The Mandalorian (TV series)

Yes and no. The actor in the suit, is the big dude with the beard from episode one. Another guy provided the voice we hear on screen though.

Another guy = Favreau. BlandoCalrssian has a good ear.

True, but the comics were written after the game came out. A writer with a good idea can't really go back and change a video game to match his story. And I doubt they wanted to just scrap their warrior culture because a video game had a helmet off a guy.

Wasnt canderous also an outcast at the time?

The important part, is that it's not some new idea, that being a Mandalorian is a culture/creed, not a birthplace; that it focuses heavily on it's armor; and that armor/helmet should always be worn, when able.

Canderous wasn't an outcast so much as all Mandalorians were on the skids after their utter defeat by Revan on Malachor V. He didn't forsake the Mandalorian ways; in fact, he eventually became Mandalore himself.

But I get your point. I don't know if Leland Chee was overseeing all SW continuity between Dark Horse and Bioware back then, but a good idea is a good idea.

Other bit of retcon - KOTOR actually had a high-priced set of Mandalorian armor you could purchase in-game that was once owned by "Cassius Fett." So, if George always intended for Jango to not be a Mandalorian, he didn't share that fact with the story group, or the story group didn't share it with Bioware.

That, or George just totally made up that bit of Jango's history years after AOTC came out.
 
Just watched ep3. Yeah, it was good. I loved the little character moments for Mando. He was also orphaned as a child (based on the flashback) so naturally he's going to develop a common bond with Mogwai Yoda. And since you can't see his facial expressions, little gestures like at the end when he hands him back the lever ball (loved that) convey the emotion instead.

I loved seeing the subtle variations of all the other Mandalorians' helmets. I had a feeling they were going to show up and help him fight off the bounty hunters at the end. It was a great display of power showing just how formidable they are. I'm 50/50 on the blacksmith's "Spartan" helmet. I liked it at first but now it looks a little too much like a Spartan helmet to me.

The shootout was good although I would've changed it a little. Don't start off with so many bounty hunters surrounding Mando. Even he shouldn't have been able to put up that much of a fight against that many. Start with less, then more show up to the point where Mando looks like he's going to lose, THEN have his buddies show up to save him.

My one criticism was the stormtroopers. They did seem really dumb. Their dialogue was so generic and their voice acting was badly robotic.

Thought the music was really good again. More atmospheric this episode.

I did like the Rocketeer salute because, well, it reminded me of the Rocketeer and I love that character lol. It was too obvious to not be a tribute. I don't think it was cheesy that it happened but it might've been cheesy because of who was saluting. That was the same Mandalorian that wanted to tear Mando's head off earlier. I still didn't mind it though. And I don't mind saluting in Star Wars. Pilots salute each other all the time when they're saying goodbye. In non military settings, it's a way of saying "Good Luck" or "Take Care". Heck I do it a lot to people. Just one of those universal gestures. Han gave Lando a casual salute before he left for Endor.

So overall, very solid so far. Though, I can't help but feel it's moving a little too fast. Mando built up some tension with the other Mandalorians so them suddenly uniting at the end to help him felt like a crescendo that could've been saved for the season finale. But admittedly it was cool to watch.
Slight correction. That would be a Greek Corinthian helmet. ;) Not a Spartan Helmet.
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It seems to be a style popular with the women.
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So, after watching it three times my daughter told me that baby Yoda called Mando mama. I had to watch the clip another four or five times but sure enough that’s exactly what it sounded like. it was in the scene when he had put the baby in the cart and was fighting off the other bountyhunters. When baby Yoda wakes up and they make contact with one another he says it.
 
All the attention to detail on this show and yet they forgot the static bursts when the stormtroopers talk.

I don’t think that was a lack of attention to detail. I think it is the fact that these are now private security, no longer connected through the empires mainframe communications grid.
 
So no one is bothered by The Child, for all we know, not having any training using the Force to heal the Mando, and lift the mud horn?

Not that I've seen. While it's not common in the new canon yet, the old EU was filled with species that were naturally force sensitive, and could even wield the force with no training. Some were animals with certain abilities. Some were sentient species.

And on top of it, force sensitive folks often exhibited force powers without any training. That's HOW the Jedi and other force traditions found their trainees. One of the most common ways was a little kid floating his toys up in the air.

Both Anakin and Luke called on the force to help them be better pilots before they had any force training.

Even "broom boy" at the end of episode 8 is using the force, and I doubt they're giving training to the slave children on gambling planet 9000, or whatever the place was called.
 
Not that I've seen. While it's not common in the new canon yet, the old EU was filled with species that were naturally force sensitive, and could even wield the force with no training. Some were animals with certain abilities. Some were sentient species.

And on top of it, force sensitive folks often exhibited force powers without any training. That's HOW the Jedi and other force traditions found their trainees. One of the most common ways was a little kid floating his toys up in the air.

Both Anakin and Luke called on the force to help them be better pilots before they had any force training.

Even "broom boy" at the end of episode 8 is using the force, and I doubt they're giving training to the slave children on gambling planet 9000, or whatever the place was called.


Plus he is 50 years old.
 
Regarding George's "always intended"... The AOTC presskit and most of the Jango-related fluff (like on the action figure cardback) that adhered to George's dictates referred to Jango as "the last Mandalorian". People in the know said it was due to George being annoyed at how Boba Fett's popularity overshadowed many of the other characters, and this was a deliberate undercut.

When the mystique persisted, and just added a generation, when Karen Traviss' Republic Commando books proved so popular, a nonzero amount of Clone Wars was to super-double undercut the Mandos in general, and those books in particular. He negated the planet and culture shown in the EU (although Mandalore's "moon" Concordia is a pretty good match for the planet), had the prime minister dismiss Jango as not a Mandalorian, and other things I won't get into here.

Dave Filoni's been passive-aggressively fighting it the whole time, though. He acquiesced to George's desert Mandalore, cube cities, and pacifist New Mandalorians... But crammed in EU easter eggs around it. Concordia is a Trojan planet (even if it's smaller than Mandalore, they mass the same, as the gravity and atmospheric density demonstrate -- there must be something dense they mine there...), that didn't need to match the EU Mandalore. The "Concordian dialect" the bomber gasps his last words in is the Mando'a language from the RC books. And Filoni kept working in Clone Wars and Rebels to bring the warrior Mandos back in. Concord Dawn is referred to as conquered by the Mandalorians in the EU, but as a Mandalorian colony in Rebels. That tacitly helps Jango's case, assuming he was, in fact, from there. Fenn Rau fought in his Mando armor during the Clone Wars, when he was also training clone pilots. His men refer to Sabine as a traitor when they hear she's House Viszla, so that shows not all armor-wearers are Death Watch. Kenobi, when he assumed Rako Hardeen's ("The Marksman of Concord Dawn") identity, got kitted up in McQuarrie-mando armor and helmet. All in all, I'd say the New Mandalorian movement didn't have much traction outside the Mandalore system. Itself...
 
So no one is bothered by The Child, for all we know, not having any training using the Force to heal the Mando, and lift the mud horn?

In the Clone Wars, there's a story arc about a list of force sensitive children the Jedi have identified. We see infants using the Force, though they've never been trained. There is plenty of precedent set for Force sensitive species using the Force with no training.
 
In most cases with star wars, I like to try and marry up the different sources as much as possible (even if it's just to see how well it works). and while I've really enjoyed a lot of stuff that has come out of the cartoon shows, the mandalorian plot lines that they had in them just hurt my skull from a "fit this into the cannon" stand point.

I understand where the story came from, it was meant to be a morality play for the kids that watched the show. They learn that Jango fett was really a bad guy, that didn't speak for everyone on mandalore. They learn that a peaceful world and society is something worth striving for. They learn that sticking to what you believe in can be very very difficult sometimes, etc, etc. And there's guys in boba fett armor for the dads and moms watching it along with their kids.

But when it comes to trying to cram sabine and all the rest of them, and the pacifist mandalore, and all the cartoon show lore into the middle of the old comics, games, eu, and now the mandalorian... I'm not even gonna try. I'm perfectly comfortable with the idea that one franchise can have two alternate story liens covering what happened with certain things. I have lived my life just fine with the idea that there are 30+ different versions of Batman I can read about; so I can get through my star wars without being stressed that one show chose to handle a story differently than other authors and writers had in the past, and would in the future.
 
So no one is bothered by The Child, for all we know, not having any training using the Force to heal the Mando, and lift the mud horn?
Not at all.

The implication in this question seems to be an allusion to having issues with Rey's apparent prowess with the force.

I've no problem with the child and it's ability. We don't know it's history, it could have been trained, it's species could be naturally *more* gifted with the force that other beings - we just don't know.

Plus, it's over twice as old as the human Rey. Given what Rey picked up over 72 hours, starting at the age of 19, just imagine what the child must have picked up in 50 years.
 
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