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The Mandalorian - Season 2 |OT| Wherever I go, he goes [SPOILERS ON EPISODE DROP]
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Grogu was talking to Cal so its time for his live action debut by the same actor
Hes out there searching for other jedi.
Hes out there searching for other jedi.
Boba Fett's entire reputation is people thinking he was really cool and finally, FINALLY, after over three decades we see him in all the glory he had when we played with his action figures. Sometimes it's ok to have a character everyone likes actually just be really good at their job, and his incompetence in ROTJ is just as blown out of proportion as his badassery. Mando himself is already the variably badass and clumsy Indiana Jones-style character who spends half his time getting the shit kicked out of him and the other half kicking the shit out of everyone else.
I'm just gonna throw this out there because it's the only reasonable thing left Mando -'as a show could do that would make hardcore fans' heads absolutely explode and make everyone else go "who?":
Mara effin' Jade
When the hell does Mando get the shit kicked out of him?
He runs people's side quests like he's their personal errand boy, but iirc, he's won any fight he's in easy.
Lmao they'd never.
We're only three episodes away from that time he nearly got drowned by random fish people.
Not exactly sure, but it's somewhere smack dab in the middle of the San Gabriel Mountains. The terrain looks exactly like where I usually practice drone flying in Angeles National Forest.
He was never a Mandalorian excuse Jango was not a mandolorian. It was always told he stole the armor of of one he killed.
I mean, other than Ahsoka and Luke, what other Jedis are even around at this time?
I personally hope it's a Jedi who survived the purge but we've never seen them before and they have no connection to anyone and they are just a wholly new character that we get to learn about.
It is a faint hope, but it is all I have.
yep, I said to myself while watching it "Wow, they finally made Boba Fett cool"
That was before he got his beskar. Ever since, he's basically been untouchable.Dude got dropped by Jawas in episode two.
Really liked seeing Boba again and not surprised (but pleased) to see Fennec was alive but thought this was a pretty weak episode overall.
The showrunners really need to stop having Din and his allies-of-the-week easily mowing down dozens of enemies without any hint of danger - it's gotten old at this point.
The showrunners really need to stop having Din and his allies-of-the-week easily mowing down dozens of enemies without any hint of danger - it's gotten old at this point.
He got his ass kicked by the mudhorn, the dragon, was nearly killed by Gideon's troops and needed to be saved, his flamethrower constantly fails him, Ashoka nearly took off his head, he was knocked unconscious by the force field around Grogu just this episode, was nearly eaten by a sea monster, killed by giant spiders, etc. Half the time the only reason he's alive is because help swoops in.
This would make more sense with that in mind, but I personally think Mara Jade is the most popular EU character we're still missing outside of KOTOR characters.
Lucas is always changing his story. He knew how popular Boba was because he released the action figure before ESB came out, so kids were already hyped for him. Then ESB comes out and his popularity only increases. He stated: "The Boba Fett character is really an early version of Darth Vader," says Lucas in J.W. Rinzler's book The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. "He is also very much like the man-with-no-name from the Sergio Leone Westerns."
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The bounty hunter barely appeared in the original trilogy—and died in hilariously sad fashion—yet he still endured in the extended universe and grew in popularity to the point that Disney+ staked its debut on a new series made in his image. Such is the power of looking really freaking cool.
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To now say he was aloof that fans wanted more Boba is weird since you already had fans post-ESB believing he was secretly related to Luke. The reality is that Boba should have died in the Sarlaac Pit. It's the natural end to his story that reinforces Lucas' point seen many times in the series, being a badass doesn't mean shit and isn't cool. You can be as badass and cool as you want, you can still get taken out by dumb luck. You want to see what Darth Vader looks like when he's young, well here he is an emotionally stunted man-child that complains all the time, because that's the kind of person that becomes Darth Vader, not some cool and collected "badass."
Oh, you think Luke is just going to be some badass Jedi Knight that takes on the Emperor single-handedly? No, he's a scrub so far out of his depth that the Emperor could easily kill him. True heroism does not come through strength of arms but character. Luke beat the Emperor not by being an ultra-confident, badass Jedi. He beat him by throwing away his weapon and showing compassion to his father. Boba Fett, Anakin, Grievous, Dexter Jettster, Yoda are all reinforcing Lucas' love to subvert and challenge expectations.
So yeah, Boba Fett should've stayed dead. The "ultimate" badass taken out by a chump due to a lucky hit. But fans can't accept that and there is money to be made so "yeah, I never knew people would respond to him that way, so maybe he did survive."
I mean....okay, fair enough. I disagree with some of those (Ahsoka and him were pretty tied before they stopped fighting and he wasn't trying to fight her legit since he was looking for her) and one of those I don't even count because they're not even conceptually fights (I don't know why he keeps touching Grogu's force field when it hurts him, that's really dumb, but that's definitely not a fight), but I guess you're right with regards to stuff like when those sea guys pushed him in the water with the sea monster or when he needed help with teh spiders. I didn't really think of those as 'fights' either, but they were atleast combat situations.
But in fair fights, he tends to be untouchable.
Empty threats; how do they work?
In-universe, Luke would be the most likely answer, I would think. However, I'm not convinced that they would de-age Mark Hamill for anything other than a post-ROTJ/pre-TFA movie, but who knows?
Grogu was talking to Cal so its time for his live action debut by the same actor
Hes out there searching for other jedi.
This has been my assumption from the beginning. Then they brought Ahsoka in and I thought I was wrong, but she peaced out.
In a way, he'd be the smart choice. He's one of the few SW characters where him showing up on Mandalorian would actually be a writing upgrade from the original he was made in.Grogu was talking to Cal so its time for his live action debut by the same actor
Hes out there searching for other jedi.
Frog lady is too good for this show.
I don't think it'll be Cal just 'cus he's so new but the list of people it could be are pretty short. It could also just be a new character but I feel like they're teasing us to see a fan favorite.
The most insane one would be Luke being played by a new actor, which is the one I would like the most. Mace Windu is also a real contender since it would play nicely with Boba Fett but I'd rather him be dead, Boba already used up their resurrect card.
The most insane one would be Luke being played by a new actor, which is the one I would like the most. Mace Windu is also a real contender since it would play nicely with Boba Fett but I'd rather him be dead, Boba already used up their resurrect card.
Gimme Winter Soldier Luke.
Cal would be a bad choice imo, it would take out any sort of suspense for the next Fallen Order game.
Winter Soldier Luke would be, and I must stress this, the most hype moment in human history.
He released tons of figures from the holiday special my dude. Dude was making bank.
The same Lucas signed off on the Clone Wars version of Anakin Skywalker that borderline ignores 99% of the characterization from literally all the prequel films. And that includes him being a total badass and nowhere near as emotionally stunted. Because Anakin in the prequels and how bungled that was was not what he envisioned when he had Obi-wan give a speech about great of a person Anakin was. And the 1% that comes through comes in the form of actually great writing are the surface level tendencies. Like instead of the bullshit where he was trying to seduce Padme by discussing the values of fascism, we instead get proper foreshadowing:
George may have tossed around a lot of ideas and changed the plot a lot of times but all the years of nerding out over BTS material never involved "we wanted to subvert expectations with Boba and that's why he died like a fucking chump."
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It depends when the Jedi shows up. If they save it to the end of the season I could see them going the ultimate fanservice and having Luke Skywalker show up. Then again. Who says a Jedi has to show up? Mando doesn't know Jedi from Sith follower. We could end up with some Dark Sider stealing Gorgu away
For those saying Cal Kestus- They'd have to age up the actor by multiple decades to match the time skip between Fallen Order and Mando right?
E z r a
Do it
Luke would be hype though, legit would break the internet given how everyone expected him to take on the new order himself in last Jedi
Boba would be shook though lol
Do it
Luke would be hype though, legit would break the internet given how everyone expected him to take on the new order himself in last Jedi
Boba would be shook though lol
Cameron is only 27 years old so yea. Fallen Order takes place only five years after ROTS. He'd have to look and sound twice as old like Ahsoka.
So if it is Cal, they're going to have to make a 27 year old look to be around 50. I dunno...
So they'd only have to age him maybe like 10 years since Order 66 happened he was a kid
Kyle Katarn actually makes so much sense. Not to mention he's also a mercenary so it would fit that Mando would run into him
Nearly twenty years. Cal, if he's alive, would be 42 years old during the events of the Mandalorian. His actor has is at the exact age required to play high school-college age characters. Not 40 year olds lmao.
Its going to be Ezra given all the other TCW/Rebels connections. They're not going to fl Cal because Fallen Order 2 is a thing that's still happening and it's not going to be Luke because Mark Hamill is in his 60s. Mando is either building up a Rebels sequel spin-off or is becoming that Rebels sequel itself.
I've always loved that little exchange because his coworker (subordinate?) is so completely apathetic to his bullshit
dude here is like fuckin bounty hunters we dont need this shit amiright
and the other guy doesnt respond like "i know" or "i cant believe it either" anything at all sympathetic
zero interest at all, he's just like ...yes sir and immediately ignores him
everyone has had this moment with their boss
"sure whatever man just fuck off" energy
there also might be a little honor involved, as long as cobb was using the armor to protect the town he wasn't actively going to take the armor back but once mando took it to bring it back he wanted it back. or boba has a soft spot for the people of Tatooine which is why he didn't take it he clearly knew where it at since tatooine natives know of a town with a mando marshal
Kanan lives
Freddie Prinze Jr gets his live action Star Wars check
Seeing the slave 1 again was pretty cool, the lego 20th anniversary set was on clearance too on Black Friday but I can see the UCS model being reprinted next year
Freddie Prinze Jr gets his live action Star Wars check
Seeing the slave 1 again was pretty cool, the lego 20th anniversary set was on clearance too on Black Friday but I can see the UCS model being reprinted next year
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To be fair that has not stopped Disney before. Here's Mark doing his damndest to try to sound like young Luke:
like seriously clone wars anakin is legit one of my favorite star wars characters, hell clone wars itself makes Sith a much better movie
VAing is pretty different from live acting though, and Mark is an experienced VA at that too
But yeah, even still he sounds pretty different from his young self. It's actually funny how apparent it is
Iirc I think that has been unconfirmed in canon limbo for a while, since the disney reset
A reference book might have slipped it in at some point since then, but obviously screen-canon takes precedence now anyway
It being beskar explains how the helmet apparently survived boba's bomb trap for windu in the clone wars
(mando's spear survived similar circumstances this episode too)
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As I said long ago ITT, there is precedent for the creatives having actors who did voice roles only dub over other actors. They did it with Maul. And speaking of Boba they did it with Boba too lol.