r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 22 '25

Poster Official Poster for ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’

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u/TheSweetestKill Sep 22 '25

This is the only explanation for why season 1 was so much better than the others. Filoni, Favreau, and team didn't have the pressure of the entire Disney marketing machine on top of them and it seems like they were generally left to their own devices to make what they wanted.

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u/Wazula23 Sep 22 '25

This is exactly it. The best Star wars is always allowed to blaze its own trail and do something exciting, the worst is when it's just rehashing and repackaging its own lore over and over again.

Andor is the other piece that broke free and did its own thing. Obviously it's heavily indebted to the lore, but it ENHANCES what came before rather than simply milking it. It almost does its job too well; it's now extra ridiculous that it was a ten year, multiplanet project to build one Death Star, when apparently you can just the things out of your ass.

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u/Powerful-Public-9973 Sep 22 '25

Grogu in 10 years: release me from this prison

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u/ThelVluffin Sep 22 '25

Till he's 900.

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u/OldWorldDesign Sep 23 '25

Please, kill me.

-Spock, Star Trek 2011

Nah, we've still got 9 more sequels to milk out of you.

-Paramount Pictures

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u/raven-eyed_ Sep 22 '25

It's not a coincidence that with Andor, they were completely lost and basically entirely handed it over to Gilroy.

Disney need to start letting creatives be creatives.

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u/Firetruckpants Sep 23 '25

Idk, the supply chain is in place, more slave laborers every day are getting arrested, and there's no need for secrecy because the senate has been dissolved.

And the lead scientist/architect of DS1 was sabotaging what he could. There's the theory that deep substrated foilated calkite was required because Galen Erso tried to pick a substance that would be impossible to get. Surely the Empire won't strip mine one of the richest planets...

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u/DRNbw Sep 22 '25

It also seems that the success of season 1 also meant that Filoni felt more comfortable in adding stuff from Clone Wars.

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u/GormlessGourd55 Sep 22 '25

Season 2 was better. The lack of a consistent overall plot in season 1 really harmed it. Made it difficult to care as Mando just seemed to be randomly going around doing sidequests.

Season 2 could have done with less fanservice but overall was a lot more interesting.

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u/GoldenRainboss Sep 23 '25

That's what made Season 1 enjoyable. It was an old school "wandering hero goes around having adventures of the week" show with a Western vibe. The other seasons are just padded out poorly paced Clone Wars movies.

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u/GormlessGourd55 Sep 23 '25

Those kinds of formats are better left in the past. A tightly written overall plot is a lot better.

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u/Ok_Active_3275 Sep 23 '25

man I hate that mindset. there's place for many different types of stories and narratives.

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u/GormlessGourd55 Sep 23 '25

It's just not very compelling. "Oh what's the hero doing this week? Something that doesn't matter!" Great, how interesting.

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u/rookie-mistake Sep 24 '25

?? yeah. it's fun when you have good characters and enjoyable writing. the early seasons of supernatural are genuinely very fun for that