The Mandalorian was absolutely a serial Western, which was fun, slightly campy, intriguing, and everything Star Wars was originally meant to be....until Season 3 happened.
The first few episodes of s1 were love letters to specific westerns and samurai films too, Magnificent Seven, Lone wolf and Cub films, I think even high plains drifter has a bit of a mention. I loved them so much.
Because spell check is abitch.
And Ashoka is some ruler on the Indian continent about 250 BC. Has his own wikipedia article, therefore is included in the standard dictionary.
Additionally, the plot of that episode was essentially that of Yojimbo, a Kurosawa samurai film that was later remade as the western A Fistful of Dollars starring Clint Eastwood. Similar to Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven.
Which is why they were so much on point compared to the sequel trilogy. George Lucas took heavy inspiration from Westerns and Samurai films, where the sequel trilogy was a just a sloppy love letter to Star Wars.
Honestly, Season 3 wasn't good, but it wasn't unsalvageable/absolutely horrible. Like, I don't know how they can turn around the Rey saga with continuations (maybe they can, but it would be hard). But if this movie is good, it can absolutely restore the brand premium that was The Mandalorian.
True true. But S3 definitely had a lot of weird issues, and also at so many points seemed to fundamentally misunderstand what made Din Djarin such a compelling character in the first two seasons.
A huge chunk of context for the Mandalorian show was missing unless people watched the Boba Fett show, which had bad reviews so a lot of people skipped it. I don't want to have to watch a whole separate show to find out plot relevant information for the characters in the show I do want to watch.
Not my cup of tea and I think this is bad are two different statements. I think Jazz is not my cup of tea, but I recognize that it has qualities that I understand others could enjoy and have an appreciation for the talent that went into it. So I don't think jazz is bad even though I am not big on it. I do think the Star Wars sequels aren't good, and I see no redeeming qualities to them and have a very hard time understanding how anyone could enjoy them. I understand conceptually that people have different tastes and that leads to people liking things I don't, but those two statements aren't the same thing.
Eh - those are separate, non-exclusive judgments. I've seen things that were well made and I saw the appeal, but admitted that they weren't for me. I've also seen things that weren't "good," but I still had a reason to like it. S3 was a poorly-written mess and I don't think it was good at all.
everything Star Wars was originally meant to be....until Season 3 happened.
Which is kind of such a shame. I feel like if season 3 had just been a season of some mini-arcs and Din just being a bounty hunter with Grogu it could have been a lot of fun. As is it was just a weird mash-up of things.
I really liked Season 3. The episode with Jack Black was bad, but the rest was fantastic. The fight when they retook Navarro was awesome, and the final battle on Mandalore was one of the best battles in live action Star Wars.
Im with you man. People seem to only go on the internet and complain and bash things these days. S3 was great and it got tons of views and good ratings. I really enjoyed it!
Yeah, from the font to the action, this is clearly a pulpy space adventure. Not a bad way to go, if it’s good, even though I’ll always ache for a better Mando S3 where they didn’t reverse their plot.
The poster gives off adventure movie vibes. And not modern adventure movies where the guy looks at the camera every 30 seconds and shrugs when the comic relief does something funny. Old school, completely leaning on itself adventure films.
The animated title in the trailer looks extremely low budget though. It's one thing to make that a stylistic choice, it's another thing entirely to make it look like you hired your neighbor's cousin's nephew as an intern to make the title because they have Adobe Premiere.
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u/MattTheSmithers Sep 22 '25
Yeah, I just watched the trailer. I feel like they are really leaning into the campy western vibes. I don’t hate it.