I think The Mandalorian finally disproves the myth that Star Wars fans are impossible to please. The reaction to the show so far has been overwhelmingly positive. Even the small minority of people who don’t like the show aren’t angry about it.
I would say it proves the theory that many have had for awhile, which is that the only way to not make SW fans angry is to not play with the preexisting characters/story at all.
And is that such a big problem? Did they absolutely NEED to make a sequel trilogy? They could have kept Return of the Jedi as the true ending, and no one would have complained.
Well is the goal to try to annoy as little SW fans as possible? Because I think quite a lot of people have enjoyed what they’ve done with the story. As much as I dislike TROS, I’m very thankful for TFA and TLJ, two of the very best SW films they are. I really enjoy Solo as well. I’d hate to lose any of them. I’m sure many prequel fans would say the same about those films, regardless of the fact that they didn’t absolutely NEED to make a prequel trilogy.
To that end, let’s check back in five or so years from now and see if everyone agrees on the quality of the Mandalorian’s final season.
Maybe the show will go downhill by then, we don’t know. It doesn’t mean that Star Wars fans are hypocrites.
I didn’t mean to say SW fans are hypocrites (though many are, but that’s unrelated to what I’m saying). What I meant was Mando is universally pleasing right now because people have no preexisting attachment to the characters. In a few years, when the show is ending, fans will have specific expectations and wants, in a similar way to they do with the main saga.
Make a small-scale TV show that respects the canon and makes the audience care about the characters, and fans will eat it up.
The irony of course being that the show arguably disrespects the canon quite a bit in its treatment of Mandalorian culture.
I thought the show made it clear that Mando’s tribe is an extremist group, not necessarily connected to mainstream Mandalorian culture. Dave Filoni is one of the showrunners, and I doubt he would forget about his own story.
I don’t think that they made that clear at all. But that’s not a problem, because it is very easy to come up with that explanation/interpretation to make the discrepancy work. But there’s always an explanation/interpretation that makes a discrepancy with preexisting canon work. Some fans just refuse to think of what that explanation might be when they hate a work and think it “ruins” SW.