doubleKO said:
I was expecting Attack of the Clones to have Jedi fighting a shitload of Mandalorians in Fett-style armour.
Yeah, so was I and just about every other Star Wars fan I knew at the time. But that would have been extremely cool, and the prequels had this thing about trying hard not to be too cool.
The lightsaber fight at the end of The Phantom Menace set the cap for awesome imagery in the PT. For some reason nothing was ever allowed to surpass it (or come even close to it). An army of Mandalorian warriors fighting Jedi would have (okay fine, potentially could have, if done right) made that amazing scene at the end of TPM look completely underwhelming. Instead, nothing ever even came close to it.