I legit thought the original said “What is with the mandalorians and really big breasts” until I saw this non-sequiter response.
Another TMM episode. But Baby Yoda driving around in an assassin droid? All is forgiven…until next week.
It wasn’t just you. Lol
We enjoyed the episode. My son said: this is just like a Greek myth. He’s not wrong.
Music hath charms to soothe those savage breasts …
That’s a pretty significant weakness, then.
Not really, if they are aiming for a Star Wars Cinematic Universe. Nobody says it is a weakness if to understand the latest Marvel movie you need to have watched 20 other movies and three television series.
I’m not sure Favreau and Disney see it that way. As has been mentioned, they didn’t do anything at all to explain to the audience why Grogu was still with Mando at the beginning of season 3 when last we saw he was going off with Luke at the end of season 2. Hell, they didn’t even bother to explain it in the “Previously” recap.
Good heavens, people. I have no idea if these beasts have mammary glands.
I do.
It’s Star Wars. Everything has mammary glands.
Mrs Snowman says this all the time.
But that’s inherit to the design of the series. If that doesn’t fit your taste, it just means that the series isn’t for you, not that they are “doing it wrong”.
There was a point where she didn’t think that - it’s perfectly possible to be OK with a certain amount of interconnectness but feel that there is currently too much.
Although by definition they then create a product that places a barrier to entry to new viewers.
If I need to commit to multiple dozens of hours in order to enjoy watching a new show then it is not a show for me, a new viewer to pick up.
As a show runner maybe loyal extant viewers are all I want or need, but usually you want it be enjoyable, albeit in different ways, by both current fans, and fans to be, who may then double back to watch the older stuff and get what they missed on rewatch.
I’ll count myself in the latter group. I doubled back to watch and enjoy the previous animated fare. But if the newer stuff was only enjoyable if I already had I would not have watched either the new or the old.
Only playing for the in the know crowd is honestly lazy.
To be honest even having watched the old stuff I have forgotten lots by now.
Would you say the same for expecting a Mandalorian watcher to have seen some of the Star Wars movies?
Even more so!
The Mandalorian is package as a family show. The presumption is that some of the viewers are children of all ages who have never seen any of the movies, and that this show is their possible entry into the complete Star Wars line. There has to be a enjoyability at that completely naive level, even as it also benefits from having aspects that only the most extreme devotee of Star Wars arcana will squee about.
Dark thought – that big beast on the spit – that wasn’t one of the foundlings, was it?
(did they take them to Navarro?)
I wondered if the big beast was going to be a mandalore but it obviously wasn’t.
Brian
You mean mythasaur?
Sure, but then you run into the problem that interconnectedness is pretty much bound to increase exponentially with every new production set in that universe. At some point, it’s just going to become impossible to tell a new story that advances the universe’s overall plot arc in ways that existing fans are interested in, without also requiring more backstory awareness than new viewers can reasonably be expected to have.