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Overthinking this stuff is what gave you a small dick

This show fucking stupid. This 50 year old baby contradicts yoda saying he was training Jedi for 800 years. Why do we need to see dinosaurs in Star Wars. They have zero idea of how the mandalorian culture works

Must feel good to know you probably saved many people from suffering through this trash. Way to make a difference! This show has become soul-crushing.

In Mando’s case I’m pretty sure it’s because they just don’t have much plot to introduce. They clearly had more ideas for Bo Katan’s arc, but found themselves in the weird position of being held back by their two main characters.

@@TheLittlePlatoon kinda? It's like they aborted Bo Katan's arc halfway and gave her Din's instead. I actually think this season had a vision behind it. The finale ends to what the second episode and previous seasons were setting up. But the procession from setup to payoff had to be crammed mostly to the second, fourth, seventh and eighth episodes, because about half the season was filler.

​@The Little Platoon they finished Mando's story in season 2. They may as well have just quit while they were ahead and made a Bo Katan show

When I went to college, if someone was in a Frat or Sorority, they literally copied off each other on everything, they rarely ever actually did their own homework or passed a class on their own merit. I feel that I am now seeing the conclusion and Quality of what my fellow classmates put into their effort in learning...and seeing it put into expression and motion on the big screen now a days. That or its because of the D.E.I. hires, and the complete LACK of MERIT now a days in the Hollywood and Entertainment industry... if your gay, trans, leftist, or black, or female, you get those 5-6 promotions before a White Person or Male. and if your a white male ... your fng screwed. But something is causing our Entertainment industry to be completely pathetic and just a heaping pile of dumpster fire Woke Trash.

​@@TheLittlePlatoon Personally, I think it comes from a dislike/rebellion against basic story telling and plot structure. Everyone seems to want to do their own thing, their own way.

I think KK wrote it and never told anyone. She was hoping that when everyone liked it, she could say "AHA! I wrote that! You liked it because you thought it wasn't me! See? I'M not the problem! You're all just sexist!" The only reason I think this is cus...well...every man is a fool, every woman is a god, and you only get to take your mask or helmet off if you're not white. Except Jack Black...who they hid behind a massive beard the moment they found out that he's not really black.

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a very apt description of the star wars franchise as a whole after disney got their hands on it....

If you write stories that are being told a thousand times before, why blame it on attention spans? Adapt or die

@@Dionysos_____Alters Oh my God bro no way you’re making this point. Feeding social behaviors proliferate them, especially when you’re THE massive media conglomerate that basically owns the entertainment industry. They’re not “adapting or dying”, they’re the one’s fucking causing it.

@@Dionysos_____Altersthis is an insane argument. ‘Adapt or die’ to ppl not watching your show except glancing over for a few seconds from their phone, you can’t possible be arguing that is how shows should work. There’s plenty huge shows that have come out that are popular becuz they have engaged and attracted people’s attention and investment enough where they don’t feel like going on their phone. A hard feat sure, but there’s no way you want shows to act like baby-sensory videos that are jiggling the keys in front of you like you have no brain capacity besides ‘oh cool shiny thing’. Thats not how tv series work.

This became pretty damn obvious with the bird episode, they spent a whole episode saving some random Mando kid from a giant bird, no character development, no stakes, no real engagement besides big battle and Bo Katan being ‘accepted’, but not rlly any more than she already was, and she never actually proves herself. Anyways, I don’t understand the hate the New Republic episode got, that was some fantastic writing despite the slow pace and very mundane/minimalist setting/plot, it was riveting the character and intrigue and mystery they were developing, like a small hard-boiled thriller/crime plot

@@GuineaPigEveryday It has fuckall to do with the Mandolorian. If you were watching New Hope, and then like the second act was entirely replaced with Raiders of the Los Ark, that’s not good writing, that’s jarring and disconnected.

Their tactics especially started to piss me off when they retook Navarro. Why were they on the streets? They have jetpacks, they could be jumping from roof to roof constantly with a bird’s eye view. How did they ever get flanked or pinned down? Again, *they have jetpacks,* if anything they should be the ones outflanking the pirates.

'Member star wars battle front? I 'member.

@@Slender_Man_186Yeah that shit pissed me off as well😅

Had an argument on reddit about this. Someone said from the ground to space is like 60 miles, and said its not unreasonable that they chased the dragon at least that far. Completely ignoring the fact that they apparently chase the thing enough to know it always gets away. So why do they let the thing just snatch people up if they know it does so? Why do they have to chase it at all when they could just stay in the cave? Or have their other mandalorians keep watch for the thing? All stuff that would make the mandalorians at least not stupid, but to the average mando fan it doesn't matter at all. Right over their heads.

@@jeebtheweeb The cap ship in the later episode appeared to be in a high orbit, which is like 100 mi or more. Regardless, you are spot-on with regard to having no one on lookout/watch duty, given the presence and knowledge of large hostile animals...

The energy it would take to fly a person to space... Nobody working on Star Wars properties passed astronomy.

@@iivin4233 studied astronomy??? My guy it’s Star Wars!! We have Death Star lasers and lightspeed ships and wizards!

@@iivin4233 Good point - it's not just about the distance covered - he'd need to reach escape velocity...

Is the other channel you like, by chance, Mauler? :3

This also applies to Jay… and the Drinker if you count his streams…

@@98765zach shi you right, forgot about Jay for half a second there

Diebetos would disagree with you.

The Drinker, Mauler, Disparu, Little Platoon, lovely.

I totally agree! And calling her botox karen is just dehumanising and incredibly disrespectful. It sometimes really feels like these youtube essay creators spend so much time nitpicking every aspect of a thing that they actually forgets to go out and socialise to a point where they stop seeing everyone working on said thing as just people. This show is not made by Disney the mega corporation, its made by hundreds of people who worked really hard. Is it worth criticising? Absolutely! But this is just more of the same retorik that has plagued this fanbase since the prequels. Stop dehumanising the actors. I really thought we learned this a long time ago with people like Ahmed Best And Hayden Christensen who just did what the director told them to do.

@@gee-es The show definitely has plenty of flaws and shortcomings, but her acting definitely isn’t one of them. There’s actually an interview of Katee expressing her frustration with playing Bo. Basically, she loves the character, but feels like she can only act with the helmet on since Bo is so expressionless. Like, that’s not the actress’s fault whatsoever. That’s how the character is. Reminds me of what you said. People complained about Hayden Christensen’s acting, but he was actually pretty darn brilliant. The issue was with some of the dialogue and the movies’ runtime. Even George Lucas had to tell folks to stop, saying “it’s not Hayden’s acting you dislike. What you dislike is Anakin Skywalker.” And he was absolutely right. Being upset with how Anakin was written is totally fair, but Hayden did exactly what was asked of him.

He isn’t criticizing the actor by calling her Botox Karen, he’s criticizing the writing and characterization of her. Obviously she can do the character if the acting is better when the helmet is on. They should stop clinging to ‘this is how the character was when it was animated so it has to be exactly like that in live action’, especially if something different serves to better the end project. Katee is great and I hope if she does see criticism of Bo-Katan that she doesn’t internalize it as criticism of her.

That's a mistake. The show doesn't care about her past, so neither should she care about acting like a cgi marionette.

​​@@alexhayden219I don't know how acting works in this respect but I'm fairly sure you can't just... ignore the director and do your own thing. Mark Hamill had the same complaints about old Luke, but he still did it. You can't ignore who's paying you in most jobs.

well written.

...and people get upset when creators appear to despise Star Wars-fans. Even I _can't stand you_ and I'm one of you ffs.This has _never ever_ been a universe of realistic tactical combat, it's theatre fencing from square one. It's a swashbuckling adventure where people swing from chandeliers and duel the monologuing villain. The Stormtroopers are the most elite fighting force in the galaxy _until they fire at Robin Hood and his Merry Men,_ how many decades will it take for you to get it?

@@infantiltinferno You're a complete moron, clearly not someone that actually watched the OT (let alone had any positive feelings towards it), and interacting with you beyond this point would be a complete waste of my time.

@@infantiltinfernoAnd how long will it take for you to understand that that's a result of later creators misunderstanding the movies and taking popular memes and making them real parts of the story?

@@infantiltinferno so you do not want them to be consistent within the lore/canon of an established franchise? storm trooper were NOT the most elite, that was the CLONE troopers who were clones of a quasi Mandalorian (technically a mando kind of) death troopers were the elite of elites in the empire AKA the black armor guys from rogue one. when you cannot keep your own story consistent with other stories within a connected universe you take people out of the immersion of the show and thus they start to notice the cracks in its "storytelling". the mandos WERE IN CANON the pinnicle of tactical warfare and combat, some of the best fighters in the galaxy due to exactly what the OP typed. the creators HATE nerds because we actually give a fuck about these franchises and the characters/stories within them and thus we want you to fucking do it justice and actually try. wana know why many enjoy the prequels despite their flaws? because at the core of the prequels the heart and soul of star wars is there, and it had something to say and executed that vision well (minus the romance dialogue lol and the first half of attack of the clones) and the prequels in a shorter amount of time told more of a story than ahsoka/mando have done with their run times. its also why most people hate the sequels, theres not even a nugget of good to be gained from them, except for one small scene that gave rey a humanizing quality... that scene where she see's rain for the first time.... thats all the sequels did that made you feel anything positive besides seeing the ending credits. you also fail to understand that even robin hood took its self more seriously than disney did with star wars, robin hood: men in tights told a story with characters you love that was also well written... and that was a comedy, where it followed its own lore/rules and characters did not break character for the plot.... what you said is just as retarded as saying "why are you taking this so seriously?! its just a kids movie around space wizards fighting space nazis!" its such a purposely ignorant stance to take and highly dismissive of others simple because YOU do not understand them or agree with them OR you do not like that they poke holes through something you enjoyed.

same here 🤪

Bro was spitting fax, though

That's some funny shit! I sort of love that the only things that will remain of the sequels are the memes.

His editing is getting more and more clever here.

A timestamp in a 2hr+ video would be nice.

Where do you find those numbers?

​@@piersonchristensen8836on the interwebsss.

@@piersonchristensen8836 The viewership numbers was gotten from Samba TV since Disney+ doesn't reveal their numbers. The Mandolarian's third season debut got 1.5 million views when compared to the season 2 premiere of 2.08 million views.

Nope, according to minutes, watched it beat out mando and season 2.

Not surprised after BOBF

Holding cells aren't even the most important part, is he just sitting in that chair, unmoving, no bed, no bathroom, in the many multi-day travel sessions he's been shown to take!?! Or is he just limiting his flight plans to half day jumps!?!?!

I agree. I was hoping they would do something similar to the twilight in the clone wars. Old bucket of bolts ship with a dock for a fighter and it's pre-empire like the razor crest.

Exactly

Yeah Grogu wasn’t a national phenomenon for a year with great press or anything.

Not the first time Disney and other producers have pulled this mind trick.

I don't think Baby Yoda is inherently bad, but the inability of the show to let go of Baby Yoda is. The logical and emotionally satisfying endpoint of Grogu's narrative is him leaving with Luke as Mando continues the narrative without him. Can't continue the story without Grogu? Then end it there But whoever made the show didn't have the guts to stick to their guns. Baby Yoda had to come back because they decided he was too 'iconic' to let go

@@cogsworther1639 agree, but also baby Yoda couldn't stay with Luke because of the sequels.

So much of that show was just comically bad.

Ok but I thought it was really cool to have the rancor payoff, and it was so much more fun watching it brawl with the droids than have Boba Fett fly in and shoot stuff.

It was terrible in the logic of the scene but it did show at least something of a link to the past of Mandalorians being beast riders (Mythosaurs and Basilisk war droids). But it then made me immediately angry because it just showed that Fett, not Bo Katan should be the next Mandalor but we can't have nice things. Surely his time with the Sand People should have reminded him if the lessons of his father about their Mandalorian heritage and have time for Boba to realise his father was right and he should become the Mandalorian he had refused all his life in favour of being a bounty hunter. But we can't have nice things.

The writers of BOBF were probably more concerned that using "Slave I" labor was "problematic." :)))

Here is a fascinating thing, how a certain type of person clearly rages on the left, but indulges in their tactics of shadowbanning. You Sir are an absolute shower and a cad.

And not a very good video game, either!

Wasn't a script, it was a lazy storyboard by favreau No writers in sight Which is why they're striking But hey, who needs accuracy any more, so long as they pander to your opinions 😂

Yah..no one likes video games...yah lol

I wish they would have made a GTA type game with the plot from the show.

I said this since the first few episodes of season 1. Mando is a perfect video game protagonist in a video game setting. Hunt bounties and upgrade your gear just like in the show as you go to various planets while also following the main quest following the show's story.

This was set up beautifully for grogu to go away and return in a couple of seasons more grown up after season 2, though 1 episode of boba fett completely undone this completely.

I agree. He's absolutely adorable but by this point he needs to start being more than that.

Grogu is over 50 years old at this point, Mando would be long dead of old age before he becomes anything approaching useful.

@@danielspence1653 meh even if he came back still in baby form and his force sensitive powers stronger, if all would have lined up more with what the 1st two seasons set out.

I agree, he's literally 52 years old by season 3. How long does it take a Yoda species to become a child. I mean if is how slowly Yoda and Yaddle aged then they would have been a Jedi Padawan for nearly 200 years.

I wish I could remember who said this, but "a good movie is nothing but a bad movie that does just enough right."

@@Maladjester Pretty much and I have enjoyed many a bad movie. I grew up with my mom exposing me to things like Mystery Science Theater 3k, So bad it's Good movie night I think it was on TNT etc. Bad movies can be good too, especially if you go into them just to make fun of it. I think the truly bad stuff is the stuff so boring and mediocre it's not even bad. Just boring.

No. Season 2 set up the taking back Mandalore storyline and Din Djarin's personal storyline in it. It just got subverted and crammed into about half a season, while other half was filler.

​@@mpnuorva Would you like to discuss the other story lines that have already reached a logical conclusion? Like Grogu?

Disagree. Season 3 focussed on finishing the previously introduced storylines outside of the Din + Grogu plot that were still open: 1. The main Darksaber plotline to reunite the Mandalorian tribes and the return to Mandalore. 2. Tying up the lose end of the geneticist and Moff Gideon, which is part of the "Rise of the First Order" plot in the background.

@@TF2CrunchyFrog "focused" is a hard no. The show can barely focus on making sense between lines of dialogue. Most of it is nonsense filler. "Continued" is more of what it did, and barely at that.

@@grandmufftwerkin9037 what a name!

Yeah, you would think he would be a remnant of a Bounty Hunter that works for Gideon should’ve actually turn against him should be enough for 2 seasoned show, but no, just another walking exposition that sets up for the Sequel, like what?

it was a single dad show from the start and disney failed to let grogu go with Luke now it's just a sad prediction of single dads taking care of children, while women go crazy with metal devil and his ai minions

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I still think if those stupid speeder kids were written out Boba woulda been so much better. But when you get your ass handed to you in an argument by a strong woman emo cyborg it takes you down a peg or two…

Are you willing to blame Kathleen Kennedy for making this happen because it’s not the script that they Filoni actually wrote Boba Fett was meant to continue being a kick ass bounty hunter have you not noticed all the Star Wars theories makes the women more important and powerful than the men you can think Kathleen Kennedy for the demise of the series even the Asoka show is no different. the men are weak. The women are strong when George Lucas was in control the women were filming it and the men were masculine.

you have spoken its sad to remember watching the first episode and going from "ooh, this is one annoying danny de vito alien" to "shit, this is real star wars finally!!!"

But it's not Grogu making it weird! It's all the damn cameos and suddenly filling the show with a load of lore and characters from other stories. Grogu is fine! Grogu is great, in fact! He's one of the few remnants of the original show, before it just became a launchpad for a bunch of cash-grab spinoffs, and a way to continue stories from years ago, rather than create a new story.

Grogu is the new Steve Urkel

@@ashscott6068 it was his inclusion that made the climax of season two completely irrelevant. At least partly

@@nickm8874 They just reversed everything back. Mando isn´t a Mandalorian anymore...and now he is again Grogu isn´t part of Mando´s story anymore...and now he is again What will he do with the sword?...nevermind, it´s back to the former owner

Also worth mentioning, I can't begin to imagine how insanely awful the optics would be for the New Republic to be flying around in the Star Destroyers used by the tyrannical genocidal regime

Unfortunately, the defense amounts to "the writers of Disney Star Wars (not limited to this series) made everyone very, very, very stupid."

@@pollertry4003 it worked rather well in the EU.... they repainted them and used them mainly for combat. they were HUGELY important during the vong war as well as the new republics super star destroyers they kept around.... also why would you get rid of them? you have the imperial remnant still around with their own and maybe more than the new republics knows...

Yup. Season 2 should have been the end of his journey, at least for a while. Send him off with Luke, leave the audience wondering how that all panned out, let Mando find some sort of purpose/job/reason to be.

An essential part of being a good dad is letting go of your kid. And an essential part of good storytelling is not immediately and unceremoniously backtracking on significant emotional payoffs... such as a dad letting go of his kid...

​@@TheLittlePlatoon Mando got several dozen fetch quests AND got to explain the plot to Gro-...uh, the audience! Plus he gets to rejoin the Way after one of the fetch quests and also after being saved by a woman half his size! I can't wait for season 4 when he explains to Grogu how orange man bad and helps a backwoods planet legalize abortion!

@@TheLittlePlatoon Do you know what bothers me more and more about the way Star Wars stories are written? Its their careless use of language. Mandalorians have "clans". "Clan" implies a distant familial connection between members. These clans control an indeterminate amount of people in The Mandalorian. In prior lore, individual clans colonized whole planets as early as the 3000 years before Episode 4. Would 3000 years worth of people maintain a sense of familial identity? This careless use of words bothers me, but I think it has subconsciously bothered millions of fans ever since the Trade Federation appeared as a force for evil maybe, with an independent army maybe, in a republic with no army seemingly, run by an autocratic question mark, named a viceroy...okay, whose goal was to overthrow a queen you follow, of a whole planet you see, who is democratically elected I guess, which is a common enough concept in the galaxy that it shows up twice in the narrow slice of its story that we experience. A viceroy with no Rex. An Inquisition with no inquests or religion or popular or political backing. A Trade Federation that does not seem to have any federated entities and does not trade. But it has an army. Meanwhile the Republic does not. Silliness. It is impossible to comprehend stories written this way except on a surface level.

Absolutely. When i heard he was in the 3rd season, it let out all the helium I had in the Mandalorian Balloon....probably why I didnt even care if a 3rd season was even made. I was happy with 2 seasons, it told a good story up to that point. I am completely done with Grogu... i could have been interested in seeing him actually able to walk 20ft on his own on the next time i saw him on screen ... but to see a stupid little bobble head puppet again for another full season ... nope. I had no interest.

I heard good things about Andor, but the people working on it chose to mouth off before it even aired and … well, I’m not a critic, so I decided I’m no longer giving Hollywood stuff a chance if the creators don’t know how to keep their traps shut! The stuff about the Empire as a stand-in for a Trumpian world, in which our freedoms disappear every day, and their show being about a selfish man who comes to realize that things can only be improved through violent revolution (with emphasis on “revolution”, rather than “rebellion”)… it just made me want to suggest that they all go sodomize themselves, even if the show isn’t nearly as bad as they made it sound!

The problem with Andor is that narratively speaking it's completely pointless. It's following a character who dies and a whole bunch of other characters that have no impact on the wider narrative. It doesn't matter how good it is if the universe it exists in is completely ruined. Disney Star Wars is completely pointless because the sequel trilogy is so bad that it retroactively makes everything that comes before it in the timeline utterly futile since it all ends up at the mess that is the Rise of Skywalker.

​@@curranlakhani That's why I never bothered with Andor. Opinions of it have been good but I'm just not interested in a character who in my opinion had his arc in Rogue One... Then died. I didn't need to see more about him, as he just wasn't that interesting to me anyway.

@@curranlakhani Which future of Star Wars is preferable: NJO-Dark Nest-LOTF-FOTJ, or the sequels? I for one want the Vong back.

@@Zaptor111 I for one want neither group of may sues back.

I didn't like grogu in it. Should have been a bounty hunter season travelling to different worlds using different gear and meeting people. Season 2 grogu. Move to like taking grogu and then retake mandalore. No dark troopers or Gideon on mandalore.

What happens in the show is that we get to see how a lonely and ruthless bounty hunter learns to feel emotions and learns more about himself If you cant see that and just think season 1 and 2 are about "oh baby yoda cute!1!1!111!!!" You werent paying attention

I hated Baby Yoda from minute one. All the worst aspects of nostalgia bait, nauseating cuteness, and on-demand plot contrivance/complication. He's more merch than Penny Arcade's "The Merch" character. I've never seen a more transparent example of cynical marketing goblins creating the absolute safest bet and biggest money-maker possible. That critter is on posters, plushies, keychains, action figures, Lego sets, mugs, jigsaw puzzles, you name it and Grogu is printed on it.

Seconded

Can you explain the joke?

​​@@Soccercrazyigboman Ship of Theseus is a fairly famous philosophical problem that goes something like this. Theseus built a ship and sailed it out. It returned and got minor repairs, rinse and repeat until every single plank was not on the original ship. Is it still the ship of Theseus afterall it isn't in any way the same as what he built but if it isn't when did it stop being one? When the first plank was replaced? When the last one was replaces even though it was still the same repair of replacing one plank etc.

@@anaccountforcommenting6651 the concept only needs 2 parts for the thought experiment. any more is filler and irrelevant. you can replace the ship with a broom changing out the handle and then the brush still makes it a thesian broom

@@fluffypinkpandas I suppose you are right but I think ship is much more demonstrative of the issue as the overall change of one repair is much smaller in scope. When changing the handle of a broom you are changing over half of it and as such I think the part that is the most interesting (Supposing the object isn't of Theseus anymore when did it stop being such) is much easier to see in the example with the ship

Honestly at this point, I dont care about Escapes from Order 66, like C´mon they retcon that BS everyday, for me the canon will always be the established first Raid on the Jedi Temple by Anakin and the Clones before Disney take over, Shak Ti survives and goes into hiding, younglings dead (no survivors sorry baby Yoda and Reva), etc...

@@sebas8225 , star war fan tears

Couldn't even finish that series, so boring.

@@wavyremix The representative child speaks!

@@KravMagoo wow you put me in my place.

They say he rose from the sea standing on a scallop shell.

I heard he rode into KZfaq on the back of a 10 story tall mythasaur

I dunno if you can describe it as "concise" lol but it is very good. When mauler is too far off from the next vid... This fine gentleman comes along and takes up the mantle nicely.

@@bryan81584 s/concise/thorough

Here is a fascinating thing, how a certain type of person clearly rages on the left, but indulges in their tactics of shadowbanning. You Sir are an absolute shower and a cad.

Just wait for the Lizzo episode where we see the obeselorian

exactly i was thinking the same thing , and then when the droid goes missing he just gets out of the ship and pressurizes his helmet and says oh well i guess ill just do it. you wasted all that time , energy and resources . I knew then this season was doomed.

His distrust of droids flips whenever they need it to. They never have any consistency with it.

I can't understand how anybody can possibly write a story assuming their audience will just turn off their brain to the point of retardation. That's like assuming your teacher will be too drunk to notice how half-assed your book report is while grading it. That's not just lazy, that's contempt towards the audience.

​@@pedrokantor3997 Unfortunately it works. People act like season 1 and 2 were peak story telling. I don't see see a qualitative difference in 3, its like going from a 4 to a 3 in writing. But people pitch a fit when you point out what a hack Favreau is and refuse to accept he wrote everything including Book of Boba.

​@@pedrokantor3997 After how much praise Season 1 and 2 got it's pretty clear that they were correct. The drop in quality here is not steep.

It’s feeling like a lot of shows are that way now. They have to explain and exposit more and more information not for the characters but for the detached audience. Also, just bad story writing too, fixing or contriving plot holes they wrote earlier.

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I do hope you're not insulting Bella Ramsey's appearance. I know she doesn't look nearly like Ellie, but she doesn't deserve the hate for that.

​​​​ weird how your not complaining to Platoon as he said it, and repeats it everytime you play this video, I just agreed, as is my right to have an opinion.

@@monkeyboy7126 Thank you for clarifying it, my friend. I didn't mind platoon's jokes on Bella, as it was harmless and all.

People need to realize that part of what cements a character/story is their deaths or conclusions

When a character dies, we tend to look back at all their earlier appearances with a better understanding of their complete story. There's almost a reverence for their best scenes and the effect they had on the story. If a character keeps getting injected into everything and they never die or have their story concluded, you don't get to look back to their origins, they're big victories, they're failures and defeats. You don't get to see how they changed and grew and where their arcs went, because their arcs aren't finished. They haven't finished with their victories and (god forbid) failures

@@TOONYBOY I wish people would understand that about Mass Effect. I'm so tired of infants whining about Shepard's death at the end. The so-called "perfect" Destroy ending (which gives a split-second indication that he might have survived) betrays EVERYTHING that Shepard stands for both as an individual and as an icon. Synthesis is the canon ending because it is foreshadowed on multiple occasions. Shepard saved EVERYONE, at the expense of his own life, which is EXACTLY what he stood for, believed in, and fought to achieve. Trying to save his life by making him a genocidal murderer is a betrayal of everything he represents.

@@KravMagoo You had me on your side until you said Synthesis was the "canon" ending (I don't know why you said "canon" instead of "best", we don't even know that it's canon yet. Especially with the teaser for Mass Effect 4 showing a dead Reaper, implying they were destroyed and not controlled or synthesised). Synthesis isn't the best ending just because Shepard actually stays dead at the end. If that's your criteria, then Control is better since it doesn't literally forcefully assimilate all life in the galaxy and meld all organic life with cybernetic implants, and instead provides them with an unstoppable fleet of warships and full control of all their technology in case of any more extragalactic threats. Control is just as bullshit as Synthesis, don't get me wrong, but the literal ONLY reason that Destroy isn't the unquestionably most moral option is because the game contrived the "it will kill the Geth as well" rule right at the end, when not only was the Crucible built specifically to kill Reapers as per spoken dialogue throughout the game talking about how to design it so that it ONLY killed Reapers, but it literally makes no sense why it would atomize the Geth when it doesn't even destroy the Reapers, it just deactivates them and makes them collapse. If the Reaper code that gave the Geth individual awareness was what made them vulnerable to the Crucible, then the Crucible would simply destroy that code, making the Geth only intelligent in groups again. It's not even clear what that code is even supposed to improve, since the Geth were explicitly stated to be sentient and capable of speaking to organics as individuals, rather than units from when they were created 300 years ago. There's seemingly no difference between the Geth that revolted 300 years ago and the Geth upgraded with Reaper code. Also, before I continue, how was Synthesis foreshadowed? And even if it is, why did you take the Reapers' word for anything and why did you believe it would be the best option BEFORE you picked it and knew what would happen?

Also, the Destroy ending is not a genocidal murderer, and it does not betray everything he represents. Not taking the "best solution" provided by people telling him what is and isn't possible is exactly what Shepard would do. The Reapers are essentially the physical manifestations of inevitability and futility, and Shepard rejects these concepts fundamentally. He doesn't accept the ultimatum. His refusal of these defines his motivation throughout the franchise to resolve millenia-old injustices and rivalries. If the Krogan are cured, war is inevitable. The Krogan are too brutish, peaceful coexistence on a galactic scale is futile. Synthetic life will never have need or organics, war is inevitable. Peaceful coexistence is futile. The Rachni are too powerful to beat, they will overrun the galaxy. War is inevitable, peaceful coexistence is futile. The Reapers have existed for potentially over a billion years, our extinction is inevitable, the cycle cannot be broken. Fighting is futile. Shepard succeeded in all those prior ways because he refused to accept an imperfect reality, the "next-best" scenario. Shepard listening to what the Reapers (especially with everything he knows about them) tell him what the best solution is as far as *their morality* goes is only something that an indoctrinated Shepard would do. I mean, Saren believed that the cybernetics given to him *by a Reaper* were the perfect synthesis of organics and synthetics

I mean, it's always been this way. The dumb stuff was just hidden better until the main drive of the story was undone in the Boba show. Should I remind you that Mando forgets he has a ship in the first season so AT-ST wouldn't be destroyed by its cannon easily? Or his droid phobia redemption arc with IG-11 that started right after ANOTHER DROID TRIED TO KILL BABY YODA in the previous episode? Or him forgetting about the functions of his ship (super defensive mode mentioned in the finale) so that Jawas can steal from him? I'm glad people are finally catching up to how bad the show is.

*apalling

"After two relatively good seasons" Yeah relative to TLJ.

​@@peteomarjebdollosa9170 Relative to TFA*

I thought it always stunk lol

I feel like "the Empire blowed it up because they're bad" isn't that good an explanation, it's more just a way for Filoni suck all the nuance and moral uncertainty out of Order 66 so he can keep playing with his action figures without having to acknowledge that they murdered all the Jedi.

Nah, Dave Filoni already started ruining them in his Clone Wars series before Disney.

The Clone Wars 2008--the paragon of "quality writing"--is what destroyed the Mandalorians. The very thing that 'fans' extol as the peak of star wars (EU) is the very thing ruining most of Star Wars.

@@matane2465 Even though George Lucas was there, and not every episode was written by him, the other writers did the contribution here. Also, The Clone Wars can coincide with the films, it just doesn’t need to be made beat for beat in the Prequels, just as a subtle wink. Heck there are multitude of new characters running around that may be fun to watch around. It’s irksome, but…

Because Yoda's species seem to be extremely rare, and because they're longlived they probably rarely have offspring. Whereas the regular standard humanoid species of the Star Wars galaxy are a dime a dozen and have tons of children. Statistically they will breed more force-sensitive kids, it's only a matter of time.

@CrunchyFrog But everybody who's at rhe jedi temple had a high enough count to become a jedi, and since midichlorians can be passed on genetically there would be escape plans for all or most of them if the idea was breeding more jedi. Not to mention that humans breed and develop faster, so relying only on Grogu would be self defeating, especially given that it will take him at least 100yrs to be old enough to breed.

To be fair the Naboo guard asked about the others so they were definitely expecting Beq to bring more younglings but Grogu was the only one he could get out.

@collecter343 I took that to mean theybwere talk8ng about the other jedi that were guarding Grogu rather than the younglings.

@@jeggsonvohees2201 Could go either way, the other jedi may have been gathering up as many younglings as they could find. Eventually decided Grogu was the only one they could send off safely.

Don't forget the Seismic Charge from Fett's Slave 1.

is the character i wanted to see the most on season 3

True, episode 15 (with bill burr and morak quest) was the best one

Yeah it was such a great payoff of him saying the Imperials had families, 10 seconds before he mows down an army of stormtroopers.

@@Corvus- that’s literally the point. It’s war. One that could’ve been avoided. He’s upset but that doesn’t mean he’s just gonna let himself get shot Lmao

Reminds me of Wonder Woman theme in Justice League

isn't that also what they tried to do with the hunger games movies?

I don't understand its context, but I suspect the face scan has even less security than current biometric face recognition. As in, it only needed _a_ human face, not a/multiple _specific_ faces. It's Highlander: The Source all over again.

@@neocomp92 the context is that mando can’t take off his helmet because his religion says so? And yeah we do have better tech already, but I wouldn’t mind that, just don’t make your main character look like an absolute imbecile when he’s supposed to be a skilled bounty hunter, doesn’t make any sense.

Yeah, thank goodness for channels like this, I actually have to use my brain rather than watch disney shovelware trash.

That's a low bar

@@TravisHi_YT Shovelware is a perfect way to describe Disney shows at this point. Can no longer handle the filler bullcrap honestly next Bad Batch season I´ll only watch plot focused episodes

Though I applaud your statement, and agree with you wholeheartedly… That’s like saying that Nimitz has a challenger in Nelson. We should just be eternally, grateful that we have two minds, like these, which go beyond even razor fist and the critical drinker

I still consider myself a Padawan of The Long.

I think it was more like a “year” not several.

@@santi_super_stunts2573 It couldn't have even been a year. There's no way Boba Fett was in power for anywhere near that long before making the big decisions that led to the showdown with that drug cartel and people wouldn't have been walking all over him like that if he was properly established. It just doesn't add up.

Jon Favreau himself said in an interview that Grogu spent 2 years training with Luke, so I would say there is nothing to debate about that. But it sure does seem that the developments on Tattooine in Boba Fett took a lot less time than that.

@@ricardob.6924 That's the thing though, his word is contradicted by what the series itself shows. Maybe that was the ideal, but if that's the case, why it Luke's temple a work in progress with just a shack? I suspect, that a couple of years is he *wanted* to do, but it's *not* what happened *Maybe* if Boba, Fennec, and Din had an adventure or 2 before Boba decided, "ya know what, I'mma go bust a cap in Bib Fortuna" or something to occupy Boba's time before his crime boss era started, that'd be one thing, but that didn't happen

​@@ricardob.6924he meant literally it was 2 years since the last season lmao

And this is just the first four episodes! The intro covers a lot of the background and meta observations about the show as a whole, though, so it’s not purely damning of season three.

@@TheLittlePlatoon It was a thoughtful start. I agree with you broadly, but you are wrong on a few points. For example, massive decommissioning and destruction of war material has followed all of our major wars. Small arms were often destroyed. Armored vehicles were stored or sold. Same for aircraft though they were more often stored than sold. Ships. Many ships were decommissioned. Pretty much all navy ships are decommissioned even when they are sold on to friendly governments. The owners or captors of ships tend to rip out and keep the sensitive equipment. Most warships are so expensive to operate that many are sold to friends, scrapped, sunk in weapons tests or left tied to docks. All of those individual decisions come with their own massive implications. Many ships are scrapped in Turkey, but would you scrap a nuclear carrier in Turkey? How many people in the world are even qualified to scrap a reactor? How many of them aren't Chinese or Russian? Star Wars never gives context to anything but context is unbelievably important to any decision regarding war material. WW2 German ships, for economic reasons unique to Nazi Germany, used vastly different boilers and fuels to allied ships. This made them pigs to maintain and more trouble to keep than they were worth to keep. One captured German ship almost blew up while underway because its American crew did not know how to run the boilers. Media analysts have common sense but they do not always know the technical details that would inform their common sense criticisms. I love talking about this stuff, and I mean no disrespect. If you want more information, I'd talk to you or I'd recommend you watch your fellow countrymen Dr. Alexander Clarke and Drachinifel here on KZfaq. Happy critiquing.

@@iivin4233 I'd like to throw in my worth of cents. Countries scaling their militaries down is not in and of itself an axiom that follows every war, it's a consequence of their required commitments scaling down, it's npot worth to keep Napoleonic Wars era armada around if most of your Navy's work is show of the flag and piracy-policing. One would presume that that New Republic's way of governing the galaxy would require less resources, but it is counterbalanced by them not inheriting the Imperial Navy intact, some of it would dissolve via warlordship, some would follow whatever proto-First Order authority, some would enrich galactic black market selection and so on. Either way, if you do get your hands on an ISD you can operate - you keep it. If you still want to decomission them though, Coruscant is still not the place to do it. The foreign technology espionage argument is, imo, invalid due to lack of truly "foreign" agents, since OT takes place during a civil war in an undisputed galactic hegemony. As far as location itself - if the the Space Turkey makes little sence, so does Space Manhattan - but luckily we are not limited to these two locations, Kuat Drive Yards is alive and well in Disney version of the universe. They desgined and built the things and, makes sense to me, know a thing or two about scrapping them. And they also could lend expertise required to run those, shouold you keep them.

I’m very glad to hear it!

​@@TheLittlePlatoonSpeaking of Rings of Power...

Girl bosses and Mary Sues are the Way.

Her arc in Clone Wars isn't much either. Bo-Katan's introduced as the second-in-command of the terrorist group trying to kill the ruler of Mandalore (her sister) and invoke the violent warrior ways of the past. Once Maul killed the group leader and takes over, she and her allies abandon the group as they'd rather an actual Mandalorian rule the planet, not a Sith. She helps Obi-Wan escape the planet as she'd rather he have the Republic fleet invade Mandalore and kill Maul. A year later, nothing, so she uses Ahsoka to get in contact with Obi-Wan, and guilt-trips him into helping Mandalore, as he loved her sister, despite Bo-Katan being the reason her sister died. She also pulls a "so what?" about the possibility that doing so would cause another war. Once Mandalore is freed, she feels directionless at the sight of the suffering her people were put through. In Rebels, it's shown that she and her allies have made zero headway trying to retake Mandalore from the Empire, so they've been focusing on destroying other imperial operations on the planet. Because she's one of the few Mandalorians that still possess qualities of a leader and emotional maturity, Bo-Katan is given the Darksaber by Sabine, as she feels Bo-Katan is more qualified than her to unite the Mandalorian clans and retake the planet.

I love the actress, i seen her other work, and she makes for a great action hero. But, i also feel like her character Bo, has been giving everything without she doing anything substantial to gain such praises. I think, she should have been introduced as a lone wolf, abandoned by the pack, her and mando butting heads about what a true mando is. We see a woman full of guilt and shame, but hiding it behind a tough exterior, in which both grogu and din eventually help her get through. But, she continues to doubt herself and rightfully so, as she is struggling to care about anything. As she learns that grogu has been taken by moth gideon, she decides to help din and this could have been a great opportunity for her to kill moth gideon, but this only fuels her anger, and she leaves mando with the darksaber. By the time we get to season 3, she finds out that gideon has survived, (cloning), but instead convinces din to pursue his fate to lead the mandalorians... i know din wasnt written to be a leader, but that would have been a great theme and character conflict to explore in season 4. But, anyways, thats how i think her story in this series should have been written.

Nah, she was an awful bitch in The Clone Wars as well. She was a literal terrorist (as opposed to a freedom fighter like, say, the rebellion) who did a bunch of awful things and only felt bad for them because they blew up in her face and got her terrorist leader boss/idol killed, her sister killed, and her planet turned into a conquered territory when someone else outplayed them in terms of evil jack assery. She never once does anything to ever really repent for some of the awful terrorist things she does like burning down a village after it very politely (not sarcasm, they were seriously super polite and diplomatic about asking her boss to 'please sir stop doing these things to us') asked her boss to please stop enslaving their women. She does stop doing it by the time she shows up in Rebels, but its never really made clear if she had a change of heart or if she just realized the Empire wouldn't give two shits about her harassing civilians like the Republic had and so she pragmatically focused on military targets they would care about being hit. Unless by well written you mean 'the story doesn't try to pretend she isn't an awful person', in which case yeah she was much more well written in TCW.

Absolutely fucking perfectly put.

BS retcon thats what, before the Disney retcon, the only Jedi capable of escaping the Jedi Temple during the Purge would be Shak Ti, "Shaak Ti was assigned to protect the Jedi Temple in the final days of the war as the threat of the hidden Dark Lord of the Sith became clear. Stationed there during the initiation of Operation: Knightfall, Ti escaped with her life when the Temple and the Republic fell into the hands of the Sith Lords". Consider that unlike the rest of the fodder Jedi at the Temple, Shaak Ti had experience in the Clone Wars and despite jobbing to Grievous, unlike Grievous other victims, Shaak Ti survived as Grievous was in a rush to grab palps and get out before mace windu arrived, Shaak Ti was also pretty much 4th to 3rd as a Council Master, explaining how realistically consideering Anakin was busy killing other masters, younglings, etc... Shaak Ti would´ve likely survived the Purge as Clones would just be fodderized the instant Force powers come into play. Reva and Grogu however would never survive Order 66 unless Palps orders them to be spared, Anakin would absolutely not fail killing Reva either.

I don't think it's implausible that a very, very small amount of jedi survived the Purge at the Temple

For Reva, she faked her death, as she has a secret, natural, gaping hole through her body. She's not actually human. She's Chestholian. That's why she survives it both times with no problems.

Rogue one actually managed to bring the fear of light sabers back in the 2 minute Vader scene. They went from the equivalent of a pool noodle with damage equivalent to a 5yo with a sockem bopper to an actual weapon capable of killing people again

@@tosutaa Indeed, they also made the empire not look like brainless idiots for once. It infuriates me just how not threatening the empire is, when these are people who would glass a planet just to make a point. It's such a shame that instead of the gritty war movie that the original director wanted to make we got half of that and half Marvel.