future).
I’d finish up with project necromanxer like it happened but with a more powerful clone and mando finally learning and accepting the dark saber. He then takes that victory, and the throne as the new Mandalore. Bringing his arc to a satisfying conclusion.
Then final scene you see grogu and Luke training with grogu looking off in the distance. Thus leading to a Jedi knight academy spin off with Luke and Grogu.
Really annoying about episode 3, was how much more interesting it was than the rest of the season
It semi-failed there were some bangers in that season, like the mandalorian charge, the pirates getting their ass handed, grogu remembering a Jedi saving him (hope we get a spin-off or some more information on that character) and the dark saber being destroyed. Those were the best bangers in the entire season. It may have failed overall but those are what I believe saved it people enjoy that.
I agree with u, it was definitely dragged down by the good parts.
Some parts just felt like filler and I think the story could have been better
@creaturefeature123 the story that's been going around from the fans is Jon favreau and Dave filoni were forced to bring back grogu because of merchandise Kathleen Kennedy force him to bring him back instead of allowing him to be off screen. So from what I've heard is they just did the minimum effort for season 3 because of it. If I was a writer and a director I would be demoralized too if my boss came in and said hey you got to have this character back because that what makes us the most money even though the story doesn't need it.
My goat dropped another banger! 🐐 🔥
Thanks! I could say the same about your one piece video
30 seconds in, im pausing this vid to give my two cents as to why i think season three was bad-
FRANCHISING
No seriously. The appeal of Mandalorian was its self contained story. It subtly fleshed out the post RotJ landscape while being a self contained story. Fans could appreciate the show by itself. If youre a long time fan, it was refreshing. If you were someone who only watched the movies, thats just fine! I have friends who dont watch Star Wars as a whole but who watched and liked The Mandalorian- because it could be appreciated as a self contained story.
Season two was when i started to worry. The trend of cameos from other characters had me worried about the shows self-contained story. Even so, season two balanced a fine line of cameos and characters that were cool references for long time fans, and that largely weren't to derailing from the self contained experience and easy enough to understand for casuals.
Season three proved my fears- not just with cameo bloat, but the plot itself. Its a season that came with homework. Plot threads and characters didnt fully make sense on their own and required homework from previous shows to understand- which in a modern landscape where most people still look down upon animation as a medium, is such a hard sell to get certain people to watch episodes of a "kids show" (their words, NOT mine) i mean hell, the secret pilot episode for season 3 is in Book of Boba Fett, which has plot threads that are jarring if you didnt happen to watch that one. So again, a season with required homework.
And even so, as a hardcore fan who watches all the movies and shows and plays the games, etc. Etc... this season was the PITS! It was unsatisfying payoffs to years long plot threads across multiple shows. I hated the non existent character development of Bo Katan's character in this season- a character i enjoyed in CW and Rebels. And to point to her history and NOT EVEN HAVE HER MENTION HER SISTER??? It ignores arguably the biggest plot point that pushed her from redemption from her origin as a literal. Terrorist.
So to sum up: in my opinion, season three fails because it both loses the standalone nature of the story, AND fails the landing for the overarching stories it finishes. Thus, you lose interest and goodwill from casual fans and hardcore fans alike.
Sorry for the rant, im passionate about this topic lol. Unpausing the vid now, looking forward to your analysis too!
Edit: appreciate your macro scale criticism of the plot! Nice to see we shared some overlap, but your takes on the failure of the self contained plot made me remember how much the internal plot kinda failed, even outside if the mandatory homework. Look forward to seeing more from you!
Great analysis dude, thanks for the support!
Boba not answering the call abd showing up in the finale was also a big miss
I wish din didn’t go back to wearing his helmet al the time and just joined bokans mandos
because you had expectations that werent met, quite simple really
Wonder what the film will be like
SECOND.
Thanks for watching!