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Originally Posted by Locke

They havent told us why 're-taking' Mandalore is important, who exactly it is that cares enough to undertake this quest and why and whether that planet is actually a molten wasteland so why would anyone want it? Or who Bo Katan is or why we should care.

Presumably that is what the next season is for. They'll either do a good job and make the audience care about that the way they made the audience care about the kid, later Grogu, as a sort of living MacGuffin, or they won't. But they've done a good enough job so far.

Tattooine seems like the most pivotal linchpin planet in the Galaxy. If its important it seems to have to go through Tattooine.

Not really what one tends to expect from a barren, lifeless sand planet in the middle of nowhere and yet here we are.

The issue is that Tatooine is the only place they've really shown that can actually serve as a setting for a space western, and Star Wars is at its best when it's a space western. But they definitely need some more planets.

Originally Posted by direwolf

Yea, I have no interest in the Bo Katan/Dark Saber stuff either. Personally I'd like to see more standalone episodes where Mando wanders the galaxy Mad Max-style, providing help to people who need it along the way and getting back into the bounty hunting business.

Yup, those are generally the best episodes. It's going to be tough for them to pull off if they split the whole thing up the way Filoni often did with TCW - an Ashoka story arc followed by a Clone Trooper story ark followed by an Anakin and Obi Wan story arc followed by a droid story arc, or a Padme arc, or whatever.

It's do-able, if you just tell individual star wars stories that are well constructed, but they had a good thing going with Mando and Grogu and now they've dropped that. Which I don't blame them for, you can only milk that dynamic so long before it gets stale. But transitioning to the show being about something else, and having that something else be equally or more compelling such that the show maintains its quality, is going to be a tall order.

Originally Posted by KTrain

No one has mentioned Thrawn in a while (maybe in the long posts but I'm too lazy to read those). Is he going to be the bad guy next season or will we see him in the other shows instead?

I suspect he's the bad guy in the Ahsoka series. Is that going to be live action?

Originally Posted by Locke

Somewhere...the Mayor of Tattooine....obviously played by Bob Odenkirk, is wondering why all of this insane crap happens on the crappy planet he just so happens to run.
I would watch that show.

Add this to the list of "things I didn't know I wanted and now want."

Originally Posted by blankall

Also, love how they used Luke's powers. He's a highly trained Jedi at this point, and now works the powers into his combat skills... As opposed to just blowing up entire space ships at a distance

I thought it was cool and all, but I thought they made him too powerful. Or more accurately, they made the dark troopers too powerful and terrifying in its initial fight against Din, such that when Luke makes hilariously easy work of a dozen or more of them, he either looks like some sort of force-wielding God creature, or Din (and anyone who has ever fought Din) looks incredibly weak. So that was unfortunate. But I'm probably nitpicking.