Hey, at least Han Solo did NOT show up! another false rumor I guess.
The rumor was in Boba or in Mando season 3. (Probably should be spoilered.)
For whatever reason the battle didn’t bore me – but I did expect to see Boba’s and/or Mando’s space ship involved. I did like the rancor climbing the tower ala King Kong (I think some of the poses were the same!) I did like Grogu calming the rancor (and Mando shouting “stop shooting you idiots”) And Mando using the dark saber (didn’t seem to have any issues lifting it)
I don’t remember Cad/Boba encounters in Clone Wars, but it has been a while so don’t trust my memory.
Brian
Screw Han, I was hoping to see Qi’ra show up as the head of the Pikes.
Looking up Cad Bane’s entry on Wookieepedia, I learned that Cad had been trained by Jango, and then returned the favor by mentoring Boba for a time. I’m guessing that that was all in Clone Wars, or the comic books.
According to Screen Rant, there have been some allusions to their relationship in various extended media, but not much on-screen. However, there was apparently a story arc about their relationship written for Clone Wars that got as far as having some test animation produced, but the series was cancelled before the episodes were completed. It seems pretty likely this last episode was referencing that unproduced material and/or recycling some bits of it for their showdown.
The whole season was “meh”. Loved the return of Marshal Vance, Fennec Shand is always cool*, Cad Bane did a fantastic Clint Eastwood, and we got a touch of Ahsoka plus the reunion of Mando and the Child. That was all covered in 3 of the 7 episodes. And then they killed off Cad, who had some real potential to be a recurring character in Mando S3+.
The rest of it was meaningless. Nothing lost, nothing gained.
* Great assassin, lousy consigliere. See the whole “the other factions are guaranteed to remain neutral” and then they totally DON’T remain neutral subplot. I did like The Godfather 'it’s the smart move" reference though. They really should have at least talked with Scorsese before trying to do a Mafia season, if not hired him as a consultant/writer.
And what was up with that closing credit music?
“Boba Fett! Fett!”
I think they felt a need to remind us the name of the main character since he barely appeared.
Yeah, that was kinda weird. They should have gone with Fett’s Vett for the last one.
Hilariously 7 years or so ago, I mashed up a few of my kids toys for him to play at Christmas…one was Boba Fett on a dinosaur that had lasers attached.
Close.
Really really good finale BUT…kinda scattered. { } that much too much humor.
To REALLY invest your audience you should have your tactics make complete sense. That way, we’re playing along with the show. Having everyone running in a straight line in a mob away from a battle-tank droid that was clearly slower then everyone else bothered me. Scatter. Run. Regroup somewhere else.
But Im nitpicking. I liked it a lot.
Robert Rodriguez may have made a name for himself, but he didn’t quite hold this one together as well as he might have. His episodes were generally considered the lesser.
Close, but her name was Darth Traya (spoilers for KOTOR II).
I suppose that the games are, at most, Legend-class now, but there was one of Yoda’s species in the first Knights of the Old Republic. His name was Vandar Tokare.
KOTOR/SWTOR is explicitly Legends now. SWTOR, in fact, is the only Legends work which is still receiving new content.
More of a Lee Van Cleef, IMHO.
you know I wonder if whoever created the Mandalorian read the EU books and how they handled Anakin solo and decided to switch races …
According to Google, in Legends Yoda is said to have reached Jedi Master at 100 years old.
I kind of feel like Fett riding a rancor while wielding a lightsaber sounds like something written by the nerd on Robot Chicken.
I would have like to have seen more of Playa’ Boba from Jedi (around 3:10).. Be back to check you girls out later!
I think this is the heart of the series.
They don’t have an elaborate, well-crafted story they want to tell. They don’t have a rich, complex character whose soul they want to plumb to the very depths in all its multi-faceted nuance. They don’t have a multi-layered society they wish to explore.
What they do have is a list of their favourite scenes from the Westerns they watched as film students, and another list of stuff they thought would be cool when they played at Star Wars in the playground, and they have basically built the whole series around mad-libs of those two lists.
Which is fine! It made for some cool scenes and some great credit sequence art. And that’s all they were really after, so if that needs the cynical assassin to take pledged neutrality on trust, so be it. If it means we spend one and a half episodes off-world with Mando because they literally don’t have enough cool Star Wars/Western scenes to fill the season, that’s OK. When you set the target up 1 metre away, you’ll definitely hit it.