I finally saw The Mandalorian

So recently my sister got Disney Plus and let me watch some shows and movies on it and one of the things I watched was a show called……THE MANDALORIAN. I think many of you here might’ve heard of it?

So after a long time of hearing people on Geeks and Gamers and the rest of The Fandom Menace talk about watching The Mandalorian themselves and spoiling much for me….thanks alot….you guys…..maybe don’t tell me Luke Skywalker was gonna show at some point……well anyways….

……I saw the Mandalorian and I have to say it was good for the most part, for a modern Star Wars property…it was good and dare I even say better than Rogue One, well that is just my own opinion.

I have to say the story telling was good, not always perfect but good and nowhere near the level of bad writing or badly crafted characters like in Disney Star Wars Sequel Trilogy or Solo or even the Star Wars current videigames and comics but good.

Surprisingly there wasn’t much wokeness but at the same time this doesn’t mean that The Mandalorian didn’t have some wokeness in it’s DNA like the other modern current Star Wars properties.

Just that from my perspective the first season of The Mandalorian the wokeness was either very very little or just better hidden that I didn’t see much of it or I lowered my expectations so much when going into The Mandalorian that my lowered expectations caused my mind to ignore any wokeness that was there in Season 1?

I don’t really know, but from my point of view and this is just my own opinion, season one of The Mandalorian didn’t really have too much obvious wokeness in it like other modern Disney Star Wars stuff that came out since 2015.

But season two of The Mandalorian I will say that near the end it did pull an A-Force Girl Power type of situation like in Avengers Endgame but like maybe 2 or 3 points less cringey than the Girl Power scene in Endgame.

The Girl Power thing happened, I watched it, I survived it and I am warning you all it is there in season 2 but after suffering through that scene….you get Luke Skywalker and not the crappy Last Jedi Luke Skywalker….the real Luke Skywalker pulling a Darth Vader Rogue One type of entrance which was epic and thank you John Faverau for risking everything at Lucasfilm to give us the Luke Skywalker we deserve after he was forced to drink from a space cow tit and be beaten by Rey in The Last Jedi.

Now onto the main character of The Mandalorian; Mando I guess I’ll refer to him as. Mando to me was like if you crossed Batman with the Master Chief from Halo.

Mando wears a cape like Batman, sneaks around and uses a grapple hook to pull down bad guys in a fight while looking totally badass. And he was like Master Chief in that he never showed his face once except for a few occasions where it required for him in the story to show his face but other than that Mando was mostly in the bucket and like the Master Chief he also had as much dialogue as say Master Chief in the Halo gamers which were mostly one liners , he was more a man of action rather than a man of words.

And keeping with the videogame theme of The Mandalorian, because Mando hod his face hidden so much and rarely talked, I felt like I was playing an RPG game like Skyrim or something and I had my character completely covered in armor and the characters who weren’t Mando on the show were the NPCs with many preprogrammed lines I would encounter in the game that talked to me to move the story and plot of the game along.

Also the first couple of episodes in Season 1 where Mando had to go on missions to get metal bars from his clients after each successful bounty then return to his Forge Master to have her build new armored parts for him to add or improve his armor felt like whenever I would go out on missions or collect resources in Skyrim or Fallout 4 then use them to upgrade my armor so I could look cooler and have more protection when facing down enemies in a videogame.

The this show had a weird sort of RPG armor levelling system in it which was interesting to see the Mandalorian go through in the first season in the first couple of episodes. With his helmet on all the time like Master Chief in Halo made Mando feel like he was universally relatable to any person of any background watching the show, you didn’t need woke casting of any kind to do it….you related to Mando based on his actions and personality rather than his face, gender, race or anything else like that.

Mando in his armor and helmet all the time was a sort of blank avatar that viewers like myself can see as themselves when exploring the Star Wars world in this series for both seasons.

The relationship between Mando and Grogu aka Baby Yoda was good and really shows that Mando is a great warrior and protector and that not all the Mandalorians are a bunch of war hungry barbarians.

Though the seasons are 8 episodes for each of the two seasons and each episode made was about 30 minutes in length, The Mandalorian felt like an hour long drama  as so much happens in it in such a short time and I don’t want it any longer in length as so much is already in each episode that wraps up pretty well and leads into the next episode with no trouble.

You watch each episode loving the show, they feel long even it is only 30 minutes yet you want more with the next episode.

The Mandalorian truly makes coming back into the Star Wars universe a real treat for long time fans and truly gives you that open world sand box feel you might get from playing a videogame like Skyrim or Fallout 4 or any other game like that with the lore and mythos.

If you were burned by Kathleen Kennedy’s Star Wars along with all her woke divisive non sense, The Mandalorian for me at least made me like Star Wars again even though The Mandalorian still has a bit of wokeness here and there but is almost unseen compared to what Kathleen Kennedy did in the Sequel Trilogy anything else she had great involvement in.

The Mandalorian feels like it is almost in a parallel universe from the Disney Sequel Trilogy and Solo but feels connected to the Original Trilogy, the Prequels, Clone Wars, Rogue One and just Star Wars in general.

Thought The Mandalorian isn’t perfect it is still Star Wars to me and makes me want to come back to and see what Jon Faverau has got cooking and if we can somehow get rid of Kathleen Kennedy along with any and all identity politics….it would be interesting to see what Jon Faverau could do at his full potential?

These are just my thoughts and opinions on The Mandalorian, what do you guys think? I am interesting in hearing and discussing with you.