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Originally Posted by Locke
I also like that the Mando doesnt know much about the Force. Lets keep that mysticism where it belongs!
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I liked this a lot too,
Theres always the narrative the JarJar ruined the prequels. But I think the basic founding myth of Star Wars, is that of lone warriors with the mystical gifts of precognition, telekinesis, and telepathy riding into town and saving the day against exceptional circumstance. We've seen every one of these things repeatedly stomped on and violated. There is no reason the Jedi need to have super human speed or essentially be a branch of the government, there is no reason they needed to be ubiquitous to the point that seemingly everyone in the galaxy knew who they where and what are the trappings of a jedi. Small example but Qui Gon should have should have offered himself as a great warrior knight to Anakin, and Anakin should have accused the jedi of be a myth. Instead we got the exact opposite where its just expected and normal that a mythic hero is going to stroll into town and save the day, violating every tenant of epic world building.
Mando isn't an epic it's a spaghetti western and doing a much better, without completely violating the basic tenants of its genre. Lone rider trots into town looking for someone, makes a friend, helps his friend solve a problem, moseys out of town continuing his search. My only criticism is that they have been very slow in expanding upon the thing Mando is looking for, in the overall story arc.